pun

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].

1. A certain number of cowries, generally 80.

   “Hackeries and carriages, loaded and empty, 8 annas. Sheep, goats, &c., 1 pun of cowries each.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.

1. To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.

   “He would pun thee into shivers with his fist.”

2. To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

   “We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.”