groaner
English · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
groaner
- /ˈɡɹəʊnə(ɹ)/
Where it comes from
From Middle English groner, gronar, equivalent to groan + -er.
noun groaners
- One who groans or complains. I don’t need to hear from groaners like you.
- A work of extremely low quality, so bad as to inspire groaning. That movie was a real groaner.
-
A particularly egregious joke, especially a pun.
From the cleverest repartee to the worst groaner, people use and respond to puns, but sometimes find them hard to define.
Opposite: knee slapper
- A whistling buoy.
Talk about this word "groaner." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/groaner. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. groaner. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/groaner "groaner." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/groaner.Cite this
@misc{groaner_2026,
title = {groaner},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/groaner},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
