A combination of "pun" (a play on words) and "confounded" (an expression of confusion).
Thus, "punfounded" means to be confused with a pun.
This term is limited to describing confusion with puns only.
Al: "What's brown and sticky?"
Yang: "What?"
Al: "A stick!"
Yang: "I'm so punfounded"
A combination of "Dumbstruck" and "Pun"
Thus, "Punstruck" is to be dumbstruck or confused by a pun.
Al: "Whale Whale Whale, What have we here"
Yang: "what?"
Al: "It's funny because the word Whale sounds like Well, and it's a common phrase when people say 'well well well' so it's a pun."
Yang: "I'm punstruck"
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The act of punishing someone by incessantly telling them puns or double entendres.
The word "pun-ish" being a pun itself.
Jess: "Someone stole my coffee mug!"
Alan: "I guess you got mugged."
Carlos: "You know, drinking too much coffee causes a latte problems."
Alan: "Carlos, stop brewing trouble."
Carlos: "Alan, you mocha me sick"
Alan: "I suppose the mugger has bean in the wrong places"
Carlos: "no need to get your beans in bunch"
Jess: "stop guys"
Alan: "I bet your day is a real grind without your coffee"
Carlos: "When we find the mugger, he's getting roasted"
Alan: "okay lets not pun-ish poor Jess :3"
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