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Form of humour
A daffynition (a portmanteau blend of daffy and definition) is a form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it
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1983 humorous dictionary by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
D'Ammassa (1994) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #172 April & May 1994 Daffynition List of generic forms in British place names Phono-semantic matching
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When words are replaced by their rhymes
"meat pie" is used for try. London portal Argot Costermonger Euphemism Daffynition Polari Navvy slang Nickname "Cockney cash: Lady Godivas and speckled
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Form of joke
involves transposing the words in a well-known phrase or saying to get a daffynition-like clever redefinition of a well-known word unrelated to the original
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Term for a made-up word
Onion published an article in 2001 mocking sniglets as an obscure fad. Daffynition Dord Eggcorn Jabberwocky Mondegreen Phono-semantic matching Petelin,
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American comic strip created by cartoonist Johnny Hart
Dictionary (where common words are defined humorously with a twist, see Daffynition) make for some of the mix of material in B.C. Example: "Rock (verb):
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American linguist
Marion Street Press (September 2018) Pun and Games: Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids—Published by Chicago
Richard_Lederer_(writer)
American writer, visual artist, performance artist, and educator
Books, 1996. Lederer, Richard, Pun and Games: Jokes, Riddles, Rhymes, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, and More Wordplay for Kids (children's book). Chicago,
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Wyndham in West Sussex, near West Grinstead, probably named from an unattested Old English personal name Winda + Old English hamm ‘water meadow’; or from Wymondham in Leicestershire and Norfolk, named from the Old English personal name WÄ«gmund (see Wyman) + Old English hÄm ‘homestead’. The name de Wyndem is found in Westmorland as early as 1284, and the surname may additionally derive from some unidentified place in northern England.Irish (Connacht) : Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó GaoithÃn ‘descendant of GaoithÃn’ (see Gahan).
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Indian, Telugu
Knowledge.
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Gaelic
Rough.
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
God who Gives Happiness; Peaceful God of Heaven
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Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh, Tamil
Shiva's Wife
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Bengali, Indian
Of the Meadows
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Norse
Battle maiden.
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Egyptian
, the daughter of King Snefru.
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English, Scottish, and French
English, Scottish, and French : nickname for someone of a cheerful or attractive disposition, from Middle English, Old French joli(f) ‘merry’, ‘happy’.
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American, British, English
Spear Strength
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