Dictionary entry
Wordplay
Pronunciation: /ˈwəːdpleɪ/
Pronunciation
/ˈwəːdpleɪ/
Myanmar Meaning
သံတူကြောင်းကွဲများ၊ အဓိပ္ပာယ်တူ စကားလုံးများကို လိုသလိုဖန်တီးပြောဆိုခြင်း။
Definition
wordplay /'wɜ:dpleÇ/ n [U] သံတူေၾကာင္းကြဲမ်ား၊ အဓိပၸာယ္တူ စကားလံုးမ်ားကို လိုသလိုဖန္တီးေျပာဆိုျခင္း။
Examples
- ‘But instead of name calling and personal attacks
- the weapons of choice are logic
- wordplay and witty repartee.’
- ‘Shiny
- colourful
- mass-produced materials and images abound
- as well as irony
- wordplay and visual jokes.’
- ‘She always thought that I was the one using wordplay to make a joke at her expense.’
- ‘That kind of heady wordplay isn't always consistent or accessible
- yet it generates excitement with every vivid line.’
- ‘Jackson is the poet ever alert to phonetic ambiguities and other forms of wordplay.’
- ‘It's a panel show
- riddled with puns
- cultural references
- and wordplay.’
- ‘No
- stop it
- George - really
- you're killing us with your witty wordplay.’
- ‘If you survive his maze of dense wordplay and obscure references
- you will probably not find anything too terribly profound
- but you'll still be smarter.’
- ‘There's the weary
- gravelly vocal style they share
- the theatrical
- elegantly sleazy wordplay and
- of course
- the ears.’
- ‘Back then
- it was largely based around the interest we had in wordplay and rhyming about things that MCs don't normally rhyme about.’
- ‘Women
- they say
- laughed more at jokes involving wordplay
- while men preferred more aggressive humor.’
- ‘That level of weasel wordplay is for professionals only.’
- ‘However
- anyone up for catchy tunes and witty wordplay will be rewarded by this album's warm left-field charm and intelligence.’
- ‘But he makes up for it by deft wordplay and a sharp wit.’
- ‘Even behind bars
- Bruce instantly came to be known as the mighty king of puns and wordplay.’
- ‘The main thing I remember is how funny Jimmy was
- his weakness for dumb puns and wordplay.’
- ‘I'm usually pretty leery of investing a lot in over-clever wordplay.’
- ‘Here are a few movie taglines
- based on some wordplay on their name.’
- ‘As you know
- it's not unknown for me to make bad jokes
- especially where wordplay is involved.’
- ‘Without being particularly inventive
- it is still a passable excuse for the protagonists to go places
- draw swords and engage in smart wordplay.’