daffynitionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• Homophone: definition

名詞

daffynition (複数形 daffynitions)

1. A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word or phrase.
   • 1980, Gyles Daubeney Brandreth, The Joy of Lex: How to Have Fun with 860,341,500 Words, New York: Morrow, →ISBN, page 269:

     Daffynitions appear in fictionaries, not dictionaries, and they add hidden dimensions to the words they describe.