Kalauer

German

Etymology

After the city Calau, influenced by French calembour.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkaːlaʊ̯ɐ/
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Noun

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  1. corny pun
    Hypernyms: Witz, Wortspiel, Wortwitz
    • 1995, Heinz Rudolf Kunze, Nicht dass ich wüsste: Lieder und Texte, 1992-1995, Ch. Links Verlag, →ISBN, page 13:
      Sein »Golem aus Lemgo« etwa ist ein nicht nur verbaler Geniestreich aus eben jener Trickkiste. Ein Kalauer, der so gut ist, daß man den Kalauer nicht merkt, eine seiner knappsten, pointiertesten, also exakt auf den Punkt gebrachten Chiffren […]
      His “Golem from Lemgo”, for example, is a not-only-verbal stroke of genius from this same bag of tricks. A corny pun so good that one does not even notice the corny pun, one of his briefest, most pointed, thus most exactly expressed ciphers.
  2. (occasionally) mediocre joke, a groaner
    Synonym: Flachwitz

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

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