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Pun involving an image, often a rebus
A visual pun is a pun involving an image or images (in addition to or instead of language), often based on a rebus. Visual puns in which the image is
Visual_pun
Form of word play
but mean your mother". The recursive pun "Immanuel doesn't pun, he Kant" is attributed to Oscar Wilde. Visual puns are sometimes used in logos, emblems
Pun
Iron manufacturing business
Signature medallion of the firm - a visual pun on the 4 partners' names starting with a 'B'
Barnard,_Bishop_&_Barnards
Online Star Wars encyclopedia
Wookiee and encyclopedia, a pun on the name of Wikipedia, and its logo portrays the incomplete second Death Star, as a visual pun on Wikipedia's incomplete
Wookieepedia
Heraldry representing the owner's name
represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus. The expression derives from the latin cantare (to sing). French
Canting_arms
British 1892 editorial cartoon
telegraph line connecting most of the British colonies in Africa. It is a visual pun on the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The_Rhodes_Colossus
Name spelled with a symbolic visual pun
style, which spells a name via a rebus, as a form of Japanese wordplay or visual pun. Today they are most often seen in corporate logos or product logos. These
Japanese_rebus_monogram
Symmetrical calligraphic or typographic visual pun
observation. Most ambigrams are visual palindromes that rely on some kind of symmetry, and they can often be interpreted as visual puns. Although the concept is
Ambigram
1977 studio album by David Bowie
Bowie from the film The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), was intended as a visual pun, meaning "low profile". RCA refused to issue Low for three months, fearing
Low_(David_Bowie_album)
Allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words
rebus, derived from the game of the same name Emoji Verbal arithmetic Visual pun Boutell, Charles, Heraldry Historical & Popular, London, 1863, pp. 117–120
Rebus
Obscene raising of the middle finger
knows quite well what a dactyl is, and gives the finger. The gesture is a visual pun on the two meanings of the Greek word daktylos, both "finger" and the
The_finger
English art design group
humour once angered Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, when Hipgnosis created a visual pun based on "(tennis) racquet"/"(noise) racket" for the 1973 album Houses
Hipgnosis
British Second World War deception operation
Twenty Committee gained its name from the Roman numeral XX (twenty), a visual pun on the phrase "double cross". American planners favoured either a cross-channel
Operation_Mincemeat
Medieval literary genre
manuscript of his Speculum Historiale, contains an actual convex mirror as a visual pun. French translation by Jean de Vignay, Bruges, c. 1478–1480, for Edward
Speculum_literature
1781 painting by Henry Fuseli
did not include it. Its presence in the painting has been viewed as a visual pun on the word "nightmare" and a self-conscious reference to folklore—the
The_Nightmare
Pet ocelot of Salvador Dalí
been a cat lover and had an interest in exotic animals. He enjoyed a visual pun and would sometimes wear a cat pattern or coloured coat when travelling
Babou_(ocelot)
American reality television series
days than the original series' 21-day challenge. The XL title plays as a visual pun for the title, as it also represents the Roman numeral for 40. Each survivalist
Naked_and_Afraid_XL
American illustrator (1873–1929)
vanitas) titled All Is Vanity. The drawing employs a double image (or visual pun) in which the scene of a woman admiring herself in a mirror of her vanity
Charles_Allan_Gilbert
2006 choice for Time's Person of the Year
remaining indicator in the image indicates a total duration of "20:06," a visual pun connecting this ubiquitous bit of interface design to the year in which
You_(Time_Person_of_the_Year)
Motif made by overlapping two or more letters
style, which spells a name via a rebus, as a form of Japanese wordplay or visual pun. Today they are most often seen in corporate logos or product logos. Late
Monogram
1997 American action thriller film by Simon West
the White House, but Las Vegas was more in keeping with the theme and visual pun of convicts "cashing in". "We got very lucky ... The Sands was going to
Con_Air
1924 film
in the film. It is only the first of many visual puns in the film—a seeming display of the film's sheer visual modernity, as intended by its creators from
Ballet_Mécanique
1973 studio album by Led Zeppelin
tennis racket on it. Furious that Thorgerson was implying, by means of a visual pun, that their music sounded like a "racket", the band fired him and hired
Houses_of_the_Holy
Metaphor for making a decision
of A Nice Pair includes a literal depiction of a fork in the road, a visual pun on the expression. During the inauguration of Donald J Trump as the 47th
Fork_in_the_road_(metaphor)
English Christmas carol from late 18th century
dropping the presents from the song on top of their enemies, often in visual pun style, like having the "Pipers piping" being plumbers with pipes, the
The Twelve Days of Christmas (song)
The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_(song)
1902 French short film by Georges Méliès
space traveller from Voltaire's story of the same name. The image is a visual pun: the phrase dans l'œil, literally "in the eye," is the French equivalent
A_Trip_to_the_Moon
Word guessing game
using any spoken words, which requires some conventional gestures. Puns and visual puns were and remain common. A charade was a form of literary riddle popularized
Charades
Inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet
letters of the alphabet Ambigram – Symmetrical calligraphic or typographic visual pun Fayum alphabet – Ancient Greek abecedary, c. 800 BCE Heterogram – Word
Abecedarium
Fictional animated character from SpongeBob SquarePants
According to Kya Buller from Tyla, Patrick's house can be described as a visual pun on the phrase "living under a rock", since Patrick is a dim-witted character
Patrick_Star
Decorative coins used for rituals
centuries. Chinese numismatic charms typically contain hidden symbolism and visual puns. Unlike cash coins, which usually have only two or four Hanzi on one
Chinese_numismatic_charm
Official seal used by a company
Example of a corporate seal. In this case, the word "seal" is also used as visual pun: an image of the marine animal of the same name appears on the device
Company_seal
17th-century Dutch painting
a great number of genre works. Another popular source of meaning is visual puns using the great number of Dutch slang terms in the sexual area: the vagina
Dutch_Golden_Age_painting
Japanese folk hero
Kintaro becomes a playable persona, under the name Kintoki-Douji. In a visual pun, instead of carrying an axe, it carries a Tomahawk missile. In the anime
Kintarō
Ancient Roman phallic marriage deity
etymology of the gens name Titius. A titus ("penis") with wings was a visual pun, since the word also referred to a type of bird. Varro seems to have associated
Mutunus_Tutunus
Character in Chinese mythology
Fujun Que carving is not mythological. Instead, he interprets it as a visual pun based on Han dynasty wordplay, in which the Chinese word for "monkey"
Sun_Wukong
Factors that influence human behaviour
Planet Money produced a video series and web site following the making of a tee shirt that they designed, featuring a visual pun on Keynes' animal spirits.
Animal_spirits_(Keynes)
1985 studio album by Squeeze
of a Little Richard song). The album's cover art expands this into a visual pun, with a picture of a tea cozy (cosi), a fan, and a tutti-frutti dessert
Cosi_Fan_Tutti_Frutti
1975 studio album by Little Feat
with Hollywood Boulevard turned into a desert leading to the apparent visual pun of the Hollywood Sign Jell-O mold "dessert". At left, Frederick's of Hollywood
The_Last_Record_Album
Fictional character in the Breaking Bad franchise
finances, and drove a signature Suzuki Esteem with mismatched doors (a visual pun reflecting Jimmy's poor self-esteem). While arriving at and departing
Saul_Goodman
Text written in the opposite to usual direction
written upside down Ambigram – Symmetrical calligraphic or typographic visual pun Faux Cyrillic – Several Cyrillic alphabet characters closely resemble
Mirror_writing
Sentence that uses every letter of a language's alphabet
letters of an alphabet Ambigram – Symmetrical calligraphic or typographic visual pun Chromatic scale – Musical scale set of twelve pitches Music written in
Pangram
British comic book character
television series). He used to wear an Indian feather headdress as a visual pun on Chief, and in later strips wore a hat with a flashing blue light on
Bananaman
Japanese comma-like swirl symbol
The 'tomo picture' (tomoe) can therefore be interpreted either as a visual pun on the tomo represented, or, otherwise, as taking its name from that object
Tomoe
Sculpture by Méret Oppenheim
eroticism and animality of the fur covering. As in other surrealist works, a visual pun is implied, and the incongruity and impracticability of the combined elements
Le_Déjeuner_en_fourrure
Town in Greater Manchester, England
the badge of the Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council using a form of visual pun, a rebus, in combining motifs of arrow for 'bolt' and heraldic crown for
Bolton
1970 studio album by Funkadelic
all tripping on acid." The album's gatefold cover forms something of a visual pun, echoing the sentiments of the album title. The woman holding her arms
Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow
Free_Your_Mind..._and_Your_Ass_Will_Follow
Symbol of victory, triumph, peace and eternal life
to representing the victorious League, the bronze palm (phoinix) was a visual pun on the defeated Phoenician fleet. From 400 BC onward, a palm branch was
Palm_branch
Painting by Jasper Johns
the stencilled names. It has been suggested that the painting may be a visual pun, as Johns "deliberately put American painting on the map" in the 1950s
Map_(painting)
Name list
portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, a juniper tree is seen directly behind her (a visual pun, as the Italian word for juniper is ginepro, which is similar to Ginevra's
Juniper_(given_name)
American cartoonist (born 1942)
interest in games and puzzles led him to create the schizonym, a new kind of visual pun. Jonik was born on April 30, 1942, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Edward
John_Jonik
Clown performing or appearing in a circus
from the emergency or for the audience to be evacuated. Suitcase gag A visual pun that is carried inside of a suitcase and used during walkarounds. The
Circus_clown
English artist
Young British Artists who emerged in 1988. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour by incorporating photography, sculpture, collage and
Sarah_Lucas
5th episode of the 6th season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
night, Buffy gets drunk with Spike at a bar where he plays poker (in a visual pun, they use kittens as currency for the kitty) and searches for information
Life_Serial
1992 film by Bigas Luna
of the dialogue and imagery in the film are composed of word play and visual puns. For example, in Spanish, jamón means "ham;" not only do two characters
Jamón_jamón
1973 compilation album by Pink Floyd
Several images depict a well-known phrase or saying in the form of a visual pun; for instance, the centre right-hand panel on the front depicts "a fork
A_Nice_Pair
1978 film by Ernie Fosselius
almost 18 months after Star Wars, mainly consisted of inside jokes and visual puns that heavily depended upon audience familiarity with the original. The
Hardware_Wars
Small, flat and usually round piece of material used as money
one side, and a symbol of the city on the other. Some coins employed a visual pun: some coins from Rhodes featured a rose, since the Greek word for rose
Coin
Inuk artist
master of color and form. — Janet Catherine Berlo Oonark's work includes visual puns and shape-shifting, descriptive works depicting clothing, tools and cultural
Jessie_Oonark
Church in London, England
commissioned it in the 16th century. The screen inside is decorated with a visual pun on his name: an eye and a boy falling from a tree (eye-slip). Additional
Westminster_Abbey
French sculptor
Gislebertus, Sculptor of Autun. New York: Hacker Art Books. p. 13. A Visual Pun at Vézelay: Gesture and Meaning on a Capital Representing the Fall of
Gislebertus
1985 single by Madonna
a large letter "U", a tin of Campbell's soup, and the word "DANCE" —a visual pun on the phrase "You Can Dance". The Washington Post's Richard Harrington
Into_the_Groove
Fictional character
snaps of a PDP-11 system running UNIX along with some notions about visual puns having to do with pipes, demons/daemons, forks, a "bit bucket" named
BSD_Daemon
Coins of ancient Carthage
incompatible. The usual interpretation of the palm tree is that it was a type of visual pun intended to signify the minting authority, since the Greek word for palm
Carthaginian_coinage
Interpreted programming language first released in 1987
subsidiaries, Perl Mongers, PerlMonks, Perl.org, and others. The symbol is a visual pun on pearl onion. In 2024, a new camel logo for the language was published
Perl
2nd episode of the 14th season of The Simpsons
videotaping Homer is a parody of Taxicab Confessions. The couch gag is a visual pun of the slang term "jump the shark", which describes when a TV show has
How I Spent My Strummer Vacation
How_I_Spent_My_Strummer_Vacation
Painting by Georges Braque
paper in his piece. He may also have wished to use the paper to create a visual pun about the nature of representation. He noticed that because the paper
Fruit_Dish_and_Glass
Traditional Chinese language riddles
second century CE. They are partly noted for their use of elaborate visual puns on Chinese characters. According to Timothy Wai Keung Chan, 'the Chinese
Chinese_riddles
Ancient Greco-Roman drinking cup
interpretation of the use of myrtle crowns on the Warren Cup, being a visual pun of homosexual penetration as an easy victory. Warren purchased the cup
Warren_Cup
Painting by Umberto Boccioni
also weaves in references to his earlier works. See for example, the visual pun of the horse's appearance on the woman's buttock when compared with a
The_Street_Enters_the_House
2011 studio album by Steve Miller Band
Bingo, the artwork was designed by StormStudios, with a plethora of visual puns used in the pictures (the cover shows a man with no hair, but a hare
