pun on a wordとは 意味・読み方・使い方

pun on [upon] a word発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

言葉をもじる. - 研究社 新英和中辞典

The term Gotokuneko was supposedly created to be a pun on the word gotoku: the Five Virtues (called gotoku in Japanese) and the gotoku as an object.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

五徳猫はこの五徳と器物の五徳との言葉あわせで創作されたものとされる。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

The name of this tea canister is said to be derived from the play on word with 'koi' meaning both 'deep' and 'love,' (double entente/pun) while the color of the glaze of this tea canister is in a unique 'koi' amber (meaning deep amber); a tanka (thirty-one syllables' poem) from Manyoshu (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves) includes the word 'koi' in its phrase, 'Mikarisuru Karihano Onono Narashiba no Nareha masarade Koi zo masareru,' then the word 'Narashiba' was taken from this tanka for the name of this tea canister.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

釉色が濃いアメ色で、これを「恋」にかけて万葉集の「御狩する狩場の小野の楢柴の汝はまさらで恋ぞまされる」の歌に因みこの名になったとされる。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

The leading character who sells stones in a riverside reads a book, "The complete collection of haiku of Seigetsu, a wandering haiku poet," which he was forcibly lent by YAMAI (a pun on a word of Yamai which means disease), the owner of a secondhand bookstore, who pretends to be a sick person, walks unsteadily and idles away his time.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

河原で石を売る主人公が、病人のふりをしながらよたよた歩く無為徒食の古書店主人山井（病をもじったもの）からむりやり貸し付けられた『漂泊俳人井月全集』を読む。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

A word play which uses the pun of 'yoshoku' (farm raising) and 'yoshoku' (western-style food) (a type of comic anecdote in which a dispute starts with 'is this eel yoshoku?') appeared during the period in which farm raised eels became more common on the tables in Japan, reflecting the era.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

なお「養殖」と「洋食」をかけた地口（「このウナギはようしょくか？」で論争になる、といった小噺の類）なども、養殖ウナギが日本の食卓に普及するようになった時期に現われたものであり、時代を映していると言える。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

It is said to have been designed after the calyx of a cherry blossom or to have been adopted as a pun based on two possible meanings for "tamayoke" (written as "弾除け," it means bulletproof", but written as "多魔除け," it means "barrier against multiple evils"); however, the word's origin and exact meaning are unknown.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

桜花の萼（がく）の形を模しているとも、弾除け（多魔除け）の意味をかついで採用されていたとも言われており、その起源や意味についてははっきりしない。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

But he already showed his promising talent in painting by helping a flyer shop to make andon oil lamp stands for ceremonial occasions known as "jiguchi andon," which were decorated with pun-motif illustrations (illustrations inspired by puns, a form of word play in which one finds different meanings in word pairs that sound alike [jiguchi puns], were featured on andon lamp stands. Installing these andons at crossroads during festivals became widespread, and many of these illustrations were drawn by ukiyo-e artists).発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

しかし、びら屋で祭礼の際に用いられる地口行灯（もとの言葉を別のものに仕立てて楽しむ言語遊戯、つまりは語呂合わせである地口を、絵で行灯に描いてある。祭礼時に町の辻に飾ることが流行し、その絵の多くが浮世絵師によって描かれた）制作の手伝いをするなど、画才を示していた。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス