different between teaser vs pun

English

Etymology

From tease +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tiz?/
• Rhymes: -i?z?(r)

Noun

teaser (plural teasers)

1. One who teases or pokes fun.

   Synonym: tease

2. (textile treatment) A person or thing that teases.
3. (marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.

   Coordinate terms: (film) trailer, preview

4. (television) A brief portion of a television episode shown at the beginning, often before the main title sequence, meant to introduce the story and entice viewers to watch the rest of the episode.
5. (Britain, dialect) A kind of gull, the jaeger.
6. (electrical) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
7. The stoker of a glassworks furnace.
8. (theater) A short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.

Derived terms

• cockteaser
• prickteaser

Descendants

• ? German: Teaser

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Easter, Teresa, aretes, arsete, arêtes, asteer, earset, easter, eaters, ratees, reseat, saeter, seater, staree, teares

Portuguese

Noun

teaser m (plural teasers)

1. teaser (a short film or quote meant to draw an audience to a film or show)

Spanish

Noun

teaser m (plural teasers or teaser)

1. teaser (a short film or quote meant to draw an audience to a film or show)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: p?n, IPA^(key): /p?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

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

Verb

pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)

1. (transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
2. (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

Noun

pun (plural puns)

1. A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

   Synonyms: paronomasia, play on words

   Hypernym: joke

   Hyponym: antanaclasis

   • Austen was likely referring to flogging or spanking, then common naval punishments, known as le vice anglais.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean ? (bun), from Chinese ? (“fen”)

Noun

pun (plural puns or pun)

1. (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun: a Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

Anagrams

• N-up, NPU, UPN, nup

Chuukese

Conjunction

pun

1. because

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• puan
• pen (Ragusan dialect)

Etymology

From Latin p?nis, p?nem.

Noun

pun m

1. (Vegliot) bread

Malay

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /pon/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /p?n/
• Rhymes: -on

Adverb

pun (Jawi spelling ????)

1. also
2. even

Synonyms

• juga

Related terms

• -pun

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pun]

Verb

pun

1. first-person singular present indicative of pune
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of pune
3. third-person plural present indicative of pune

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?ln?, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *píl?nas, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûn/

Adjective

p?n (definite p?n?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. full, filled
2. fleshy, plump
3. full, complete
4. occupied (of room)

Declension

Spanish

Noun

pun m (uncountable)

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of discharging a firearm

   Synonym: pum

2. (onomatopoeia, vulgar) the sound of flatulence