punster

So, please, Lord Alton, give Liverpool's most famous former Para, novitiate, teacher and punster his second house for those 250 seatless lost souls and others reading this who would benefit from some Moloney magic.

In this episode, Steve and Roopster, a hip rooster that wears sneakers and a baseball cap, find themselves trapped inside a museum and at the mercy of the Punster, a villain who's known for--what else--his bad jokes.

He was a supreme punster; he never left a tern unstoned, a characteristic pointing to his appreciation of the absurd in language and in life.

McCoy, an inveterate punster and master of word plays, named the team, and the two men, possessors of amazing memory for arcane trivia, were rattling off games and teams that Hummel had covered which no longer exist.

(37) Clem short-circuits these associations when he mishears the king's order to have him "gelded" (92) as "gilded"--an ironic misprision for the play's inveterate punster.

Irrespective of the approach, quantitative analyses of all sorts agreeably present Shakespeare as an incorrigible punster. They may each yield slightly different figures but the score is invariably high, with the total of three thousand puns in the whole canon and the average of seventy-eight apiece, Love's labour's lost (LLL), the play of sole concern in the present study, being most generously studded with them.

The first dog tale (what a punster, eh?) to catch my eye came from the Bush household.

We laugh better when we do not try to laugh all the time, and nothing is more fatal to humor than the compulsive punster's strident efforts to amuse continually.

In a review of her novel Green Lights Are Blue, in the New York Review of Books, Bernard Bergonzi complained, "Miss Molinaro is a tireless and engaging punster, and goes in, less happily, for endless typographical tricks, being particularly and pointlessly addicted to parenthesis signs and numerals.

Although Habegger nods at Dickinson's warning to Higginson that the "I" of her narratives and lyrics is "a supposed person," he nonetheless joins particular poems to particular crises in Dickinson's life, claiming, for example, that such poems as "It would have starved a gnat" are "colorful autobiographies." Such links are not just reductive, ignoring their multiple possible contexts as well as the sly wit of the punster; they are also risky, given the difficulties of dating the writing (as opposed to the inscribing) of the poems and the multiple contexts in which Dickinson often placed them.

He could be terribly stubborn, but he was an extremely lively, social person, a tremendous punster with a keen intellect and a charming personality.