wordplayer
English edit
Noun edit
wordplayer (plural wordplayers)
- One who engages in wordplay.
- 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:
- A favorite among wordplayers is the antonymous pair find in and find out.
- 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:
- 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.
- 2015, Andy Seed, The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 111:
- One of the things that wordplayers like to do is create new words by blending two existing words.