† punˈdigrion Obs. rare.
[app. related, either as earlier form or derivative, to pun n.1, q.v.]
A pun, a quibble.
| 1676 R. L'Estrange Counsellor Manner's Last Legacy xvi. (1710) 23 Quibble, pun, punnet, pundigrion, of which fifteen will not make up one single jest. [Cf. c 1680–90 W. Blundell in ‘Cavalier's Note Book’ (1880) 185 Quibble, pun, punnet, pundigrion... I find these words in Counsellor Manners' last legacy, printed 1676.] 1812 Southey Omniana I. 103 Many..will lose their friend rather than their jest, or their quibble, pun, punnet or pundigrion. 1820 ― Wesley I. 493 Thomas Adams had as honest a love of quips, quirks, puns, punnets, and pundigrions as Fuller the Worthy himself. |