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wordplayer

wordplayer noun: one who engages in wordplay.

Noun

wordplayer (plural wordplayers)

  1. One who engages in wordplay.
    • A favorite among wordplayers is the antonymous pair find in and find out.1961, Evan Esar, Humorous English: A Guide to Comic Usage, Jocular Speech and Writing, and Witty Grammar, New York, N.Y.: Horizon Press, →LCCN, page 122
    • As M. M. Mahood has demonstrated in Shakespeare’s Wordplay (1957), hundreds of puns appear in his work. Only the author of Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) challenges him for first place among wordplayers in British literature.1991, Robert F. Fleissner, Shakespeare and the Matter of the Crux: Textual, Topical, Onomastic, Authorial, and Other Puzzlements, The Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page v

Forms of wordplayer

pluralwordplayers

Questions about wordplayer

What does wordplayer mean?
Wordplayer means one who engages in wordplay.
What part of speech is wordplayer?
Wordplayer is a noun.
What is the plural of wordplayer?
The plural of wordplayer is wordplayers.

Words near wordplayer in the dictionary

  1. wordoid
  2. wordoids
  3. wordoku
  4. wordology
  5. wordplay
  6. wordplayer
  7. wordplayers
  8. wordplayfully
  9. wordplays
  10. wordpool
  11. wordpools

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