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掛詞掛け言葉懸詞掛け詞懸け詞
かけことば
  1. [n]
    • kakekotoba
    • pivot word
    • play on words (esp. in poetry)
    • pun
    Cross references:
    • ⇐ see: 1207610 掛ける【かける】 23. to pun (on a word); to use (a word) as a pivot word; to play on words
History:
    • A 2018-01-20 23:22:09 Jim Breen
    • Comments
      The JEs all have pun/play on words without qualification. Daijirin says it's in the context of 韻文. I think this covers all bases.
    • Refs
      Daijr, GG5, etc.
    • Diff
      @@ -25,0 +26,2 @@
      +<gloss>play on words (esp. in poetry)</gloss>
      +<gloss>pun</gloss>
    • A* 2018-01-18 10:08:08 Marcus Richert
    • Refs
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakekotoba
      https://books.google.com/books?id=wy4RwR2Kl-
      0C&pg=PA308&lpg=PA308&dq=waka+pivot+word&source=bl&ots=2
      kuid4blro&sig=EbuI9XAaYVHoE9Kt5VG-awwgn-
      w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz-
      Y31oeHYAhVMzGMKHaNwBiwQ6AEIQjAE#v=onepage&q=waka pivot
       word&f=false
      (and several more hits on Google books for kakekotoba + 
      pivot word)
    • Diff
      @@ -24,2 +24,2 @@
      -<gloss>pun</gloss>
      -<gloss>play on words</gloss>
      +<gloss>kakekotoba</gloss>
      +<gloss>pivot word</gloss>
    • A* 2018-01-18 05:50:25 Jim Breen
    • Comments
      Curious that the WWW usage is so out of synch with the dictionaries. I guess the influence of IME tables.
    • Refs
      N-grams:
      掛け詞	419
      掛け言葉	2583
      掛詞	11922
      懸け詞	154
      懸詞	689
    • Diff
      @@ -5 +5 @@
      -<keb>掛け詞</keb>
      +<keb>掛詞</keb>
      @@ -11 +11,4 @@
      -<keb>掛詞</keb>
      +<keb>懸詞</keb>
      +</k_ele>
      +<k_ele>
      +<keb>掛け詞</keb>
      @@ -15,3 +17,0 @@
      -</k_ele>
      -<k_ele>
      -<keb>懸詞</keb>
    • A* 2018-01-18 04:40:27 Marcus Richert
    • Refs
      saito
      daijr 掛ける entry
      "②  掛け言葉を言う。 「『長雨』を『眺め』に-・ける」"
      typo
    • Diff
      @@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
      +</k_ele>
      +<k_ele>
      +<keb>掛け言葉</keb>
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