Let_Your_Hair_Down_(album)
British psychologist
Game devotes a chapter to puns in dreams, including verbal puns, reversal puns, visual puns, puns involving proper names, puns involving literal pictures
Ann_Faraday
Sculpture by Gianlorenzo Bernini
Bernini’s decision to create a marble sculpture may be some kind of visual pun on the myth - creating a stone version of a living creature that could
Medusa_(Bernini)
Fictional animated character
the Pink Panther made creative use of absurd and surreal themes and visual puns and an almost completely wordless pantomime style, set to the ubiquitous
Pink_Panther_(character)
College of University of Cambridge
of tincture of "no metal on metal" in heraldry. The cross potent is a visual pun on the letters H and I, the first two letters of Hierusalem. The silver
Queens'_College,_Cambridge
Role of simians in the historical and current culture of China
frequent motif in modern Chinese art. Several examples are based on a visual pun between hou 侯 "marquis; count" and hou 猴 "monkey". Since mashang 馬上 literally
Simians_in_Chinese_culture
Japanese retailer
also the romanized representation of the Japanese hiragana "い", a third visual pun). Despite being read as numerals, the symbol is written "OIOI" in Latin
Marui
Vessel for preparing and serving tea
1922, and the 15-foot handled-and-spouted gas station was designed as a visual pun referencing the then-current Teapot Dome scandal. It has been moved multiple
Teapot
Carved architectural features
stones make a joke, usually a visual pun. For instance the "Batenburg" stone from Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, shown here, puns on the words baten (to profit)
Gable_stone
American comic strip created by artist Jeff MacNelly
Virginia. During hunting season, "hunting dogs" (hounds with rifles, a visual pun on the sharp-sniffing canines that hunters use to track game) are occasionally
Shoe_(comic_strip)
1888 painting by Charles Conder
sunshine that is characteristic of Australia. Noted also for its jokes and visual puns, A holiday at Mentone has been described as "a witty comment on the transformation
A_holiday_at_Mentone
Group of letters pronounced as if a word
ISBN 9780525558057. Meghan Cox Gurdon (29 June 2012). "The Surprising Fun of Visual Puns". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 May 2022. Hicks, Sir Seymour
Gramogram
Irish noble family
Gaelic motto "Lamh Laidir an Uachtar" ("the strong hand uppermost"). This visual pun maintained a link to the dynasty’s Gaelic past while expressing submission
O'Brien_dynasty
8th episode of the 6th season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
happen again, then defends him from an attack by a demon loan shark (in a visual pun, he is a demon with a shark's head, named "Teeth"). Willow, Xander, Anya
Tabula Rasa (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Tabula_Rasa_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)
Radio station in Green Bay, Wisconsin
sign has been unclear; though it was believed to be part of a "gee whiz" pun with WGEE, Midwest Communications head Duke Wright has been somewhat coy
WIXX
American visual artist (born 1942)
anthropomorphized screw, which has become the basis for a number of allegories and visual puns. During the beginning of the Feminist Art Movement, Bernstein was a founding
Judith_Bernstein
1997 American erotic film
Vinni as Zazel sits at her desk and airbrushes an image of a flower. A visual pun is created as the petals start to move and contract and reveal themselves
Zazel:_The_Scent_of_Love
Cuphead character
musical personality, while also having him fight using attacks based off visual puns regarding the sides of a die. Ultimately, they decided to lean into casino
King_Dice
Television series
poetess Cesárea Tinajero turn out to be a short series of Mexican culture visual puns, similar to Price's Droodles. There was also a droodle-based game called
Droodles
Retrieved June 15, 2019 – via Twitter. In an interview, Takaya indicated the visual pun is deliberate. Takaya, Natsuki (November 11, 2007). "Natsuki Takaya Written
List of Fruits Basket characters
List_of_Fruits_Basket_characters
Painting by Gentile da Fabriano
holding a falcon. In addition to signify his status, it also serves as a visual pun, since the term "falconer" translates to Strozzieri in the Tuscan dialect
Adoration of the Magi (Gentile da Fabriano)
Adoration_of_the_Magi_(Gentile_da_Fabriano)
1979 studio album by Richard and Linda Thompson
the Alexandra Road Estate in Camden, London. The front cover features a visual pun on the company logo used at the time by UK travel agent Thomson Holidays
Sunnyvista
British musician and author
[Martin Howells] to form a new version of that group, renamed with the visual pun Chrys&themums to distinguish it from the original line-up. In 2004, Burrows
