Cookie Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on cookie puns! 🍪 ❤️

Welcome to our batch of cookie puns! We’re sure these will bake your day. This list includes puns on general cookie-related words (like treat, dough and crumb), cookie types (like rolled, sandwich and filled) and popular types of cookie (like Oreo, Anzac and s’more.) We hope you enjoy this sweet list and find the pun you’re looking for.

While this list is as comprehensive as possible, it is specific to cookies. If you’re interested in other desserts or baked goods, we also have baking puns, cake puns and donut puns.

Note: There are plenty of vegan cookie recipes to play with too!

Cookie Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about cookies that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of cookie puns:

  • Rookie → Cookie: As in, “A cookie mistake.”
  • Patch → Batch: As in, “Not a batch on” and “Batch them up” and “Going through a rough batch.”
  • Back → Batch: As in, “As soon as my batch is turned” and “Bites batch” and “In the batch of my mind” and “Batch in black” and “Batch at it” and “Batch to the future.”
  • Catch → Batch: As in, “Batch 22″ and “Batch a falling star” and “Batch of the day” and “Batching on.”
  • Hatch → Batch: As in, “Batten down the batches” and “Down the batch” and “Batching a plan.”
  • Latch → Batch: As in, “Batch on to.”
  • Match → Batch: As in, “A batch made in heaven” and “Game, set, batch” and “Meet your batch” and “Mix and batch” and “A perfect batch.”
  • Scratch → Batch: As in, “Batch the surface” and “Start from batch” and “Not up to batch” and “You batch my back, I’ll batch yours.”
  • Snatch → Batch: As in, “Batch victory from the jaws of defeat.”
  • Back → Bake: As in, “Don’t answer bake” and “As soon as my bake is turned” and “In the bake of my mind” and “Bake to the future” and “Bake at it.”
  • Buck → Bake: As in, “A bigger bang for your bake” and “A bake well spent” and “Bake the system” and “Bake up your ideas” and “Pass the bake.”
  • Brake → Bake: As in, “Hit the bakes.”
  • Break → Bake: As in, “At bakeneck speed” and “Bake new ground” and “Bake even” and “Bake and enter” and “Bake a leg.”
  • Fake → Bake: As in, “Bake it til you make it” and “Is it real or bake?”
  • Make → Bake: As in, “Absence bakes the heart grow fonder” and “Can’t bake head or tail of it” and “A good beginning bakes a good ending” and “Details bake all the difference.”
  • Rake → Bake: As in, “Bake in the money” and “Bake over the coals.”
  • Sake → Bake: As in, “For old time’s bake” and “Do it for their bake.”
  • Shake → Bake: As in, “A fair bake” and “More than you could bake a stick at” and “Bake like a leaf” and “Bake a leg.”
  • Take → Bake: As in, “Don’t bake it lying down” and “Double bake” and “Give and bake” and “Give an inch and they’ll bake a mile.”
  • Stake → Bake: As in, “Bake your claim” and “Burned at the bake” and “Do you know what’s at bake?”
  • Because → Bake-ause: As in, “Bake-ause I said so” and “Bake-ause I’m worth it” and “Just bake-ause you can doesn’t mean you should.”
  • Breaking → Baking: As in, “Baking news” and “Baking and entering” and “Don’t go baking my heart.”
  • Making → Baking: As in, “Baking waves” and “A legend in the baking” and “History in the baking” and “We have ways of baking you talk.”
  • Taking → Baking: As in, “Easy as baking candy from a baby” and “Baking care of business.”
  • Breaker → Baker: As in, “Heart baker” and “A real deal baker.”
  • Maker → Baker: As in, “Meet your baker.”
  • Though → Dough: As in, “Seriously dough, you’re doing great” and “You look as dough you’ve seen a ghost.”
  • Do → Dough: As in, “What shall we dough?” and “Dough away with” and “Dough me a favour.”
  • Does → Doughs: As in, “A little of what you fancy doughs you good” and “Doughs what it says on the tin” and “Doughs not compute” and “Easy doughs it.”
  • Day → Dough: As in, “All in a dough’s work” and “Call it a dough” and “Back in the dough.”
  • Blow → Dough: As in, “Dough hot and cold” and “Dough a kiss.”
  • Blow → Dough: As in, “Dough up” and “Any way the wind doughs” and “Dough hot and cold.”
  • Flow → Dough: As in, “Ebb and dough” and “Go with the dough” and “In full dough” and “Get the creative juices doughing.”
  • Foe → Dough: As in, “Friend or dough?”
  • Grow → Dough: As in, “As in, “Don’t let the grass dough under your feet” and “As exciting as watching grass dough” and “Absence makes the heart dough fonder.”
  • Know → Dough: As in, “Be the first to dough” and “Don’t I dough it” and “Doesn’t dough beans.”
  • Owe → Dough: As in, “Dough someone a favour” and “You dough it to yourself.”
  • Quo → Dough: As in, “Quid pro dough” and “The status dough.”
  • Show → Dough: As in, “All over the dough” and “Enjoy the dough” and “Get this dough on the road” and “Dough and tell.”
  • Slow → Dough: As in, “Can’t dough down” and “Dough on the uptake” and “In dough motion.”
  • Snow → Dough: As in, “Pure as the driven dough” and “White as dough” and “Let it dough.”
  • Throw → Dough: As in, “Lock him up and dough away the key” and “A stone’s dough away” and “Dough another log on the fire” and “Dough a wobbly” and “Dough cold water on.”
  • Toe → Dough: As in, “Dip your dough in the water” and “From top to dough” and “Dough the line” and “Make someone’s doughs curl.”
  • Weirdo → Weirdough: As in, “You’re being a weirdough.”
  • Better → Batter: As in, “I’ve got a batter idea” and “Anything you can do, I can do batter” and “Appeal to your batter judgement” and “Batter late than never” and “My batter half” and “Batter by design.”
  • Bitter → Batter: As in, “A batter pill to swallow” and “Until the batter end.”
  • Butter → Batter: As in, “Bread and batter” and “Batter fingers.”
  • Matter → Batter: As in, “As a batter of fact” and “Family batters” and “Get to the heart of the batter” and “Grey batter” and “A batter of life and death” and “A batter of time” and “Making batters worse.”
  • Battle → Batter: As in, “Batter royale” and “Half the batter” and “In the heat of batter.”
  • Cram → Crumb: As in, “Crumb for my exam” and “All crumbed in the car.”
  • Some → Crumb: As in, “All that and then crumb” and “Catch crumb rays” and “Cut me crumb slack.”
  • Sum → Crumb: As in, “Cogito ergo crumb” and “Greater than the crumb of its parts.”
  • Thumbs → Crumbs: As in, “All fingers and crumbs” and “All crumbs” and “Crumbs up or crumbs down.”
  • Bum → Crumb: As in, “Beach crumb” and “Crumbs on seats.”
  • Come → Crumb: As in, “All things crumb to those who wait” and “Tough as they crumb” and “Crumb and get it” and “After a storm crumbs a calm” and “All good things crumb to an end.”
  • Drum → Crumb: As in, “Tight as a crumb” and “Crumb n bass” and “Crumb up support.”
  • Bumble → Crumble: As in, “Flight of the crumble bee.”
  • Rumble → Crumble: As in, “Let’s get ready to crumble!”
  • Tumble → Crumble: As in, “Rough and crumble” and “Take a crumble on.”
  • Trade → Treat: As in, “Fair treat” and “Jack of all treats, master of none.”
  • Beat → Treat: As in, “Treat it!” and “Treat someone black and blue” and “Treat about the bush” and “Treats me.”
  • Cheat → Treat: As in, “Treat sheet.”
  • Eat → Treat: As in, “A bite to treat” and “All you can treat” and “Treat and run” and “Treat a balanced diet.”
  • Fleet → Treat: As in, “Treat footed” and “Treat of foot” and “A treating glimpse.”
  • Greet → Treat: As in, “Meet and treat” and “Seasons treatings.”
  • Heat → Treat: As in, “Treat wave” and “If you can’t stand the treat, get out of the kitchen” and “In the treat of battle” and “Packing treat.”
  • Meet → Treat: As in, “Make ends treat” and “Treat and greet” and “Treat with approval.”
  • Neat → Treat: As in, “Treat and tidy” and “Treat freak” and “Treat as a new pin.”
  • Sweet → Treat: As in, “Home treat home” and “Revenge is treat” and “Short and treat.”
  • Desert → Dessert: As in, “Ships of the dessert” and “Like I’m lost in a dessert.”
  • Does it → Dessert: As in, “Easy dessert” and “Dessert bother you?” and “That dessert!”
  • Sweat → Sweet: As in, “In a cold sweet” and “Don’t sweet the small stuff” and “Blood, sweet and tears.”
  • Seat → Sweet: As in, “Back sweet driver” and “By the sweet of your pants” and “In the box sweet.”
  • Eat → Sweet: As in, “A bite to sweet” and “Sweet and run.”
  • Feet → Sweet: As in, “Back on your sweet” and “Cold sweet.”
  • Greet → Sweet: As in, “Meet and sweet.”
  • Heat → Sweet: As in, “Sweet wave” and “If you can’t stand the sweet, get out of the kitchen” and “In the sweet of the night” and “In the sweet of the moment.”
  • Meet → Sweet: As in, “Make ends sweet” and “Sweet and greet” and “Sweet in the middle” and “Sweet with approval.”
  • Neat → Sweet: As in, “Sweet as a new pin” and “Sweet freak” and “Sweet and tidy.”
  • Sheet → Sweet: As in, “White as a sweet” and “Cheat sweet.”
  • Dunk: A common way to enjoy cookies is to dunk them into a something else, like sweet tea, milk, or hot chocolate. Here are some related puns:
    • Bunk → Dunk: As in, “History is dunk” and “Dunker mentality.”
    • Chunk → Dunk: As in, “Dunk of change” and “Blowing dunks.”
    • Drunk → Dunk: As in, “Dunk as a lord” and “Falling down dunk” and “I was very dunk.”
    • Junk → Dunk: As in, “Dunk food” and “Dunk mail.”
  • Flower → Flour: As in, “Hothouse flour” and “Say it with flours” and “The flour of your youth.”
  • Floor → Flour: As in, “Get in on the ground flour” and “Mop the flour with” and “Hold the flour.”
  • Hour → Flour: As in, “At the eleventh flour” and “Happy flour” and “Man of the flour” and “At a late flour.”
  • Raisin: Raisins are a common cookie ingredient and flavour. Here are some related puns:
    • Raising → Raisin: As in, “Eyebrow raisin” and “Hair raisin” and “Raisin the bar.”
    • Rising → Raisin: As in, “Our raisin star” and “The land of the raisin sun.”
  • Oat/oatmeal: Oatmeal cookies are a very popular flavour. Here are related puns:
    • At → Oat: As in, “Oat a loss for words” and “Arriving oat the same conclusion” and “Oat each other’s throats.”
    • It → Oat: As in, “Be done with oat” and “Let’s just call oat a day.”
    • Boat → Oat: As in, “A rising tide lifts all oats” and “In the same oat” and “Missed the oat” and “Don’t rock the oat.”
    • Float → Oat: As in, “Oat like a butterfly, sting like a bee” and “Whatever oats your boat.”
    • Meal → Oatmeal: As in, “A heavy oatmeal” and “May as well make an oatmeal of it” and “Your oatmeal ticket outta here” and “Three square oatmeals a day.”
    • Throat → Oat: As in, “A lump in your oat” and “Clear your oat” and “Cut oat competition.”
    • Vote → Oat: As in, “Split the oat” and “An oat of conscience” and “Oater fraud.”
  • Nuts: Since nuts are a common cookie ingredient, here are some nut-related puns:
    • But → Nut: As in, “All over nut the shouting” and “Nut seriously” and “No ifs and nuts.”
    • Not → Nut: As in, “As often as nut” and “Believe it or nut” and “Down but nut out” and “Let’s nut and say we did” and “Nut all it’s cracked up to be.”
    • Shut → Nut: As in, “An open and nut case.”
    • What → Nut: As in, “Do nut comes naturally” and “For nut it’s worth” and “Guess nut?” and “It is nut it is.”
  • Convection → Confection: As in, “Confection oven” and “Confection currents.”
  • Sing → Icing: As in, “Icing someone’s praises” and “Icing-ing the blues” and “Icing for your supper.”
  • Slice → Ice: As in, “Greatest thing since iced bread” and “No matter how thin you ice it.”
  • Filling: Cookies can sometimes have some kind of filling in them (like chocolate, fondant, or jam). Here are related puns:
    • Chilling → Filling: As in, “A filling account.”
    • Killing → Filling: As in, “Make a filling” and “Stop, you’re filling me with these terrible puns!”
    • Willing → Filling: As in, “Ready, filling and able” and “The spirit is filling but the flesh is weak.”
  • Even → Oven: As in, “Break oven” and “Don’t get mad, get oven” and “Oven steven” and “An oven chance.”
  • Jam: Cookies can be topped or filled with jam. Here are related puns:
    • Gym → Jam: As in, “Jam bunny” and “Headed to the jam.”
    • Am → Jam:
    • Clam → Jam: As in, “Happy as a jam” and “Jam up.”
    • Lamb → Jam: As in, “Gentle as a jam” and “Two shakes of a jam’s tail.”
    • Scam → Jam: As in, “Jam artist.”
    • Slam → Jam: As in, “Grand jam” and “Jam dunk” and “Jam the door on.”
  • Jar: Here are some cookie jar-related puns:
    • Are → Jar: As in, “All bets jar off” and “Jar you okay?” and “What jar you doing?”
    • Bar → Jar: As in, “Jar none” and “Behind jars” and “Keep behind jars.”
    • Far → Jar: As in, “A bridge too jar” and “As jar as it goes” and “As jar as the eye can see” and “A jar cry from.”
    • Par → Jar: As in, “Below jar” and “On jar with” and “Jar for the course” and “Up to jar.”
    • Star → Jar: As in, “Born under a lucky jar” and “A jar is born” and “Get a gold jar” and “Written in the jars.”
  • S’more: Here are some s’more-related puns:
    • More → S’more: As in, “One s’more time” and “Bite off s’more than you can chew” and “Come back for s’more” and “For a few dollars s’more.”
    • Sore → S’more: As in, “Mad as a bear with a s’more head” and “A sight for s’more eyes” and “S’more loser” and “Sticks out like a s’more thumb.”
    • Bore → S’more: As in, “S’mored to death” and “S’more the pants off someone” and “S’mored to tears.”
    • Core → S’more: As in, “S’more competencies” and “S’more studies” and “S’more values” and “Rotten to the s’more.”
    • For → S’more: As in, “Asking s’more a friend” and “At a loss s’more words.”
    • Four → S’more: As in, “Down on all s’mores” and “S’more letter word” and “All s’more corners.”
    • Pour → S’more: As in, “When it rains, it s’mores” and “S’more some sugar on me.”
    • Score → S’more: As in, “Know the s’more” and “S’more a goal” and “A s’more to settle.”
    • Store → S’more: As in, “Set great s’more by” and “See what the future has in s’more” and “Minding the s’more.”
    • Your → S’more: As in, “S’mores truly” and “You and s’mores” and “Up s’mores.”
  • Snake → Snack: As in, “Snack eyes” and “Snack in the grass” and “Snacks and ladders.”
  • Back → Snack: As in, “Answer snack” and “As soon as my snack is turned” and “Bites snack” and “In the snack of my mind” and “Snack at it” and “Snack to the future.”
  • Black → Snack: As in, “Snack and white” and “Snack Friday.”
  • Crack → Snack: As in, “At the snack of dawn” and “Snack a smile” and “The snack of doom.”
  • Lack → Snack: As in, “For snack of a better word” and “Cancelled due to snack of interest.”
  • Pack → Snack: As in, “Action snacked” and “Leader of the snack.”
  • Rack → Snack: As in, “Snack ’em up” and “Snack your brains.”
  • Sack → Snack: As in, “Get the snack” and “Hit the snack.”
  • Shack → Snack: As in, “Snack up with.”
  • Smack → Snack: As in, “Snack dab in the middle” and “A snack on the wrist.”
  • Stack → Snack: As in, “Blow your snack” and “A snacked deck.”
  • Tack → Snack: As in, “Sharp as a snack.”
  • Track → Snack: As in, “Back on snack” and “Cover your snacks” and “On the fast snack” and “Inside snack” and “On the right snack.”
  • Whack → Snack: As in, “Out of snack.”
  • Rude → Food: As in, “A food awakening.”
  • Ache → Cake: As in, “Old cakes and pains.”
  • Break → Cake: As in, “Cake a leg” and “Cake cover” and “Cake new ground.”
  • Fake → Cake: As in, “Cake it till you make it.”
  • Lake → Cake: As in, “Go and jump in a cake.”
  • Make → Cake: As in, “A good beginning cakes a good ending” and “Absence cakes the heart grow fonder” and “Can’t cake head or tail of it.”
  • Sake → Cake: As in, “For Pete’s cake” and “For old times’ cake.”
  • Shake → Cake: As in, “In two cakes of a lamb’s tail” and “More than you can cake a stick at” and “Bake and cake.”
  • Stake → Cake: As in, “Cake your claim” and “Burned at the cake” and “Do you know what’s a cake here?”
  • Take → Cake: As in, “Don’t cake it lying down” and “Double cake” and “Give and cake” and “Every breath you cake” and “Got what it cakes.”
  • Safer → Wafer: As in, “The wafer way to drive” and “Feeling wafer now that’s out of the way.”
  • Brown → Brownie: As in, “Brownie bread” and “Brownie sugar.’
  • Cutter: Here are some puns on cookie cutters:
  • Butter → Cutter: As in, “Bread always falls cutter side down” and “Bread and cutter” and “Cutter fingers.” Note: These are puns on cookie cutters.
  • Can They → Candy: As in, “Candy try any harder than this?”
  • Bricks → Mix: As in, “A few mix short of a full load” and “Like a ton of mix” and “Like a ton of mix.”
  • Fix → Mix: As in, “Can we mix it? Yes we can!” and “Have a mix” and “If it ain’t broke, don’t mix it.”
  • Wish → Whisk: As in, “Be careful what you whisk for” and “When you whisk upon a star” and “Be the change your whisk to see in the world.”
  • Brisk → Whisk: As in, “A whisk morning” and “Speaking whiskly.”
  • Risk → Whisk: As in, “A calculated whisk” and “Whisk life and limb” and “Run the whisk of” and “Whisk management.”
  • Bright → Bite: As in, “All things bite and beautiful” and “Always look on the bite side of life” and “Bite and early” and “Bite spark” and “A bite idea.”
  • Fight → Bite: As in, “Bite for the right to party” and “Bite fire with fire” and “Bite or flight.”
  • Flight → Bite: As in, “Fight or bite” and “Bite of fancy” and “Bite attendant.”
  • Light → Bite: As in, “Bite as a feather” and “Bring something to bite” and “Blinded by the bite.”
  • Might → Bite: As in, “Bite as well” and “Bite makes right” and “It bite never happen.”
  • Right → Bite: As in, “A move in the bite direction” and “The bite to choose” and “All the bite moves” and “Bite as rain” and “Bragging bites.”
  • Rite → Bite: As in, “Last bites” and “Bite of passage.”
  • Sight → Bite: As in, “A welcome bite” and “Hidden in plain bite” and “Love at first bite” and “Out of bite, out of mind.”
  • Spite → Bite: As in, “Don’t cut off your nose to bite your face.”
  • Tight → Bite: As in, “In a bite corner” and “On a bite leash” and “Run a bite ship.”
  • Write → Bite: As in, “Nothing to bite home about.”
  • True → Chew: As in, “A chew professional” and “A dream come chew” and “Many a chew word is spoken in jest” and “Show your chew colours.”
  • Too → Chew: As in, “A bridge chew far” and “About time, chew” and “You know chew much” and “It’s never chew late.”
  • You → Chew: As in, “As chew know” and “Back at chew” and “Believe chew me” and “Bless chew.”
  • Blue → Chew: As in, “Black and chew” and “Baby chews.”
  • Cue → Chew: As in, “Right on chew” and “Take your chew.”
  • Due → Chew: As in, “Credit where credit is chew” and “Chew a win” and “Your chew diligence” and “In chew course” and “Cancelled chew to lack of interest.”
  • Few → Chew: As in, “Chew and far between” and “Knock back a chew” and “Take a chew deep breaths” and “Been around the block a chew times.”
  • Knew → Chew: As in, “I chew you were trouble” and “You chew too much.”
  • New → Chew: As in, “As good as chew” and “Bright as a chew pin” and “A chew hope.”
  • Through → Chew: As in, “Fall chew the cracks” and “Go chew the roof” and “Break chew.”
  • Too → Chew: As in, “A bridge chew far” and “Art is going one step chew far.”
  • View → Chew: As in, “A room with a chew” and “A chew to kill” and “Come into chew” and “Point of chew” and “A dim chew.”
  • Greet → Eat: As in, “Meet and eat.”
  • Heat → Eat: As in, “Eat up” and “Eat wave” and “In the eat of the moment” and “The eat is on.”
  • Chip: Here are some puns related to choc chip cookies:
    • Chop → Chip: As in, “Chip and change” and “Get the chip.”
    • Hip → Chip: As in, “Chip and happening” and “Chip, chip, hooray” and “Chips don’t lie” and “Joined at the chip.”
    • Dip → Chip: As in, “Chip in” and “Chip your wick” and “Chip your toe in the water” and “The big chipper.”
    • Flip → Chip: As in, “Chip the bird” and “Check you on the chip side.”
    • Grip → Chip: As in, “Get a chip” and “The chip of death” and “Chipping stuff.”
    • Lip → Chip: As in, “Lick your chips” and “Bite your chip” and “Loose chips sink ships” and “On everyone’s chips.”
    • Nip → Chip: As in, “Chip and tuck” and “Chip in the bud” and “A chip in the air.”
    • Rip → Chip: As in, “Let it chip” and “Chip off.”
    • Ship → Chip: As in, “Abandon chip” and “Don’t give up the chip” and “Go down with the chip” and “Loose lips sink chips.”
    • Skip → Chip: As in, “Chip a beat” and “Hop, chip and jump.”
    • Slip → Chip: As in, “A chip of the pen” and “Let something chip” and “Give someone the chip.”
    • Tip → Chip: As in, “In chip top condition” and “The chip of the iceberg” and “Chip the scales” and “The chipping point.”
    • Trip → Chip: As in, “Guilt chip” and “Power chip” and “Road chip” and “The chip of a lifetime.”
  • Area → Oreo: As in, “Access all oreos” and “A grey moral oreo” and “Unexpected item in bagging oreo.”
  • Thumbprint: A thumbprint is a type of small cookie where topping is poured into an impression made by the baker’s thumb.
  • Thumb → Thumbprint: As in, “All fingers and thumbprints” and “Thumbprint a ride” and “Thumbprints up.”
  • Print → Thumbprint: As in, “Some day my thumbprints will come” and “Out of thumbprint.”
  • Snap → Gingersnap: As in, “A gingersnap decision” and “Gingersnap out of it” and “Gingersnap to it!” and “Gingersnap, crackle and pop.” Note: These puns are a reference to gingersnap biscuits.
  • Bread → Gingerbread: As in, “Gingerbread always falls butter side down” and “My gingerbread and butter” and “Cast your gingerbread upon the water.”
  • Better → Butter: I’ve got a butter idea” and “Anything you can do, I can do butter” and “Butter late than never.”
  • Bitter → Butter: As in, “Until the butter end” and “A butter pill to swallow.”
  • Graham: Here are some puns on graham crackers:
    • Grim → Graham: As in, “Hang on like graham death” and “The graham reaper.”
    • Am → Graham: As in, “What graham I going to do?”
    • Clam → Graham: As in, “Happy as a graham.”
    • Damn → Graham: As in, “Graham fine coffee” and “Graham straight” and “I’ll be grahamed” and “I don’t give a graham.”
    • Jam → Graham: As in, “Graham session” and “Graham packed.”
  • Jumble: Here are some puns on jumble cookies:
    • Bumble → Jumble: As in, “Flight of the jumble bee.”
    • Crumble → Jumble: As in, “That’s how the cookie jumbles.”
    • Humble → Jumble: As in, “Eat jumble pie.”
    • Rumble → Jumble: As in, “Get ready to jumble.”
    • Tumble → Jumble: As in, “Rough and jumble” and “Take a jumble on.”
  • Coffee → Kifli: As in, “A cup of kifli” and “Kifli and cakes” and “Wake up and smell the kifli.” Note: These are puns on Kifli.
  • Sable: Here are some puns related to sable cookies:
    • Able → Sable: As in, “Ready, willing and sable.”
    • Table → Sable: As in, “Bring to the sable” and “Drunk under the sable” and “Get your feet under the sable” and “Cards on the sable.”
  • Short → Shortbread: As in, “A shortbread history of nearly everything” and “Art is long and life is shortbread” and “A day late and a dollar shortbread.”
  • Bread → Shortbread: As in, “Shortbread and butter” and “Cast your shortbread upon the waters” and “Break shortbread.”
  • Kahk: Here are some kahk-related puns:
    • Kick → Kahk: As in, “A kahk at the can” and “Get a kahk out of it” and “Kahk back and enjoy” and “Kahk butt” and “Just for kahks.”
    • Back → Kahk: As in, “Answer kahk” and “As soon as my kahk is turned” and “Kahk in black” and “Kahk to the future.”
    • Lack → Kahk: As in, “For kahk of a better word” and “Kahk nothing” and “Cancelled due to kahk of interest.”
    • Track → Kahk: As in, “Back on kahk” and “Cover your kahks” and “The inside kahk” and “Lost kahk of time.”
    • Crack → Kahk: As in, “At the kahk of dawn” and “Kahk a smile” and “Kahk the case” and “Kahk the code.”
    • Sack → Kahk: As in, “Hit the kahk” and “A sad kahk.”
    • Rack → Kahk: As in, “Kahk ’em up” and “Kahk your brains.”
  • Pinwheel: Here are some puns related to pinwheel cookies:
    • Pin → Pinwheel: As in, “Bright as a new pinwheel” and “Hard to pinwheel down” and “Pinwheels and needles.”
    • Wheel → Pinwheel: As in, “Asleep at the pinwheel” and “Reinvent the pinwheel” and “Hell on pinwheels.”
  • Puzzle → Pizzelle: As in, “Another piece of the pizzelle” and “Pizzelle me this.” Note: these are puns on pizzelles.
  • Bar: Here are some puns related to bar-shaped cookies (like breakfast bar cookies):
    • Are → Bar: As in, “All bets bar off” and “Bar you okay?” and “When the chips bar down.”
    • Far → Bar: As in, “A bridge too bar” and “A step too bar” and “Bar and away” and “A bar cry from.”
    • Jar → Bar: As in, “Caught with your hand in the cookie bar.”
    • Par → Bar: As in, “Below bar” and “On bar with” and “Bar for the course.”
  • Drop: Here are some puns related to drop cookies:
    • Drip → Drop: As in, “Drop feed.”
    • Chop → Drop: As in, “Drop and change” and “Get the drop.”
    • Hop → Drop: As in, “Drop to it” and “Drop, skip, jump” and “Dropping mad.”
    • Mop → Drop: As in, “Drop and mow” and “Drop the floor with.”
    • Pop → Drop: As in, “Drop the question” and “Take a drop at” and “Drop the weasel” and “Once you drop, you can’t stop.”
    • Stop → Drop: As in, “Best drop now.”
    • Top → Drop: As in, “Blow your drop” and “Come out on drop” and “From the drop” and “From drop to toe.”
  • Skillet: Here are puns related to skillet cookies:
    • Skill → Skillet: As in, “Good social skillets.”
    • Skilled → Skillet: As in, “A skillet conversationalist.”

