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punintended 

Save the endless amounts of energy i know you use everyday saying 'no pun intended..' by combining unintended and pun in to one word.

lulz ensue when people mistake the word for 'pun-intended'
guy 1. bsgfbsfgb....punintended

guy 2. excellent intentional pun

guy 1. in was unintended. i'm saving syllables
punintended by Scott Decenzo March 29, 2009

no pun intended

I've read every definition here and they all get this terms' meaning slightly wrong. Firstly a pun is a play on words, intended to be semi-absurd and comical by describing a thing or situation using words that could also describe the situation with another meaning. For instance suppose there was a skinny farmer picking berries, but he doesn't find that many, another person might observe "looks like slim pickins".

Puns often are the worst kind of joke because they do not require much cleverness.

When someone says no pun intended, however, it is when they say something that could be taken to have two meanings; an obvious one, and a slightly "off" interpretation; and they want you to know they are not making an intentional play on words and want you to take what they said to be the obvious meaning:
Example: a man dares his friend to kiss a rather large woman, to which his friend replies "Fat chance! No pun intended."
no pun intended by Jtheteach October 9, 2016

puntended 

In light of our experience with blackouts, puntended, we should go buy some candles.

I'd like to kick off this karate club meeting with a item from the chopping block, no puntended.
puntended by schematic23 December 29, 2010

No Pun Intended

AMERICAN PHRASE, widely considered by some to be a cliché. Two uses of this phrase.

#1. "No pun intended!" Is a clarification you make after a remark you uttered that DID indeed contain a pun. You exclaim, "No pun intended" because you honestly did mean to construct the setence to contain a pun.

#2 The second meaning of, "no pun intended" can be tongue-in-cheek or more harshly put, untruthful. In this instance a person purposely inserted the pun. The motivations for doing so vary. Some reasons include: doing it to be humerous, attempting to be clever, wanting to engage in word play, or doing so to annoy people who hate puns. They fib by saying, "No pun intended!" because: they want to avoid embarrassment after no one laughed, escape retribution from those they annoyed on purpose or perhaps they feel foolish for making the pun at all.
#1 Pun WITHOUT intent. "That pistol is so tiny looks like he could be a son of a gun. Sorry, no pun intented!"

#2 Pun WITH intent: "Look at that duck. Hope he has a lot of money just look at the size of his BILL! Ha, ha, ha! No pun intended, right guys?"

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unintendedly

A word constantly used by people of dim wit who cannot spell and who refuse to use any form of spell check to correctly identify the word unintentionally.
Justin unintendedly sent out a report that was a load of crap.
unintendedly by Sinkers July 8, 2010

pun intended 

Added after a pun, a play on words mostly for a comic reception. Usually someone adds 'pun intended' when the pun isn't so clear, or to emphasize the pun.
Usually in brackets: (pun intended)

See also:
no pun intended npi
When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done. For I have more. (pun intended)
pun intended by jimmybone d April 21, 2008