"punningly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "punning + -ly",
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      "form": "more punningly",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 113",
          "text": "Even though some names or words polysemically carry sexual meanings, this does not automatically mean that every usage of them in literary texts, even those of a pornographic nature, has a sexual meaning, either explicitly or punningly.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC",
          "text": "The film is an anthology of three whimsical short stories set in France in the mid-20th Century. The conceit is that they were all published in an English-language magazine which is edited in the punningly-named fictional French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé, but which is attached to an American newspaper based in Kansas.",
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        "In a punning manner; so as to form a pun."
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  "word": "punningly"
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  "etymology_text": "punning + -ly",
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          "ref": "2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 113",
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        "In a punning manner; so as to form a pun."
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