Usually means: Using wordplay for humorous effect.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. punned: Merriam-Webster
  2. punned, punned: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. punned: Collins English Dictionary
  4. punned: Vocabulary.com
  5. punned: Wordnik
  6. punned: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. punned: Wiktionary
  8. Punned, punned: Dictionary.com
  9. Punned: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Punned: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Punned: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. punned: FreeDictionary.org
  13. punned: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. punned: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. punned: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pun as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pun)

verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
verb:  (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
noun:  A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
noun:  (India, historical) A certain number of cowries, generally 80.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun (“Korean unit of measure”) [Senses referring to baked goods.]
▸ Also see pun


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