Terry_Burrows
2017 studio album by Arcade Fire
features a man riding a horse, a camp fire, and an arcade machine on fire (a visual pun on the band's name). The entire scene was shot in many different lighting
Everything_Now
American artist
term, coupled with the literal gardening instrument, in order to make a visual pun between the blade of a shovel and an African mask, and a contemporary
David_Hammons
College campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
18–19 "Collections". MIT List Visual Arts Center. Retrieved April 21, 2011. "MIT Public Art Collection Map". MIT List Visual Arts Center. Archived from the
Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Campus_of_the_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
Extinct genus of reptiles
The unusual combination and spelling are intended as an auditory and visual pun such that the 'ch' sound in Brochu takes the place of the 's' sound in
Brochuchus
American painter
cutting wit, incisive cultural and political analysis, and verbal and visual puns that he called Humanscapes, which were painted between 1965 and 1989
Mel_Casas
9th episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
the finest visual gags of the streaming era", and "a perfect She-Hulk moment". /Film's Sandy Schaefer believed K.E.V.I.N. to be a "visual pun" to the "recurring
Whose_Show_Is_This?
Tradition and style of heraldic achievements in Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
inherited noble arms, arms depicting local landmarks, and canting arms (a visual pun on the city's name), most of these coats of arms are based on an earlier
German_heraldry
English painter (1832–1893)
and heavenly redemption. His accompanying notes featured wordplay and visual puns, described as a "sort of bucolic phantasmagoria: mammoth lilypads and
Charles_Altamont_Doyle
VISUAL PUN
VISUAL PUN
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Shiva
Male
Spanish
Spanish form of Roman Latin Vitalis, VIDAL means "of life; vital."
Girl/Female
Muslim
Example, Copy, Torch, Light, Lightened, Sparkling, Shining
Girl/Female
Indian
Example, Copy, Torch, Light, Lightened, Sparkling, Shining
Girl/Female
Muslim
Example, Copy, Torch, Light, Lightened, Sparkling, Shining
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Wondrous
Girl/Female
Muslim
Fragrance
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Protector of the Brave
Boy/Male
Sikh
Heroic protector, Protector of the brave
Male
Hindi/Indian
(विशाल) Hindi name VISHAL means "large."
Boy/Male
Hindu
Great
Girl/Female
Biblical
Parables, governing.
Surname or Lastname
English, of French (Huguenot) origin
English, of French (Huguenot) origin : altered form of French Vassal, status name for a medieval retainer (see Vassell).
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Traditional
Big; Huge; Broad; Great; Immense; Giant; Massive; Long; Bold; Mercy; Star
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit, Telugu
Calm; Sharp; Spacious
Boy/Male
Hindu
Boy/Male
Hindu
Huge, Broad, Great
Girl/Female
Indian
Example, Copy, Torch, Light, Lightened, Sparkling, Shining
Boy/Male
Hindu
Faith, Trust
VISUAL PUN
VISUAL PUN
Girl/Female
Muslim
Leaf
Boy/Male
Hindu
Musical instrument
Boy/Male
Tamil
Born in Sky
Boy/Male
Muslim
Supported by God
Boy/Male
Arabic, Australian, Indian, Sindhi
A High Standard; Power
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Son of Abhimanyu
Boy/Male
Arabic
Servant of the Generous One
Boy/Male
British, English, Scandinavian
Variant of Wayland; From the Land by the Path; Modern Singer Waylon Jennings
Girl/Female
Tamil
Good
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Desired by Men
VISUAL PUN
VISUAL PUN
VISUAL PUN
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VISUAL PUN
a.
Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book.
a.
Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.
n.
The visual purple. See under Visual.
n.
Hence, the code of ceremonies observed by an organization; as, the ritual of the freemasons.
v. t.
To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.
a.
Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.
a.
Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.
n.
A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.
a.
Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
a.
Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.
pl.
of Vista
n.
A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.
a.
Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle
a.
Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve.
n.
A vital part; one of the vitals.
v. t.
To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
a.
Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.
a.
Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.
a.
Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood.