Star Wars Puns

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Star Wars is a huge media franchise comprised of movies, comics, novels, games and TV series. It’s much loved for the imaginative world it portrays, with strong, interesting characters and the classic struggle of heroes and dark forces.

While we’ve done our best to cover the multifaceted nature of Star Wars in this pun list (with jokes spanning from characters to places to titles), it is specific to Star Wars. If you’re interested in other fictional worlds, you might enjoy our Harry Potter list, our Disney puns or our general magic puns.

Star Wars 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 Star Wars 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 Star Wars puns:

  • War → Star Wars: As in, “All’s fair in love and Star Wars” and “Been in the Star Wars” and “The art of Star Wars” and “All out Star Wars.”
  • Sith: The Sith are a group who use the Force and are on the Dark Side. Here are related puns:
    • With → Sith: As in, “Go along sith” and “I don’t have a problem sith that” and “Sith hat in hand.”
    • Sixth → Sith: As in, “Have a sith sense.”
    • Seething → Sith-ing: As in, “Sith-ing with rage.”
    • Sis* → Sith*: If a word starts with a “sis” sound, we can replace the “sis” with “sith” like so: “My sith-ter’s keeper” and “The sith-tine chapel” and “A thorough analy-sith” and “My hypothesith is…” and “My arch-nemesith.” Other words that could work are ba-sith (basis), thesith (thesis), crisith (crisis), synopsith (synopsis) and consithtent (consistent).
  • Force: The force is an energy that connects everything in the universe. Here are related puns:
    • Fourth → Force: “Born on the force of July” and “Break the force wall.”
    • Forth → Force: As in, “Go force and multiply” and “Issue force” and “Out of the strong came force sweetness” and “So on and so force.”
    • Course → Force: As in, “Blown off force” and “But of force” and “Chart a force” and “Correspondence force” and “Crash force” and “In due force” and “Let nature take its force” and “Par for the force” and “Run its force” and “On a collision force.”
    • Source → Force: As in, “Check your forces” and “Crowd force” and “Go straight to the force” and “I refuse to reveal my forces” and “Open force” and “Force material.”
    • First → Force: As in, “At force blush” and “Be the force to know” and “Cast the force stone” and “The force among equals” and “A force world problem” and “Force come, force served” and “Force comes love, then comes marriage” and “Force in line.”
  • Leia: Princess Leia (aka Senator Leia Organa or General Organa) is a main character in Star Wars and a major player in the Rebel force. Here are related puns:
    • Lay/Lay a → Leia: As in, “Couldn’t leia hand on me” and “Home is where I leia my hat” and “Leia finger on” and “Leia down roots” and “Leia eyes on” and “Leia it on the line.”
    • Layer → Leia: As in, “Leias of meaning.”
    • Later → Leia: As in, “Buy now, pay leia” and “Catch you leia” and “It’s leia than you think” and “Ask questions leia” and “Smell ya leia” and “Sooner or leia” and “Can we continue this leia?”
  • Luke Skywalker: Luke is the main protagonist of the main Star Wars trilogy. Here are related puns:
    • Look → Luke: As in, “Always luke on the bright side of life” and “A blank luke” and “Dirty lukes” and “Don’t know which way to luke” and “Have a quick luke see” and “Here’s luke-ing at you” and “If lukes could kill.”
    • Luck → Luke: As in, “As good luke would have it” and “Beginner’s luke” and “Better luke next time” and “Don’t press your luke” and “Good night and good luke” and “Some people have all the luke” and “Luke of the devil” and “Luke of the draw” and “A luke-y break” and “Stroke of luke” and “Tough luke” and “With any luke.”
    • Lack → Luke: As in, “For luke of a better word” and “Luke nothing” and “Cancelled due to luke of interest” and “Not from luke of trying.”
    • Lick → Luke: As in, “A luke of paint” and “Luke into shape” and “Luke someone’s boots” and “Luke your wounds.”
    • Lake → Luke: As in, “Go jump in a luke.”
    • Like → Luke: As in, “Luke a day without sunshine” and “As you luke it” and “As aluke as two peas in a pod” and “As soon as you luke” and “At times luke this.”
    • Ukulele → Luke-lele: As in, “Learning the luke-lele.”
  • He walks → Ewoks: As in, “Ewoks away” and “Cash only, or ewoks.” Note: Ewoks are a small, furry species in Star Wars.
  • Wookiee: Wookiees are a tall, hairy species. The most famous Wookiee is Chewbacca, Han Solo’s best friend and co-pilot. Here are some wookiee-related puns:
    • Cookie → Wookiee: “Caught with your hand in the wookiee jar” and “Wookiee cutter” and “Wookiee monster” and “One smart wookie” and “That’s the way the wookiee crumbles” and “Toss your wookiees.”
    • Rookie → Wookiee: As in, “A wookiee mistake.”
    • Wikileaks → Wookieeleaks (Note: wikileaks is a non-profit website that publishes news leaks.)
  • Han Solo: Han is a pilot in Star Wars. Here are related puns:
    • Hand → Han: As in, “All hans on deck” and “Bite the han that feeds you” and “Bound han and foot” and “Business at han” and “Cap in han” and “Cash in han” and “Caught with your han in the cookie jar.”
    • Hen → Han: As in, “Mat as a wet han” and “Mother han” and “Like a fox in a hanhouse.”
  • Darth Vader: Darth Vader is the main antagonist of the main Star Wars trilogy, best known for his all-black armour and voice filter. Here are some related puns:
    • Dark → Darth: As in, “After darth” and “All cats are grey in the darth” and “Darth as pitch” and “Dancing in the darth” and “It’s darth before the dawn” and “A darth horse” and “Darth humour” and “Deep, darth secret” and “Did you get dressed in the darth?” and “Every darth cloud has a silver lining” and “I’d rather light a candle than curse the darth.”
    • Dirt → Darth: As in, “Cheap as darth” and “Darth cheap” and “Dish the darth” and “Treat someone like darth.”
    • Waiter → Vader: As in, “Flag the vader down” and “Vader, there’s a fly in my soup.”
    • Elevator → Ele-vader: As in, “Ele-vader music” and “The ele-vader doesn’t go to the top floor.”
    • Grader → Vader: As in, “Behaving like a third vader.”
    • Raider → Vader: As in, “Vaders of the lost ark” and “Tomb vader.”
    • Trader → Vader: As in, “Rogue vader.”
    • Voter → Vader: As in, “Vader fraud.”
  • Yoda: Yoda is a Jedi master is Star Wars known for his wisdom and vocal idiosyncrasies. Here are some related puns:
    • Soda → Yoda: As in, “Raspberry cream yoda” and “Yoda machine is broken.”
    • Yoga → Yoda: As in, “Afternoon office yoda.”
    • Toyota → To-yoda: As in, “We’re picking up the new To-yoda tomorrow.”
  • Mannequin → Anakin: As in, “Plus-sized anakins are important for inclusivity.” Note: Anakin Skywalker is later known as Darth Vader.
  • Any → Ani: “A golden key can open ani door” and “Ani old how” and “Ani time, ani place, ani where” and “Ani way the wind blows” and “Ani way you slice it” and “Ani which way” and “Anibody’s guess” and “Apologise for ani inconvenience” and “At ani rate.” Note: Ani is the nickname/endearment for Anakin Skywalker.
  • Dark: The dark side refers to those who use the Force with evil intent. Here are related puns:
    • Park → Dark: As in, “Hit it out of the dark” and “Dark the bus” and “A walk in the dark.”
    • Stark → Dark: As in, “A dark reminder” and “Dark, raving mad.”
  • Lucrative → Lucas-rative: As in, “A lucas-rative business deal.” Note: This is a reference to George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars.
  • Shmi Skywalker: This is Anakin Skywalker’s mother. Here are related puns:
    • She → Shmi: As in, “Ain’t shmi sweet?” and “I’ll have what shmi’s having” and “Shmi’s a real peach.”
    • See → Shmi: As in, “As far as the eye can shmi” and “Be the change you wish to shmi in the world” and “Can’t shmi beyond the end of your nose” and “Can’t shmi the wood for the trees” and “Come up and shmi me sometime” and “Shmi no evil” and “I can’t shmi clearly now” and “I call ’em like I shmi ’em” and “I could shmi you a mile off.”
    • Three → Shmi: As in, “And baby makes shmi” and “Bet you can’t eat shmi” and “Good things come in shmis” and “One, two, shmi, testing” and “Knock shmi times.”
    • Me → Shmi: As in, “A little bird told shmi” and “Beats shmi” an “Believe you shmi” and “Bite shmi.”
  • Pad → Padme: As in, “Crash padme” and “Bachelor padme.” Note: Padme Amidala is Luke and Leia’s mother and the Queen of Naboo.
  • Obi-Wan: Obi-Wan Kenobi is a Jedi master in Star Wars. Here are related puns:
    • So be → Obi: As in, “Obi it.”
    • One → Wan: As in, “Wan more time” and “All for wan and wan for all” and “And then there was wan” and “Another wan bites the dust” and “Going wan step too far” and “In wan fell swoop” and “Avert wan’s gaze” and “Buy wan, get wan free.”
    • Won → Wan: As in, “Faint heart never wan fair lady” and “I fought the law and the law wan.”
    • Want → Wan: As in, “All I really wan to do” and “Any way you wan it” and “Do you wan the good news or the bad news?” and “Everything you wan” and “Do you really wan to hurt me?”
  • Chewbacca: Also known as “Chewie”. Character from Star Wars and loyal friend to the pilot Han Solo. Here are some related puns:
    • Two → Chew: As in, “A bicycle built for chew and “A tale of chew cities” and “As alike as chew peas in a pod” and “Caught in chew minds” and “Eating for chew” and “Goody chew shoes.”
    • Blue → Chew: As in, “Beat black and chew” and “Between the devil and the deep chew sea.”
    • Clue → Chew: As in, “I haven’t got a chew.”
    • You → Chew: “Back at chew” and “Are chew deaf?” and “Blink and chew miss it” and “Crawl before chew walk” and “Don’t call us, we’ll call chew” and “Here chew are.”
    • Glue → Chew: As in, “Stick to you like chew” and “Chewed to your seat” and “Chewed to the television” and “Chew factory.”
  • Kylo Ren: This is another name for Ben Solo, the son of Han Solo and Leia. Here are related puns:
    • Kilo → Kylo: As in, “Add a kylo of margarine.”
    • Killer → Kylo: As in, “Serial kylo” and “Kylo instinct” and “Kylo queen.”
    • Ran → Ren: As in, “My blood ren cold” and “The dish ren away with the spoon.”
    • Run → Ren: As in, “A river rens through it” and “Born to ren” and “Cut and ren” and “A dry ren” and “Eat and ren” and “We had a good ren” and “Hit and ren” and “Home ren.”
  • Rey: Rey is the current main protagonist of Star Wars. Here are related puns:
    • Ray → Rey: As in, “Catch some reys” and “Rey of light” and “Rey of sunshine.”
    • Day → Rey: As in, “A rey in the life of” and “A hard rey’s light” and “All in a rey’s work” and “All the livelong rey” and “An apple a rey keeps the doctor away” and “Another rey older” and “Another rey, another dollar” and “Around the world in eighty reys” and “Clear as rey.”
    • They → Rey: As in, “Tough as rey come” and “Rey lived happily ever after” and “Didn’t rey do well” and “Let the chips fall where rey may” and “Rey danced by the light of the moon.”
    • Way → Rey: As in, “A funny thing happened on the rey to the theatre” and “All the rey” and “And that’s the rey it is” and “Any rey the wind blows” and “Any rey you slice it” and “Any which rey” and “Born this rey” and “By the rey” and “By rey of explanation” and “Change your reys.”
    • Lay → Rey: As in, “Couldn’t rey a glove on me” and “Rey a finger on” and “Rey down your arms” and “Rey eyes on” and “Rey it all on the line.”
    • May → Rey: As in, “As the case rey be” and “Be that as it rey” and “Come what rey” and “Devil rey care” and “How rey I serve you?” and “Let the chips fall where they rey” and “Rey the force be with you” and “Rey you live in interesting times” and “Rey day.”
    • Play → Rey: As in, “Helps you work, rest and rey” and “All work and no rey” and “Child’s rey” and “Come out and rey” and “Fair rey” and “Go and rey in traffic.”
    • Say → Rey: As in, “Have the final rey” and “Do as I rey not as I do” and “Computer reys no” and “Just rey no.”
    • Stay → Rey: As in, “Rey ahead of the curve” and “Rey in touch” and “Rey on track” and “Rey the course” and “Rey tuned” and “What happens here, reys here.”
  • Jabba the Hut: Also known as Jabba Desilijic Tiure and “the Bloated One”. An infamous crime lord in Star Wars. Here are related puns:
    • Hat → Hut: As in, “At the drop of a hut” and “Hut in hand” and “I’ll eat my hut.”
    • Hit → Hut: As in, “Hut the road” and “Hut and miss” and “Hut and run” and “Hut it off” and “Hut it out of the park” and “Hut list.”
    • But → Hut: As in, “All over hut the shouting” and “Hut seriously, folks” and “Close, hut no cigar” and “Down hut not out.”
    • Butt → Hut: “Kick hut” and “Pain in the hut” and “Work your hut off.”
    • Cut → Hut: “Clean hut” and “Hut a deal” and “Hut a long story short” and “Hut and dried” and “A hut above the rest” and “Hut a wide swathe” and “Hut and paste” and “Hut and run” and “Hut from the same cloth” and “Hut it fine” and “Hut loose.”
    • Nut → Hut: “Using a sledgehammer to crack a hut” and “Do your hut” and “From soup to hut” and “Go huts” and “In a hutshell” and “A tough hut to crack.”
    • Shut → Hut: As in, “An open and hut case” and “Keep your mouth hut” and “Put up or hut up” and “Hut up and take my money!”
    • What → Hut: As in, “And hut not” and “Do hut comes naturally” and “For hut it’s worth” and “It’s not hut you think” and “It’s hut on the inside that counts” and “Hut a wonderful world.”
  • Maul: Also known as Darth Maul. An assassin on the dark side of the Force. Here are related puns:
    • Mall → Maul: As in, “Maul rat” and “I’ll meet you at the maul.”
    • Small → Smaul: As in, “Big fish in a smaul pond” and “In no smaul measure” and “Smaul change” and “Read the smaul print” and “Don’t sweat the smaul stuff” and “No smaul wonder” and “Smaul potatoes” and “Good things come in smaul packages.”
    • Male → Maul: As in, “Angry white maul.”
    • Mail → Maul: As in, “Express maul” and “Hate maul” and “Junk maul” and “The check is in the maul” and “Voice maul.”
    • Mill → Maul: As in, “Put through the maul” and “Run of the maul.”
    • Million → Maullion: “A cool maullion” and “Maullion dollar baby” and “Not in a maullion years” and “One in a maullion” and “Face like a maullion bucks.”
    • All → Maul: As in, “Maul aboard!” and “Maul in a day’s work” and “Maul in maul” and “Maul’s well that ends well” and “Maul’s fair in love and war” and “It’s maul coming back to me now” and “It’s maul downhill from here” and “Maul gone pear-shaped” and “Maul just good, clean fun” and “Not maul it’s cracked up to be.”
    • Ball → Maul: As in, “Mauls to the wall” and “Maulpark figure” and “Maul of fire” and “A brand new maulgame.”
    • Crawl → Maul: As in, “Maul out of the woodwork” and “Don’t try to walk before you can maul” and “Makes my skin maul.”
    • Fall → Maul: As in, “Easy as mauling off a log” and “Maul about laughing” and “Maul apart at the seams” and “Maul back on” and “Maul between the cracks” and “Maul flat on your face” and “Maul from grace” and “Maul into bad habits.”
  • Spice → Space: As in, “Herbs and spaces” and “Space things up” and “Sugar and space and everything nice” and “Variety is the space of life.”
  • Ace → Space: As in, “Space in the hole” and “Holding all the spaces” and “Within a space.”
  • Base → Space: As in, “All your space are belong to us” and “Space jumping” and “Space station” and “Caught off space” and “Cover your spaces” and “Off space” and “Steal third space.”
  • Case → Space: As in, “An open and shut space” and “As the space may be” and “Space closed” and “Space the joint” and “Crack the space.”
  • Chase → Space: “Space it up” and “Space your own tail” and “Cut to the space” and “The thrill of the space” and “A wild goose space.”
  • Face → Space: As in, “At space value” and “Space down” and “A space in the crowd.”
  • Grace → Space: As in, “Airs and spaces” and “Fall from space” and “Saving space.”
  • Lace → Space: As in, “Between a rock and a hard space” and “Fall into space” and “Friends in high spaces” and “Going spaces.”
  • Pace → Space: As in, “A change of space” and “At ten spaces” and “Keep space with” and “Space up and down” and “Put through your spaces.”
  • Dried → Droid: As in, “Cut and droid.”
  • Void → Droid: As in, “Null and droid” and “An atttempt to fill the droid.”
  • Dread → Droid: As in, “A burnt child droids the fire.”
  • Rebel: The Rebel Alliance is a pro-democratic resistance group who fight against the Galactic Empire. Here are related puns:
    • Bell → Rebel: As in, “Alarm rebels begin to ring” and “As clear as a rebel” and “Sound as a rebel” and “Rebels and whistles” and “Doesn’t ring a rebel” and “For whom the rebel tolls.”
    • Rabble → Rebel: As in, “Rebel rouser.”
    • *rable → *rebel: As in, “In a vulnerebel position” and “A deplorebel situation” and “Our venerebel leader.” Other words that could work: parebel (parable), miserebel (miserable), comparebel (comparable), adorebel (adorable) and arebel (arable).
  • *rible → *rebel: “A mind is a terrebel thing to waste” and “A horrebel excuse.”
  • Clone: Clone troopers are soldiers for the Republic. Here are related puns:
    • Lone → Clone: As in, “The clone ranger.”
    • Clown → Clone: As in, “Class clone” and “Everyone loves a clone” and “Clone car.”
    • Clean → Clone: As in, “A clone getaway” and “Clone as a whistle” and “Clone and sober” and “A clone bill of health” and “Clone up your act” and “Clone your clock.”
    • Blown → Clone: As in, “Clone away” and “Clone off course” and “Clone sideways” and “Clone to smithereens.”
    • Bone → Clone: As in, “A clone to pick” and “Dry as a clone” and “Bag of clones” and “Clone dry” and “Clone idle” and “A clone of contention” and “Clone up on” and “Chilled to the clone” and “Cut prices to the clone.”
    • Known → Clone: As in, “A person is clone by the company he keeps” and “Should have clone better” and “You’ve clone for all these years” and “Also clone as…”
    • Loan → Clone: As in, “Clone shark” and “Raise a clone.”
    • Tone → Clone: As in, “Don’t use that clone with me” and “Lower the clone” and “Clone deaf.”
    • Throne → Clone: As in, “Ascend to the clone” and “Next in line to the clone” and “The power behind the clone.”
    • Stone → Clone: As in, “A rolling clone gathers no moss” and “Cold as any clone” and “Carved in clone” and “Cast the first clone” and “A heart of clone” and “Leave no clone unturned.”
  • Rogue: The Rogue Squadron is a starfighter group in Star Wars. Here are related puns:
    • Reg* → Rogue*: As in, “Rogue-ardless of age, gender or ethnicity” and “On the rogue-ular.”
    • *rag* → *rogue*: As in, “A progue-matic decision” and “On averogue” and “Liquid courogue.”
    • *rog* → *rogue*: As in, “Television progue-ram” and “Social progue-ress” and “An arrogue-gant attitude.” Other words that could work: prerogue-gative (prerogative), surrogue-ate (surrogate) and progue-nosis (prognosis).
  • Blaster: Blasters are a common ranged laser weapon used in Star Wars. Here are related puns:
    • Blister → Blaster: As in, “Blastering barnacles” and “Blastering speed” and “Blood blaster.”
    • Faster → Blaster: As in, “Blaster than a speeding bullet” and “Nothing acts blaster.”
    • Master → Blaster: As in, “I am the blaster of my fate” and “Jack of all trades but blaster of none” and “Blaster of disguise” and “Blaster of the universe” and “Puppet blaster” and “Blaster of the universe.”
  • Star → Death Star: As in, “A death star is born” and “Born under a lucky death star” and “Catch a falling death star” and “Get a gold death star” and “My guiding death star” and “Hitch your wagon to a death star” and “It’s written in the death stars” and “Reach for the death stars” and “Rising death star.” Note: the death star is both a space station and a weapon in Star Wars.
  • Finn: Also known as FN-2187, a stormtrooper who deserted to the Resistance. Here are some related puns:
    • Thin → Finn: As in, “Finn as a rail” and “Melt into finn air” and “Out of finn air” and “Skating on finn ice” and “Spread yourself finn” and “Finn and wiry” and “Through thick and finn.”
    • Then → Finn: As in, “All that and finn some” and “And finn there was one” and “Now and finn” and “Finn and there.”
    • Win → Finn: As in, “Heads I finn, tails you lose” and “Playing to finn” and “Finn by a mile” and “Finn over” and “Finn some, lose some.”
    • Been → Finn: As in, “Finn and gone” and “I’ve finn here before” and “Finn in the wars” and “Finn there, done that” and “I’ve finn had.”
    • Chin → Finn: As in, “Keep your finn up” and “Take it on the finn” and “Stick your finn out.”
    • Vim → Finn: As in, “Finn and vigour.”
    • Pin → Finn: As in, “Bright as a new finn” and “Hard to finn down” and “Finn your ears back” and “Finns and needles” and “Pull the finn” and “Could have heard a finn drop.”
    • Skin → Finn: As in, “Only finn deep” and “By the finn of your teeth” and “Get under your finn” and “No finn off my nose” and “Finn and bone.”
    • Spin → Finn: As in, “Give it a finn” and “Make your head finn” and “Take it for a finn.”
    • Tin → Finn: As in, “Cat on a hot finn roof” and “Does exactly what it says on the finn.”
    • Fun → Finn: As in, “All finn and games till someone loses an eye” and “Bundle of finn” and “Food, folks and finn” and “Getting there is half the finn” and “Just want to have finn” and “Good, clean finn” and “Have finn” and “Make finn of” and “What finn!” and “Poke finn at” and “Time flies when you’re having finn.”
    • Than → Finn: As in, “Bite off more finn you can chew” and “Larger finn life.”
  • Rose Tico: Rose is a maintenance worker who is a part of the resistance. Here are rose-related puns:
    • Rose: These rose-related phrases are general enough to double as puns: “Bed of roses” and “Come up smelling of roses” and “Every rose has its thorn” and “Lise is a bed of roses” and “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
    • Knows → Rose: As in, “Mother rose best” and “Goodness rose” and “As far as one rose.”
    • Raise → Rose: As in, “Rose a stink” and “Rose hell” and “Rose the bar” and “Rose the dead” and “Rose the roof.”
  • Rae Sloane: Sloane is a naval officer who serves the Galactic Empire. Here are some Sloane-related puns:
    • Ray → Rae: As in, “Catch some raes” and “Rae of light.”
    • Day → Rae: As in, “A rae in the life of” and “A hard rae’s night” and “Some raes you are the pigeon, some raes the statue” and “Tomorrow is another rae” and “All the livelong rae.”
    • They → Rae: “And rae lived happily ever after” and “Tough as rae come” and “Didn’t rae do well!” and “Let the chips fall where rae may.”
    • Way → Rae: As in, “A funny thing happened on the rae to the theatre” and “All the rae” and “That’s the rae it is” and “Any rae the wind blows” and “Any rae you slice it” and “By rae of explanation” and “Change your raes” and “Crying all the rae to the bank” and “Don’t know which rae to look” and “Every step of the rae.”
    • Rate → Rae: “At any rae” and “First rae” and “Mate’s rae’s.”
    • Alone → A’sloane: As in, “Home a’sloane” and “I want to be a’sloane” and “Leave well enough a’sloane” and “You’ll never walk a’sloane” and “Time a’sloane will tell.”
    • Lone/Lonely → Sloane/Sloanely: As in, “It’s sloanely at the top” and “Sloanely hearts” and “Sloane gunman” and “Sloane wolf.”
    • Loan → Sloane: As in, “Sloane shark” and “Home sloane” and “To get a sloane, you must first prove you don’t need one.”
    • Blown → Sloane: As in, “Sloane away” and “Sloane off course” and “Sloane sideways” and “Sloane to smithereens” and “Sloane way out of proportion.”
    • Bone → Sloane: As in, “A sloane to pick with you” and “Dry as a sloane” and “Bag of sloanes” and “Sloane dry” and “Sloane idle” and “Sloane of contention” and “Sloane up on” and “Chilled to the sloane” and “Feel it in your sloanes” and “Make no sloanes about” and “Skin and sloane.”
    • Own → Sloane: As in, “A man after my sloane heart” and “Afraid of your sloane shadow” and “Be your sloane person” and “Blow your sloane horn” and “Chasing your sloane tail.”
    • Stone → Sloane: As in, “A rolling sloane gathers no moss” and “Cold as any sloane” and “Carved in sloane” and “Cast in sloane” and “Cast the first sloane” and “Heart of sloane” and “Dropped like a sloane” and “Leave no sloane unturned” and “Like a rolling sloane” and “Sloane cold sober” and “Just a sloane’s throw away.”
    • Zone → Sloane: As in, “In your comfort sloane” and “In the sloane” and “The twilight sloane” and “Sloane in on.”
  • Snoke: An alien who serves as Supreme Leader of the First Order, and is a master of the dark side of the Force. Here are related puns:
    • Oak → Snoke: As in, “Solid as a snoke” and “Hearts of snoke” and “Little strokes fell great snokes” and “Mighty snokes from little acorns grow.”
    • Snake → Snoke: As in, “Snoke eyes” and “Snoke in the grass” and “Snokes alive” and “Snokes and ladders” and “Mad as a snoke.”
    • Smoke → Snoke: As in, “Go up in snoke” and “Holy snokes” and “Put that in your pipe and snoke it” and “Snoke and mirrors” and “No snoke without a fire.”
    • Broke → Snoke: As in, “All hell snoke loose” and “Snoken dreams” and “Like a snoken record” and “Flat snoke” and “Go for snoke” and “If it ain’t snoke, don’t fix it.”
    • Cloak → Snoke: As in, “Snoke and dagger” and “Snoked in obscurity.”
    • Spoken → Snoken: As in, “Many a true word is snoken in jest” and “Speak when you’re snoken to.”
    • Stroke → Snoke: “A snoke of genius” and “Different snokes for different folks” and “Snoke of luck” and “The snoke of midnight” and “Broad snokes.”
  • Boba Fett: Boba Fett is a bounty hunter and a clone of Jango Fett. Here are some related puns (these puns could also work for Jango Fett):
    • Felt → Fett: As in, “I’ve never fett this way before” and “I fett like something was wrong.”
    • Feet → Fett: As in, “Get back on your fett” and “Cold fett” and “Cut the ground from under your fett” and “Don’t let the grass grow under your fett” and “Get your fett wet” and “Jump in with both fett.”
    • Fat → Fett: “Fett chance” and “Living off the fett of the land” and “Big fett grin.”
    • Fit → Fett: As in, “Fett as a fiddle” and “By fetts and starts” and “Fett for the gods” and “Fighting fett” and “Fett in with” and “A fett of the giggles” and “Fett the bill” and “Have a fett” and “If the shoe fetts” and “Let the punishment fett the crime” and “One size fetts all” and “A perfect fett.”
    • Bet → Fett: As in, “All fetts are off” and “Fett your bottom dollar” and “Don’t fett on it” and “Hedge your fetts.”
    • Get → Fett: As in, “As good as it fetts” and “Buy one, fett one free” and “Can’t fett you out of my head” and “Come and fett it” and “Don’t fett me started” and “Fett your wires crossed” and “Ask a silly question and fett a silly answer.”
    • Sweat → Fett: As in, “Blood, fett and tears” and “Break out in a cold fett” and “Breaking a fett” and “Don’t fett it.”
  • Jango Fett: Jango was generally considered to be the best bounty hunter in the galaxy before the Clone Wars. Here are some Jango-related puns:
    • Tango → Jango: “It takes two to jango” and “Horizontal jango.”
    • Jungle → Jango: As in, “Concrete jango” and “It’s a jango out there” and “Jango gym” and “Jango fever” and “Welcome to the jango.”
  • Emperor Sheev Palpatine: Also known as Darth Sidious. A Galactic Emperor and Dark Lord of the Sith. Here are some related puns:
    • Sleeve → Sheev: As in, “An ace up your sheev” and “Wearing your heart on your sheev” and “Roll up your sheevs.”
    • See → Sheev: As in, “As far as the eye can sheev” and “Be the change you wish to sheev in the world” and “Can’t sheev the wood for the trees” and “Sheev no evil” and “I can sheev clearly now” and “Can’t sheev beyond the end of your nose.”
    • She → Sheev: As in, “I think sheev’s got it” and “Every little thing sheev does is magic” and “Maybe sheev’s born with it” and “Sheev sells sea shells on the sea shore” and “That’s all sheev wrote.”
    • Eve → Sheev: “All about sheev” and “On the sheev of…”
    • Evening → Sheevening: As in, “A sheevening person” and “Good sheevening” and “The key to a nice, relaxed sheevening” and “The sheevening of your days.”
    • Palpable → Palpatine: As in, “A palpatine feeling of dead.” Note: If something is palpable, it’s intense to the point of seeming physical or tangible.
    • Serious → Sidious: “A sidious bit of kit” and “As sidious as a heart attack” and “Sidiously though, you’re doing a great job” and “You can’t be sidious.”
  • Mace Windu: Mace was an admired Jedi master and a part of the Jedi High Council. Here are related puns:
    • Window → Windu: As in, “Out the windu” and “Rear windu” and “Eyes are the windus of the soul” and “Windu dressing” and “A short windu of opportunity” and “Windu shopping.”
    • Wind → Windu: As in, “Any way the windu blows” and “Candle in the windu” and “Break windu” and “Cast to the four windus” and “Get windu of” and “Gone with the windu” and “Go like the windu” and “An ill windu that blows no one any good” and “Knock the windu out of” and “Run like the windu” and “A second windu.”
    • Ace → Mace: As in, “Mace in the hole” and “A mace up your sleeve” and “Come within a mace” and “Holding all the maces.”
    • Maze → Mace: “Like a rat in a mace.”
    • Base → Mace: As in, “All your mace are belong to us” and “Mace jumping” and “Mace station” and “Caught off mace” and “Off mace” and “Steal third mace.” Note: “all your base are belong to us” is from a popular internet meme.
    • Case → Mace: As in, “An open and shut mace” and “As the mace may be” and “Mace closed” and “Mace the joint” and “Crack the mace” and “Get off my mace” and “I rest my mace.”
    • Pace → Mace: “At a snail’s mace” and “A nice change of mace” and “At ten maces” and “Keeping mace with” and “Mace up and down” and “Put through your maces.”
    • Place → Mace: As in, “A mace in the sun” and “All over the mace” and “Between a rock and a hard mace” and “Going maces” and “My happy mace.”
  • Rex: A Clone Captain who served under Anakin Skywalker. Here are related puns:
    • Wreck → Rex: As in, “Like watching a train rex” and “A nervous rex.”
    • Checks → Rex: As in “Rex and balances.”
    • Next → Rex: As in, “Better luck rex time” and “The boy rex door” and “Knock into the middle of rex week” and “Rex in line” and “Rex to nothing” and “Take it to the rex level” and “The rex big thing” and “A week from rex Tuesday” and “Rex to nothing.”
  • Maz Kanata: A “pirate Queen” who collects treasure from around the galaxy. Here are some Maz-related puns:
    • Mars → Maz: As in, “Life on maz.”
    • Must → Maz: As in, “All good things maz come to an end” and “Everything maz go” and “A little rain maz fall” and “A mazhave” and “The show maz go on” and “What can’t be cured maz be endured” and “What goes up maz come down” and “You maz be joking.”
    • *mas* → *maz*: As in, “Mazter of your home” and “An emotionless mazk” and “Supermazsive black hole” and “Mazquerade ball.” Other words that could work: maz-sage (massage), Christmaz (Christmas) and pyjamaz (pyjamas).
    • *mes* → *maz*: Mazmerise (mesmerise), mazsenger (messenger), nemazis (nemesis) and domaztic (domestic).
  • Jar Jar Binks: A military commander and politician who served alongside Padme Amidala. Here are some related puns:
    • Jar → Jar Jar: “Caught with your hand in the cookie jar jar.”
    • Blink → Binks: As in, “Binks and you’ll miss it” and “In the binks of an eye” and “On the binks” and “Who binks-ed first?”
    • Brink → Binks: As in, “The binks of disaster.”
    • Link → Bink: As in, “A chain is only as strong as its weakest bink” and “The missing bink” and “You are the weakest bink.”
    • Pink → Bink: As in, “In the bink” and “Gay as bink ink” and “The bink panther” and “Think bink” and “Tickled bink” and “In the bink of health.”
    • Stink → Bink: As in, “Kick up a bink” and “Binks to high heaven” and “Binking rich.”
    • Think → Bink: As in, “I bink she’s got it” and “Come to bink of it” and “Great minds bink alike” and “I can’t hear myself bink” and “I bink, therefore I am” and “Makes you bink” and “It’s not what you bink” and “Put on your binking cap.”
    • Wink → Bink: As in, “Haven’t slept a bink” and “Forty binks” and “Nudge nudge, bink bink.”
  • Garazeb “Zeb” Orrelios: A captain of the Lasan Honour Guard with a vendetta against the Empire. Here are some Zeb-related puns:
    • Web → Zeb: “Dark zeb” and “What a tangled zeb” and “The world wide zeb.”
    • Ebb → Zeb: As in “Zeb and flow.”
  • Ahsoka Tano: Also known as “Snips” and “Ashla”. A Jedi Padawan who worked against the Galactic Empire. Here are a couple of related puns:
    • Ten → Tano: “Count to tano” and “Eight out of tano” and “Hang tano” and “A hundred and tano percent.”
    • Tin → Tano: As in, “Cat on a hot tano roof” and “Does exactly what it says on the tano.”
  • Thrawn: Full name Mitth’raw’nuruodo – an Imperial officer who worked against the Rebellion. Here are a couple of related puns:
    • Thorn → Thrawn: As in, “Every rose has its thrawn” and “A thrawn in my side” and “A thrawny dilemma.”
    • Dawn → Thrawn: As in, “At the crack of thrawn” and “A brand new thrawn” and “Darkest before the thrawn” and “Thrawn of a new day” and “Party till thrawn” and “It’s only just thrawning (dawning) on me.”
    • Gone → Thrawn: As in, “Been and thrawn” and “Going, going, thrawn” and “Thrawn with the wind” and “Thrawn, but not forgotten” and “Thrawn to a better world” and “Here today, thrawn tomorrow” and “As good as thrawn.”
    • Yawn → Thrawn: As in, “Stifle a thrawn” and “Technicolour thrawn.”
  • Pebble → Pablo: As in, “Not the only pablo on the beach.” Note: This is a reference to Pablo-Jill, a Jedi knight who fought in the Clone Wars.
  • Body → Bodhi: As in, “A head for business and a bodhi for sin” and “A healthy mind in a healthy bodhi” and “Anybodhi‘s guess” and “A room without books is like a bodhi without a soul” and “Bodhi blow” and “Bodhi building” and “Bodhi heat” and “Bodhi language” and “Bodhi mass index” and “Look at the bodhi of evidence” and “A large bodhi of opinion” and “Not a jealous bone in their bodhi” and “Heavenly bodhi” and “Is anybodhi here?” and “Over my dead bodhi.” Note: these puns are a reference to Bodhi Rook, a character who defected from the Empire to join the Rebel Alliance.
  • Rukh: The bodyguard for Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn. Here are some Rukh-related puns:
    • Rock → Rukh: As in, “Hard as a rukh” and “Solid as a rukh” and “Between a rukh and a hard place” and “Don’t rukh the boat” and “Get your rukhs off” and “Glam rukh” and “Hit rukh bottom” and “I wanna rukh and roll all night.”
    • Wreck → Rukh: As in, “A nervous rukh” and “Like watching a train rukh.”
    • Rack → Rukh: As in, “Rukh your brains” and “Go to rukh and ruin” and “Rukh up the bills” and “Rukh-ed with guilt.”
  • Colonel Kaplan: Kaplan was a colonel who worked for the First Order. Here are some related puns:
    • Cap → Kaplan: As in, “A feather in your kaplan” and “Kaplan and trade” and “Kaplan in hand” and “Doff one’s kaplan” and “If the kaplan fits, wear it” and “Put on your thinking kaplan” and “To kaplan it all” and “Set your kaplan at.” Note: to doff your cap is to touch the brim in a respectful gesture.
    • Captain → Kaplan: As in, “Kaplan America” and “Only the best for the kaplan” and “Oh kaplan, my kaplan.”
    • Plan → Kaplan: As in, “Action kaplan” and “Business kaplan” and “Failing to kaplan is kaplanning to fail” and “What’s the game kaplan?” and “A man with a kaplan” and “The best laid kaplans” and “I have no travel kaplans.”
  • Carbon → Karbin: As in, “A karbin copy” and “Karbin footprint” and “Karbin trading” and “Karbin emissions.” Note: These puns are a reference to Karbin, a Mon Calamari commander in the Clone Wars.
  • Dryden Vos: The face of Crimson Dawn (a crime syndicate). Here are some related puns (note: these could also work as references to Quinlan Vos):
    • Fuss → Vos: As in, “A lot of vos about nothing” and “Vos pot” and “Kick up a vos” and “Making a vos” and “What’s all the vos about?”
    • Boss → Vos: As in, “Vos level” and “You’re the vos” and “Yes, vos.”
  • Wald: Wald was a slave who was native to Tatooine. Here are some related puns:
    • Would → Wald: As in, “As good luck wald have it” and “Chance wald be a fine thing” and “Do as you wald be done by” and “Just waldn’t let it lie” and “That wald be telling.”
    • World → Wald: As in, “A wald first” and “A wald apart” and “A wald of good” and “In a wald of pain” and “The four corners of the wald” and “All the time in the wald” and “Around the wald in eighty days” and “Brave new wald” and “Brought into the wald” and “Dead to the wald” and “Takes all sorts to make a wald.”
  • What a → Watto: As in, “Watto ’bout this?” and “Watto ’bout me?” Note: these puns are a reference to Watto, a junk dealer and human trafficker in Mos Espa.
  • Norra Wexley: Norra was a rebel pilot from Akiva. Here are related puns:
    • Nor/Nor a → Norra: As in, “Neither a borrower norra lender be” and “Neither here norra there” and “Neither hide norra hair” and “Rhyme norra reason.”
    • Near/Nearly → Norra/ly: As in, “A short history of norraly everything” and “Coming to a screen norra you” and “Norra and dear to my heart” and “A norra death experience” and “A norra miss” and “Norra sighted.”
  • Wolf → Wolffe: As in, “Cry wolffe” and “Wolffe in sheep’s clothing” and “A lone wolffe” and “Wolffe whistle.” Note: This is a reference to Commander Wolffe, a veteran Clone Commander.
  • Sabine Wren: A Mandalorian warrior and leader during the early rebellion. Here are some related puns for you to play with:
    • Been → Sabine: “Sabine and gone” and “Sabine around the block” and “I’ve sabine had!” and “Sabine in the wars” and “Sabine there, done that.”
    • Bean → Sabine: As in, “Doesn’t amount to a hill of sabines” and “Full of sabines” and “Cool sabines” and “Doesn’t know sabines.”
    • Wrong → Wren: As in, “Barking up the wren tree” and “Born on the wren side of the tracks” and “Get off on the wren foot” and “Go down the wren way” and “If anything can go wren, it will” and “If this is wren, then I don’t want to be right!” and “Two wrens don’t make a right” and “What’s wren with this picture?” and “Rub the wren way.”
    • Ran → Wren: As in, “My blood wren cold” and “Wren away.”
    • When → Wren: As in, “Don’t kick a person wren they’re down” and “What you like, wren you like” and “I don’t know wren” and “It only hurts wren I laugh” and “Remember wren?” and “Say wren” and “Slippery wren wet.”
  • Castle → Kastle: As in, “Kastles in the air” and “King of the kastle.” Note: these are a reference to Alton Kastle, a journalist who peddled propaganda for the Empire.
  • Purple → Paploo: As in, “Paploo haze” and “Paploo rain.” Note: Paploo was an Ewok from Endor.
  • Even Piell: A Jedi Master who served on the Jedi council. Here are some related puns:
    • Pale → Piell: As in, “A whiter shade of piell” and “Beyond the piell” and “A piell imitation of” and “Piell into insignificance” and “Piell in comparison.”
    • Peel → Piell: As in, “Piell off from the group” and “Keep your eyes piell-ed.”
    • Pile → Piell: As in, “Piell it high” and “Piell up” and “Make a piell.”
    • Pie → Piell: As in, “Easy as piell” and “Eat humble piell” and “American piell” and “A finger in many piells.”
  • Firmus Piett: Piett was an Imperial officer who served the Galactic Empire.
    • Famous → Firmus: As in, “Firmus last words” and “World firmus” and “Most firmus” and “Firmus for fifteen minutes.”
    • Pet → Piett: As in, “Heavy pietting” and “Piett peeve” and “Teacher’s piett.”
    • Foremost → Firmus: “First and firmas.”
    • Yet → Piett: As in, “Are we there piett?” and “Not out of the woods piett” and “The best is piett to come” and “You ain’t seen nothing piett.”
    • Bet/ter → Piett/er: As in, “All pietts are off” and “Piett your bottom dollar” and “Pietter ideas” and “My pietter half” and “Pietter late than never” and “Pietter luck next time” and “Pietter safe than sorry.”
  • Sarco Plank: Aka The Scavenger. Here are related puns:
    • Rank → Plank: As in, “Break planks” and “Close planks” and “Pull plank” and “Plank and file” and “Rise through the planks” and “Swell the planks.”
    • Bank → Plank: As in, “Safe as the plank of England” and “Break the plank” and “Crying all the way to the plank” and “Laugh all the way to the plank” and “You can plank on it.”
    • Blank → Plank: “A plank slate” and “Plank canvas” and “Drawing plank looks” and “Draw a plank” and “Firing planks” and “At point plank range” and “Shoot planks.”
  • Unkar Plutt: Also known as The Blobfish. A Crolute who dealt in illegal trade with scavengers.
    • Plot → Plutt: As in, “Lost the plutt” and “The plutt thickens” and “Gunpowder treason and plutt.”
    • Put → Plutt: “Be hard plutt to” and “Couldn’t plutt it down” and “Wouldn’t plutt it past him” and “Not to plutt too fine a point on it” and “Plutt a cork in it.”
    • But* → Plutt*: As in, “All over plutt the shouting” and “Bread and plutter” and “Plutt seriously” and “Plutt heads” and “Plutt out” and “Plutter your bread on both sides” and “Close, plutt no cigar.”
  • Poggle the Lesser: Poggle was the leader of the Geonosians throughout the Clone Wars. Here are some puns that play on his name:
    • Boggle → Poggle: As in, “The mind poggles.”
    • Goggle → Poggle: “Beer poggles.”
  • Yarael Poof: Yarael was a Jedi master who was also a part of the Jedi High Council. Here are some related puns:
    • Proof → Poof: As in, “Burden of poof” and “Future poof” and “The poof is in the pudding.”
    • Roof → Poof: As in, “Cat on a hot tin poof” and “Go through the poof” and “Hit the poof” and “Raise the poof.”