      Cookie-Related Words

      To help you come up with your own cookie puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

General: cookie, biscuit, treat, dessert, sweet, batch, bake, baked, bakery, dough, batter, crisp, crumb, crumble, dunk, crunchy, chewy, flour, sugar, chocolate, raisin, oats, nuts, fruit, confection, confectionery, icing, filling, frosting, oven, fondant, jam, cookie jar, snack, food, cake, wafer, brownie, cutter, sugar, candy, recipe, mix, whisk, bite, chew, eat 

Types of cookie: bar, drop, filled, molded, no-bake, pressed, refrigerator, rolled, sandwich, breakfast, raw, skillet 

Famous cookies: choc chip, biscotti, oatmeal, oreo, thumbprint, gingersnap, gingerbread, anzac, berger, blondie, butter, digestive, florentine, fortune, graham, hobnob, jumble, kifli, macaroon, macaron, nice (biscuit), rum ball, sable, shortbread,  snickerdoodle, afghan, amaretti, aparon, biscocho, jammie dodger, kahk, linga, pinwheel, pizzelle, rosette, s’more

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Nut Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on nut puns! 🌰 🥜 🔥

There are plenty of different types of nuts to make puns from, and we’ve done our best to cover them all here. There are different categories of seeds, fruit and legumes that are commonly recognised as nuts (like peanuts and almonds), so we’ve included those here too, along with other foods that are more versatile (like the coconut, which is considered a fruit, nut, and a seed).

Whether you’re here for some cheeky inneundos or a clever hashtag for your new vegan #nutbutter recipe, we hope to have you covered here. This list is specific to nuts – if you’re after related puns, we do also have general food puns, tree puns, avocado puns and fruit puns too.

