'Wordplay' definitions:
Definition of 'wordplay'
From: WordNet
noun
A humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her" [syn: pun, punning, wordplay, paronomasia]
Definition of 'Wordplay'
From: GCIDE
- Wordplay \Word"play`\, n. A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'wordplay'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- calembour,
- corruption,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- jeu de mots,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- play on words,
- pun,
- punning,
- spoonerism