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wordplay
noun
(word-play)
playful use of words : verbal wit
Words Related to
wordplay
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punning
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pun
,
puns
,
alliteration
,
lyricism
,
prose
,
repartee
,
humor
,
witticism
,
wit
,
cleverness
,
wittiness
,
rhyming
,
absurdism
,
similes
,
riffs
,
archness
,
word play
,
shtick
,
malapropism
,
tunefulness
,
lyric
,
alliterative
,
apercus
,
whimsy
,
koans
,
poeticism
,
epigrams
,
quippy
,
playfulness
,
drollery
,
concision
,
archaisms
,
scansion
,
scat singing
,
shtik
,
verbosity
,
grandiloquence
,
zaniness
,
wordiness
,
slapstick
,
doggerel
,
phrasing
,
slyness
,
metaphors
,
musicality
,
poesy
,
terseness
,
facetiousness
,
patter
,
pentameter
,
wryness
,
poetics
,
nasality
,
melodies
,
annomination
,
argot
,
scatology
,
breeziness
,
dilettantism
,
assonance
,
nabokovian
,
bawdiness
,
colloquialisms
,
onomatopoeia
,
virtuosity
,
punchiness
,
didacticism
,
cantankerousness
,
sestina
,
barrelhouse
,
cusswords
,
suggestiveness
,
profundity
,
irreverence
,
journalese
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melodist
,
wordsmith
,
crudities
,
surrealism
,
pastiche
,
syncopation
,
plaintiveness
,
shavian
,
prosody
,
impishness
,
arioso
,
juvenilia
,
allusions
,
coinages
,
couplets
,
subversiveness
,
prolixity
,
idioms
,
tongue twister
,
theatricality
,
songcraft
,
obliqueness
,
erudition
,
interjections
,
wordplay
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