ambiguity ambiguousness amphibology belly laugh blue story complexity of meaning counterword dirty joke dirty story double meaning double reference equivocacy equivocal equivocality equivocalness equivocation equivoque ethnic joke fun funny story gag good one good story howler irony jape jest jestbook joke laugh levels of meaning multivocality panic paronomasia play point polysemant polysemousness polysemy portmanteau word pun punning rib tickler richness of meaning riot scream sick joke sidesplitter sight gag sport squinting construction story tergiversation uncertainty visual joke weasel word wheeze wow yarn