Pun
Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary web : https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/main.html
PUN, sb.1 Dev. [Not known to our correspondents.] A child's pinafore. (Hall.)
PUN, sb.2 Lin.1 [pun.] A funnel-shaped vessel, used principally for heating beer and milk.
PUN, sb.3 and v. Nhp.1 [pun.] 1. sb. A slow, inactive person. Often applied to female servants. ‘She's a poor pun.’ 2. v. To be slow, dreamy, inactive. ‘What are you punning about?’ ‘Don't stand punning there,’ is often said to any one who is listlessly musing, instead of acting.
PUN, sb.4 Obs. Sc. A sham. Bnff. A flatt'rin title's but a pun, Taylor Poems (1787) 41.
PUN, see Pound, sb.1, v.3
