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noun
- a pun or play on words
- 1984: he gloomily regarded his new digital watch, faintly fascinated by the onward march of the square figures which turned one into the other with insolent ease, a kind of numerical . " Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady
- 1997: Ev"rywhere but at Norfolk, where talk of Passion far outweighs its Enactment," indeed, the Sailors" Paronomasia for that wretched Place, is "No-Fuck". " Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
Etymology: Latin paronomasiaLarin, paronomasia, from the Greek - + "naming".
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