"jouer sur les mots" meaning in French

See jouer sur les mots in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ʒwe syʁ le mo/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-jouer sur les mots.wav
Head templates: {{fr-verb}} jouer sur les mots
  1. to argue semantics, to play on semantics, to quibble, to deliberately misinterpret someone's words
    Sense id: en-jouer_sur_les_mots-fr-verb-VSEv8hhu Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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