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punacious

punacious adjective: prone to making puns.

Adjective

punacious (comparative more punacious, superlative most punacious)

  1. (informal, rare) Prone to making puns.
    • At the same time I was hopeful that he would not be discouraged from exercising his considerable wit and punacious penchant for whimsy.2006, Donald Empson, Kathleen M. Vadnais, The Street Where You Live: A Guide to the Place Names of St. Paul
    • He is punacious when opposed.1970, Brian Freeman, Narcotics cases: prosecution and defense

Forms of punacious

comparativemore punacious
superlativemost punacious

Origin of punacious

From pun + -acious.

Questions about punacious

What does punacious mean?
Punacious means prone to making puns.
What part of speech is punacious?
Punacious is an adjective.

Words near punacious in the dictionary

  1. puna
  2. puna tinamou
  3. puna tinamous
  4. punaani
  5. punaany
  6. punacious
  7. punaglandin
  8. punaglandins
  9. Punakha
  10. punalua
  11. punaluan

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