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People will sometimes say "No pun intended" when they unintentionally say something that could be taken as a pun. So, for example, say your boss is a little guy who has a temper and cuts you off abruptly. You go back to your co-worker and say "The boss was short with me." (Short as in "rudely abrupt") Realizing that it's kind of funny because since he's a little guy he's ALWAYS short, you might add "No pun intended." It just means that you realize you kind of made a pun, but that wasn't on purpose.
I've occasionally also heard people say "pun intended" when they are meaning to be funny in the same way described above. Just to make sure you are getting how clever they are.
Hope that makes sense.
A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech, or word play which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words within a phrase or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor.
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