Word: punster
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work. Unless some offer themselves in the course of the year, the "Lampoon," we fear, will, to the lasting shame of all students, have to be given up. Now, every one has an occasional happy idea. Indeed, in every table group, we find one acknowledged funny man or punster. If these persons would only try a few times until they get the style of writing demanded, they would be able to produce occasional articles which would be accepted by the "Lampoon." Surely in a university of 1500 men, there is more than one man who is able and willing...
...punster asks : Could Socrates the girls? Could Bartholomew? Could Shakespeare an eel? Could Shylock a bank safe? Could Cataline his trouserloons? Could Americus? Could Livingstone...
...Dartmouth speaks of the habit of punning as "paranourasia" and says : "The inveterate punster soon comes to regard words as mere symbols on which he is to strike the tinkling changes of his word-music; he takes all the beauty out of Homer's "winged words" by making them shuttlecocks which he is to bandy back and forth at the mere catch of sounds...