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Ogden Nash specialty, and a hint to this puzzle's circles
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wordplay
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Word definitions for wordplay in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also word-play , 1855; see word (n.) + play (v).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wordplay is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work (e.g. puns , spoonerisms , etc.) (See the list of forms of word play for a compiled list of wordplay techniques). This can also mean:
Usage examples of wordplay.
Then Mortimer said something maddeningly oblique, and Nerita replied with the same off-center mystification, and Mein once more was plunged into the river of their easy dancing wordplay, down into it, down and down and down, and as he struggled to keep from drowning, as he fought to comprehend their interchanges, he never once looked toward the place where Sybille sat, not even once, and congratulated himself on having accomplished that much at least in his masquerade.
His wordplays in Scripture are fascinating, and they are concentrated in His letter to the seven churches.
His fluency in Chyurda exceeded my own, and at times I was hard pressed to follow the conversation, while half of the Fool's wordplays escaped me.
His fluency in Chyurda exceeded my own, and at times I was hard pressed to follow the conversation, while half of the Fool’s wordplays escaped me.