Also calembourg. [Fr. (According to Chasles, quoted by Littré, from the name of ‘the Abbé de Calemberg, a witty personage in German tales,’ i.e., Pfarrer Wigand von Theben, known as the ‘Pfaff von Kahlenberg’ or Priest of Kahlenberg in Lower Austria.)] A pun.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., II. 237. All British-born … people … father their calembourgs on Rogers.
1876. A. S. Palmer, Leaves fr. Word-Hunter’s Note-Bk., 167. This is a mere calembour on the resemblance between the two Latin words ebrius, drunken, and Ebræus, Hebrew.