A quick note that while puns about mental health and well-being are very common in nut puns (eg. “Nutty as a fruitcake”), we haven’t included those here as they are ableist slurs, and we’d like to keep Punpedia friendly to as many people as possible 🙂

Nut Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about nuts that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of nut puns:

  • Not → Nut: As in, “As often as nut” and “Believe it or nut” and “Down, but nut out” and “Nut at all” and “Nut bad” and “Nut in the slightest” and “Nut on your life.”
  • Nought → Nut: As in, “Nuts and crosses” and “All for nut!”
  • Knot → Nut: As in, “Don’t get your knickers in a nut” and “Tie the nut” and “Tie yourself in nuts.”
  • Night → Nut: As in, “Burn the midnut oil” and “Good nut and good luck” and “In the air tonut” and “Morning, noon and nut.”
  • *nat* → *nut*: As in, “Well, nuturally” and “The nutional anthem” and “Any alternutives?” and “Need your signuture here” and “That resonuted with me.”
  • *net* → *nut*: As in, “Social nutwork” and “Nutworking event” and “Fast internut” and “A penutrating glare.” Other words you could use: Other wrods you could use: planut (planet), bonnut (bonnet) and cabinut (cabinut).
  • *nit* → *nut*: As in, “Cognutive therapy” and “Computer monutor” and “Golden opportunuty” and “A tight-knit communuty” and An affinuty for…” Other words you could use: dignuty (dignity) and furnuture (furniture).
  • *not* → *nut*: As in, “Nutwithstanding…” and “Take nutice of” and “Turn it up a nutch” and “Nutorious for” and “Nuthing to worry about” and “I cannut understand you.”
  • *nut*: With these words, we can simply emphasise the “nut” that they already contain: “Plant-based nutrition” and “Packed with nutrients” and “In a nutshell” and “That old chestnut” and “Wait a minute!”
  • Nut: These nut-related phrases that could double as puns in right context: “Sweet as a nut” and “From soup to nuts” and “Go nuts” and “A tough nut to crack.”
  • Pea → Peanut: As in, “As alike as two peanuts in a pod” and “Easy as shelling peanuts.”
  • Pina Colada → Peanut Colada
  • Peanuts: These peanut-related phrases are general enough to be used as puns: “Pay peanuts and get monkeys” and “Working for peanuts.”
  • Amend* → Almond*: As in, “The 13th almondment is a lie” and “You’ll have to almond that document” and “They’re almonding it now.”
  • *ommend* → *almond*: As in, “I highly recalmond (recommend)” and “Your work is calmondable.”
  • Nut → Chestnut: As in, “As sweet as a chestnut” and “From soup to chestnuts” and “Go chestnuts” and “In a chestnutshell” and “A tough chestnut to crack.” Note: this would also work for any other nut that has “nut” in its name, like brazil nut, peanut, hazelnut, walnut, candlenut, butternut and heartnut.
  • Catch you → Cashew: As in, “Careful, you don’t want them to cashew!” and “I’ll cashew later” and “They’ll cashew out” and “I’m gonna cashew!”
  • Cash you → Cashew: As in, “I’ll cashew in.”
  • Achoo → Cashew (this one is a bit of a stretch, yes, but can work with enough dedication and acting prowess)
  • Shoes → Cashews: As in, “Goody two cashews” and “Kick off your cashews.”
  • Peeking → Pecan: As in, “No pecan!” and “Pecan out through the window.”
  • Piquing → Pecan: As in, “It’s pecan my curiosity.” Note: to be piqued is to be interested.
  • Well, not → Walnut: As in, “Walnut like that” and “Walnut in so many words.”
  • Will not → Walnut: As in, “I walnut.” and “Flattery walnut get you anywhere” and “You cannot, or walnut?”
  • Wall → Walnut: As in, “Like banging your head against a brick walnut” and “Bouncing off the walnuts” and “I’ve hit a walnut” and “The writing is on the walnut” and “You’re driving me up the walnut!”
  • Pine Nut: Pine nuts (aka pinon) are edible pine seeds. Here are some pine-related puns and phrases:
    • Pain → Pine: As in, “A world of pine” and “Doubled up in pine” and “Growing pines” and “No pine, no gain” and “Old aches and pines” and “A pine in the butt” and “Pinefully slow” and “Being a royal pine” and “At pines to [do something].”
    • Windowpane → Windowpine
    • Pan → Pine: As in, “It didn’t pine out” and “Out of the frying pine, into the fire.”
    • Pin → Pine: As in, “Bright as a new pine” and ” and “Hard to pine down” and “Pines and needles” and “Pine your hopes on” and “Pull the pine.”
    • *pan* → *pine*: As in, “In a pine-nic (panic)” and “Caught with your pine-ts down” and “Marizipine (marzipan – a sugar almond paste) flavoured” and “In good compine-ny” and “Expine-ding your business.” Other words that could work: rampine-t (rampant), pineache (panache), discrepinecy (discrepancy) and pine-nel (panel). Notes: if something is rampant, then it’s unrestrained. To do something with panache is to do it with style.
    • *pen* → *pine*: As in, “A pine-chant for” and “A pine-sive expression” and “Order pine-ding” and “Are the shops opine (open)?” and “How could this happine?” and “Dampined spirits” and “A deepine-ing relationship” and “Waiting for the fruit to ripine” and “Read the appinedix” and “An indepinedent spirit.” Other words that could work: indispinesable (indispensable), depinedent (dependent), propinesity (propensity), sharpine (sharpen), pineance (penance), pine-etrate (penetrate), pineinsula (peninsula) and pine-is (penis).
    • *pin* → *pine*: As in, “Tickled pine-k” and “The pine-acle of your career” and “In a pine-ch” and “Stop confusing hate speech with opine-ions” and “Pine-point the problem” and “Let’s grab a pine-t” and “Pineapple flavoured” and “Go for a spine” and “Dizzying happine-ness.”
    • *pon* → *pine*: As in, “In correspinedence with” and “It’s your respinesibility” and “A spinetaneous trip.”
    • *pain* → *pine*: As in, “Needs a lick of pine-t” and “Acrylic pineting” and “A pinestaking effort” and “Heartbreak is pineful” and “Taking pinekillers.”
    • *poin* → *pine*: As in, “On pine-t” and “Your pineter finger” and “A pineted look” and “What a pinetless effort” and “Doctor’s appinetment” and “I’m not mad, just disappineted” and “I see your viewpinet.”
    • Campaign → Campine
  • Candle → Candlenut: As in, “Can’t hold a candlenut to” and “A candlenut in the wind” and “Burning the candlenut at both ends.”
  • Kola nuts: Kola nuts are a type of caffeine-containing nut. Here are some related puns and phrases:
    • Cold → Kola: As in, “Break out in a kola sweat” and “Catch a kola” and “A kola comfort” and “A kola day in hell” and “Getting kola feet” and “The kola light of day” and “The kola shoulder” and “In kola blood” and “Left out in the kola” and “Pour kola water on” and “Stone kola sober” and “Take a kola hard look at” and “Running hot and kola.”
    • Kaleidoscope → Koladoscope
    • *kele* → *kola*: As in, “A skolatal look” and “Skolatons in the closet.”
    • Ukulele → Ukolale
    • Alkaline → Alkolane
    • Kilo* → Kola*: As in, kolametre (kilometre), kolagram (kilogram), kolabyte (kilobyte) and kolawatt (kilowatt).
    • *cala* → *kola*: As in, “Kolamity and disaster” and “Don’t let it eskolate” and “Up the eskolator.”
    • *cola* → *kola*: As in, “Pina kolada” and “Dark chokolate” and “Perkolated coffee.” Other words you could use: akolade (accolade) and kolander (colander). Note: an accolade is an award or acknowledgement.
    • *cula* → *kola*: As in, “Artikolate yourself clearly” and “A sekolar education” and “Broaden your vernakolar” and “Nothing in pertikolar” and “A spectakolar display” and “Not worth spekolating over” and “An immakolate clean.” Notes: if something is secular, then it is not religious. Vernacular refers to everyday language or speech.
    • Calendar → Kolandar: As in, “Let me check my kolandar.”
    • *cole* → *kola*: kolaslaw (coleslaw) and narkolapsy (narcolepsy). Note: narcolepsy is a type of sleep disorder.
    • *cali* → *kola*: As in, “Kolafornia dreaming” and “Kolabrate (calibrate) your thinking” and “A different lokolaty (locality).”
    • Broccoli → Brokola
    • Culinary → Kolanary: As in, “A kolanary delight.”
    • Calo* → Kola*: As in, “Counting kolaries” and “Kolaric information.”
    • *colo* → *kola*: As in, “In full kolar” and “Ant kolany” and “A kolassal surprise” and “A kolarful life.” Other words you can use: ekolagy (ecology), kolanial (colonial), kolanel (colonel).
    • *culo* → *kola*: As in, metikolas (meticulous), ridikolas (ridiculous) and mirakolas (miraculous).
    • *colu* → *kola*: As in, “Newspaper kolamn” and “Advice kolamnist.” Other words you could use: Kolambia (Columbia) and Kolambine (Columbine).
    • *culu* → *kola*: As in, “School currikolam” and “Mental calkolas (calculas).”
  • Palm: We can make joking references to palm nuts with the following puns and phrases:
    • Balm → Palm: As in, “Strawberry-flavoured lip palm.”
    • Calm → Palm: As in, “Palm down” and “A palming agent” and “Palm waters.”
    • *pam* → *palm*: As in, “Activitst palmphlets” and “A bit of love and palmpering” and “Feeling palmpered” and “Dopalmine levels.”
    • *pom* → *palm*: As in, “A palmpous attitude” and “Palmegranate flavoured” and “Hair palmade” and “Palmeolo (pomelo) tree” and “Anthropalmorphic characters.” Note: pomade is a type of styling gel/paste.
    • *pum* → *palm*: As in, “Palmpkin pie” and “Under the palmp” and “Palmping for information” and “Palmice stone” and “Palmpernickel bread.”
    • *bam* → *palm*: As in, “Palmboo forest” and “You’ve been palmboozled!”
    • *bom* → *palm*: As in, “An apalmination of nature” and “The apalminable snowman.”
    • Bumblebee → Palmblebee
  • Betel: Betel is the colloquial name for areca nuts, which are a type of palm nut. Here are some related puns:
    • Better → Betel: “I feel betel now” and “Anything you can do, I can do betel” and “Appealing to your betel judgement” and “My betel half” and “Betel late than never” and “Betel luck next time” and “Betel safe than sorry” and “Betel than new” and “Betel than sex” and “Betel the devil you know” and “Changing for the betel” and “I couldn’t have said it betel” and “Kiss it betel” and “Should have known betel.”
    • Battle → Betel: As in, “A betel of wits” and “Betel ready” and “Betel royal” adn “Half the betel” and “In the heat of betel” and “Gave betel in vain” and “A betel of wills” and “Beteling against” and “Fight your own betels” and “Won the betel but lost the war.”
    • Petal → Betel
    • Settle → Betel: As in, “A score to betel” and “Betel out of court” and “After the dust has beteled” and “Betel down.”