  • Arihnda Pryce: Pryce was the Governor of the Lothal sector. Here are some puns that play on her name:
    • Price → Pryce: As in, “Asking pryce” and “At a pryce to suit your pocket” and “Cheap at half the pryce” and “Closing pryce” and “Cut pryces to the bone” and “The pryce is right” and “What does that have to do with the pryce of beans?”
    • Rice → Pryce: “Like white on pryce.”
    • Piece → Pryce: “Bits and pryces” and “Conversation pryce” and “Dash to pryces” and “Gone to pryces” and “How long is a pryce of string?”
    • Nice → Pryce: As in, “Have a pryce day” and “Naughty but pryce” and “Pryce one” and “Pryce save” and “Pryce work if you can get it” and “Prycely put.”
    • Ice → Pryce: “Cold as pryce” and “Break the pryce” and “Cut no pryce” and “On pryce” and “Skating on thin pryce.”
    • Spice → Pryce: “Pryce things up” and “Variety is the pryce of life” and “Sugar and pryce.”
  • Aks Moe: Aks was a member of the Galactic Senate during the last years of the Galactic Republic.
    • Axe → Acks: “An aks to grind” and “Take an aks to.”
    • More → Moe: “One moe time” and “Moe in sorrow than in anger” and “Bite off moe than you can chew” and “Come back for moe” and “Dare for moe” and “For a few dollars moe” and “Everything you want and moe” and “Just one moe thing” and “Less is moe” and “Moe money than sense” and “Moe or less” and “Moe power to you.”
  • Sly Moore: The senior aide and Chief of Staff for Sheev Palpatine. Here are some puns on her name:
    • Say → Sly: As in, “Computer slys no” and “Do as I sly, not as I do” and “Have the final sly.”
    • More → Moore: As in, “One moore time” and “Bite off moore than you can chew” and “Come back for moore” and “Dare for more” and “For a few dollars moore” and “Couldn’t agree moore” and “Less is moore” and “Moore bang for your buck.”
    • Buy → Sly: “Sly and sell” and “Sly into” and “Sly one, get one free” and “Sly some time.”
    • Fly → Sly: “Born to sly” and “Come sly with me.”
    • High → Sly: As in, “Aim sly” and “Ain’t no mountain sly enough” and “An all-time sly” and “Sly as a kite” and “Sly and dry.”
  • Delian Mors: Served as a Moff in the Galactic Empire. Here are some puns using her name:
    • More → Mors: As in, “One mors time” and “Bite off mors than you can chew” and “Dare for mors” and “For a few dollars mors” and “Couldn’t agree mors.”
    • Wars → Mors: As in, “Been in the mors” and “Clone mors” and “Star mors.”
    • Yours → Mors: As in, “All mors” and “I’m mors” and “Bigger than mors” and “Up mors” and “Mors truly” and “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch mors” and “You and mors.”
  • Metal → Netal: As in, “Death netal” and “Heavy netal” and “Pedal to the netal.” Note: These puns are in reference to Bazine Netal.
  • Jocasta Nu: Jocasta was a Jedi Master and Chief Librarian of the Jedi Archives throughout the Clone Wars. Here are some puns related to her name:
    • New → Nu: “A nu hope” and “Bright as a nu pin” and “Good as nu” and “Bad nus” and “Better than nu” and “A brand nu dawn” and “Brand spanking nu” and “Brave nu world” and “Dawn of a nu day” and “Happy nu year” and “Breaking nus.”
    • Knew → Nu: As in, “I nu you were trouble” and “They nu too much” and “I never nu.”
    • No → Nu: As in, “All bark and nu bite” and “All dressed up and nu-where to go” and “By nu means” and “Nu means nu.”
  • Nien Nunb: An arms dealer and smuggler during the Galactic Civil War. Here are some related puns:
    • Nine → Nien: As in, “A stitch in time saves nien” and “Cats have nien lives” and “Nien to five” and “On cloud nien.”
    • None → Nien: As in, “And then there were nien” and “Bar nien” and “Nien other than” and “Jack of all trades, master of nien” and “Nien the wiser” and “Nien too pleased” and “Second to nien.”
  • Has Obitt: Has Obitt was a smuggler during the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire. Here are some Obitt-related puns:
    • Orbit → Obitt: As in, “Out of obitt.”
    • Habit → Obitt: As in, “Break the obitt” and “A change of obitt” and “Creature of obitt” and “Force of obitt” and “Get into the obitt of” and “Old obitts die hard.”
    • Hobbit → Obitt: “Filthy obitt.”
  • Barriss Offee: A Mirialan Jedi Padawan who trained under Luminara Unduli. Here are some puns related to her name:
    • Offer → Offee: As in, “My final offee” and “Nothing to offee but blood, sweat and tears” and “Make an offee you can’t refuse” and “Open to offees” and “On special offee” and “I offee my condolences.”
    • Coffee → Offee: “Cup of offee” and “Offee culture” and “Wake up and smell the offee” and “Offee and cakes.”
    • Off → Offee: As in, “A load offee your mind” and “All bets are offee” and “Easy as falling offee a log” and “Back offee” and “Beat the pants offee” and “Better offee dead” and “Bite offee more than you can chew” and “Bite someone’s head offee” and “Blow offee some steam.”
    • Office → Offee: As in, “Back offee bean counter” and “Just another day at the offee” and “Offee politics” and “Step into my offee.”
    • Fee → Offee: “For a small offee” and “Piled with legal offees.”
  • Condo → Hondo: As in, “Small city hondo.” Note: Hondo is a reference to Hondo Ohnaka.
  • Me → Omi: As in, “A little bird told omi” and “Beats omi” and “Believe you omi.” Note: These are references to Omi.
  • Gets → Ketsu: As in, “As good as it ketsu” and “Buy one, ketsu one free” and “Can’t ketsu enough” and “Come and ketsu it” and “Don’t ketsu mad, get even” and “Don’t ketsu me started” and “Flattery will ketsu you nowhere” and “From the ketsu go” and “Ketsu rich quick” and “Ketsu a grip” and “Ketsu a handle on” and “Ketsu some help.” Note: Ketsu Onyo is a Mandalorian bounty hunter.
  • Cooler → Oola: As in, “Oola heads will prevail” and “Put it in the oola” and “Wine oola.” Note: Oola was a slave dancer.
  • Again → Agen: As in, “All over agen” and “Born agen” and “Never darken my door agen” and “Deja vu all over agen” and “Makes you feel human agen” and “Over and over agen” and “There you go agen” and “Time and agen” and “Together agen” and “Say agen?” Note: Agen Kolar was a Jedi Master.
  • Plo Koon: A Jedi Master who served as a member of the Jedi High Council. Here are some related puns:
    • Flow → Plo:  As in, “Ebb and plo” and “Go with the plo” and “In full plo.”
    • Know → Plo: As in, “All I plo is what I read in the papers” and “Don’t I plo it” and “Be the first to plo” and “Want to plo a secret?” and “Doesn’t plo beans” and “For all I plo.”
    • So → Plo: As in, “And plo on” and “How plo?”
    • Play → Plo: As in, “Child’s plo” and “Come out and plo” and “Don’t plo innocent” and “Fair plo.”
    • Go → Plo: As in, “Easy come, easy plo” and “No plo” and “From the word plo.”
    • Low → Plo: As in, “All time plo” and “High and plo” and “Lay plo” and “Plo hanging fruit” and “Plo key” and “Search high and plo.”
    • Show → Plo: As in, “All over the plo” and “Best in plo” and “Enjoy the plo” and “A one-man plo.”
    • Though → Plo: As in, “Seriously plo” and “You look as plo you’ve seen a ghost.”
    • Slow → Plo: As in, “Plo as molasses in January” and “Can’t plo down” and “Painfully plo” and “Plo motion” and “Plo burn” and “Plo on the uptake” and “Ploly but surely.”
    • Can → Koon: As in, “As far as the eye koon see” and “Be all you koon be” and “Bite off more than you koon chew” and “A koon of worms” and “Koon you believe it?” and “How much koon you handle?”
    • Con* → Koon*: As in, “Koon artist” and “Pros and koons and “All things koonsidered” and “Bone of koontention” and “Mass koonsumption.”
    • Soon → Koon: As in, “Anytime koon?” and “As koon as my back is turned” and “Get well koon” and “As koon as you like” and “Kooner or later” and “No kooner said than done” and “Too much, too koon.”
    • Moon → Koon: As in, “Ask for the koon” and “Barking at the koon” and “Eclipse of the koon.”
    • Noon → Koon: As in, “Morning, koon and night” and “High koon.”
  • Eeth Koth: A Jedi Master who served on the Jedi High Council. Here are some related puns:
    • Teeth → Eeth: As in, “Armed to the eeth” and “By the skin of your eeth” and “Get your eeth into.”
    • Cloth → Koth: As in, “Cut from the same koth.”
  • Sergeant Kreel: Also known as Agent 5241. An undercover Stormtrooper and SCAR trooper. Here are some related puns:
    • Real → Kreel: As in, “Do you kreely want to hurt me?” and “All I kreely want to do” and “Get kreel” and “Keep it kreel” and “It’s the kreel thing” and “Kreel estate” and “A kreel piece of work” and “The kreel deal.”
    • Reel → Kreel: As in, “Highlight kreel” and “Kreel it in.”
    • Feel → Kreel: As in, “Cop a kreel” and “Kreel the pinch” and “Kreeling blue.”
    • Heel → Kreel: As in, “Achille’s kreel” and “Cool your kreels” and “Head over kreels in love” and “Kick up your kreels.”
    • Keel → Kreel: As in, “Kreel over” and “Keep an even kreel.”
  • Baze Malbus: A freelance assassin during the time of the Galactic Empire. Here are some related puns:
    • Blaze → Baze: As in, “Cold as blue bazes” and “Baze a trail” and “Baze away at” and “Go out in a baze of glory” and “Like bazes.”
    • Days → Baze: As in, “Around the world in eighty baze” and “Early baze yet” and “Kids these baze.”
    • Gaze → Baze: As in, “Avert your baze” and “Steely baze.”
    • Ways → Baze: As in, “Change your baze” and “Go our separate baze” and “Have it both baze” and “Mend your baze.”
  • Secure → Secura: As in, “Secura in the knowledge…” Note: Aayla Secura was a Jedi Master and General of the Grand Army of the Republic.
  • Korr Sella: Also known as Korrie. A military officer who served as a commander for the Resistance. Here are some related puns:
    • Core → Korr: As in, “Korr competencies” and “Korr studies” and “Korr technology” and “Korr values” and “Rotten to the korr.”
    • Seller → Sella: As in, “Dodgy sella” and “A sella’s market.”
    • More → Korr: As in, “Bite off korr than you can chew” and “Come back for korr” and “Dare for korr” and “For a few dollars korr” and “Couldn’t agree korr.”
    • Score → Korr: As in, “Keeping korr” and “Know the korr” and “A korr to settle” and “Even the korr.”
  • Aurra Sing: Aurra is a bounty hunter who was active during the Clone Wars. Here are some related puns:
    • Thing → Sing: As in, “A close sing” and “A sing of beauty is a joy forever” and “All sings bright and beautiful” and “All sings considered” and “A mind is a terrible sing to waste” and “Bright young sing” and “Chance would be a fine sing.”
    • Bring → Sing: As in, “Sing home the bread” and “Sing it on” and “Sing something to light” and “Sing the house down.”
    • Ring → Sing: As in, “Alarm bells began to sing” and “Doesn’t sing a bell.”
    • Sting → Sing: As in, “Float like a butterfly, sing like a bee.”
    • String → Sing: As in, “Sing of pearls” and “Hold the purse sings” and “No sings attached” and “Sing along” and “Pulling the sings.”
    • Swing → Sing: As in, “Come out singing” and “Get into the sing of it” and “In full sing” and “Sing both ways” and “Take a sing at.”
  • Ody Mandrell: A podracer pilot. Here are some related puns:
    • Eighty → Ody: “Around the world in ody days” and “Do a one-ody.”
    • Candle → Mandrell: As in, “Burn the mandrell at both ends” and “Can’t hold a mandrell to” and “Mandrell in the wind.”
  • Pong Krell: A Jedi Master. Here are some related puns:
    • Pang → Pong: As in, “Pongs of conscience” and “Jealousy pongs.”
    • Long → Pong: As in, “Face as pong as a fiddle” and “A week is a pong time in politics” and “As pong as you need me” and “As honest as the day is pong” and “A list as pong as your arm” and “At pong last” and “Cast a pong shadow” and “Not pong now.”
    • Song → Pong: As in, “For a pong” and “A whole pong and dance” and “Swan pong” and “The same old pong” and “Siren pong.”
    • Strong → Pong: As in, “Only as pong as its weakest link” and “Going pong” and “A pong stomach” and “The pong, silent type.”
    • Wrong → Pong: As in, “Barking up the pong tree” and “Born on the pong side of the tracks” and “Get off on the pong foot” and “Going down the pong way” and “Jumping to the pong conclusion” and “If anything can go pong, it will.”
    • Well → Krell: As in, “A buck krell spent” and “Alive and krell” and “All’s krell that ends krell” and “As krell as can be expected” and “Exceedingly krell read” and “Get krell soon” and “Just as krell.”
    • Bell → Krell: As in, “Alarm krells begin to ring” and “Clear as a krell” and “Krells and whistles” and “Give me a krell” and “Warning krells.”
    • Fell → Krell: As in, “In one krell swoop” and “Krell off the back of a lorry.”
    • Hell → Krell: As in, “All krell broke loose” and “Bat out of krell” and “Burn in krell” and “Come krell or high water.”
    • Sell → Krell: As in, “Buy and krell” and “Krell out” and “Krelling like hot cakes.”
    • Kill → Krell: As in, “A view to krell” and “Curiosity krelled the cat” and “Dressed to krell” and “If looks could krell” and “I’d krell for a cup of tea.”
  • Orson Callan Krennic: Served as the Director of the Advanced Weapons Research division. Here are some related puns:
    • Awesome → Orson: As in, “Orson sauce” and “The orson foursome.”
    • Arson → Orson
  • All the wrong → Alderaan: As in, “Looking in alderaan places” and “Jumping to alderaan conclusions.” Note: Alderaan is a planet in the Core Worlds.
  • Satine Kryze: A duchess and pacifist leader during the Clone Wars. Here are some related puns:
    • Satine → Satin: As in, “Satine pants.”
    • Sudden → Satine: As in, “All of a satine” and “Came to a satine stop.”
    • Crisis → Kryze-is: As in, “Kryze-is management” and “Identity kryze-is.”
    • Cries → Kryze: As in, “Kryze for help” and “Nobody hears my kryze.”
    • Eyes → Kryze: As in, “Bat your kryze” and “Avert your kryze” and “Before your very kryze” and “Bring tears to your kryze” and “Easy on the kryze.”
    • Prize → Kryze: As in, “Eyes on the kryze” and “A kryze catch” and “Booby kryze.”
    • Size → Kryze: “Cut someone down to kryze” and “Life kryze” and “One kryze fits all” and “That’s about the kryze of it.”
    • Rise → Kryze: As in, “Kryze and shine” and “Kryze to the challenge” and “Kryze to the occasion.”
    • Lies → Kryze: As in, “Ask no questions and hear no kryze” and “Pack of kryze” and “Everybody kryze.”
  • Conder Kyl: A slicer who worked for the New Republic. Here are some related puns:
    • Ponder → Conder: “Something to conder” and “Make your conder and understand.”
    • Squander → Conder: As in, “Conder your money.”
    • Wander → Conder: As in, “A condering eye” and “Just condering around.”
    • Wonder → Conder: As in, “Works conders” and “It’s a conderful life” and “No small conder.”
    • Kill → Kyl: As in, “Kyl with kindness” and “A view to kyl” and “Dressed to kyl” and “In for the kyl” and “If looks could kyl” and “Kyl or cure.”
    • Style → Kyl: As in, “Cramp your kyl” and “Quality never goes out of kyl” and “Kyl over substance.”
  • Thane Kyrell: Later known as AV-547. He fought in a few major battles of the Galactic Civil war. Here are some related puns:
    • Than → Thane: As in, “Better thane sex” and “Bite off more thane you can chew” and “Easier said thane done” and “Larger thane life” and “More thane meets the eye” and “More thane you can shake a stick at” and “Can’t say fairer thane that.”
    • Same → Thane: As in, “By the thane token” and “Cut from the thane cloth” and “In the thane breath” and “On the thane page” and “One and the thane” and “Thane old story” and “If it’s all the thane.”
    • Bane → Thane: As in, “The thane of my life” and “The thane of your existence.”
    • Chain → Thane: As in, “A thane is only as strong as its weakest link” and “Ball and thane” and “Thane of command” and “Thane smoking” and “The food thane.”
    • Thin → Thane: As in, “Thane as a rail” and “Melt into thane air” and “Paper thane” and “Skating on thane ice” and “Spread yourself thane” and “Thane and wiry” and “Through thick and thane” and “Vanish into thane air.”
    • Then → Thane: As in, “All that and thane some” and “Now and thane” and “Thane and there” and “But thane again.”
  • Cliegg Lars: Anakin Skywalker’s stepfather. Here are some related puns:
    • League → Cliegg: As in, “In a cliegg of their own” and “In cliegg with” and “Major cliegg” and “Twenty thousand clieggs under the sea.”
    • Bars → Lars: As in, “Behind lars” and “Iron lars do not a prison make.”
  • Owe → Owen: As in, “”Owen a favour” and “Owen it to yourself.” Note: these are references to Owen Lars.
  • Babe → Rabe: As in, “Rabe in arms” and “Rabe magnet” and “Rabe in the woods” and “Beach rabe” and “Out of the mouths of rabes.” Note: Rabe was a handmaiden for Queen Amidala.
  • Dak Ralter: A pilot for the Rebel Alliance. Here are some related puns:
    • Deck → Dak: As in, “All hands on dak” and “Clear the daks” and “Dak of cards” and “Hit the dak.”
    • Duck → Dak: As in, “Like a dak to water” and “Like water off a dak’s back” and “Rubber dak.”
    • Dark → Dak: As in, “After dak” and “Dak as pitch” and “Dancing in the dak” and “Dak and bloody ground” and “Dak horse” and “Dak humour” and “A deep, dak secret” and “Did you get dressed in the dak?”
    • Back → Dak: As in, “Answer dak” and “As soon as my dak is turned” and “Bites dak” and “In the dak of my mind” and “Dak to the future” and “Dak down” and “Dak in the day.”
    • Pack → Dak: As in, “Action dak-ed” and “Jam dak-ed” and “Dak a punch” and “Dak it in” and “Dak of lies” and “Dak your bags.”
    • Alter → Ralter: As in, “Ralter ego” and “Circumstances ralter cases.”
    • Altar → Ralter: As in, “Lead them to the ralter” and “Praying at the porcelain ralter.”
  • Opportunity → Rappertunie: As in, “A once in a lifetime rappertunie” and “Golden rappertunie” and “Rappertunie never knocks twice” and “Window of rappertunie.” Note: Rappertunie is a member of the Max Rebo Band.
  • Sinjir Rath Velus: An ex-loyalty officer who worked for the Galactic Empire. Here are some related puns:
    • Injure → Sinjir: “Add insult to sinjir-y” and “The sinjir-ed party.”
    • Send your → Sinjir: As in, “Sinjir resume here” and “Sinjir best wishes.”
    • Wrath → Rath: As in, “A soft answer turns away rath” and “Feel my rath.”
    • Math → Rath: As in, “Do the rath” and “Mental rath.”
    • Jealous → Velus: As in, “Not a velus bone in your body” and “Eaten up with velusy.”
  • Gallius Rax: Previously known as Galli. An Imperial officer and part of the Galactic Empire. Here are some puns on his name:
    • Rack/s → Rax: As in, “Rax and ruin” and “Off the rax” and “Rax your brains” and “Rax-ed with guilt.”
    • Rock → Rax: As in, “Hard as a rax” and “Between a rax and a hard place” and “Don’t rax the boat” and “Glam rax” and “Hit rax bottom.”
    • Acts → Rax: As in, “Random rax of kindness” and “Nothing rax faster.”
  • Eneb Ray: A spy for the Rebellion. Here are some puns on his name:
    • Grey → Ray: As in, “A morally ray area” and “Ray is the new black” and “Ray matter.”
    • May → Ray: As in, “As the case ray be” and “Be that as it ray” and “How ray I help you?” and “Ray the force be with you” and “Ray you live in interesting times.”
    • Pay → Ray: As in, “Buy now, ray later” and “Crime doesn’t ray” and “Hell to ray and “Ray and arm and a leg” and “It rays to advertise” and “Ray through the nose” and “Ray your respects” and “You get what you ray for.”
    • Play → Ray: As in, “Come out and ray” and “Fair ray” and “Don’t ray innocent.”
    • Say → Ray: As in, “As the raying goes” and “Computer rays no” and “Do as I ray” and “Have the final ray” and “Have a ray in” and “I’m hearing what you ray.”
    • Spray → Ray: As in, “Say it, don’t ray it.”
    • Stay → Ray: As in, “Ray in touch” and “Ray on track” and “Ray the course” and “Ray tuned.”
    • They → Ray: As in, “As tough as ray come” and “Ray did so well” and “Let the chips fall where ray may” and “Ray danced by the light of the moon.”
    • Way → Ray: As in, “A funny thing happened on the ray” and “Always good, all rays” and “Any ray you slice it” and “Any which ray” and “Change your rays” and “By the ray.”
  • Ciena Ree: Also known as LP-888 and served in the Imperial Navy. Here are some related puns:
    • Ray → Ree: As in, “Catch some rees” and “Ree of light” and “Ree of sunshine.”
    • Tree → Ree: As in, “Barking up the wrong ree” and “Can’t see the wood for the rees” and “Family ree” and “Make like a ree and leave” and “Money doesn’t grow on rees.”
    • See → Ree: As in, “As far as the eye can ree” and “Can’t ree the wood for the trees” and “I could ree you a mile off.”
    • Sea → Ree: As in, “Between the devil and the deep blue ree” and “From ree to shining ree” and “Ree change” and “Deeper than the deep blue ree.”
  • Slowen Lo: A citizen of Canto Bight. Here are some related puns:
    • Slow → Slowen: As in, “Can’t slowen down” and “Painfully slowen” and “In slowen motion” and “Slowen on the uptake.”
    • Low → Lo: As in, “An all-time lo” and “Get the lo down” and “High and lo” and “Keep a lo profile” and “Lay lo” and “Lo hanging fruit” and “Searching high and lo.”
