駄洒落 — meaning in English
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English meaning
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dad joke
noun A short, obvious joke, usually a pun, that is groan-inducing rather than genuinely funny and is told with complete confidence.
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pun
noun A joke that plays on a word's different meanings or on words that sound alike.
Senses
駄洒落 is used for these senses in English:
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dad joke
(colloquial) To tell (someone) a dad joke.
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pun
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.
pun — full definition
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noun A joke that plays on a word's different meanings or on words that sound alike.
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verb To make a joke by playing on the sound or meaning of words.
