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A word having multiple definitions is not a pun or wordplay, it’s just a word.

• blowski 7y ago
  Pun - A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word. When we say "a strawberry is not a berry" we're playing on the different meanings of the word berry. It's not a humourous pun, but I would still call it a pun. [1] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/pun https://www.thefreedictionary.com/pun
  • isoskeles 7y ago
    There is no “play” here. Pedantically correcting people isn’t fun. There is no humor in it. Puns require humor/play. Also, correcting people to say that bananas are berries doesn’t even acknowledge a second meaning of berry. It suggests the meaning they know of is wrong. I’m aware we’re talking about a technical meaning and a commonly-accepted meaning, but the assertion is suggesting the commonly-accepted meaning is completely invalid.
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  • monadic2 7y ago
    The dictionary is hardly a good resource for vulgar usage.