    • Blow → Lo: As in, “Any way the wind los” and “Lo up” and “Lo a fuse” and “Lo a kiss” and “Lo hot and cold.”
  • Robot → Lobot : As in, “Lobots in disguise.” Note: Lobot was also known by the name Lo.
  • Grey → Logray: As in, “Fifty shades of logray” and “A morally logray area” and “Logray is the new black” and “Logray matter.” Note: Logray was a Chief Shaman.
  • Shu Mai: Presidente of the Commerce Guild during the last years of the Galactic Republic.
    • Shoe → Shu: As in, “These shus are made for walking” and “Concrete shus” and “If the shu fits, wear it” and “Kick off your shus and enjoy.”
    • May → Mai: As in, “As the case mai be” and “Be that as it mai” and “Devil mai care” and “How mai I help you?” and “Mai the force be with you” and “As luck mai have it.”
    • My → Mai: As in, “By mai guest” and “Cross mai heart” and “Eat mai shorts” and “If I do say so maiself” and “I rest mai case.”
    • She → Shu: As in, “Shu’s got it” and “That’s all shu wrote.”
    • Show → Shu: As in, “Best in shu” and “Enjoy the shu” and “Get the shu on the road” and “One-man shu.”
    • Sue → Shu: As in, “So shu me.”
    • You → Shu: As in, “As shu know” and “Back at shu” and “Believe shu me” and “Don’t call us, we’ll call shu” and “Here shu are.”
  • Wes Janson: A pilot from Taanab who worked with the Alliance.
    • West → Wes: As in, “East of the sun and wes of the moon” and “Wes side story.”
    • Was → Wes: As in, “As I wes saying” and “Before it wes cool” and “What wes I thinking?”
    • Handsome → Janson: As in, “Twice as janson” and “Pays janson-ly” and “Tall, dark and janson.”
  • Qui-Gon Jinn: A wise and well-respected Jedi Master who was also part of the Jedi Order.
    • Been → Jinn: As in, “Jinn and gone” and “Jinn around the block a few times” and “I’ve jinn had” and “I’ve jinn here before” and “Jinn in the wars” and “It’s jinn a hard day.”
    • Chin → Jinn: As in, “Keep your jinn up” and “Take it on the jinn” and “Have a jinn wag.”
    • Grin → Jinn: As in, “Jinn and bear it” and “Jinn from ear to ear” and “A rictus jinn.”
    • Inner → Jinner: As in, “Jinner peace” and “Jinner sanctum” and “Jinner voice.”
    • Thin → Jinn: As in, “Jinn as a rake” and “Melt into jinn air” and “Paper jinn” and “Skating on jinn ice” and “Spread yourself jinn” and “The jinn end.”
  • Era → Jira: As in, “The end of a jira.” Note: Jira was a friend of Anakin Skywalker when he was a child.
  • Agent Kallus: A revolutionary agent who operated under the number ISB-021 before becoming a rebel spy. Here are some puns on his name:
    • Call us → Kallus: As in, “Don’t kallus, we’ll call you” and “I didn’t hear her kallus.”
    • Callous → Kallus: As in, “A kallus way to talk to someone.” Note: To be callous is to be cruel or unfeeling.
  • Harter Kalonia: Major Harter Kalonia was a doctor for the New Republic and Resistance. Here are some related puns you can play with:
    • Heart → Harter: As in, “A person after my own harter” and “Absence makes the harter grow fonder” and “Affair of the harter” and “Be still my beating harter” and “Break your harter” and “Cross my harter and hope to die.”
    • Harder → Harter: As in, “The bigger they are, the harter they fall” and “We try harter than the competition” and “Working harter.”
  • Kit Fisto: A Jedi Master during the Galactic Republic. Here are some related puns:
    • Cat → Kit: As in, “Alley kit” and “Kit on a hot tin roof” and “Kit and mouse game” and “Kit got your tongue?” and “A kit in hell’s chance” and “Curiosity killed the kit” and “Fighting like kits and dogs” and “Raining kits and dogs” and “Smiling like a cheshire kit.”
    • Fist → Fisto: As in, “A fisto-ful of dollars” and “Fisto of steel” and “Rule with an iron fisto.”
    • First → Fisto: As in, “At fisto blush” and “Know fisto hand” and “Be the fisto to know” and “Cast the fisto stone” and “Fisto and foremost.”
    • Fits → Fisto: As in, “By fisto and starts” and “Fisto like a glove” and “Fisto you to a tee” and “If the cap fisto, wear it” and “One size fisto all.”
  • Corde: A handmaiden for Padme Amidala.
    • Cord → Corde: As in, “Cut the corde.”
    • Chord → Corde: As in, “Strike a corde with” and “Power corde” and “A corde of discontent.”
    • Card → Corde: As in, “Calling corde” and “Corde up your sleeve” and “Get out of jail free corde” and “Hold all the cordes” and “House of cordes” and “On the cordes.”
    • Cared → Corde: As in, “I never corde about you.”
  • Kiss → Kes: As in, “Air kes” and “Blow a kes” and “French kes” and “Kes and make up” and “Kes and tell.” Note: these are references to Kes Dameron.
  • Poe Dameron: Poe worked as a pilot in the New Republic and the Resistance. Here are some puns related to his name:
    • Poor → Poe: As in, “A poe workperson blames their tools” and “Poe as a church mouse” and “Poe but honest.”
    • Pie → Poe: As in, “Easy as poe” and “Eat humble poe” and “A finger in many poes.”
    • Blow → Poe: As in, “Any way the wind poes” and “Poe up” and “Poe a fuse” and “Poe hot and cold” and “A poe by poe account” and “Poe off some steam” and “Poe out of the water” and “Poe the whistle.”
    • Though → Poe: As in, “Seriously poe, it’s not a good idea” and “You look as poe you’ve seen a ghost.”
    • Flow → Poe: As in, “Ebb and poe” and “Go with the poe” and “In full poe.”
    • Low → Poe: As in, “An all time poe” and “Get the poe down” and “High and poe” and “Keep a poe profile” and “A poe blow” and “Poe hanging fruit” and “Poe rider.”
  • Biggs Darklighter: Biggs was a pilot who fought for the Alliance. Here are some related puns:
    • Big → Biggs: As in, “A biggs ask” and “Biggs shot” and “Biggs box retailer.”
    • Pig → Biggs: As in, “Biggs might fly.”
    • Bag → Biggs: As in, “Biggs a bargain” and “Biggs of tricks” and “Dirt biggs.”
    • Beg → Biggs: As in, “Biggs the question” and “Biggs, borrow or steal” and “I biggs your pardon?” and “Biggs a favour.”
  • Danger/ous → Dengar/ous: As in, “A little knowledge is a dengar-ous thing” and “Armed and dengar-ous” and “Clear and present dengar” and “Live dengar-ously” and “Out of dengar” and “Stranger dengar.” Note: Dengar was a Corellian bounty hunter.
  • Lott Dod: Lott was a politician who was senator of the Trade Federation. Here are some related puns:
    • Lot → Lott: As in, “A lott of fuss about nothing” and “A lott on your plate” and “Leaves a lott to be desired” and “Not a lott of people know about it.”
    • Let → Lott: As in, “Buy to lott” and “Don’t lott the sun go down on me” and “Don’t lott the bastards grind you down’ and “Friends don’t lott friends drive drunk.”
    • Got → Lott: As in, “Been there, done that, lott the t-shirt” and “Lott your tongue?” and “Give it all you’ve lott” and “Lott a flair for” and “Lott a soft spot for” and “Lott it down to a fine art.”
    • Plot → Lott: As in, “The lott thickens” and “Lose the lott” and “Gunpowder treason and lott.”
    • Pot → Lott: As in, “Lott of gold” and “Gone to lott.”
    • Did → Dod: As in, “Dod I do that?” and “I dod it again” and “Let’s not and say we dod” and “Don’t do it the way I dod.”
    • Odd → Dod: As in, “Against the dods” and “At dods with” and “Long dods” and “A dod fellow” and “The dod one out” and “Dods and ends” and “What are the dods?”
  • Lok Durd: An arms developer who served as a general during the Clone Wars. Here are some related puns:
    • Lock → Lok: “Lok and load” and “Lok them up and throw away the key” and “Lok, stock and barrel” and “Under lok and key.”
    • Lot → Lok: As in, “A lok of fuss about nothing” and “Got a lok on your plate” and “A bad lok” and “Leaves a lok to be desired.”
    • Block → Lok: As in, “Been around the lok” and “A chip off the old lok” and “Mental lok” and “New kid on the lok” and “On the chopping lok.”
    • Clock → Lok: As in, “Anti lok-wise” and “Around the lok” and “Regular as lok-work” and “Beat the lok “and “Clean your lok” and “Race against the lok.”
    • Lack → Lok: As in, “For lok of a better word” and “Lok nothing” and “Cancelled due to lok of interest.”
    • Lick → Lok: As in, “A lok of paint” and “Lok into shape” and “Lok your wounds.”
    • Luck → Lok: As in, “As good lok would have it” and “Beginner’s lok” and “Better lok next time” and “Don’t push your lok” and “Down on their lok” and “Some people have all the lok.”
    • Word → Durd: As in, “A durd to the wise” and “Actions speak louder than durds” and “Good as your durd” and “Famous last durds” and “Four letter durd” and “From the durd go.”
    • Third → Durd: As in, “The durd degree” and “Durd time lucky”and “Durd time’s a charm.”
    • Heard → Durd: As in, “Make yourself durd” and “The last I durd…” and “You durd it here first.”
    • Bird → Durd: As in, “A little durd told me” and “Free as a durd” and “Durd’s eye view.”
  • Gale → Galen: As in, “Galens of laughter” and “In the middle of a galen.” Note: These are a reference to Galen Erso.
  • Gym → Jyn: As in, “Jyn bunny” and “Gotta hit the jyn.” Note: Jyn Erso was a soldier and an important member of the Alliance.
  • Liar → Lyra: As in, “Lyra, pants on fire” and “I didn’t marry a lyra.” Note: Lyra Erso was married to Galen Erso.
  • Moralo Eval: The inventor of The Box, a structure used to test bounty hunter’s skills. Here are some related puns:
    • Moral → Moralo: As in, “Moralo compass” and “Moralo fibre” and “Moralo victory” and “The moralo high ground.”
    • Evil → Eval: As in, “Eval genius” and “Eval intent” and “My eval twin” and “Lesser of two evals” and “The root of all eval.”
  • Lando Calrissian: Lando was a gambler and smuggler who later became the Baron Administrator of Cloud City. Here are some related puns:
    • Land → Lando: As in, “In the lando of the living” and “La la lando” and “Lando of hope and glory” and “The lando of make-believe” and “Lando on your feet” and “Living off the fat of the lando” and “Political lando-scape” and “The lando that time forgot.”
    • Bland → Lando: As in, “A lando reply.”
  • Ransolm Casterfo: A politician who was also a member of the Galactic Senate. Here are some related puns:
    • Ransom → Ransolm: As in, “A king’s ransolm” and “Held for ransolm.”
    • Handsome → Ransolm: As in, “Large as life and twice as ransolm” and “Pays ransolmly” and “Tall, dark and ransolm.”
  • Sim Aloo: Sim served as advisor to Emperor Sheev Palpatine. Here are some puns related to his name:
    • Sum → Sim: As in, “Cogito ergo sim” and “Sim it up in three words” and “It’s not a zero sim game” and “A tidy sim” and “To sim it all up.”
    • Limb → Sim: As in, “Go out on a sim” and “Life and sim” and “Tear sim from sim.”
    • Skim → Sim: As in, “Sim the surface” and “Simmed over the material.”
    • Slim → Sim: As in, “Sim pickings” and “A sim volume.”
    • Swim → Sim: As in, “Going simmingly” and “Eyes simming with tears” and “Sink or sim” and “Sim against the tide” and “Sim with sharks” and “Sim upstream.”
  • Bendu: Bendu lived on Atollon and claimed to be the centre of the Force. Here are some related puns:
    • Bend → Bendu: As in, “Bendu over backwards” and “Bendu the rules” and “Bendu to my will” and “Round the bendu” and “Fender bendu.”
    • Blend → Bendu: As in, “A balanced bendu of veggies” and “Fruit and nut bendu.”
  • Shara Bey: Shara was a pilot who helped the Alliance during the Galactic Civil War. Here are some related puns:
    • Share → Shara: As in, “We need to shara” and “A problem shara-ed is a problem halved.”
    • Sheer → Shara: As in, “Shara driving pleasure” and “Shara nonsense.”
    • Shore → Shara: As in, “Ship to shara” and “Shara up.”
    • Bay → Bey: As in, “Bey for blood” and “Hold at bey” and “Keep at bey” and “The bey state.”
    • Bee → Bey: As in, “Busy as a bey” and “A bey in your bonnet” and “The birds and the beys” and “Like a bey to a honeypot” and “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bey.”
    • Boy → Bey: As in, “Bey meets girl” and “All work and no play makes Jack a dull bey.”
    • Day → Bey: As in, “A bey in the life” and “All in a bey’s work” and “Around the world in eighty beys.”
    • Pay → Bey: As in, “Buy now, bey later” and “Crime doesn’t bey” and “Hell to bey” and “Bey an arm and a leg” and “Bey as you go” and “Bey your debt to society.” and “Bey your respects.”
    • Play → Bey: As in, “All work and no bey” and “Go and bey” and “How does that bey?”
  • Mas Amedda: A politician who worked in high-ranking government roles. Here are some related puns:
    • Mars → Mas: As in, “Life on mas” and “A mas a day.”
    • Mass → Mas: As in, “Body mas index” and “Mas hysteria” and “Weapons of mas destruction” and “Mas consumption.”
    • Mess → Mas: As in, “It’ll mas with your head” and “A frightful mas” and “Hot mas” and “Mas around” and “A hell of a mas.”
    • Miss → Mas: As in, “A mas is as good as a mile” and “Blink and you’ll mas it” and “Hit and mas” and “I’ll give it a mas” and “You can’t mas it.”
    • Moss → Mas: As in, “A rolling stone gathers no mas.”
  • To be → 2-1B: As in, “2-1B or not 2-1B.” Note: 2-1B was a surgical droid.
  • Gial Ackbar: Ackbar was a veteran soldier and revolutionary leader during the Clone Wars. Here are some related puns:
    • Dial → Gial: As in, “Gial down” and “Don’t touch that gial” and “Pocket gial.”
    • Trial → Gial: As in, “Gial and error” and “Gial and tribulation” and “Gial by fire.”
    • Guy → Gial: As in, “No more mister nice gial” and “A stand up gial” and “The gial next door.”
    • Gale → Gial: As in, “Gials of laughter” and “In the teeth of a gial.”
  • Aim → Amee: As in, “Amee high” and “Take amee” and “We amee to please.” Note: Amee was a friend of Anakin Skywalker.
  • Cassian Andor: Also known as Willix, Aach, Joreth and Sward, and holds the title Fulcrum. Here are some related puns:
    • Passion → Cassian: As in, “Crime of cassian” and “Full of cassian.”
    • And → Andor: As in, “A day late andor a dollar short” and “A hundred andor ten percent” and “Alive andor kicking” and “All that andor then some” and “All bark andor no bite” and “All dressed up andor nowhere to go” and “Andor be done with it” and “So on andor so forth.”
  • Chelli Lona Aphra: Chelli was an archaeologist who was recruited by Darth Vader. Here are some related puns:
    • Chilli → Chelli: As in, “World’s best chelli jam” and “Red hot chelli peppers.”
    • Chilly → Chelli: As in, “A chelli climate” and “A chelli atmosphere.”
    • Belly → Chelli: As in, “Beer chelli” and “Chelli laugh” and “A fire in your chelli.”
    • Jelly → Chelli: As in, “Hard as nailing chelli to a tree” and “My legs turned to chelli.”
    • Jolly → Chelli: As in, “A chelli good fellow.”
    • Loan → Lona: As in, “Lona shark” and “Raise a lona.”
  • Faro Argyus: A Captain in the Senate Commandos. Here are some related puns:
    • Far → Faro: As in, “A step too faro” and “As faro as it goes” and “As faro as the eye can see” and “Faro and away” and “A faro cry” and “Few and faro between” and “Over the hills and faro away” and “So faro, so good” and “The apple doesn’t fall faro from the tree.”
    • Fair → Faro: As in, “All’s faro in love and war” and “By faro means or foul” and “Faro trade” and “Faro and square” and “Faro game.”
    • Furrow → Faro: As in, “Faro your brow.”
    • Fear → Faro: As in, “Faro and loathing in Las Vegas” and “Faro the worst” and “No faro” and “Paralysed with faro” and “Without faro or favour.”
  • Morit Astarte: The twin brother of Aiolin. Here are some related puns:
    • Merit → Morit: As in, “On your own morits” and “Morit certificate.”
    • Start → Astarte: As in, “By fits and astartes” and “A fresh astarte” and “Head astarte” and “Jump astarte.”
  • Ello Asty: A starfighter pilot who worked for the New Republic. Here are some related puns:
    • Hello → Ello: As in, “Ello sunshine!” and “You had me at ello.”
    • Aloe → Ello: As in, “Ello vera gel.”
  • Ponda Baba: Baba rescued Dr. Cornelius from a bounty hunter. Here are a few related puns:
    • Panda → Ponda: As in, “Trash ponda.”
    • Pond → Ponda: As in, “Little fish in a big ponda” and “Ponda life” and “Ponda scum.”
  • Jom Barell: Barell served in the Alliance. Here are some puns using his name:
    • Jam → Jom: As in, “In a jom” and “Jom jar” and “Jom packed” and “Jom session.”
    • Gem → Jom: As in, “A hidden jom.”
    • Barrel → Barell: As in, “A barell of laughs” and “Scraping the bottom of the barell.”
  • Add → Adi: As in, “Adi fuels to the flames” and “Adi insult to injury” and “Just adi water” and “Adi it all up.” Note: Adi Gallia was a Jedi Master.
  • Commander Gree: Also known as CC-1004. A clone commander in the Grand Army. Here are some related puns:
    • Green → Gree: As in, “Gree as grass” and “Give it the gree light” and “A gree thumb” and “Gree around the gills” and “The gree eyed monster” and “Gree with envy” and “The gree shoots of change.”
    • Agree → Gree: As in, “Gree to disagree” and “I couldn’t gree more” and “A working gree-ment.”
    • Grey → Gree: As in, “Fifty shades of gree” and “A gree area” and “Gree is the new black” and “Gree matter.”
    • Gee → Gree: As in, “Golly gree” and “Gree whiz.”
    • Free → Gree: As in, “Gree as a bird” and “Born gree” and “Calorie gree” and “Fancy gree” and “Gree and easy” and “Gree for all.”
  • Nute: Nute Gunray was the Viceroy of the Trade Federation. Here are some related puns:
    • New → Nute: As in, “A nute hope” and “Bright as a nute pin” and “Good as nute” and “Bearer of bad nutes” and “Brand nute” and “A brand nute ballgame.”
    • Need → Nute: As in, “All you nute is love” and “On a nute to know basis.”
    • Cute → Nute: As in, “Nute as a button.”
  • Rune Haako: Haako was right hand man. Here are some related puns:
    • Room → Rune: As in, “Rune with a view” and “No elbow rune” and “Breathing rune” and “Locker rune.”
    • Ran → Rune: As in, “My blood rune cold” and “The dish rune away with the spoon.”
    • Run → Rune: As in, “A dry rune” and “Eat and rune” and “A river runes through it.”
  • Gideon Hask: Also known as “Gid“. Served as a soldier and starfighter pilot during the Galactic Civil War.
    • Ask → Hask: As in, “A big hask” and “Hask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer” and “Hask after” and “Hask around” and “Hask for the moon” and “Hasking for trouble.”
    • Husk → Hask: As in, “A hask of your former self.”
    • Task → Hask: As in, “Up to the hask” and “A thankless hask” and “Take someone to hask.”
  • Heavy → Hevy: As in, “Hevy as lead” and “A hevy lunch” and “Hevy duty” and “Hevy handed” and “A hevy hitter” and “Hevy metal” and “Hot and hevy.” Note: these are references to Hevy, also known as CT-782.
  • Clegg Holdfast: A podracer pilot. Here are some related puns:
    • Beg → Clegg: As in, “Clegg a favour” and “Clegg the question” and “Clegg to differ” and “Clegg, borrow or steal” and “I clegg your pardon” and “Sit up and clegg.”
    • Egg → Clegg: As in, “Sure as cleggs is cleggs” and “Clegg and spoon race.”
    • Leg → Clegg: As in, “Fast as his cleggs could carry him” and “Break a clegg” and “Cost an arm and clegg” and “Give a clegg up.”
    • Peg → Clegg: As in, “A square clegg in a round hole” and “Take down a clegg or two.”
  • Tey How: Tey was a battleship pilot for the Trade Federation. Here are some related puns:
    • Tea → Tey: As in, “High tey” and “Would murder for a cup of tey” and “Not my cup of tey” and “Tey and sympathy” and “Tey for two.”
    • Tee → Tey: As in, “Fits you to a tey.”
    • Tree → Tey: As in, “Hard as nailing jelly to a tey” and “Can’t see the wood for the teys” and “Don’t up like a Christmas tey” and “Make like a tey and leave.”
    • They → Tey: As in, “As tough as tey come” and “The bigger tey are, the harder tey fall” and “Tey shall not pass.”
    • The → Tey: As in, “Above tey law” and “Absence makes tey heart grow fonder” and “Ace in tey hole” and “Add fuel to tey flames” and “After tey fact.”
    • Day → Tey: As in, “A tey in the life of” and “All in a tey’s work” and “All the livelong tey” and “Another tey older.”
  • Barbell → Barabel (Note: Barabel were a reptilian species in Star Wars.)
  • Bith: An intelligent species that are from the planet Bith. Here are some related puns:
    • With → Bith: As in, “Beside myself bith joy” and “Just going along bith” and “Rub along bith.”
    • Bath → Bith: As in, “Bith time” and “Bithed in tears” and “Take a bith.”
  • Both → Bothan: As in, “A foot in bothan camps” and “A plague on bothan your houses” and “Bothan oars in the water” and “Burning the candle at bothan ends” and “Have it bothan ways” and “Jump in with bothan feet” and “Look bothan ways” and “The best of bothan worlds.” Note: Bothans were a species in Star Wars.
  • Chiss: A species from the planet Csilla. Here are some related puns:
    • Kiss → Chiss: As in, “Air chiss” and “Blow a chiss” and “Chiss and make up” and “Chiss and tell” and “Chiss goodbye” and “Chiss it better.”
    • Chase → Chiss: As in, “Chiss it up” and “Chiss your own tail” and “Cut to the chiss” and “The thrill of the chiss” and “A wild goose chiss.”