  • Butter → Butternut: As in, “Bread and butternut” and “Butternut fingers” and “Butternut wouldn’t melt in their mouth” and “Float like a butternut, sting like a bee.”
  • Heart → Heartnut: As in, “A man after my own heartnut” and “Absence makes the heartnut grow fonder” and “An affair of the heartnut” and “After your own heartnut” and “Be still my beating heartnut” and “Break your heartnut” and “A change of heartnut” and “Do it by heartnut” and “Cross my heartnut and hope to die” and “Eat your heartnut out” and “Follow your heartnut” and “From the bottom of my heartnut” and “Get to the heartnut of the matter” and “Got your heartnut set on” and “Harden your heartnut against” and “Have a heartnut.”
  • Bunya: These are nuts that grow on bunya pines. Here are some related puns:
    • On ya/on your → Bunya: As in, “Bunya bike” and “Bunya wedding day” and “Not bunya life.”
    • Bun → Bunya: As in, “Bunya in the oven” and “We’re going to need bigger bunyas” and “Hot cross bunyas.”
  • Corn* → Acorn*: As in, “Acorner the market” and “Acornflower blue” and “The naughty acorner” and “Just around the acorner” and “Cut acorners.”
  • Fruit: Nuts are actually considered to be fruits, so we’ve got some fruit-related puns here for you:
    • *fut* → *fruit*: As in, “Think about your fruiture” and “Resistance is fruitile!” and “A fruituristic building” and “Sleeping on the fruiton” and “An irrefruitable argument.” Other words that could work: refruit (refute) and fruitility (fruitility).
    • Frat* → Fruit*: As in, “Fruiternity house” and “Fruiternal twins” and “Fruiternising with the enemy.”
    • Fret* → Fruit*: Fruitting (fretting), fruitwork (fretwork) and fruitful (fretful). Note: fretwork is a type of ornamental carving. This could work especially well for making puns about carved fruit decorations that are on cakes (very specific, we know).
    • Fruit: We’ll finish this little section off with some fruit-related phrases that could double as puns: “Be fruitful and multiply” and “Bear fruit” and “Forbidden fruit” and “Fruits of your labour” and “Low hanging fruit” and “The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
  • Shell: Nuts are composed of a seed within a shell, so we’ve included some shell-related puns too:
    • Celebration→ Shellebration: As in “After finishing we should have a shellebration.”
    • Sel* → Shell*: If a word starts with “sel” a shell pun can be made by switching it with “shell”. For example: shellection (selection), shellect (select), shelldom (seldom), shellfless (selfless), shellfish (selfish).
    • *sel → *shell: Words ending in “sel” can often be punned upon with “shell”: vesshell (vessel), tasshell (tassel), weashell (weasel), musshell (mussel), etc.
    • *sel* → *shell*: Words containing “sel” can yeild nice puns on “shell”: Hershellf, himshellf, themshellves, itshellf, myshellf, yourshelf, yourshelves, convershelly, counshelling, preshellected, overshelling, undershelling, ushellessely, weashelling.
    • Shall→ Shell: As in “Shell I compare thee to a summer’s day?” and “He who lives by the sword shell die by the sword.”
    • *cial → *shell: When a word has “cial” as a suffix, this suffix can usually be swapped out for “shell” to create a shell pun: soshell (social), speshell (special), offishell (official), finanshell, commershell, crushell, judishell, artifishell, provinshell, rashell, benefishell, superfishell, fashell, glashell, sacrifishel, antisoshell.
    • Sell → Shell: “How many do we have left to shell?”
    • Hell → Shell: “The party last night was a shell of a time.”
  • Seed: Nuts are also considered to be seeds, so we’ve got some seed-related puns here for you:
    • *sid* → *seed*: As in, “A walk on the wild seed,” and “It’s inseedious (insidious),” and “That, and more beseeds (besides),” and “Where are the reseedents (residents)?” and “All things conseedered (considered),” and “Always look on the bright seed of life,” and “Batting for the other seed,” and “Be on the safe seed,” and “Born on the wrong seed of the tracks,” and “Cross over to the other seed,” and “Err on the safe seed,” and “The flip seed,” and “Inseed information,” and “An inseed joke,” and “Inseed out,” and “A kick up the backseed,” and “On the plus seed,” and “On the downseed,” and “All kidding aseed,” and “Fall by the wayseed,” and “A ringseed seat,” and “Take it outseed,” and “Turn upseed down,” and “Think outseed the box.”
    • Seed: As in, “Gone to seed,” and “Seed capital,” and “Seed money,” and “Plant a seed.”
    • *cid* → *seed*: As in, coinseed (coincide), deseed (decide), fanseed (fancied), germiseed (germicide), and pestiseed (pesticide).
    • *ced* → *seed*: As in, seedar (cedar), conseed (concede), preseed (precede), superseed (supercede), preseedent (precendent). Notes: to supercede is to replace. A precedent is an established guide or principle. 
    • *ceed → *seed: As in, proseed, sucseed, exseed
  • Can all → Kernel: As in, “You kernel get lost.”
  • Butter: Since it’s very common to make butters out of nuts (almond butter, peanut butter, cashew butter etc), we’ve included butter in this list as well:
    • Barter → Butter: As in, “Trade and butter economy.”
    • Better → Butter: As in, “I’ve got a butter idea” and “Anything you can do, I can do butter” and “Appealing to your butter judgement” and “My butter half” and “Butter late than never” and “Butter luck next time” and “Butter safe than sorry” and “Butter than sex” and “Butter than new” and “I’ve changed for the butter” and “I couldn’t have said it butter” and “For butter or worse” and “Get the butter of” and “I should have known butter.”
    • But her → Butter: As in, “Butter suitcase! It’s been left behind!” (a very specific pun)
    • Patter → Butter: As in, “The pitter butter of little feet.”
    • But → Butter: As in, “Butter seriously” and “Butter heads” and “Butter out” and “Down, butter not out” and “Everything butter the kitchen sink” and “Kick butter” and “No butters” and “Last butter not least” and “Gone, butter not forgotten.”
    • Potter → Butter: As in, “Harry Butter” and “Buttering about.”
  • Oil: Nut oil is also a very common product, so we’ve included oil-related puns and phrases:
    • I’ll → Oil: As in, “Well, oil be” and “Oil say!” and “Ask me no questions, oil tell you no lies” and “Oil be back” and “Oil never tell” and “You scratch my back and oil scratch yours.”
    • All → Oil: As in “Can’t we oil just get along?” and “Oil in a day’s work.” and “Oil part of life’s rich tapestry” and “It’s oil Greek to me.” and “It’s oil downhill form here” and “It’s oil fun and games until someone gets hurt” and “It’s oil gone pear shaped” and “It’s oil good” and “It’s oil good clean fun” and “It’s oil me me me” and “That’s oil well and good, but …” and “Oil kidding aside, …” and “Above oil, …” and “Against oil odds” and “Oil shapes and sizes” and “Oil that glitters is not gold” and “Oil the rage” and “Oil the world’s a stage” and “Oil things being equal” and “Oil thumbs” and “Oil’s well that ends well” and “At oil costs” and “By oil appearances” and “By oil accounts” and “Cover oil your bases” and “From oil corners of the globe” and “I haven’t got oil day” and “In oil honesty” and “In oil likelihood” and “It’s oil the same to me” and “Jack of oil trades” and “I don’t know oil the answers” and “Not oil it’s cracked up to be” and “He’s not oil there” and “Once and for oil” and “Don’t put oil your eggs in one basket” – And there are many more oil puns that can be made along these lines.
    • Aisle → Oil: As in, “Walk down the oil” and “Cleanup on oil three.”
    • *oil*: Words which contain the “oil” sound (or similar) can be silly oil puns: spoiled, spoils, soiled, turmoil, toiletries, gargoil (gargoyle), foil, recoil.
  • Raw: We have some puns to emphasise and joke about raw nuts:
    • Roar → Raw: As in, “A rawing trade” and “The mighty lion raws.”
    • Rew* → Raw*: As in, “Your eternal raward” and “An essay rawrite” and “A rawarding career.”
    • Periwinkle → Perawinkle (note: periwinkle is a shade of bluish purple).
    • Row* → Raw*: As in, rawdy (rowdy), rawing (rowing) and rawboat (rowboat).
    • *rar* → *raw*: As in, “It rawly (rarely) happens” and “A true rawity (rarity)” and “Arbitrawy decisions” and “Contemporawry art” and “Holiday itinerawry” and “From the librawry.” Other words you could use: contrawry (contrary) and registraw (registrar).
    • *rer* → *raw*: As in, bearaw (bearer), sorceraw (sorcerer), exploraw (explorer), manufacturaw (manufacturer), labouraw (labourer), lecturaw (lecturer), wanderaw (wanderer) and treasuraw (treasurer).
    • *ror* → *raw*: As in, “Look in the mirraw” and “A holy terraw” and “The emperaw‘s new clothes” and “Margin of erraw (error)” and “A mask of horraw” and “Aurawra borealis.”
    • *rau* → *raw*: As in, “A rawcous (raucous) party” and “Rawnchy videos” and “Frawt (fraught) with danger” and “Arrested for frawd” and “Feeling distrawt (distraught).” Other words you could use: trawma (trauma), hydrawlic (hydraulic), frawdulent (fraudulent) and marawder (marauder).
    • *raw*: With these puns, you can simply emphasise the “raw” in certain words: draw, withdraw, straw, redraw, drawer, crawl, withdrawal, brawl and drawn.
    • Round* → Rawnd*: As in, “Rawnd and rawnd” and “In a rawndabout way.”
  • Roast: So we can make puns about roasted nuts, we have some roast-related puns here for you:
    • Rest → Roast: As in, “At roast,” and “Come to roast,” and “A cut above the roast,” and “Eternal roast,” and “For the roast of us,” and “For the roast of your life,” and “Give it a roast,” and “I roast my case,” and “Laid to roast,” and “No roast for the wicked” and “Roast assured,” and “The roast is history,” and “You’ve seen the roast.”
    • Arrest → A roast: As in “You are under a roast.” and “He was charged with resisting a roast.” and “Citizen’s a roast.”
    • *rest → *roast: As in, “In the interoast of justice,” and “Make it interoasting,” and “Nearoast and dearoast,” and “Mud wroastling,” and “On the croast of a wave,” and “Imitation is the sinceroast form of flattery,” and “May you live in interoasting times.”
    • *rust* → *roast*: As in, “Roastle (rustle) up,” and “Upper croast (crust),” and “Don’t troast (trust) anyone,” and “Troast is a two-way street.”
  • Allegory → Allergy: As in, “A political allergy.”

