Paronomastica
Par`o*no*mas"tic, Par`o*no*mas"tic*al, a. Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words. (Rhet.) A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning. Dryden.
Source: 1913 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- Allege: A high rock shelf
- Arson: Our daughter's brother
- Author: A person who is usually write
- Autobiography: A history of cars
- Avowal: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y
- Backward: Patient rooms at the rear of a hospital
- Bassinet: What every fisherman wants
- Belong: To take your time
- Carpet: A dog who enjoys riding in an automobile
- Coffee: Break Fluid
- Complaint: A grief resume
- Condescend: A prisoner escaping down the wall using a rope
- Deduce: De lowest card in de deck
- Denounce: Words that name things, not de verbs, de adjectives, etc.
- Document: Repeating what your doctor told you in your own words
- Dogma: A mother dog
- Eclipse: What a gardener does to your hedge
- Earthquake: A topographical error
- Falsehood: Someone who pretends to be a gangster
- Flattery: Phony express
- Fission: What Huck Finn did when he played hookey
- Geometry: What the acorn said when it grew up
- Grateful: What it takes to build a good fire
- Handicap: A ready-to-use hat
- Hari-Kari: Transporting a wig quickly
- Hunger: What the posse did to the lady cow rustler
- Hypochondriac: A guy who won't let well enough alone
- Hypothesis: What a boy says to his father on the telephone
- Indecision: Under the whether
- Intense: Where campers sleep
- Ketchup: What the runners behind in a race want to do
- Kinship: Your brother's boat
- Laundress: A gown worn while sitting on the grass
- Legend: The edge of a cliff
- Midget: Center engine of a three-engine fast plane
- Minimum: A very small mother
- Nitrate: Cheapest price for calling long distance
- Observatory: What General Washington asked his spies to do
- Pandemonium: A housing development for pandas
- Paradise: Ivory cubes used in craps and backgammon
- Paradox: Two physicians
- Paraffins: Found on the sides of fish
- Paralyze: Two untruths
- Praise: Letting off esteem
- Rampage: Section of a book about male sheep
- Sarcasm: Quip lash
- Sherbet: A tip on a horse race or sporting event
- Skier: A person who jumps to contusions
- Sleet: A slipcover
- Stirrup: What you do with cake batter
- Subsidy: A town underneath another town
- Tenure: A year after nineure
- Thursday: How you feel crossing the desert on a hot day
- Unabated: A fishhook without a worm
- Valorous: A big animal vit tusks vot lives in vater
- Vanguard: A person who protects trucks
- Warehouse: What you ask when you're lost
- Wholesale: Where a gopher goes to buy a home