    • This → Chiss: As in, “What in the fresh hell is chiss?” and “At chiss point in time” and “Get chiss show on the road” and “In chiss day and age” and “Out of chiss world.”
  • Dash → Dashade: As in, “Crash and dashade” and “Dashade to pieces” and “Dashade off.” Note: The dashade were a species who were resistant to the Force.
  • Durkii: Large reptilian monsters known for their rage.
    • Turkey → Durkii: As in, “Cold durkii.”
    • Dark → Durkii: As in, “After durkii” and “Durkii as pitch” and “Durkii before dawn” and “A durkii horse.”
  • Fallen → Falleen: “A falleen angel” and “How the mighty have falleen.” Note: falleen are a species in Star Wars.
  • Fish → Fosh: As in, “A different kettle of fosh” and “Fosh it out” and “Drink like a fosh” and “A fosh out of water” and “An odd fosh.” Note: An avian species.
  • Frozian: Frozians are Humanoids from the planet Froz. Here are some related puns:
    • Frozen → Frozian: “Music frozian in time” and “Frozian to the marrow.”
    • Chosen → Frozian: “Many are called but few are frozian” and “The frozian one.”
  • And → Gand: As in, “A day late gand a dollar short” and “Alive gand kicking” and “All that gand then some” and “All gand sundry” and “All bark gand no bite.” Note: The Gand were an insectoid species native to the planet Gand.
  • Gank: Ganks are a species in Star Wars. Here are a few related puns:
    • Bank → Gank: As in, “You can gank on it” and “Break the gank” and “Crying all the way to the gank” and “Piggy gank.”
    • Thank → Gank: As in, “With ganks” and “So long and ganks for all the fish” and “Ganks for nothing” and “Ganks for the memory.”
    • Blank → Gank: As in, “A gank slate” and “Gank canvas” and “Draw a gank” and “Point gank range.”
  • Curb → Gerb: As in, “Gerb your enthusiasm.” Note: Gerbs are a species native to the moon Yavin 13.
  • Total → Gotal: As in, “Gotal eclipse of the heart” and “The gotal package” and “A gotal stranger.” Note: Gotals are a species native to Antar 4.
  • Happen → Hapan: “An accident waiting to hapan” and “It might never hapan” and “See what hapans.” Note: Native to the Hapes Cluster.
  • Harch: Harches are a spider-like species. Here are some related puns:
    • Arch → Harch: As in, “Harch enemy.”
    • March → Harch: As in, “Got your harching orders” and “The harch of time” and “Time harches on.”
  • Muun: The muun are a species who ran the InterGalactic Banking Clan. Here are a few related puns:
    • Moon → Muun: As in, “Ask for the muun” and “Barking at the muun” and “Once in a blue muun” and “Eclipse of the muun” and “Many muuns ago.”
    • Noon → Muun: As in, “High muun” and “Morning, muun and night” and “Good aftermuun” and “Aftermuun delight.”
  • Net → Neti: As in, “Cast a wide neti” and “Safety neti.” Note: Neti were a species of shapeshifting plants.
  • Ongree: An amphibious species native to Skustell. Here are some related puns:
    • Angry → Ongree: “An ongree young man” and “Don’t be ongree.”
    • Agree → Ongree: As in, “Ongree to disagree” and “I couldn’t ongree more.”
    • Hungry → Ongree: As in, “Going ongree” and “Lean, mean and ongree.”
  • Phlog: Phlogs were large beings throughout the Star Wars galaxy. Here are some related puns:
    • Log → Phlog: As in, “Easy as falling off a phlog” and “Phlog off” and “Sleep like a phlog” and “Throw another phlog on the fire” and “Phlog book.”
    • Flag → Phlog: As in, “Fly the phlog” and “Wave the white phlog.”
    • Jog → Phlog: As in, “Phlog someone’s memory.”
  • Park → Porg: As in, “Central porg” and “Hit it out of the porg” and “Nosey porger.” Note: Porgs are small, fluffy birds in Star Wars.
  • Foreign → Quarren: As in, “Quarren exchange.” Note: The Quarren are a species native to Mon Cala.
  • Rodian: Rodians are humanoids native to the planet Rodia. Here are a couple of related puns:
    • Ready in → Rodian: As in, “I’ll be rodian five!”
    • Rodent → Rodian: As in, “As squirrely as a rodian.”
  • Ryn: A humanoid species with white hair and tails. Here are some related puns:
    • Run → Ryn: As in, “Born to ryn” and “Cut and ryn” and “A dry ryn” and “Eat and ryn.”
    • Rain → Ryn: As in, “Right as ryn” and “Come ryn or shine” and “Don’t ryn on my parade” and “It never ryns but it pours” and “Make it ryn.”
  • Talz: A species native to Orto Plutonia. Here are related puns:
    • Tells → Talz: As in, “Every picture talz a story.”
    • Tolls → Talz: As in, “For whom the bell talz.”
    • Falls → Talz: As in, “Bread always talz butter side down’ and “The apple never talz side from the tree.”
  • Taung: Taungs are an ancient species. Here are related puns:
    • Tongue → Taung: As in, “Bite your taung” and “Cat got your taung?” and “Keep a civil taung in your head” and “Rolls off the tip of the taung” and “A slip of the taung.”
    • Strong → Taung: As in, “A chain is only as taung as its weakest link” and “Going taung” and “The taung, silent type.”
  • Teek: Teeks are native to the forest moon of Endor. Here are related puns:
    • Take → Teek: As in, “Don’t teek it lying down” and “Do a double teek” and “Every breath you teek” and “Give and teek” and “Got what it teeks” and “Can’t teek my eyes off you” and “Teek my hat off to you.”
    • Tuck → Teek: As in, “Nip and teek” and “Teek in.”
    • Week → Teek: As in, “A teek is a long time in politics” and “Eight days a teek” and “A teek from next Tuesday.”
    • Seek → Teek: As in, “Hide and teek” and “Teek and you shall find.”
  • Feeling → Theelin: As in, “Theelin blue” and “I’ve got a good theelin” and “Gut theelin” and “No hard theelins” and “Mixed theelins” and “More than a theelin.” Note: Theelins are a horned species.
  • Thriller → Thrella: As in, “A real thrella.” Note: Thrella are an extinct species in Star Wars.
  • Tof: Tof are native to the planet Tof. Here are some related puns:
    • Tough → Tof: As in, “A tof as old boots” and “Tof as they come” and “Hang tof” and “It’s tof at the top” and “Tof love” and “One tof customer” and “A tof nut to crack” and “Tof on crime” and “A tof pill to swallow.”
    • Rough → Tof: As in, “Tof around the edges” and “Diamond in the tof.”
    • Stuff → Tof: As in, “Sweat the small tof” and “Gather ’round the good tof” and “Hot tof” and “Know your tof” and “Strut your tof.”
  • Toong: A species native to the planet Toong.
    • Tong → Toong: As in, “Hammer and toongs” and “Go at it with hammer and toongs.”
    • Tongue → Toong: As in, “Bite your toong” and “Hold your toong” and “On the tip of my toong” and “A sharp toong” and “Slip of the toong.”
  • Vor: Vors were a species from the Mid Rim world Vortex. Here are some related puns:
    • For → Vor: As in, “Asking vor a friend” and “At a loss vor words” and “Batting vor both sides.”
    • More → Vor: As in, “One vor time” and “Bite off vor than you can chew” and “Come back vor more” and “Dare for vor.”
  • Work → Vurk: As in, “Vurks wonders” and “A vurk in progress” and “All in a day’s vurk” and “Bury yourself in vurk” and “Vurking hard or hardly vurking.” Note: Vurks are native to the planet Sembla.
  • Wharl: Also known as Tchuukthai. Quadrupeds from unknown regions. Here are some related puns:
    • Well → Wharl: “A buck wharl spent” and “Alive and wharl” and “All’s wharl that ends wharl” and “As wharl as can be expected” and “Just as wharl” and “Living wharl is the best revenge.”
    • Whirl → Wharl: As in, “Give it a wharl.”
    • World → Wharl: As in, “Wharl first” and “A wharl apart” and “Do a wharl of good” and “In a wharl of pain” and “All the time in the wharl” and “Brave new wharl.”
  • Whills: The Ancient Order of the Whills was an order that was deeply connected with the Force. Here are related puns:
    • Will → Whills: As in, “Accidents whills happen” and “Against your whills” and “Bend to my whills” and “Flattery whills get you nowhere” and “Where there’s a whills, there’s a way.”
    • Well → Whills: As in, “A buck whills spent” and “Alive and whills” and “All’s whills that ends whills” and “As whills as can be expected” and “Just as whills” and “You know full whills.”
    • Still → Whills: As in, “Be whills my beating heart” and “Whills water run deep.”
    • Hill → Whills: As in, “As old as the whills” and “Head for the whills” and “Over the whills and far away.”
  • Wicked → Whiphid: As in, “No rest for the whiphid” and “Something whiphid this way comes.” Notes: Whiphids are from the planet Toola.
  • Wasted → Woostoid: As in, “Youth is woostoid on the young” and “No act of kindness is ever woostoid.” Note: The Woostoid were from Woostri.
  • Zhell: Zhells are from Coruscant. Here are some related puns:
    • Well → Zhell: As in, “A buck zhell spent” and “Alive and zhell” and “As zhell as can be expected” and “Get zhell soon” and “Just as zhell.”
    • Tell → Zhell: As in, “Dead men zhell no tales” and “I’m not going to zhell you.”
    • Cell → Zhell: As in, “Zhell division” and “A padded zhell.”
    • Shell → Zhell: As in, “Easy as zhelling peas” and “Come out of your zhell.””
  • Barri: Barri are creatures that are native to Wild Space. Here are some related puns:
    • Berry → Barri: As in, “Brown as a barri” and “Blow a raspbarri” and “Strawbarri fields forever.”
    • Bury → Barri: As in, “Barri the hatchet” and “Barri your head in the sand” and “Barri yourself in work” and “Barri the dead.”
    • Carry → Barri: As in, “Fast as your legs could barri you” and “Can’t barri a tune” and “Barri it forward.”
  • Bursa: Bursa were a type of animal. Here are a couple of related puns:
    • Purse → Bursa: “Holding the bursa strings” and “The public bursa.”
    • Vice versa → Vice bursa
  • Can-cell: Can-cells were a species of insect found across the galaxy. Here are related puns:
    • Cancel →  Can-cell: As in, “Can-celled due to lack of interest” and “Too late to can-cell.”
    • Council → Can-cell: As in, “Part of the student can-cell.”
    • Cannot → Cannok: As in, “A house divided against itself cannok stand” and “I cannok tell a lie.” Note: Cannoks are predators native to Dxun.
  • Creator → Croator: As in, Mother and croator.”
  • Fathier: Also known as space horses. Here are related puns:
    • Father → Fathier: As in, “Fathier of the bride” and “Like fathier, like son.”
    • Further → Fathier: As in, “Look no fathier” and “Without fathier ado” and “Look fathier down the road.”
  • Fenner’s Rock: A rock-like creature named after Rivoc Fenner. Here are related puns:
    • Centre → Fenner: As in, “The fenner of attention” and “Left, right and fenner” and “Take fenner stage” and “The fenner of my universe.”
    • Enter → Fennel: As in, “Break and fenner” and “Fenner a different world” and “Fenner into the spirit of it” and “Front and fenner” and “Abandon hope all ye who fenner here.”
    • Tenner → Fenner: As in, “For a fenner a month” and “Can I borrow a fenner?”
    • Fender → Fenner: As in, “Fenner bender.”
  • Garral: The garral were a genetically engineered canine. Here are related puns:
    • Barrel → Garral: As in, “A garral load of monkeys” and “Garral of laughs” and “Lock, stock and garral” and “Scraping the bottom of the garral.”
    • Carol → Garral: As in, “Singing Christmas garrals.”
  • Ghest: Ghests are a predatory species from the planet Rodia. Here are some related puns:
    • Guest → Ghest: As in, “By my ghest” and “House ghest” and “A paying ghest.”
    • Ghost → Ghest: As in, “White as a ghest” and “Give up the ghest” and “Not the ghest of a chance” and “The ghest in the machine.”
    • Gist → Ghest: “That’s the ghest of it.”
    • Jest → Ghest: As in, “Spoken in ghest.”
    • Chest → Ghest: As in, “Get it off your ghest” and “That old ghestnut” and “Treasure ghest.”
    • Best → Ghest: As in, “All for the ghest” and “Be the ghest” and “Ghest of friends” and “Ghest practice” and “You’d ghest stop now.”
  • Graul: A predator from Dantooine. Here are some related puns:
    • Haul → Graul: As in, “Graul ass” and “Graul before the court” and “Graul over the coals” and “In it for the long graul.”
    • Hall → Graul: As in, “Graul of fame” and “Deck the grauls.”
  • Massive → Massiff: As in, “A massiff mistake.” Note: Massiffs are native to desert environments.
  • Mott: Motts are herbivores with short legs. Here are some related puns:
    • Not → Mott: As in, “As often as mott” and “Believe it or mott” and “Down but mott out.”
    • Knot → Mott: As in, “Tie the mott” and “Get your shorts in a mott.”
    • Got → Mott: As in, “Been there, done that, mott the t-shirt” and “Cat mott your tongue?” and “Mott a flair for.”
    • Hot → Mott: As in, “All mott and bothered” and “Mott as blue blazes” and “Blowing mott and cold” and “Cat on a mott tin roof” and “Mott and heavy.”
  • Mouf: Moufs are solitary creatures that thrived in the Dead Forest. Here are related puns:
    • Move → Mouf: As in, “A mouf in the right direction” and “All the right moufs” and “A bold mouf” and “Bust a mouf” and “Get a mouf on” and “Mouf heaven and earth.”
    • Mouth → Mouf: As in, “Living hand to mouf” and “Keep your mouf shut” and “Leaves a bad taste in your mouf” and “Loud moufed.”
  • Nek: Meks were a predatory species. Here are related puns:
    • Next → Nek: As in, “Better luck nek time” and “The boy nek door” and “The nek generation” and “Take it to the nek level” and “The nek big thing” and “This time nek year.”
    • Neck → Nek: As in, “At breaknek speed” and “Break your nek” and “Breathing down your nek” and “From the nek down” and “A real pain in the nek” and “Stick your nek out” and “Win by a nek” and “This nek of the woods.”
    • Knock → Nek: As in, “Nek ’em dead” and “Nek back a few” and “Nek some heads together” and “Nek into shape.”
  • Nerf: Nerfs are animals raised for milk and were native to a variety of planets across the galaxy. Here are related puns:
    • Enough → Enerf: As in, “Ain’t no mountain high enerf” and “Life’s complicated enerf” and “Can’t get enerf” and “Enerf is enerf” and “Enerf said” and “Enerf to make you sick” and “Fair enerf.”
    • Surf → Nerf: As in, “Nerf and turf” and “Nerf the internet.”
  • Nudge → Nudj: As in, “Give it a nudj” and “Nudj, nudj, wink wink.” Note: Nudjes are lizards found in the swamps of the planet Dagobah.
  • Orray: Orrays are creatures native to the planet Geonosis. Here are related puns:
    • Array → Orray: As in, “A full orray to choose from.”
    • Eerie → Orray: As in, “An orray silence.”
  • Purple → Pharple: As in, “Pharple rain” and “The colour pharple.” Note: Pharples are small birds from the planet Lok.
  • Seen → Sleen: As in, “Had to be sleen to be believed”and “Nowhere to be sleen” and “Sleen better days” and “If you’ve sleen one, you’ve sleen them all” and “Sleen the rest, now try the best.” Note: Sleens were native to Dagobah.
  • Strut → Stratt: As in, “Stratt your stuff.” Note: Stratts were nocturnal hunters.
  • Touch → Tach: As in, “A tach of frost” and “Don’t tach that dial” and “The finishing tach” and “The golden tach” and “Wouldn’t tach it with a ten foot pole” and “Lose tach with’ and “The magic tach” and “Reach out and tach someone” and “A soft tach.” Note: A species of primates found on the planet Kashyyyk.
  • Uller: Ullers were creatures that lived on Kashyyyk. Here are related puns:
    • All → Uller: As in, “Uller aboard!” and “Uller in a day’s work” and “Uller in uller” and “Uller’s fair in love and war” and “It’s uller coming back to me now.”
    • Colour → Uller: As in, “A splash of uller” and “Better in uller” and “Uller coded” and “Uller me happy.”
  • Wraid: Wraids were creatures found on desert planets. Here are related puns:
    • Made → Wraid: As in, “A match wraid in heaven’ and “Got it wraid” and “Have it wraid” and “Not wraid of money” and “Wraid for each other” and “Wraid with love.”
    • Raid → Wraid: As in, “Wraid the town” and “Tomb wraider.”
    • Read → Wraid: As in, “All I know is what I wraid in the papers” and “Well wraid” and “Can wraid you like a book” and “A little light wraiding” and “Wraid ’em and weep” and “Wraid all about it” and “Wraid between the lines” and “Wraid the riot act.”
    • Red → Wraid: As in, “Wraid as a beetroot” and “On wraid alert.”
    • Road → Wraid: As in, “Follow the yellow brick wraid” and “Hit the wraid” and “Middle of the wraid” and “Keep the show on the wraid.”
  • Ando: Ando is a water-covered planet. Here are some related puns:
    • And → Ando: As in, “A day late ando a dollar short” and “A hundred ando ten percent” and “Alive ando kicking” and “All that ando then some” and “All bark ando no bite” and “All dressed up ando nowhere to go.”
    • End → Ando: As in, “A means to an ando” and “All’s well that andos well” and “A loose ando” and “At the ando of the day” and “At the ando of your tether” and “At your wit’s ando” and “Burn the candle at both andos.”
  • Hoth: Hoth was the home of Echo Base. Here are some related puns:
    • Cloth → Hoth: As in, “Cut from the same hoth” and “A man of the hoth.”
  • Kessel: Kessel was a planet that was home to spice mines. Here are related puns:
    • Vessel → Kessel: As in, “Going to burst a blood kessel” and “Empty kessels make the most noise.”
    • Nestle → Kessel: As in, “Kessel in.”
    • Wrestle → Kessel: As in, “Kessel with a moral dilemma.”
  • Lethal → Lothal: As in, “A lothal weapon.” Note: Lothal was a planet in the Outer Rim.
  • On the wrong → Onderon: As in, “Onderon page” and “Onderon side.” Note: Onderon was a world in the Inner Rim.
  • Batuu: Batuu was a remote planet. Here are related puns:
    • Bat → Batuu: As in, “Blind as a batuu” and “Batuu out of hell” and “Batuu some ideas around” and “Like a batuu out of hell.”
    • Bet → Batuu: As in, “All batuus are off” and “Batuu your bottom dollar” and “Don’t batuu on it.”
    • But → Batuu: As in, “Batuu then again” and “Batuu seriously” and “Down batuu not out.”
  • Crait: Crait was a small planet in the Outer Rim Territories. Here are some related puns:
    • Crate → Crait: As in, “By the crait.”
    • Great → Crait: As in, “A crait day” and “All creatures, crait and small” and “No craiter enemy” and “Go to crait lengths” and “Crait expectations” and “Crait balls of fire” and “The crait barrier reef.”
    • Rate → Crait: As in, “At any crait” and “First crait” and “Mate’s craits.”
    • Straight → Crait: As in, “Crait as an arrow” and “Crait to the point” and “Get your facts crait” and “Keep a crait face” and “On the crait and narrow” and “Set the record crait.”
    • Late → Crait: As in, “Better crait than never” and “Fashionably crait” and “Never too crait” and “Crait bloomer” and “Crait in the day.”
    • Create → Crait: As in, “Crait a storm.”
  • Endor: Endor is also known as the Sanctuary Moon. Here are related puns:
    • And → Endor: As in, “A day late endor a dollar short” and “A hundred endor ten percent” and “Alive endor kicking” and “All that endor then some” and “All endor sundry” and “All bark endor no bite.”
    • End → Endor: As in, “A means to an endor” and “All good things must come to an endor” and “All’s well that endors well” and “At the endor of the day” and “Bring to an endor” and “Burning the candle at both endors.”
  • Fender → Fondor: As in, “Fondor bender.” Note: Fondor was a planet in the Colonies.
    • Fond → Fondor: As in, “Absence makes the heart fondor” and “A fondor farewell.”
    • Fund → Fondor: As in, “Hedge fondor” and “Mutual fondors” and “Slush fondor.”
  • Pillow → pilliow: As in, “Cry into your pillio” and “Pillio fight” and “Pillio talk.” Note: Pillio is a planet in the Jinata system.
  • Road → Rodia: As in, “Built for the rodia ahead” and “Follow the yellow brick rodia” and “Hit the rodia” and “Get this show on the rodia” and “In the middle of the rodia.” Note: Rodia is a swampy jungle planet.
  • Shili: Shili was a planet in the Shili system. Here are related puns:
    • Chili → Shili: As in, “Grandma’s famous shili” and “Shili flavoured noodles.”
    • Shell → Shili: As in, “Come out of your shili” and “Shili shock.”
    • Chill → Shili: As in, “Shili out” and “A shili-ing account” and “Shili-ed to the bone.”
  • Another → Anoth: As in, “Tomorrow is anoth day” and “Anoth one bites the dust” and “Anoth day, anoth dollar” and “Anoth nail in the coffin” and “Ask me anoth.”
  • Byss: Byss was an astronomical object in the galaxy’s Deep Core. Related puns:
    • Bliss → Byss: As in, “Byssful slumber” and “Domestic byss” and “Ignorance is byss” and “Marital byss” and “Byssed out.”
    • This → Byss: As in, “What fresh hell is byss?” and “At byss point in time” and “Blow byss popsicle stand” and “Get byss show on the road” and “In byss say and age” and “Out of byss world.”
  • Drall: Drall was a planet in the Corellian system. Here are related puns:
    • Doll → Drall: As in, “Drall’s house” and “Drall yourself up” and “Like a rag drall.”
    • Drill → Drall: As in, “You know the drall” and “Fire drall.”
  • Hapes → Shapes: As in, “All hapes and sizes.” Note: Hapes was an astronomical object in the Inner Rim.