Nut-Related Words

To help you come up with your own nut puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

types: nut, peanut, almond, chestnut, brazil, hazelnut, macadamia, cashew, acorn, almond, pecan, pistachio, walnut, pine, candlenut, kola, palm, betel, coconut, butternut, heartnut, gingko, bunya, soybean

general: fruit, shell, seed, kernel, butter, oil, raw, roasted, snack, allergy, hickory

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Cooking Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on cooking puns! 🍳🍴🍲 In this entry you’ll find everything from baking puns to oven puns to pots and pans puns, and everything in between.

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Cooking Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about cooking that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page!

  • Cook: Other than the obvious definition it can also refer to “altering dishonestly”, as in “They cooked the numbers and were done for fraud” (The phrases “cooked the books” and “cooked the accounts” are synonymous). Some cooking-related idioms and phrases are: “What’s cooking?” and “Too many cooks spoil the broth”
  • Cooked: “If mum and dad find out we took their car last night, we’re cooked!” and “He has been drinking since lunch time – he’s cooked.”
  • Kooky → Cooky: The term “kooky” means strange or eccentric.
  • Back → Bake: As in “Bake in my day…” and “As soon as my bake is turned” and “At the bake of my mind” and “Bake to the Future” and “Bake in business” and “Bake in the saddle” and “Bake seat driver” and “Bake to school” and “Bake to the drawing board” and “Behind your bake” and “Come crawling bake” and “Behind my bake” and “Double bake” and “Get bake on your feet” and “Bake to bake” and “Kick bake and enjoy” and “Like water off a duck’s bake” and “Laid bake” and “Money bake guarantee” and “Never look bake” and “One step forward, two steps bake” and “Right bake at ya” and “Pat on the bake” and “Put your bake into it” and “Turn bake the clock” and “Wind at your bake” – There are many more baking puns like this to be made, but those should be enough to get you started.
  • Half-baked: This means “not completely planned or thought out”. For example: “Your half-baked cooking puns are going to make people angry.”
  • Break → Bake: As in “Bake out into a cold sweat” and “Bake the bank” and “Bake new ground” and “Ground-baking new research” and “Bake the mould” and “Make a clean bake” and “An even bake” and “And then all hell bakes loose” and “Bake a world record” and “Baking news!” and “Never bake your promises” and “Don’t bake their heart” and “Oh give me a bake.” and “Lucky bake“.
  • Chef: The saying “Too many chefs in the kitchen” refers to a situation where there are too many people trying to work on something such that the result is worse than if there had been less people. The phrase “chef d’oeuvre” (French: “chief work”) refers to a masterpiece, or an artist’s best piece of work. The phrase “chef de mission” (French: “chief of mission”) generally refers to the person in charge of a national team at an international sporting event.
  • Order: As in “Law and order” and “Luckily we managed to get out of there in short order (fast)” and “The pecking order” and “The machine is out of order.” and “In working order” and “In order to do that …” and “You’re out of order” and “That’s a tall order” and “You need to put your affairs in order” and “It’s a standing order, Sargent.” and “That’s bang out of order.” and “Gag order” and “It’s an order of magnitude bigger than we expected.” and “Order in the court!”
  • Boil: As in “It really just boils down to …” and “That man makes my blood boil” and “A watched pot never boils“.
  • Boil → Boyle: As in “Susan Boil” and “Robert Boil
  • Boy’ll (Boy will) → Boil: As in “That young boil go on to do great things if he can apply himself.”
  • Roast: A “roast” can refer to an event where a guest of honour is teased and made fun of (in good spirit). The saying “roast snow in a furnace” refers to a futile and often ridiculous task.
  • Rest → Roast: As in “No roast for the wicked” and “Roast assured that …” and “Roast on your laurels” and “And the roast is history” and “Oh give it a roast will you?” and “A cut above the roast” and “I roast my case”. Note: to rest on your laurels is to be so satisfied with your work that no further efforts are made.
  • Arrest → A roast: As in “You are under a roast.” and “He was charged with resisting a roast.” and “Citizen’s a roast.”
  • *rest → *roast: As in, “In the interoast of justice,” and “Make it interoasting,” and “Nearoast and dearoast,” and “Mud wroastling,” and “On the croast of a wave,” and “Imitation is the sinceroast form of flattery,” and “May you live in interoasting times.”
  • *rust* → *roast*: As in, “Roastle (rustle) up,” and “Upper croast (crust),” and “Don’t troast (trust) anyone,” and “Troast is a two-way street.”
  • Girl → Grill: As in “You go grill!” and “Boys and grills
  • Gorilla → Grilla: As in “The silverback grilla is native to this area.”
  • Guerrilla → Grilla: As in “The inhabitants used grilla warfare to drive out the enemy.”
  • Thrilled → Grilled: As in, “Grilled to bits!” and “We’re grilled to have you here.”
  • Bill → Grill: As in, “These are my grillable hours” and “A clean grill of health.”
  • Filled → Grilled: As in, “Grilled with happiness” and “Cream-grilled” and “A smoke-grilled room.”
  • Even → Oven: As in “Don’t get mad, get oven” and “Break oven” and “Oven handed” and “Keep on an oven keel” and “Oven at the turning of the tide” and “Oven as we speak” and “Oven if it kills me” and “Oven Stevens”. Note: to keep something on an even keel is to keep something in a steady, untroubled state.
  • *even* → *-oven-*: If a word contains “even”, it can usually be made into a silly oven pun: “It’s the main ovent (event)” and “The ovent horizon” and “It has been an oventful (eventful) day.” and “I’ll oventually get around to cleaning my garage.” and “My job has pr-oven-ted me from spending time on personal projects.” and “Pr-oven-tative medicine should be the focus.” and “Rovenge is sweet.” and “The developing world is still struggling with proventable diseases.”
  • *aven* → *oven*: As in, “Let’s look at other ovenues” and “Ovenge my death!” and “The Ovengers.”
  • *even* → *oven*: As in, “The main ovent” and “Yes, oventually” and “An ovening out” and “Your oventual downfall” and “Spread ovenly” and “Seven Eloven” and “It’s looking unoven.”
  • Kitten → Kitchen: As in “The internet is full of cute kitchen pictures.”
  • My crow wave → Microwave: As in “Microwave at me with its wing.”
  • Push → Poach: As in “Don’t poach your luck” and “Poach the boundaries” and “When poach comes to shove” and “Poach the envelope” and “They’re a bit of a poach-over“.
  • Branch → Blanch: As in “Our company needs to blanch out into other industries.” Note: blanching is a method of cooking where food is scalded with boiling water, then plunged into iced water to stop the cooking process.
  • Summer → Simmer: As in “The long, hot simmer.” and “One swallow does not make a simmer.” and “An Indian simmer“.
  • Skill at → Skillet: As in “I admire your skillet chess.”
  • Skilled → Skillet: As in “She was perhaps the most skillet chess player in her country.”
  • Pot: There are many idioms related to pots: “In the melting pot” and “Oh you fuss pot” and “Take a pot shot at (something)” and “Keep the pot boiling” and “Pot head” and “Pot luck” and “A pot of gold” and “A watched pot never boils” and “The pot is calling the kettle black”.
  • *pot*: If a word contains the “pot” sound (or similar) we can make a silly pot pun with it: poticular (particular), spotlight, jackpot, potentially, anticipotory, despotism, incompotability, omnipotent, perpotrators, nepotism, incompotent, meopotamia, potassium, repotition, potato.
  • Pan: “Flash in the pan” and “It panned out all right in the end.” and “Peter Pan” and “Pan in/out”
  • *pan*: If a word contains the “pan” sound (or similar) we can make a silly pan pun with it: chimpanzee, companion, expand, expansion, Japan, lifespan, panacea, pancreas, pandora, panic, panorama, pansiespanting, panther, spaniard, underpants.
  • You ten sil* → Utensil: This is a very specific type of cooking pun – “I’ll give utentsil-ver coins for your wagon.” and “I’ll give utensil-k garments for your horse.” You can obviously do this for other words that start with the “sil” sound like: cylinder, syllabus, silverware, silhouette, silicon, etc.
  • Burn: “Burn the candle at both ends” and “Burn a hole in your pocket” and “Burn your bridges” and “Crash and burn” and “Feel the burn” and “Slow burn” and “Burn yourself out” and “Energy to burn
  • Brother: As in, “Everybody and his brother,” and “Have you met my brother?” and “Big brother is watching you.”
  • Rise → Rice: As in “Rice to the challenge/occasion” and “Rice and shine” and “Rice from the ashes” and “The rice and fall of …”
  • Hate → Heat: As in “I heat to say it, but …” and “Heaters gonna heat.” and “I’ve got a love-heat relationship with cooking.”
  • Heat: “He’s packing heat” and “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” and “In the heat of the moment” and “The heat is on.”
  • Heed → Heat: As in “You’s better pay heat to your mother! She knows what she is talking about.”
  • Fire: As in “You’re fired.” and “In the line of fire” and “Don’t play with fire” and “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”
  • Steam: “Blow off some steam” and “Build up a head of steam” and “Full steam ahead” and “Run out of steam” and “Under one’s own steam” and “Pick up steam“.
  • Seem → Steam: As in “It’s not as bad as it steams” and “I can’t steam to …” and “things are seldom as they steam” and “That steams a bit out of place”.
  • Esteem → Esteam: As in “Self esteam” and “She was esteamed by her peers”.
  • Seam → Steam: As in, “Bulging at the steams” and “Come apart at the steams.”
  • Scheme → Steam: As in, “In the grand steam of things” and “Pyramid steam” and “The best laid steams” and “The overall steam of things.”
  • Scream → Steam: As in, “Dragged kicking and steaming” and “We all steam for ice-cream” and “Steam bloody murder” and “Steam your head off.”
  • Stream → Steam: As in, “Fresh as a mountain steam” and “Changing midsteam” and “Swim upsteam.”
  • Team → Steam: As in, “Dream steam” amd Take one for the steam” and “A steam player” and “Steam spirit” and “Tag steam” and “Steam up with” and “There’s no ‘i’ in steam.”
  • Teem → Steam: As in, “Steaming down with rain” and “Steaming with life.”
  • *stam* → *steam*: We can sneak “steam” into words that have similar sounds, like so: “A testeament to” and “Rushed by the crowded steampede.”
  • *stem* → *steam*: As in, “All systeams go!” and Get it out of your systeam” and “Solar systeam” and “Buck the systeam” and “Self-sustaining ecosysteam” and “Racism is a systeamic problem.” Note: if something is systemic, then it affects the entire involved group, body or system.
  • *stim* → *steam*: As in, “Steamulate your senses” and “Being oversteamulated” and “A mentally steamulating environment” and “By my esteamates” and “Valuable testeamony” and “Don’t underesteamate yourself” and “Company testeamonials.”
  • Nuke: This term is often used to refer to cooking/heating something in the microwave, but it is also (obviously) short for nuclear bomb. Perhaps there is some context where this double meaning may be viable as a cooking pun.
  • Continent → Condiment: As in “The shifting of the condimental plates happens very slowly.” and “Originally, all the condiments were part of one supercondiment called Pangaea.” and “Condimental breakfast” and “The condimental shelf”
  • Embroiled: To “broil” something means to cook it via exposure to direct intense radiant heat. The term “embroiled” means to be involved deeply in an argument, conflict or difficult situation.
  • I’ll → Oil: As in, “Well, oil be” and “Oil say!” and “Ask me no questions, oil tell you no lies” and “Oil be back” and “Oil never tell” and “You scratch my back and oil scratch yours.”
  • Aisle → Oil: As in, “Walk down the oil” and “Cleanup on oil three.”
  • All → Oil: As in “Can’t we oil just get along?” and “Oil in a day’s work.” and “Oil part of life’s rich tapestry” and “It’s oil Greek to me.” and “It’s oil downhill form here” and “It’s oil fun and games until someone gets hurt” and “It’s oil gone pear shaped” and “It’s oil good” and “It’s oil good clean fun” and “It’s oil me me me” and “That’s oil well and good, but …” and “Oil kidding aside, …” and “Above oil, …” and “Against oil odds” and “Oil shapes and sizes” and “Oil that glitters is not gold” and “Oil the rage” and “Oil the world’s a stage” and “Oil things being equal” and “Oil thumbs” and “Oil’s well that ends well” and “At oil costs” and “By oil appearances” and “By oil accounts” and “Cover oil your bases” and “From oil corners of the globe” and “I haven’t got oil day” and “In oil honesty” and “In oil likelihood” and “It’s oil the same to me” and “Jack of oil trades” and “I don’t know oil the answers” and “Not oil it’s cracked up to be” and “He’s not oil there” and “Once and for oil” and “Don’t put oil your eggs in one basket” – And there are many more oil puns that can be made along these lines.
  • *oil*: Words which contain the “oil” sound (or similar) can be silly oil puns: spoiled, spoils, soiled, turmoil, toiletries, gargoil (gargoyle), foil, recoil.
  • Recipe: “That’s a recipe for disaster.” and “A recipe for success”.
  • Ingredient: As in “What’s your secret ingredient?”
  • Pep her → Pepper: As in “We need to pepper up with some music before her big race.”
  • Cake: As in “That’s the icing on the cake” and “It’ll be a cake walk” and “That takes the cake” and “It’ll be a piece of cake.” and “Shut your cake hole”.
  • Oven: “A bun in the oven“.
  • Often → Oven: As in “Do you come here oven?” and “Every so oven.”
  • Stuff→ Stove: As in “Don’t sweat the small stove.” and “It’s the stove of legends/dreams.”
  • Walk → Wok: As in “I’ll be back soon, I’m going to wok the dog.” and “It’ll be a wok in the park.” and “You’re woking on thin ice there, bud.”
