Alternate Terms Alternate terms for this type of story can be taken from the terms sometimes used for these puns In particular groaner see Wiktionary definition 3 or screamer from the reader s reaction at the end Since many people have never run across one of the Ferdinand Feghoot stories they would not know feghoot The only one of them I have read was definitely a pun but seemed rather flat on first reading not in either the groaner or screamer categories agb