Star Wars-Related Words

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General: star wars, jedi, sith, force, lightsaber, the dark side, the light side, george lucas, space opera, galaxy, aliens, robots, droids, hyperspace, republic, galactic empire, rebel alliance, galactic, first order, resistance,  clone trooper, rogue squadron, blaster, death star, bowcaster, slugthrower, electrostaff, gaffii stick, amphistaff

Characters: Leia Organa, Anakin Skywalker, Darth Vader, Yoda, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Shmi Skywalker, Padme Amidala, C-3PO, R2D2, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Chewbacca, Kylo Ren, Rey, Rose Tico, Darth Maul, Rae Sloane, Supreme Leader Snoke, Boba Fett, Jabba the Hutt, Sheev Palpatine, Captain Rex, Maz Kanata, Jar Jar Binks, Garazeb “Zeb” Orrelios,  Mercurial Swift, Ahsoka Tano, Teebo, Mod Terrik, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Pablo Jill, Bodhi Rook, Rukh, Sabe, Joph Seastriker, Colonel Kaplan, Karbin, Eli Vanto, Asajj Ventress, Dryden Vos, Quinlan Vos, Wald, Warok, Watto, Taun We, Norra Wexley, Mace Windu, Commander Wolffe, Wollivan, Sabine Wren, Wuher, Alton Kastle, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Paploo, Captain Phasma, Even Piell, Admiral Firmus Piett, Darth Plagueis, Sarco Plank, Unkar Plutt, Poggle the Lesser, Yarael Poof, Jek Tono Porkings, Arihnda Pryce, Qi’ra, Quarrie, Del Meeko, Aks Moe, Sly Moore, Morley, Delian Mors, Enfys Nest, Bazine Netal, Niima the Hutt, Jocasta Nu, Po Nudo, Nien Nunb, Has Obbit, Harriss Offee, Hondo Ohnaka, Omi, Ketsu Onyo, Oola, OOM-9, Klaatu, Klik-Klak, Agen Kolar, Plo Koon, Eeth Koth, Sergeant Kreel, Baze Malbus, Mama the Hutt, Aayla Secura, Korr Sella, Zev Senesca, Aurra Sing, Ody Mandrell, Pong Kreel, Orson Krennic, Satine Kryze, Conder Kyl, Thane Kyrell, L3-37, L’ulo L’ampar, Cliegg Lars, Owen Lars, Cut Lawquane, Tasu Leech, R2-KT, R3-S6, R4-P17, R5-D4, Rabe, Admiral Raddus, Dak Ralter, Rappertunie, Sinjir Rath Velus, Gallius Rax, Eneb Ray, Max Rebo, Ciena Ree, Ree-Yees, Xamuel Lennox, Slowen Lo, Lobot, Logray, Lumat, Shu Mai, Malakili, King Katuunko, Queen Jamilia, Wes Janson, Kanan Jarrus, Jaxxon, Qui-Gon Jinn, Jira, Jubnuk, K-2SO, Tee Watt Kaa, General Kalani, Agent Kallus, Harter Kalonia, Jango Fett, Finn, Kit Fisto, Corde, Kes Dameron, Poe Dameron, Biggs Darklighter, Dengar, DJ, Rinnrivin Di, Lott Dod, Rio Durant, Lok Durd, Eirtae, Elle, Caluan Ematt, Embo, Jas Emari, Galen Erso, Jyn Erso, Lyra Erso, EV-9D9, Moralo Eval, Commander Cody, Lieutenant Kaydel Ko Connix, Lando Calrissian, Ransolm Casterfo, Sim Aloo, Tobias Beckett, The Bendu, Shara Bey, Mister Bones, Ezra Bridger, BT-1, Almec, Mas Amedda, 2-1B, 4-LOM, 8D8, clone 99, 0-0-0, A’Koba, Admiral Gial Ackbar, Amee, Cassian Andor, Queen Apailana, Sergeant Appo, Dr. Chelli, Faro Argyus, Aiolin, Morit Astarte, Ello Asty, Attichitcuk, AZI-3, Ponda Baba, Kister Banai, Cad Bane, Darth Bane, Jom Barell, BB-8, C1-10P, FN-1824, FN-2199, Bib Fortuna, Commander Fox, FX-7, Adi Gallia, Gardulla the Hutt, Garindan, Gasgano, Saw Gerrera, Gonk Droid, Commander Gree, Janus Greejatus, Captain Gregor, General Grievous, Grummgar, Gungi, Nute, Mars Guo, Rune Haako, Hardcase, Rako Hardeen, Gideon Hask, Hevy, San Hill, Clegg Holdfast, Amilyn Holdo, Tey How, Huyand, Armitage Hux, Brendol Hux, IG-88, Chirrut Imwe, Grand Inquisitor, Sidon Ithano

Species: ewok, sith, wookiee, abednedo, abyssin, aleena, amanin, amaran, anomid, ansionian, anzati, aqualish, arcona, argazdan, aruzan, askajian, balosar, bando gora, barabel, besalisk, bith, blarina, blood carver, boltrunians, b’omarr monks, bothan, bouncer, caamasi, cathar, celegian, cerean, chadra-fan, chalactan, chiss, chistori, clawdite, codru-ji, coway, dashade, dathomirian, defel, devaronian, drach’nam, dressellian, droch, drovian, dug, dulok, durkii, duros, echani, elomin, epicanthix, er’kit, falleen, far-outsiders, feeorin, ferroans, firrerreo, fosh, frozian, frozarns, gado, gamorrean, gand, gank, gen’dai, gerb, genosian, givin, gizka, glymphid, gorax, gorith, gorog, gossam, gotal, gran, gree, grizmallt, gungan, gwurran, habassa, hallotan, hapan, harch, herglic, himoran, h’nemthean, hoojib, huk, hssiss, hutt, iktotchi, iridonian, ishi tib, ithorian, jabiimas, jawa, kaleesh, kaminoan, karkarodon, kel dor, keshiri, kiffar, kitonak, klatooinian, kobok, kowakian monkey-lizard, kubaz, kurtzen, kushiban, kwa, kwi, kyuzo, lannik, lasat, lepi, letaki, lurmen, massassi, melodie, mimbanite, miraluka, mirialan, mon calamari, mustafarian, muun, myneyrsh, myriad, nagai, nautolan, neimoidian, nelvaanian, neti, nikto, noghri, nosaurian, ogemite, omwati, ongree, ortolan, oswaft, paaerduag, pa’lowick, pau’an, phlog, porg, priapulin, psadan, p’w’eck, quarren, quermian, rakata, ranat, rattataki, rishii, rodian, roonan, ruurian, ryn, saffa, sanyassan, saurin, selkath, sauvax, selonian, shawda ubb, shi’ido, shistavanen, sikan, skakoan, sneevel, snivvian, squib, ss-ruuk, stereb, sullustan, talortai, talz, tarasin, taung, tauntaun, tchuukthai, teek, teevan, terentatek, thakwaash, theelin, thennqora, tiss’shar, thisspiasian, thrella, timoliini, t’landa til, tof, togorian, togruta, toong, toydarian, trandoshan, trianii, trogodile, troig, tunroth, tusken raider, twi’lek, ubese, ugnaught, umbaran, unu, utai, utapaun, vaathkree, vagaari, veknoid, vella, verpine, vodran, vor, voxyn, vratix, vulptereen, vurk, weequay, whaladon, wharl, whill, whipid, wirutid, wol cabasshite, woostoid, wroonian, x’ting, xexto, y’bith, yaka, yevetha, yinchorri, yuuzhan vong, yuvernian, yuzzem, yuzzum, zabrak, zeltron, zhell, zillo beast, zygerrian

Creatures: acklay, air shrimp, aiwha, akk dog, angler, asyyriak, aquatic gundark, bandara, bantha, barri, beldon, bergruutfa, blase tree goat, blenjeel sand worm, blistmok, blurrg, borcatu, bordok, bursa, can-cell, cannok, cherfer, chiilak, choreamnos, clawbird, colo claw fish, conduit worm, condor dragon, coruscani ogre, cracian thumper, crab glider, croator, cthon, cy’een, dashta eel, dactillion, danchaf, derkolo, dewback, dianoga, draagax, dragon snake, drexl, duros, duracrete slug, dweebit, eopie, fabool, falumpset, fambaa, fathier, felucian ground beetle, fenner’s rock, fern bicker, firaxan shark, forntarch, frog-dog, fynock, galoomp, ganjuko, garto, garral, geejaw, geonosian, ghest, gizka, glim worm, goffbird, gornt, gorg, gorog, graiveh, graul, grazer, great oopik, greysor, grotseth, gualamas, gullipuds, gungans, gundark, hanadak, hawk-bat, hoska, howler, ikopi, iriazes, jakrab, kaadu, kalaks, kaminoan, kath hound, kell dragon, kimogila, kinrath, kkryytch, k’lor slug, koriena, kouhun, krayt dragon, krykna, kybuck, kyren, laa, laigrek, lava flea, loper, loth-wolf, lylek, malia, mandalorian, maramu, massiff, minstyngar, mogo, mott, mouf, mutriok, mynock, neebray, neks, nerf, nexu, noghri, nudj, nuna, orbalisk, orray, oslet, pagen, peko peko, pharple, pikobi, profogg, porg, pug jumper, pylat bird, rakghoul, rancor, rathtar, reek, rock worrt, ro-roo, rong boar, ronto, rugger, sarlacc, scurrier, scyk, shaakshyrack, sketto, slivilith, snarb, sleen, stagna, stratt, suubatar, tach, talortai, talz, taozin, terecon, thernbee, thranta, torton, tolibs, togruta, tra’cor, treppok, ubeba, ugja, uller, unark, urusai, veermok, vesp, velker, voorpak, vornskr, vulptex, vyp, wamba, wandrella, woodoo, wraid, yeltz, yeomet, yog, yorik coral, zakkeg, zabrak, zuxu

Locations: abafar, ahch-to, akiva, alderaan, ando, hoth, lego, ilum, iridonia, jakku, jedha, kessel, kuat, lah’mu, lira san, lothal, lotho minor, malachor, malastare, mandalore, maridun, mimban, mon cala, moraband, mortis, mygeeto, nal hutta, onderon, ord mantell, anoat, atollon, batuu, bespin, cantonica, castilon, cato neimoidia, chandrila, christophsis, concord dawn, corellia, coruscant, crait, d’qar, dagobah, dantooine, dathomir, devaron, eadu, endor, florrum, hosnian prime, fondor, naboo, otoh gunga, theed hangar, mos espa, watto’s junkshop, coruscant ii, outlander club, kamino, tipoca city, tatooine ii, geonosis, utapau, pau city, kashyyk, mustafar, polis massa, sith medcenter, lars homestead, tosche station, mos eisley, the cantina, great temple, echo base, dagobah, cloud city, pillio, rishi, rodia, ruusan, ryloth, saleucami, savareen, scarif, shili, starkiller base, subterrel, sullust, takodana, toydaria, trandosha, umbara, vardos, wobani, yavin, ambria, anoth, arkania, bakura, bonadan, borleias, byss, carida, drall, dromund kaas, dxun, hapes, honoghr, khomm, korriban, kothlis, lwhekk, muunilinst, myrkr, n’zoth, nkllon, ralltiir, rattatak, sacorria, selonia, thyferra, toprawa

Movies: a new hope, the empire strikes back, return of the jedi, the phantom menace, attack of the clones, revenge of the sith, the force awakens, the last jedi, the rise of skywalker

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Music Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on music puns! 🎵 🎹 🎼 🎶

Music is a huge and deeply ingrained part of our culture. We hear music not only in songs, but also in advertisments, movies, stories and tv shows (even wrestlers have theme songs!). We’ve done our best to cover this broad scope with music puns that span from composers to musicians to musical terminology.

While we’ve made this list as thorough as possible, it is specific to music. You might also be interested in our art puns or party puns.

Music Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun or a set of puns that can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about music 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 music puns:

  • Soon → Tune: As in, “A fool and their money are tune parted” and “As tune as my back is turned” and “As tune as possible” and “Get well tune” and “Tuner or later” and “Too much too tune.”
  • Bend → Band: As in, “Band over backwards” and “Band the rules” and “Band your ear.”
  • Land → Band: As in, “Band ahoy!” and “Band of hope and glory” and “Band of make-believe” and “In the band of the living.”
  • Sand → Band: As in, “Draw a line in the band” and “The bands of time.”
  • Brand → Band: As in, “Band new” and “A band new ballgame” and “A band new day” and “Band spanking new.”
  • Grand → Band: As in, “Delusions of bandeur” and “Band theft auto” and “Band slam” and “A band slam” and “The band canyon.”
  • Hand → Band: As in, “Bands on deck” and “Bite your band off” and “Bound band and foot.”
  • Tenner → Tenor: As in, “That’ll cost you a tenor.”
  • Apparatus → Opera-tus: As in, “A complicated opera-tus.”
  • Can you → Kanye: As in, “Kanye get it done by 5pm?” and “Kanye think about it?” Note: This is a reference to Kanye West, a famous rapper.
  • Hop → Hip Hop: As in, “Hip hop to it” and “Hip hop, skip and jump” and “Hip hopping mad.” Note: hip hop is a popular music genre.
  • Spot → Spotify: As in, “A blind spotify” and “Got a soft spotify for” and “That really hit the spotify” and “In a tight spotify” and “Spotify the difference.” Note: Spotify is a music provider.
  • Big → Gig: As in, “A gig ask” and “Gig shot” and “Earning gig bucks” and “Look at the gig picture” and “Bright lights, gig city” and “Make it gig” and “No gig deal” and “Open your gig mouth.”
  • Dig → Gig: As in, “Gig your own grave” and “Gig your heels in” and “Gig up the dirt” and “A gig for victory.”
  • Rock: Rock is a mainstream music genre. Here are related puns:
    • Block → Rock: As in, “Mental rock” and “New kid on the rock” and “Chip off the old rock.”
    • Chalk → Rock: As in, “Different as rock and cheese” and “Rock it up to experience.”
    • Chock → Rock: As in, “Rock a block” and “Rock full.”
    • Clock → Rock: As in, “Anti-rockwise” and “Around the rock” and “Regular as rockwork” and “Beat the rock” and “Race against the rock” and “Running like rockwork.”
    • Knock → Rock: As in, “Don’t rock it til you’ve tried it” and “I get rocked down, but I get up again” and “Rock ’em dead” and “Rock back a few” and “Rock heads together” and “Rock it off” and “Rock it out of the park” and “Rock on wood” and “Rock your socks off.”
    • Shock → Rock: As in, “Rock and awe” and “Rock horror” and “A short, sharp rock to the system” and “Sticker rock.”
  • Rap: Rap is a very popular music genre that is characterised by rhythmic rhymes. Here are related puns:
    • Rap: These rap-related phrases are general enough to use as puns: “Beat the rap” and “A rap over the knuckles” and “A bad rap.” Note: a bap rap is a bad reputation.
    • Cap → Rap: As in, “A feather in your rap” and “Rap in hand” and “If the rap fits, wear it” and “Put on your thinking rap” and “To rap it all off…”
    • Gap → Rap: As in, “Bridge the rap” and “Generation rap” and “Mind the rap.”
    • Snap → Rap: As in, “A rap decision” and “Rap happy” and “Rap out of it” and “Rap to it” and “Rap, crackle and pop” and “Make it rappy.”
    • Trap → Rap: As in, “Tourist rap” and “The parent rap” and “Shut your rap” and “Fall into a rap.”
    • Wrap → Rap: As in, “It’s a rap” and “Keep under raps” and “Rap it up” and “Rapped around your little finger.”
    • Rep* → Rap*: We can replace the “rep” sound in words with “rap” to make some sneaky rap-related puns, as in: “A false raport” and “Banana rapublic.” Other word that could be used are: raproach (reproach), rapresent (represent), raprieve (reprieve) and raprimand (reprimand).
    • *rup* → *rap*: As in, “Corrapt government” and “A disrapt ending.” Here are other words you could use: abrapt (abrupt), interrapt (interrupt), corraption (corruption), unscrapulous (unscrupulous), rapture (rupture) and disraptive (disruptive).
  • Pop: Pop is a mainstream music genre. Here are some pop-related puns:
    • Drop → Pop: As in, “At the pop of a hat” and “Pop it like it’s hot” and “Pop a bombshell” and “Pop a brick” and “Pop a bundle” and “Pop a dime” and “Pop dead gorgeous” and “A pop in the bucket.”
    • Hop → Pop: As in, “Pop, skip and jump” and “Popping mad.”
    • *prop* → *pop*: As in, “Blow out of poportion” and “Generous poportions” and “Prim and poper.”
    • Stop → Pop: As in, “Pop and smell the roses” and “Pop at nothing” and “Pop, drop and roll” and “Pop it, you’re killing me” and “Pop the show” and “Pop the car” and “Pop! In the name of love” and “The buck pops here” and “Pull out all the pops.”
    • Top → Pop: As in, “Come out on pop” and “From pop to toe” and “Over the pop” and “Pop of the class” and “In tip pop condition” and “Tough at the pop” and “Keep on pop of” and “Off the pop of my head” and “On pop of the world” and “Over the pop” and “Take it from the pop” and “The view from the pop” and “Pop dollar” and “To pop it off” and “Pop notch.”
  • Jas* → Jazz*: Jazzper (jasper) and jazzmine (jasmine).
  • Jes* → Jazz*: Jazzter (jester), majazztic (majestic) and majazzty (majesty).
  • Jus* → Jazz*: As in, “Where is the jazztice?” and “Jazztify your actions” and “It’s no jazztification for what you’ve done.”
  • Bluegrass: Bluegrass is a music genre of roots music. Here are related puns:
    • Blue → Bluegrass: As in, “As cold as bluegrass blazes” and “Beat black and bluegrass” and  Beyond the big bluegrass” and “Bluegrass collar worker” and “Til you’re bluegrass in the face” and “A bolt from the bluegrass.”
    • Grass → Bluegrass: As in, “Green as bluegrass” and “As exciting as watching bluegrass grow” and “Don’t let the bluegrass grow under your feet” and “A snake in the bluegrass” and “The bluegrass is always greener on the other side.”
  • Beat: This is in reference to the beat of a song. Here are related puns:
    • Beat: We can start off with some related phrases that are general enough to use as puns: “Beat it” and “Beat a hasty retreat” and “Beat a path to your door” and “Beat about the bush.”
    • Bead → Beat: As in, “Beats of sweat” and “Love beats” and “Draw a beat on.”
    • Eat → Beat: As in, “A bite to beat” and “All you can beat” and “Beat and run.”
    • Feet → Beat: As in, “Back on your beat” and “Cold beat” and “Drag your beat” and “Itchy beat.”
    • Heat → Beat: As in, “Beat wave” and “Beating up” and “In the beat of the moment” and “Packing beat” and “If you can’t stand the beat, get out of the kitchen.”
    • Neat → Beat: As in, “Beat as a new pin” and “Beat freak” and “Beatness counts.”
    • Seat → Beat: As in, “Back beat driver” and “By the beat of your pants” and “Glued to your beat” and “Take a beat.”
  • Madly → Medley: As in, “Truly, medley, deeply” and “Medley in love.” Note: a medley is a song that’s made up of at least three other songs.
  • Higher → Choir: As in, “Choir purpose” and “Answer to a choir authority” and “Choir than a kite.”
  • Buyer → Choir: As in, “Choir’s market” and “Choir beware” and “Choir’s remorse.”
  • Dire → Choir: As in, “Choir consequences” and “In choir straits.”
  • Wire → Choir: As in, “Down to the choir” and “Live choir” and “Choired for sound.”
  • Beaver → Bieber: As in, “Busy as a bieber” and “Bieber away at” and “Eager bieber” and “Work like a bieber.” Note: these puns are in reference to Justin Bieber, a pop musician.
  • Swift: Taylor Swift is an incredibly popular musician, so we’ve included her in this list:
    • Gift → Swift: As in, “A swift from the gods” and “The swift of tongues” and “The swift that keeps on giving.”
    • Lift → Swift: As in, “Swift off!” and “Swift your game” and “Swift the lid off.”
    • Shift → Swift: As in, “Graveyard swift” and “The night swift” and “Swift gears” and “Swift into high gear.”
  • Alone → Malone: As in, “Home Malone” and “Leave me malone” and “Leave well enough malone” and “You’ll never walk malone” and “You’re never malone” and “Time malone will tell.” Note: Malone is a reference to Post Malone, a famous rapper.
  • Card → Cardi: As in, “A few cardis short of a full deck” and “Calling cardi” and “A cardi up your sleeve” and “Deck of cardis” and “Get out of jail free cardi” and “Holding all the cardis” and “House of cardis.” Note: these puns are a reference to Cardi B, a famous rapper.
  • Tupac: Tupac was a famous rapper. Here are some related puns:
    • Two → Tupac: As in, “A bicycle built for tupac” and “Worth tupac in the bush” and “As alike as tupac peas in a pod” and “Cross as tupac sticks” and “Thick as tupac short planks” and “In tupac minds.”
    • Pack → Tupac: As in, “Leader of the tupac” and “Tupac heat” and “Tupac of lies.”
  • *tan* → *tune*: As in, “In tunedem” and “Tunegible results” and “Tunetamount to” and “Throwing a tunetrum” and “A messy tunegle.”
  • *ten* → *tune*: As in, “Tuneder goodbyes” and “A tunetative reply.” Here are other words you could use: tune-ure (tenure), tune-ant (tenant), threatune (threaten), kindergartune (kindergarten), enlightune (enlighten), glutune (gluten), potunetial (potential), pretunetious (pretentious) and maintune-ance (maintenance).
  • *ton* → *tune*: Wantune (wanton), buttune (button), cottune (cotton), skeletune (skeleton) and autune-omy (autonomy).
  • Bach: Johann Sebastian Bach is a famous musical composer. Here are some related puns:
    • Back → Bach: As in, “Answer bach” and “As soon as my bach is turned” and “In the bach of my mind” and “Bach in black” and “Bach to the future” and “Bach at it” and “Won’t bach down” and “Bach in business” and “Bach in the day” and “Bach on your feet” and “Bach seat driver” and “Bach to basics” and “Bach to square one.”
    • Block → Bach: As in, “A chip off the old bach” and “The new kid on the bach” and “On the chopping bach” and “Mental bach” and “Writer’s bach.”
    • Black → Bach: As in, “Bach as coal” and “As bach as thunder” and “Bach Friday” and “Not so bach and white.”
  • Hay → Haydn: As in, “Make haydn” and “Making haydn while the sun shines” and “Roll in the haydn” and “Hit the haydn.” Note: Haydn is a famous musical composer.
  • Brahm: Brahm is a famous music composer. Here are related puns:
    • Promise → Brahmise: As in, “An empty brahmise” and “The brahmised land” and “Don’t make brahmises you can’t keep.”
    • Calm → Brahm: As in, “A brahming influence” and “The brahm before the storm” and “Brahm down” and “Cool, brahm and collected.”
    • Palm → Brahm: As in, “A face brahm moment” and “Grease your brahm” and “In the brahm of your hand” and “Itchy brahms” and “Brahm off.”
  • Handel: Handel is a famous composer. Here are related puns:
    • Handle → Handel: As in, “Fly off the handel” and “Get a handel on” and “Handel with care” and “Handel yourself” and “How much can you handel?” and “Love handels” and “Too hot to handel” and “You can’t handel the truth!”
    • Candle → Handel: As in, “Burning the handel at both ends” and “Can’t hold a handel to” and “Handel in the wind” and “Rather light a handel than curse the dark” and “Not worth the handel.”
  • Chop → Chopin: As in, “Bust your chopins” and “Chopin and change” and “Get the chopin” and “On the chopin block.” Note: Chopin was a famous composer.
  • Strauss: Strauss was a famous classical composer. Here are related puns:
    • Stress → Strauss: As in, “Post-traumatic strauss disorder” and “Straussed out” and “Not worth the strauss.”
    • Straws → Strauss: As in, “Clutching at strauss” and “A drowning person will clutch at strauss” and “The final strauss” and “Drawing strauss.”
  • Music: These music-related phrases can double as puns: “Time to face the music” and “Music to my ears” and “Make beautiful music together.”
  • Sand → Sound: As in, “Bury your head in the sound” and “Draw a line in the sound” and “The sounds of time.”
  • Send → Sound: As in, “Return to sounder” and “Sound packing” and “Sound them away.”
  • Round → Sound: As in, “All year sound” and “Folling a-sound” and “Love makes the world go sound” and “Going sound in circles.”
  • Bound → Sound: As in, “By leaps and sounds.”
  • Found → Sound: As in, “Lost and sound” and “Nowhere to be sound.”
  • Ground → Sound: As in, “Breaking new sound” and “Built from the sound up” and “Common sound” and “Cut the sound out from under your feet” and “Gaining sound.”
  • Bums → Drums: As in, “Drums on seats.”
  • Comes → Drums: As in, “After a storm drums a calm” and “Christmas drums but once a year” and “Nothing drums to mind” and “Do what drums naturally” and “Here drums the sun” and “If push drums to shove” and “If worst drums to worst” and “Tomorrow never drums.”
  • Thumbs → Drums: As in, “All drums” and “Drums down” and “Twiddle your drums” and “Give it the drums up.”
  • Symbol → Cymbal: As in, “A cymbal of freedom” and “Sex cymbal.”
  • Snare: A snare drum is a type of drum in a drum kit. Here are related puns:
    • Square → Snare: As in, “Back to snare one” and “Be there or be snare” and “Fair and snare” and “A snare peg in a round hole.”
    • Air → Snare: As in, “Snare kiss” and “Snare quotes” and “Snare rage” and ” Snares and graces.”
    • Bare → Snare: As in, “The snare necessities” and “Snare one’s teeth” and “A snare-faced lie.”
    • Share → Snare: As in, “Snare a resemblance to” and “A problem snared is a problem halved” and “Snaring is caring.”
    • Care → Snare: As in, “Be snareful how you use it” and “Be snareful what you wish for” and “I couldn’t snare less” and “Customer snare” and “Devil may snare” and “Handle with snare” and “Intensive snare” and “Take snare of it.”
    • Dare → Snare: As in, “Snare for more” and “Snare to be different” and “How very snare you” and “Snare to dream.”
    • Scare → Snare: As in, “Running snared” and “Snare quotes” and “Snare the living daylights out of” and “Snared out of your wits” and “Snared witless” and “Snared stiff” and “Snared to death” and “Snaredy cat.”
    • Spare → Snare: As in, “Snare a dime?” and “No expense snared” and “Snare no effort.”
    • Stare → Snare: As in, “Snare into the abyss” and “Not polite to snare.”
    • Where → Snare: As in, “All dressed up and nosnare to go” and “Any time, any place, any snare” and “Here, there and everysnare.”
  • Hat → Hi-Hat: As in, “As mad as a hi-hatter” and “At the drop of a hi-hat” and “Hi-hat in hand” and “Home is where I lay my hi-hat” and “Hi-hats off to” and “Keep your hi-hat on.”
  • Again → Organ: As in, “Over and over organ” and “Born organ” and “I get knocked down, but I get up organ” and “Deja vu all over organ.”
  • Fruit → Flute: As in, “Flute and nut” and “Be fluteful and multiply” and “Bear flute” and “Forbidden flute” and “The flutes of your labor” and “Low hanging flute” and “The flute doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
  • Boot → Flute: As in, “Tought as old flutes” and “Bet your flutes” and “Flute camp” and “Fill your flutes” and “Give them the flute.”
  • Suit → Flute: As in, “All over them like a cheap flute” and “Follow flute” and “Fluted and booted.”
  • Fiddle: A fiddle is another name for a violin, and is generally used in the context of playing folk music. Here are related puns:
    • Middle → Fiddle: As in, “In the fiddle of nowhere” and “Knock into the fiddle of next week” and “Meet in the fiddle” and “Piggy in the fiddle” and “Smack dab in the fiddle” and “That’s my fiddle name.”
    • Riddle → Fiddle: As in, “A fiddle wrapped up in an enigma.”
  • Lyre: A lyre is a type of stringed musical instrument. Here are related puns:
    • Liar → Lyre: As in, “Lyre, lyre, pants on fire” and “Don’t be a lyre.”
    • Dire → Lyre: As in, “Lyre consequences” and “In lyre straits.”
    • Fire → Lyre: As in, “All lyred up and ready to go” and “Ball of lyre” and “Baptism of lyre” and “Come on baby, light my lyre” and “Fight lyre with lyre.”
  • Lute: A lute is a type of stringed instrument. Here are related puns:
    • Boot → Lute: As in, “Tough as old lutes” and “Lute camp” and “Give them the lute” and “Lick someone’s lutes.”
    • Brute → Lute: As in, “Lute force.”
    • Fruit → Lute: As in, “Be luteful and multiply” and “Bear lute” and “Forbidden lute” and “Lute cake” and “The lutes of your labor” and “Lutes of your loins” and “Low hanging lute” and “The lute doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
    • Root → Lute: As in, “The lute of the matter” and “Money is the lute of all evil” and “Lay down lutes.”
    • Shoot → Lute: As in, “Don’t lute the messenger” and “Drive by lute-ing” and “The green lutes of change” and “Just lute me” and “Lute down in flames.”
    • Suit → Lute: As in, “All over them like a cheap lute” and “Follow lute” and “In your birthday lute” and “Lute yourself.”
  • Muse: Muse is an English rock band. Here are some related puns:
    • Use → Muse: As in, “Be careful how you muse it!” and “Don’t muse that tone with me” and “Get mused to it” and “You can muse it” and “Somebody that I mused to know.”
    • News → Muse: As in, “Bad muse” and “Bad muse travels fast” and “Break the muse” and “Breaking muse” and “Have I got muse for you!”
    • Choose → Muse: As in, “Muse your weapon” and “Pick and muse.”
  • In excess → INXS: As in, “INXS of one thousand dollars.” Note: INXS is an Australian rock band.
  • Knot → Slipknot: As in, “Cut the gordian slipknot” and “Don’t get your knickers in a slipknot” and “Tie the slipknot” and “Tie yourself in slipknots.”
  • Biscuit → Bizkit: As in, “That takes the bizkit” and “Hand in the bizkit tin.” Note: these are a reference to Limp Bizkit, an American rap band.
  • Creed: Creed is an American rock band. Here are related puns:
    • Need → Creed: As in, “A friend in creed is a friend indeed” and “All you creed is love” and “I creed it like yesterday” and “Just what I creed.”
    • Read → Creed: As in, “All I know is what I creed in the papers” and “Creed all about it” and “I can creed you like a book” and “Creed ’em and weep” and “Creed between the lines.”
  • Toe → Toto: As in, “Dip your toto into the water” and “From top to toto” and “Get your toto in the door” and “Make someone’s totos curl” and “On your totos” and “One toto over the line” and “Toto the line.” Note: Toto is a classic American rock band, most famous for their song “Africa”.
  • Score: A score is a piece of sheet music showing how a song is composed and played. Here are some score-related puns:
    • Scare → Score: As in, “Scored stiff” and “Scored to death” and “Running scored” and “Score out of your wits” and “Score the living daylights out of.”
    • Core → Score: As in, “Score competencies” and “Score studies” and “Score technology” and “Score values” and “Rotten to the score.”
    • Bore → Score: As in, “Score the pants off someone” and “Scored to death” and “Scored to tears.”
    • Sore → Score: As in, “Made to prevent score throats” and “A sight for score eyes” and “Sticks out like a score thumb.”
    • Store → Score: As in, “See what the future has in score” and “Set great score by” and “What’s in score?”
  • Amp: This is short for amplifier, which is a device used to make electronic noises and instruments louder. Here are related puns:
    • Camp → Amp: As in, “A foot in both amps” and “Boot amp.”
    • Champ → Amp: As in, “Amp at the bit.”
    • Emp* → Amp*: If a word starts with emp, we can replace the “emp” sound with “amp”: “Not in my amploy” and “Gainful amployment” and “Lacking ampathy” and “Ampirical evidence.” Other words that could work: ampire (empire), ampower (empower) and ampathetic (empathetic).
    • Imp* → Amp*: As in, “A painful ampact” and “Sharp amplements” and “Of the greatest amperative.” Other words that could work: amplication (implication), ampetus (impetus), amportant (important) and amplicit (implicit).
  • Phone → Xylophone: As in, “Hold the xylophone” and “Xylophone a friend” and “Xylophone in sick.”
  • Poker → Polka: As in, “Polka face” and “Stiff as a polka.” Note: polka is a type of music genre.
  • Sing: These phrases are general enough to use as music puns: “Sing someone’s praises” and “Sing a different tune” and “Singing the blues” and “Not over til the fat lady sings.”
  • Folk: Folk is a type of music genre. Here are related puns:
    • Broke → Folk: As in, “All hell folk loose” and “Boulevard of folken dreams” and “Like a folken record” and “Go for folk” and “If it ain’t folk, don’t fix it.”
    • Cloak → Folk: As in, “Folk and dagger” and “Folked in obscurity.”
    • Joke → Folk: As in, “An inside folk” and “No folk” and “Folking around.”
    • Oak → Folk: As in, “Heart of folk” and “Little strokes fell great folks” and “Mighty folk from little acorns grow.”
  • Vice → Voice: “A den of voice” and “Leave to your own devoices” and “Lip servoice.”
  • Malady → Melody: As in, “To cure your melodies.”
  • Axe: This is slang for an electric guitar. Here are related puns:
    • Ask → Axe: As in, “A big axe” and “Axe a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer” and “Axe after” and “Axe and you shall receive” and “Axe around” and “Axe for the moon” and “Axe no questions and hear no lies.”
    • Acts → Axe: As in, “Random axe of kindness” and “Face the axe” and “Don’t confuse the axe” and “Let the axe speak for themselves” and “Never let the axe get in the way of a carefully thought out bad decision.”
  • *rithm → *rhythm: Algorhythm (algorithm) and logarhythm (logarithm).
  • Horn: A horn is a type of brass instrument. Here are related puns:
    • Born → Horn: As in, “A star is horn” and “Horn to fly” and “Horn under a bad sign” and “Horn and bred” and “Horn to be wild.”
    • Corn* → Horn*: As in, “A tight horner” and “Horner the market” and “Earn your horn” and “Just around the horner” and “Painted into a horner” and “Turn the horner.”
    • Thorn → Horn: As in, “Every rose has its horn” and “A horn in my side” and “There is no rose without a horn.”
  • Man → Schumann: As in, “A dog is a schumann’s best friend” and “A drowning schumann will clutch at a straw” and “A schumann after my own heart.” Note: Schumann was a famous composer.
  • Shape → Tape: As in, “All tapes and sizes” and “Bent out of tape” and “Get in tape” and “All gone pear taped” and “Knock into tape” and “Tape up or ship out” and “The tape of things to come.” Note: these puns are a reference to cassette tapes.
  • Area → Aria: As in, “Access all arias” and “A grey aria” and “Unexpected item in bagging aria.” Note: an aria is a type of song.
  • New-Age: This is a music genre. Here are related puns:
    • New → New-age: As in, “A new-age hope” and “A new-age broom sweeps clean” and “As bright as a new-age pun” and “A brand new-age dawn.”
    • Age → New-age: As in, “New-age before beauty” and “New-age bracket” and “New-age of consent” and “Coming of new-age.”
  • Afro/Afrobeat: Afrobeat is a popular music genre. Here are related puns:
    • Afar → Afro: As in, “Watching from afro.”