  • Work → Wok: As in “Wok hard, play hard.” and “It’s a wok in progress.” and “All in a day’s wok.”
  • Fly → Fry: As in “A no-fry zone has been declared by the military.” and “Just a fry on the wall.”
  • Fry: There are a couple of frying-related idioms: “Small fry” and “Bigger fish to fry
  • Cry → Fry: As in “Don’t fry over spilt milk” and “A shoulder to fry on” and “Fry like a baby” and “A far fry from …” and “Fry fowl” and “Battle fry
  • Fried: As in “My brain is fried” and “I’m fried.”
  • Stew: As in “Now, now, don’t get in a in a stew.” and “Stew in your own juices”
  • *stew*: Words that contain the “stew” sound can be silly stew puns: stewpendous, stewardship, stewpid, stewdious, stewpor, stewpidity, costewme, stewdio, astewte, stewdent.
  • It’s too → s’tew: As in “S’tew bad the shoes don’t fit you.”
  • Bruise → Braise: As in “That’ll leave a braise…”
  • Breeze → Braise: As in “I’m fully prepared. The test will be a braise.”
  • Barbell → Parboil: This one’s very silly.
  • Parable →Parboil: As in “The Parboil of the Good Samaritan”.
  • Poor boy’ll → Parboil: As in “The parboil need some bandages for his knee.”
  • Serve: “You got served!” and “If memory serves” and “First come, first served” and “Revenge is a dish best served cold” and “Serve a purpose” and “Serves them right” and “Serve time” and “Serve and protect”
  • Timer: “Old-timer” and “Two-timer“.
  • Season: As in “’tis the season” and “In season” and “Out of season“.
  • Rest our aunt / Rest or rant → Restaurant: These are very specific cooking puns. Good luck finding a context in which they work!
  • Crackpot → Crock pot: A “crackpot” is a crazy person and a “crock pot” is a large, electric slow-cooking pot: “He’s a bit of a crock pot, that one.”
  • Sup → Soup: As in “Soup man, how’s it going?”
  • Sue p* → Soup*: As in “You can’t just soupeople willy nilly.”
  • *sup* → *soup*: If a word contains the “soup” sound we can of course make some silly soup puns: souperb, soupercomputer, soupercilious, souperficial, souperfluous, souperhuman, souperimposed, souperintendent, souperior, souperman, soupernatual, soupersonic, soupervise, soupremely, unsoupervised.
  • Dish: As in”Revenge is a dish best served cold” and “You can dish it out, but you can’t take it” and “Dish the dirt” and “The dish ran away with the spoon”
  • Hot: “All hot and bothered” and “Hot potato” and “Get into hot water” and “Hot and heavy” and “Hot on your heels” and “Hot pursuit” and “Hot-tempered” and “Hot under the collar” and “Hot topic” and “Strike while the iron is hot” and “Hot stuff” and “Full of hot air” and “Hot-wire a car”.
  • Groovy → Gravy: As in “That’s a gravy, smooth-sounding new funk album she has released.”
  • Grease: “Grease the wheels” and “Grease your palm” and “The squeaky wheel gets the grease” and “Grease monkey” and “Elbow grease“.
  • Greece → Greece: As in “The food in Grease is so good.”
  • Grace → Grease: As in “By the grease of god” and “A grease period” and “Saving grease” and “Fall from grease” and “Airs and greases” and “There but for the grease of god go I.” and “Amazing grease“.
  • Grass→ Grease: As in “You could hear the grease growing” and “Keep off the grease” and “A grease-roots movement.” Note: a grassroots movement is one that starts at a local level with the intention of affecting regional, national or international change.
  • Bank etiquette → Banquet-iquette: As in “Waiting patiently in line at the bank is just a part of good banquet-iquette.”
  • Male → Meal: As in “The meal of the species” and “Meal chauvinist pig”.
  • Super → Supper: As in “Supper man” and “Supper-duper”.
  • Buff eh? → Buffet: As in “Look at how much she’s bench pressing! Buffet?”
  • Down → Dine: As in “Never back dine” and “Dine the rabbit hole” and “It all boils dine to …” and “Boogie on dine” and “Bring the house dine” and “Calm dine” and “Dine for the count” and “Dine in the dumps” and “Dine the hatch” and “Dine to earth” and “Hold dine a job” and “It went dine the wrong way” and “Let your hair dine” and “The best – hands dine“.
  • Guessed → Guest: As in “I never would have guest.”
  • Chop: “On the chopping block” and “Chop and change”.
  • Dice: As well as the noun form (“she rolled the dice”), “dice” obviously can mean “chop into small cubes/pieces”.
  • Feel → Peel: As in “You can peel it in your bones.” and “I like the look and peel of the product.” and “I’m trying to get the peel for it.” and “These potato puns are making me peel unwell.” and “I peel a bit put out.” and “I’m peeling my age.” and “Peel the burn”.
  • Appeal → Appeel / A peel: “He’s so appeeling!” and “The court allowed one final a peel.” and “You need to a peel to their sense of honour.” and “I’m trying to appeel to your better judgement” and “They have 48 hours to appeel the decision.”
  • Pillar → Peeler: As in “You are a peeler of strength in our community.”
  • Whisk: “He was quickly whisked off stage” and “The waiter whisked the dish back into the kitchen”.
  • Risk → Whisk: As in “It’s too dangerous. Don’t whisk it. ” and “At your own whisk” and “Calculated whisk” and “You run the whisk of …” and “Whisk life and limb”
  • Curry: “Curry favour” and “Give someone a bit of curry“. Note: to curry favour is to attempt to align oneself with another.
  • Hurry → Curry: As in “I’m in a bit of a curry, can we talk later?” and “Curry up! We need to leave now!” and “Curry up and wait”.
  • Thongs → Tongs: The word “thong” may refer to bikini bottoms or to “flip-flops” depending on where you’re from. The term “tongs” refers to a kitchen tool used to grip and lift things (usually things that you’re frying).
  • Spoon: “We spooned to keep warm” and “She wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth” and “He spoon-feeds his students too much”.
  • Billion → Bouillion: As in “They justly spend bouillions of dollars on the new education reforms.” (Bouillion is a type of broth in French cuisine).
  • Feast: As in, “Bean-feast,” and “Feast your eyes on this,” and “Midnight feast,” and “A feast for the eyes.” Note: A bean-feast is a celebratory meal or party.
  • Fast* → Feast*: As in, “Feast as greased lightning,” and “As feast as his legs could go,” and “Bed and breakfeast,” and “Feast and furious,” and “In the feast lane,” and “Feaster than a speeding bullet,” and “Not so feast!” and “Pull a feast one,” and “Lightning feast.” Note: in the fast lane refers to a highly active and risky lifestyle.
  • Fest* → Feast*: As in, “No problem is so bad it can’t feaster awhile longer,” and “Going to the music feastival?”
  • Feasible → Feast-ible: As in, “I told you, that project isn’t feast-ible.” Note: if something isn’t feasible, then it isn’t possible or practical to achieve.
  • Fist → Feast: As in “I’ll rule with an iron feast.”
  • Serve: As in “Dude, you just got served.” and “My duty is to serve and protect.”
  • Menu: As in “That’s completely off the menu.”
  • Man, you → Menu: As in “Menu need to see someone about that.”
  • Flies → Fries: As in “Time fries when you’re having fun!”
  • Fork: As in “We’ve reached a fork in the road.” (There’s also an obvious swear word pun that can be made with fork.)
  • Season → Seasoning: As in “Seasoning’s greetings!” and “For everything, there is a seasoning.”
  • Take out→ Take-out: As in “I had to take-out my phone to check the time.” and “I had to take-out a loan just to pay the bill!”
  • Toast: As well as referring to cooked bread, this term can also refer to the raising of glasses at a gathering to honour something: “Let’s call a toast.” It also has a slang usage: “You are toast.” Meaning “I’m going to beat you” at some competition (or physically).
  • Coarse → Course: As in “Please don’t pun during dinner, Gerald. It’s very course humour.”
  • Course: As in “Is there a university course on cooking puns?” (“Course” can refers to a particular stage of a multi-stage meal.)
  • Thrilled → Grilled: As in “He was so grilled to see you!” and “I’m grilled to bits!”
  • Creep → Crepe: As in “That’s a bit crepey, man.” and “Yep, he’s a bit of a crepe.”
  • Source → Sauce: As in “That’s an unreliable sauce.” and “You should cite some primary sauces.”
  • Great → Grate: As in “Oh grate! Another food pun.” and “Grate minds think alike.”
  • Branch → Brunch: As in “Shall we call a truce? I’m extending an olive brunch here.” and “We’re brunching out into other industries.”
  • Loaf: As in “Stop loafing around! Get up and do something!” (To “loaf” is to waste time and laze about).
  • Come → Crumb: As in “Crumb to think of it…” and “Crumb to your senses” and “Crumb again?” and “Crumb hell or high water.” and “Crumb out of your shell” and “Crumb rain or shine” and “Do you crumb here often?” and “An idea whose time has crumb.” and “The best is yet to crumb.” and “What has crumb over you?”
  • Feed: As in “You’re just feeding people misinformation.”
  • Order: “Law and order.” and “These restaurant puns are out of order.”
  • In jest → Ingest: As in “Many a true word is spoken ingest.”
  • Done → Dine: As in “When all is said and dine” and “Dine and dusted.”
  • Din* → Dine*: If a word begins with the “dine” sound, we can make a dinner pun: dineosaur, dineamically, dineamite.
  • Sup: This term has a few traditional meaning related to food, including “to eat dinner/supper”, but it also has the obvious slang meaning “What’s up?” Thus we can make a sneaky supper pun, but it’d be very corny and heavily dependent on context: Person1: “‘Sup?” Person2: “What? Now? It’s only 3pm!”
  • Scoff: This term refers to eating greedily or to talking to someone in a mean and “mocking” manner. Example: “Are you scoffing at my cooking puns?”
  • Sue p* → Soup*: As in “You can’t just soupeople willy nilly.”
  • *sup* → *soup*: If a word contains the “soup” sound we can of course make some silly soup puns: souperb, soupercomputer, soupercilious, souperficial, souperfluous, souperhuman, souperimposed, souperintendent, souperior, souperman, soupernatual, soupersonic, soupervise, soupremely, unsoupervised.
  • Greedy ent* → ‘gredient: This one’s a bit of a stretch! Examples: “Those ‘gredient-erprising bastards!” and “The ‘gredient-titled youngers.”
  • Salty: Other than the obvious cooking-related definition, this term has several slang definitions including “being upset/angry”.
  • Assault → A salt: As in “He was charged with a salt with a deadly weapon.”
  • It → Eat: As in “Eat is not quite as eat seems.” and “Eat’s not the first time I’ve said this, but …”
  • *eat*: Any word that contains the “eat” sound (or similar) can obviously be made into a silly eating pun: cheating, beatle, athleat, aneatime (anytime), compleat, conceated, deceatful, deleat, discreat, eleat (elite), graffeati, fleat (fleet),  featus, heartbeat, Eatalian (Italian), greating (greeting), Peater (Peter), preatending, repeatedly, reatirement, streat, sweatheart, preatentious.
  • Eat: As in, “A bite to eat,” and “All you can eat,” and “Bet you can’t just eat one,” and “Eat a balanced diet,” and “Eat and run,” and “Eat dirt,” and “Eat humble pie,” and “Eat like a bird,” and “Eat my dust,” and “Eat someone alive,” and “Eat to live, rather than live to eat,” and “Eat your words,” and “Eaten up with jealousy,” and “Eating for two,” and “Good enough to eat,” and “Let them eat cake,” and “Man eater,” and “I’ll eat my hat.” Note: to eat your words is to regret or retract a previous statement.
  • *eet* → *eat*: Change the “eet” in certain words to “eat” – sheat (sheet), streat (street), sweat (sweet), discreat (discreet), feat (feet), fleat (fleet), sleat (sleet), beatle (beetle), teath (teeth).
  • *eat*: Use words with an “eat” sound – athl-eat (athlete), burreato, compl-eat (complete), comp-eat (compete), concr-eat (concrete), el-eat (elite), eat-ernal (eternal), incogneato, margareata, mosqeato (mosquito), pet-eat (petite).
  • Feed: As in, “Bite the hand that feeds you,” and “Bottom feeder,” and “Feed your mind,” and “Feeding frenzy.”
  • Bowl: As in “I was completely bowled over.”
  • Stew: This term can also refer to being in a state of anxiety and agitation. As in “Stew in one’s own juices.” and “I was in a bit of a stew.”
  • Carry → Curry: As in “I’m going as fast as my legs can curry me!” and “Keep calm and curry on.”
  • Even → Oven: As in “Oven my little brother knows that!” and “That’s not oven fair.”
  • Piece of → Pizza: As in “You want a pizza me?” and “That’s a pizza cake.” and “They all want a pizza the action.” and “That’s a fine pizza ass.” and “That’s a pizza piss.” and “He’s a nasty pizza work.” and “How long is a pizza string?” and “I’ll give him a pizza my mind!” and “You’re a real pizza work.” and “Pizza the pie”.
  • How → Chow: As in “Chow could you do this to me?” and “Chow are you feeling?”
  • Pass the → Pasta: As in “Can you pasta sauce please?”
  • Past her → Pasta: As in “I walked right pasta without realising.”
  • Passed away → Pasta way: As in “She pasta way last night.”
  • Flower → Flour: As in “Remember to stop and smell the flours.”
  • Adore → Adough: “I adough you.”
  • Don’t → Doughn’t: As in “Doughn’t fall for it.”
  • Though → Dough: As in “You look as dough you’ve seen a ghost!”
  • Hour → Flour: As in “We could go on for flours.” and “The plane leaves in one flour.” and “I’m on a flourly wage.”
  • Make → Bake: As in “I can’t bake head or tail of it.” and “Enough to bake you sick.” and “Bake believe” and “It’ll bake a world of difference.” and “Just trying to bake ends meet.” and “Bake a name for yourself.”
  • Making → Baking: As in “A legend in the bakin’” and “This is history in the baking” and “You’re baking a fool of yourself.”
  • Floor → Flour: As in “A cooking pun battle? I’ll mop the flour with you.”
  • Heard → Herb: As in “I herb it on the grape vine.” and “You herb it here first.” and “You could have herb a pin drop.”
  • Curb → Herb: As in “Herb your enthusiasm.” and “Drive up onto the herb.”
  • Spies → Spice: As in “I think I’m being followed by Indian spice.”
  • A prawn → Apron
  • Nice → Knife: As in “Have you met the chef? She’s a knife person.”
  • Least→ Yeast: As in “Last, but not yeast.” and “Yeast common denominator.” and “It’s the yeast I could do.”
  • East→ Yeast: As in “I’m heading over yeast for a holiday.”

