wordplay

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

wordplay
    n 1: a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his
         constant punning irritated her" [syn: {pun}, {punning},
         {wordplay}, {paronomasia}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Wordplay \Word"play`\, n.
   A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "wordplay":
      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

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