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Punfounded 

A combination of "pun" (a play on words) and "confounded" (an expression of confusion).

Thus, "punfounded" means to be confused with a pun.

This term is limited to describing confusion with puns only.
Al: "What's brown and sticky?"

Yang: "What?"

Al: "A stick!"

Yang: "I'm so punfounded"
Punfounded by AlanG-LeAngryBirds December 16, 2012
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Punfidence 

How confidently and effectively an individual can deliver a pun, if one must explain the pun, or say "pun intended" then they have a low Punfidence score and need to be notified!
My Boyfriend kept making the lamest Puns, so i shattered his punfidence
Punfidence by maace December 10, 2013

punfriend 

To end a friendship over an extremely bad pun.
I told her she should bring some insulin to the bar so she wouldn't die when she sees my sweet ass moves and she totally punfriended me.
punfriend by silverh27 April 6, 2015

punfortunate 

A pun that either doesn't work or just isn't funny.
Josh writes the following in his Facebook status about his upcoming trip to South Korea: "Josh is Seoul excited."

His Friends: "That attempt was sorrily punfortunate."

punffended 

When a person takes offense due to the use of a pun or play on words.
I told a bad joke and Karen got punffended.
punffended by Durrtyd77 November 16, 2021
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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