Dictionary entry

Wordplay

Pronunciation: /ˈwəːdpleɪ/

Pronunciation

/ˈwəːdpleɪ/

Myanmar Meaning

သံတူကြောင်းကွဲများ၊ အဓိပ္ပာယ်တူ စကားလုံးများကို လိုသလိုဖန်တီးပြောဆိုခြင်း။

Definition

wordplay /'wɜ:dpleÇ/ n [U] သံတူေၾကာင္းကြဲမ်ား၊ အဓိပၸာယ္တူ စကားလံုးမ်ားကို လိုသလိုဖန္တီးေျပာဆိုျခင္း။

Examples

  1. ‘But instead of name calling and personal attacks
  2. the weapons of choice are logic
  3. wordplay and witty repartee.’
  4. ‘Shiny
  5. colourful
  6. mass-produced materials and images abound
  7. as well as irony
  8. wordplay and visual jokes.’
  9. ‘She always thought that I was the one using wordplay to make a joke at her expense.’
  10. ‘That kind of heady wordplay isn't always consistent or accessible
  11. yet it generates excitement with every vivid line.’
  12. ‘Jackson is the poet ever alert to phonetic ambiguities and other forms of wordplay.’
  13. ‘It's a panel show
  14. riddled with puns
  15. cultural references
  16. and wordplay.’
  17. ‘No
  18. stop it
  19. George - really
  20. you're killing us with your witty wordplay.’
  21. ‘If you survive his maze of dense wordplay and obscure references
  22. you will probably not find anything too terribly profound
  23. but you'll still be smarter.’
  24. ‘There's the weary
  25. gravelly vocal style they share
  26. the theatrical
  27. elegantly sleazy wordplay and
  28. of course
  29. the ears.’
  30. ‘Back then
  31. it was largely based around the interest we had in wordplay and rhyming about things that MCs don't normally rhyme about.’
  32. ‘Women
  33. they say
  34. laughed more at jokes involving wordplay
  35. while men preferred more aggressive humor.’
  36. ‘That level of weasel wordplay is for professionals only.’
  37. ‘However
  38. anyone up for catchy tunes and witty wordplay will be rewarded by this album's warm left-field charm and intelligence.’
  39. ‘But he makes up for it by deft wordplay and a sharp wit.’
  40. ‘Even behind bars
  41. Bruce instantly came to be known as the mighty king of puns and wordplay.’
  42. ‘The main thing I remember is how funny Jimmy was
  43. his weakness for dumb puns and wordplay.’
  44. ‘I'm usually pretty leery of investing a lot in over-clever wordplay.’
  45. ‘Here are a few movie taglines
  46. based on some wordplay on their name.’
  47. ‘As you know
  48. it's not unknown for me to make bad jokes
  49. especially where wordplay is involved.’
  50. ‘Without being particularly inventive
  51. it is still a passable excuse for the protagonists to go places
  52. draw swords and engage in smart wordplay.’