What's the difference between punner and punnet?

Punner


Definition:

  • (n.) A punster.

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Punnet


Definition:

  • (n.) A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Monday Tesco was selling 454g punnets of British strawberries for £2.
  • (2) In every grocery store, Kumamon smiles from every punnet of strawberries and honeydew melon wrapper.
  • (3) As the young Le Pen passed, a 63-year-old farmer, reduced to selling punnets of strawberries out of the back of his van amid what he called "lunatic practices of supermarket giants importing fruit from Mexico", beamed proudly.
  • (4) They sell at £2.25 a punnet, compared with under £2 elsewhere.
  • (5) Prices for fruit and vegetables range from 35p for a lettuce to £1.69 for a punnet of raspberries.
  • (6) Meanwhile, Marks & Spencer said it had sold a record number – almost 1m – punnets of strawberries last week.
  • (7) The supermarket will add a small plaster-style strip at the bottom of punnets of strawberries, containing a patented mixture of clay and other minerals that absorb ethylene – the ripening hormone which causes fruit to ripen and then turn mouldy.
  • (8) During the British season M&S sells about 1m punnets per week.
  • (9) It is like seeing the Fair Trade symbol on a punnet of strawberries In all this, Me Too!
  • (10) It also complained about a further promotion involving the same strawberries in which Tesco offered a free pot of single cream with each punnet but then removed the free cream offer, returning the strawberries to their "half-price" status.
  • (11) The old-fashioned fruit is also enjoying a revival as a result of the introduction of much sweeter “snacking” varieties, eaten straight from the punnet, which have more appeal to consumers.
  • (12) For seven days in 2011 Tesco sold 400g punnets of strawberries at £3.99, reducing them to £2.99 for a further week before marking them as half price at £1.99 for a further 14 weeks.
  • (13) It is like seeing the Fair Trade symbol, or a British flag on a punnet of strawberries.
  • (14) I remember walking through Soho and Loach stopping to buy us a punnet of strawberries from a market stall, while telling me pity was a rightwing construct: the answer to all setbacks, as the great American trade unionist Joe Hill said, is, “Don’t mourn, organise!” I recently watched The Big Flame , Loach’s 1969 TV film about 10,000 Liverpool dockers staging a work-in.
  • (15) A spokeswoman for Asda said: "We didn't roll this out as our research didn't show a benefit in terms of longer life when looking at the additional cost per punnet."

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