Cooking-Related Words

There are many more puns to be made than could be documented in this Punpedia entry, and so we’ve compiled a list of cooking-related concepts for you to use when creating your own puns. If you come up with a new pun, please share it in the comments!

chef, bake, boil, roast, grill, oven, fry, stew, braise, overcook, parboil, stove, stove-top, kitchen, microwave, poach, blanch, cook up, broil, simmer, cooker, cook, griddle, chargrill, skillet, stir fry, baste, caramelize, marinade, eat, pot, pan, utensil, burner, burn, undercook, broth, rice, pasta, heat, barbecue, bbq, fire, culinary, steam, nuke, zap, frypan, onions, potatoes, pressure cooker, condiment, oil, baker, bread, recipe, ingredients, brochette, salt, salty, pepper, sugar, cake, dough, beans, serve, serving, vegetables, range hood, timer, spatula, raw, pastry, seasoning, restaurant, crock pot, ratatouille, soup, food, dish, dishes, cookbook, hot plate, hot, sizzle, savory, dinner, saucepan, cuisine, basil, gravy, hibachi, brazier, oregano, garlic, rosemary, teflon, grease, drizzle, banquet, meal, supper, feast, buffet, dine, menu, table, guests, spaghetti, lasagna, knife, chop, dice, al dente, batter, beat, blend, dissolve, grate, peel, puree, whip, stir, sauté, whisk, bowl, mix, fork, anglaise, plate, bouillion, spoon, chiffonnade, feed, toast, chopping board, scoop, tongs, can opener, sieve, chop sticks, measuring cups, wok, sauce, herbs, spices, curry, crumb, crumbs, apron, oven mitt, platter, cutlery.

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