Definition of "punster" [pun•ster]

• A maker of puns. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Marino abounds in puerile conceits; but they are not far-fetched, like those of Donne and Cowley; they generally lie on the surface, and often consist of nothing more than a mere play upon words; so that, if to be a punster is to be a metaphysician, Marino is a poetical Heraclitus."
• "In Maureen Dowd's New York Times Jan. 30 puff piece " No Axe to Grind " about the departure from the White House of senior presidential adviser David Axelrod, she notes that although he is not tech savvy, "The avid punster offered a parting pun at the 8:30 a.m. meeting [in the White House] — urging everyone to 'plow forward' on a plan for genetically produced [sic] alfalfa.""
• "Jesus, if the Bible is to be believed, was an inveterate punster."