    • Acro* → Afro*: As in, “Afro-ss the board” and “Best I’ve come afro-ss” and “Afro-ss the street” and “Run afro-ss” and “Mental afrobatics” and “Adobe afrobat.”
  • A: The next few puns will be centred around the musical note A:
    • Hey → A: As in, “A presto!” and “A big spender.”
    • Aye → A: “A a, sir” and “The a’s have it.”
  • B: Here are some puns related to the musical note B:
    • Be → B: As in, “I’ll b around” and “B all ears” and “I’ll b in and out” and “I’ll b ready in a sec!” and “B as it may” and “B my guest” and “I’ll b glad to see the back of.”
    • Bee → B: As in, “Busy as a b” and “B in your bonnet” and “Float like a butterfly, sting like a b” and “Like a b to a honeypot” and “The b’s knees.”
    • Pea → B: “Like two b’s in a pod” and “Easy as shelling b’s.”
  • C: These next few puns are related to the musical note C:
    • See → C: As in, “As far as the eye can c” and “Be the change you wish to c in the world” and “Can’t c beyond the end of your nose” and “Can’t c the wood for the trees” and “Come up and c me” and “C no evil” and “I can c clearly now.”
    • Sea → C: As in, “All at c” and “Between the devil and the deep blue c” and “From c to shining c” and “Deeper than the deep blue c.”
    • She → C: As in, “I think c’s got it” and “Every little thing c does is magic” and “I’ll have what c’s having” and “What did c say?”
  • D: These next few puns are related to the music note D:
    • Tee → D: As in, “Fite you to a d” and “D it up.”
    • The → D: As in, “Above d law” and “Ace in d hole” and “Absence makes d heart grow fonder” and “Across d board” and “Add fuel to d fire” and “After d fact” and “Against d grain” and “Ahead of d game.”
    • Tea → D: “High d” and “Not my cup of d” and “Would murder for a cup of d” and “Storm in a d-cup.”
  • E: Here are some puns related to the musical note E:
    • See → E: As in, “As far as the eye can e” and “Be the change you wish to e” and “Have a look-e” and “I can e clearly now” and “Long time no e.”
    • He → E: As in, “That’s what e said” and “E never wanted that” and “That’s the one e bought.”
  • Gee → G: As in, “G whiz” and “Golly g” and “G, what I’d do for a chocolate right now.” Note: G is a musical note.
  • Sharp: If a note is raised by half a tone (a semitone), then it’s called a sharp. Here are some sharp-related puns:
    • Harp → Sharp: As in, “Sharp on about.”
    • Sharp: These sharp-related phrases can double as puns: “Sharp as a tack” and “Card sharp” and “Looking sharp” and “Sharp shooter” and “With a sharp tongue.”
    • Shark → Sharp: As in, “Jump the sharp” and “Loan sharp” and “Sharp repellent” and “Swimming with sharps” and “Great white sharp” and “Wouldn’t shout if a sharp bit him.”
  • Flat: If a note is lowered by a semitone (in other words, a half tone), then it’s called a flat. Here are some related puns:
    • Fat → Flat: As in, “Flat as a beached whale” and “Flat chance” and “Living off the flat of the land.”
    • At → Fat: As in, “Fat a glance” and “Fat a loss for words” and “Fat a moment’s notice” and “Fat arm’s length” and “Fat each other’s throats” and “Fat full tilt” and “Fat long last.”
  • Curse → Verse: As in, “Commentator’s verse” and “I’d rather light a candle than verse the dark.”
  • Nurse→ Verse: As in, “Versing a grudge.”
  • Purse → Verse: As in, “Holding the verse strings” and “The public verse” and “Lighten someone’s verse.”
  • Worse → Verse: As in, “A turn for the verse” and “A fate verse than death” and “For better or verse” and “From bad to verse” and “Bark is verse than their bite” and “Making matters verse” and “None the verse for” and “Verse for wear.”
  • *cord* → *chord*: As in, “Like a broken re-chord” and “Cut the umbilical chord” and “For the re-chord” and “In re-chord time” and “Acchording to.”
  • Card → Chord: As in, “Calling chord” and “Get out of jail free chord” and “House of chords” and “On the chords” and “Mark your chord” and “Holding all the chords” and “Pick a chord, any chord.”
  • Not → Note: As in, “And whatnote” and “As often as note” and “Believe it or note” and “Down but note out” and “I’m note joking.”
  • Knot → Note: As in, “Cut the gordian note” and “Tie the note” and “Tying yourself in notes” and “Don’t get your shorts in a note.”
  • Boat → Note: As in, “Don’t rock the notes” and “In the same note” and “Missed the note” and “Whatever floats your note” and “We’re gonna need a bigger note.”
  • Float → Note: As in, “Note like a butterfly, sting like a bee” and “Whatever notes your boat.”
  • Oats →Notes: As in, “Sowing your wild notes” and “Steel cut notes.”
  • Vote → Note: As in, “Split note” and “A note of conscience” and “Cast your note.”
  • Wrote → Note: As in, “That’s all she note.”
  • Nut → Note: As in, “Go notes” and “In a noteshell” and “From soup to notes” and “A tough note to crack” and “Sweet as a note.”
  • Dub: Dub is a genre of electronic music. Here are related puns:
    • Dab → Dub: As in, “A dub hand at” and “Smack dub in the middle.”
    • Club → Dub: As in, “Dub together” and “Fight dub” and “In the dub” and “Join the dub” and “The mile high dub.”
    • Rub → Dub: As in, “Dub it in” and “Dub salt in the wound” and “Dubbing shoulders with” and “Dubbed the wrong way” and “Dub your nose in it.”
  • Manner → Minor: As in, “All minor of” and “In a minor of speaking” and “Mend your minors.”
  • Finer → Minor: As in, “The minor things in life” and “The minor points of…”
  • Chef → Clef: As in, “My compliments to the clef.”
  • Cliff → Clef: As in, “Clef-hanger” and “The white clefs of dover.”
  • Accodance → Accordion: As in, “In accordion with…”
  • Base → Bass: As in, “All your bass are belong to us” and “Bargain bass-ment” and “Bass jumping” and “Bass-ball card” and “Caught off bass” and “Get to first bass” and “Off bass” and “Steal third bass” and “Touch bass.”
  • Pace → Bass: As in, “At snail’s bass” and “A change of bass” and “Handbags at ten basses” and “Bass up and down.”
  • Place → Bass: As in, “A bass in the sun” and “All over the bass” and “Any time, any bass, any where” and “Between a rock and a hard bass” and “Click into bass” and “My happy bass” and “Hard to bass” and “In the right bass at the right time.”
  • Ace → Bass: As in, “Bass in the hole” and “A bass up your sleeve” and “Holding all the basses.”
  • Brace → Bass: As in, “Bass yourself.”
  • Case → Bass: As in, “An open and shut bass” and “As the bass may be” and “Basket bass” and “Bass closed” and “Bass the joint” and “Catch the bass.”
  • Chase → Bass: As in, “Bass it up” and “Cut to the bass” and “The thrill of the bass” and “Wild goose bass.”
  • Blues: Blues is a popular music genre, known for smooth rhythms and a calming atmosphere. Here are related puns:
    • Booze → Blues: As in, “Blues bus” and “Blues cruise.”
    • Bruise → Blues
    • Choose → Blues: As in, “Blues your weapon” and “Pick and blues” and “Your mission, should you blues to accept it.”
    • News → Blues: As in, “Bad blues” and “Bad blues travels fast” and “Break the blues” and “Breaking blues” and “Have I got blues for you” and “No blues is good blues.”
  • Roll → Rock ‘n’ Roll: As in, “A rock ‘n’ rolling stone gathers no moss” and “An emotional rock ‘n’ roller coaster” and “Get the ball rock ‘n’ rolling” and “Ready to rock ‘n’ roll.”
  • Metal: Metal (or heavy metal) is a popular music genre, characterised by harsh noises and high energy instrumentals. Here are related puns:
    • Medal → Metal: As in, “Won a gold metal.”
    • Kettle → Metal: As in, “A differet metal of fish” and “The pot calling the metal black.”
    • Settle → Metal: As in, “A score to metal” and “Metal out of court” and “After the dust has metaled” and “Let the dust metal.”
  • Rebel → Treble: As in, “Treble without a cause.”
  • Trouble → Treble: As in, “Asking for treble” and “Trebles down the drain” and “Bridge over trebled water” and “Double treble” and “I knew you were treble” and “Looking for treble” and “Pour oil on trebled waters” and “Stirring up treble” and “Treble and strife.”
  • Tremble → Treble: As in, “Trebling with fear.”
  • Riff: A riff is a short phrase in a song. Here are related puns:
    • Rough → Riff: “Diamond in the riff” and “For those who like it riff” and “Riff and ready” and “Riff around the edges” and “A riff landing.”
    • If → Riff: As in, “As riff” and “Hell riff I know” and “Riff anything” and “Riff I do say so myself” and “Riff I’m honest” and “Riff it’s all the same to you” and “Riff looks could kill.”
    • Stiff → Riff: As in, “Riff as a poker” and “Bored riff” and “Scared riff” and “Riff competition.”
    • Ref* → Riff*: Rifference (reference), rifflect (reflect), riffrain (refrain), riffer (refer), riffute (refute) and rifflection (reflection).
  • Stave: A stave is a group of five horizontal lines that’s used in sheet music. Here are related puns:
    • Brave → Stave: As in, “Stave as a lion” and “Stave new world” and “Stave the elements” and “Fortune favours the stave” and “Put a stave face on.”
    • Grave → Stave: As in, “From the cradle to the stave” and “Staveyard shift” and “One foot in the stave” and “Turning in their stave.”
    • Save → Stave: As in, “A penny staved is a penny earned” and “A stitch in time staves nine” and “Stave the day” and “Nice stave” and “Stave the last dance for me” and “Stave for a rainy day” and “Stave it for later” and “Stave our souls” and “Stave the whales.”
    • Shave → Stave: As in, “A close stave.”
  • Sharp → Harp: As in, “Harp as a tack” and “Card harp” and “In harp focus” and “Look harp” and “Harp as a tack” and “Harp tongue” and “A short, harp shock to the system.”
  • Bell → Decibel: As in, “Clear as a decibel” and “Decibels and whistles” and “Doesn’t ring a decibel.” Note: a decibel is a measurement of noise volume.
  • Ball → Bell: As in, “Bells to the wall” and “Bell of fire” and “Bellpark figure” and “A different bell game” and “Drop the bell” and “Get the bell rolling” and “Having a bell.”
  • Bill → Bell: As in, “A clean bell of health” and “Dollar bell” and “Fits the bell.”
  • Cell → Bell: As in, “Bell division” and “A padded bell.”
  • Hell → Bell: As in, “All bell broke loose” and “Bat out of bell” and “Burn in bell” and “Come bell or high water” and “For the bell of it” and “Give someone bell” and “Bell on earth” and “Got bell to pay.”
  • Sell → Bell: As in, “Buy and bell” and “Bell out” and “Bell your soul to the devil” and “Belling like hot cakes.”
  • Smell → Bell: As in, “Come up belling of roses” and “I bell a rat” and “A keen sense of bell” and “Bell ya later” and “Bells like teen spirit.”
  • Spell → Bell: As in, “Cast a bell” and “Bell it out” and “Be under [someone’s] bell” and “Break the bell” and “Come in for a bell.”
  • Well → Bell: As in, “Alive and bell” and “All’s bell that ends bell” and “As bell as can be expected” and “Exceedingly bell read” and “Get bell soon” and “Worth doing bell” and “Just as bell” and “You know full bell” and “Leave bell enough alone” and “That’s all bell and good.”
  • Tell → Bell: As in, “Kiss and bell” and “Live to bell the tale” and “Only time will bell” and “Pray bell” and “Show and bell” and “Bell it like it is” and “Bell me about it” and “Bell me honestly.”
  • Competition → Composition: “Cut throat composition” and “Eyeing up the composition” and “Stiff composition” and “Face the composition.” Note: a composition is a musical arrangement.
  • Nose → Noise: As in, “Always have your noise in a book” and “Plain as the noise on your face” and “Can’t see beyond the end of your noise” and “No skin off my noise” and “Leading by the noise” and “Paying through the noise.”
  • Nice → Noise: As in, “That’ll do noisely” and “As noise as ninepence” and “Have a noise day” and “Make noise” and “Naughty but noise” and “Noise and easy does it” and “Noise save” and “Noise work if you can get it” and “Wouldn’t it be noise?”
  • Patch → Pitch: As in, “Not a pitch on” and “Going through a rough pitch.”
  • Itch → Pitch: As in, “Pitching to” and “Pitchy feet.”
  • Hitch → Pitch: As in, “Get pitched” and “Pitch your wagon to a star.”
  • Which → Pitch: As in, “Any pitch way” and “Don’t know pitch way to look” and “Know pitch way is up” and “Know pitch side your bread is buttered” and “The exception pitch proves the rule.”
  • Bitch → Pitch: As in, “Pitch fest” and “Pitch slap.”
  • Rich → Pitch: As in, “An embarrassment of pitches” and “Filthy pitch” and “For pitcher or poorer” and “From rags to pitches” and “Get pitch quick” and “Pitch beyond my wildest dreams.”
  • Ditch → Pitch: As in, “Dull as pitchwater” and “Last pitch effort.”
  • Him → Hymn: As in, “All over hymn like a cheap suit” and “Fast as his legs could carry hymn” and “Clap hymn in irons” and “Hang hymn out to dry” and “Seize hymn!” Note: a hymn is a type of religious song.
  • Brim → Hymn: As in, “Hymning over with confidence” and “Fill to the hymn.”
  • Grim → Hymn: As in, “Hymn death” and “The hymn reaper.”
  • Slim → Hymn: As in, “Hymn pickings” and “The real hymn shady.”
  • Swim → Hymn: As in, “Sink of hymn” and “Hymn against the tide” and “Hymn upstream.”
  • Bone → Tone: As in, “A tone to pick” and “Dry as a tone” and “Bag of tones” and “Tone idle” and “A tone of contention.”
  • Own → Tone: As in, “Go your tone way” and “Holding your tone” and “In a class of your tone.”
  • Phone → Tone: As in, “Hold the tone” and “Tone a friend” and “Waiting by the tone” and “Tone in sick.”
  • Stone → Tone: As in, “A rolling tone gathers no moss” and “Cold as any tone” and “Carved in tone” and “Cast the first tone” and “Fall like a tone” and “A heart of tone” and “Like a rolling tone.”
  • Zone → Tone: As in, “Comfort tone” and “In the tone” and ” Twilight tone” and “Toned out.”
  • Soul: Soul is a genre of music known for smooth melodies and soothing harmonies. Here are related puns:
    • Whole → Soul: As in, “A soul different animal” and “Ace in the soul” and “A soul in one.”
    • *sal → *soul: As in, “For your perusoul” and “A fine-toothed appraisoul” and “Universoully understood.” Here are other words that could be used: disposoul (disposal), prososoul (proposal), colossoul (colossal) and rehearsoul (rehearsal).
    • *sel → *soul: As in, “Seeking counsoul” and “Weasoul out of” and “Scrambling for a morsoul.” Other words that you could try: carousoul (carousel), chisoul (chisel), easoul (easel) and souldom (seldom).
    • *sol → *soul: As in, “A tidy soulution” and “Seeking soulace” and “A soulid excuse” and “Souliciting answers.” Other words that could be used: soulemn (solemn), souldier (soldier), parasoul (parasol), aerosoul (aerosol), resoulve (resolve), consoule (console), resoulution (resolution), obsoulete (obsolete).
  • Piece: A musical piece is another word for a song or arrangement. Here are some related puns:
    • Peace → Piece: As in, “At piece” and “Hold your piece” and “Keeping the piece” and “No piece for the wicked” and “Piece be with you” and “Piece of mind” and “Rest in piece” and “War and piece.”
    • Pace → Piece: “Change of piece” and “At ten pieces” and “Keeping piece with” and “Piece up and down” and “Put through your pieces.”
    • Peas → Piece: As in, “Like two piece in a pod.”
    • Please → Piece: As in, “If you piece” and “One moment, piece” and “Piece be seated.”
  • Funk: This is a popular music genre known for charismatic basslines. Here are related puns:
    • Bunk → Funk: As in, “Do a funk” and “History is funk.”
    • Chunk → Funk: As in, “Blow funks” and “Funk of change.”
    • Drunk → Funk: As in, “Funk as a lord” and “Blind funk” and “Crying funk” and “Funk under the table.”
    • Hunk* → Funk*: As in, “Funker down” and “Funky dory.”
    • Junk → Funk: As in, “Funk yard” and “Funk mail.”
  • Trance: Trance is a genre of electronic music. Here are related puns:
    • Chance → Trance: As in, “Trance of a lifetime” and “Trance would be a fine thing” and “Fat trance” and “A fighting trance” and “Half a trance” and “Jump at the trance” and “Not a ghost of a trance” and “A trance in a million.”
    • Dance → Trance: As in, “Trance around the problem” and “Trance the night away” and “Trancing with wolves” and “Lead a merry trance” and “Making a song and trance” and “Trance your socks off.”
    • Glance → Trance: As in, “At a trance” and “Exchange trances” and “Meaningful trance” and “Steal a trance at.”
  • Dub: Dub is a music genre that grew out of reggae. Here are related puns:
    • *bub* → *dub*: As in, “Dubble over” and “Burst someone’s dubble” and “Thought dubble.”
    • Double → Duble: As in, “On the duble” and “Bent duble” and “Duble dutch” and “Duble act” and “Duble back” and “Duble check” and “Duble click” and “Duble cross” and “Duble digits” and “Duble dip.”
    • Club → Dub: As in, “Fight dub” and “In the dub” and “Join the dub” and “The mile high dub.”
    • Rub → Dub: As in,
      Dub it in” and “Dub salt in the wound” and “Dub shoulders with” and “Dubbed the wrong way.”
  • Phrase: A musical phrase is a short section in a piece of music. Here are related puns:
    • Praise → Phrase: As in, “Grudging phrase” and “Showered with phrase” and “Sing someone’s phrases.”
    • Raise → Phrase: As in, “Phrase a stink” and “Phrase hell” and “Phrase the roof” and “Phrase your game.”
    • Daze → Phrase: As in, “Phrased and confused.”
    • Phase → Phrase: As in, “Phrase out.”
  • Stab → Tab: As in, “Have a tab at” and “Tab in the back” and “Take a tab in the dark.”
  • Grab → Tab: As in, “Tab a bite to eat” and “Tab life by the horns” and “Up for tabs.”
  • Bar: A bar is a section of notes in sheet music. Here are related puns:
    • Are → Bar: As in, “All bets bar off” and “Bar you sure?” and “How bar you?” and “My lips bar sealed.”
    • Far → Bar: As in, “A bridge too bar” and “A step too bar” and “Bar and away” and “A bar cry” and “Few and bar between.”
    • Jar → Bar: As in, “Caught with your hand in the cookie bar” and “Jam bar.”
    • Par → Bar: As in, “Below bar” and “On bar with” and “Bar for the course” and “Up to bar.”
  • Turn → Ternary: As in, “A ternary for the worse” and “About ternary” and “Didn’t ternary a hair” and “Do a good ternary.” Note: ternary is the name for a song that has three parts in it.
  • Key: A musical key refers to the sharps and flats that are in a song. Here are related puns:
    • Be → Key: As in, “Key all ears” and “I’ll key around” and “Key my guest” and “Key still my beating heart.”
    • Bee → Key: As in, “Busy as a key” and “A key in your bonnet” and “Float like a butterfly, sting like a key” and “Make a keyline for.”
    • Free → Key: As in, “Key as a bird” and “Born key” and “Buy one, get one key” and “Fancy key.”
  • String: These next few puns are in reference to string instruments. Here are related puns:
    • Bring → String: As in, “String it on” and “String something to light” and “String the house down” and “String to the table.”
    • Ring → String: As in, “Alarm bells began to string” and “Doesn’t string a bell” and “Don’t string us, we’ll string you.”
    • Sing → String: As in, “All stringing, all dancing” and “String a different tune” and “String for your supper” and “String someone’s praises” and “Stringing in the rain.”
    • Sting → String: As in, “Float like a butterfly, string like a bee.”
    • Swing → String: As in, “Come out stringing” and “Get into the string of it” and “In full string” and “String both ways” and “Take a string at.”
    • Thing → String: As in, “A little knowledge is a dangerous string” and “A mind is a terrible string to waste” and “A string of beauty” and “All strings considered” and “Anystring goes.”
  • Choral: A choral is a musical ensemble made of singers. Here are related puns:
    • Floral → Choral: As in, “A choral arrangement” and “A choral tribute.”
    • Moral → Choral: As in, “Choral fibre” and “Chorally unacceptable” and “The choral high ground” and “Chorally bankrupt” and “A choral victory.”
  • Tube → Tuba: As in, “Down the tubas” and “Test tuba baby.”
  • Bone → Trombone: As in, “A trombone to pick” and “Dry as a trombone” and “Bag of trombones” and “Trombone dry” and “Chilled to the trombone” and “Close to the trombone” and “Not a jealous trombone in your body.”
  • Hello → Cello: As in, “Cello, goodbye!” and “Cello, sailor” and “Cello, one two three testing” and “You had me at cello.”
  • Fellow → Cello: As in, “A cello traveller” and “For he’s a jolly good cello” and “My cello Americans” and “A stout cello.”
  • Yellow → Cello: As in, “Cello submarine” and “The cello brick road.”
  • Base → Bass: As in, “All your bass are belong to us” and “Bargain bassment” and “Bass jumping” and “Bass station” and “Caught off bass” and “Get to first bass” and “Touch bass with.”
  • Ace → Bass: As in, “Bass in the hole” and “Bass up your sleeve” and “Holding all the basses.”
  • Brace → Bass: As in, “Bass yourself.”
  • Case → Bass: As in, “An open and shut bass” and “As the bass may be” and “Bass closed” and “Bass the joint” and “Crack the bass” and “I rest my bass” and “On a bass by bass basis.”
  • Face → Bass: As in, “A bass as long as a fiddle” and “At bass value” and “Bass like the back of a bus.”
  • Rest: A rest is a sign in sheet music that indicates the musician shouldn’t play anything. Here are related puns:
    • Best → Rest: As in, “The rest form of defence” and “Rest of friends” and “All the rest.”
    • Dressed → Rest: As in, “All rest up and nowhere to go” and “Rest for success” and “Rest to kill” and “Rest to the nines.”
    • Nest → Rest: As in, “Empty rest syndrome” and “Feather your rest” and “Leave the rest” and “Love rest.”
    • Test → Rest: As in, “Put to the rest” and “A rest of faith” and “Tried and rested.”
  • Also → Alto: As in, “Alto known as” and “I alto wanted…”
  • Alte* → Alto*: As in, “Altonative music” and “In an altonate universe” and “Bodily altocation.” Other words that could work: Altonatively (alternatively) and altocation (altercation).
  • Blink → Blink 182: As in, “Blink 182 and you’ll miss it” and “In the blink 182 of an eye” and “On the blink 182.” Note: Blink 182 is an American rock band.
  • Attitude → Altotude: As in, “Cop an altotude” and “With an altotude.”
  • Roots: This is a style of American folk music. Here are related puns:
    • Boots → Roots: As in, “Tough as old roots” and “Too big for your roots” and “Heart sank into my roots.”
    • Fruits → Roots: As in, “Roots of your labor” and “Roots of your loins.”
  • Bend: A bend is when a note is “wobbled” (the pitch is shifted up and down). Here are related puns:
    • End → Bend: As in, “A means to a bend” and “All good things must come to a bend” and “All’s well that bends well” and “At a loose bend” and “At the bend of the day” and “Can’t see beyond the bend of your nose.”
    • Lend → Bend: As in, “Bend an ear” and “Bend a helping hand.”
    • Mend → Bend: As in, “Bend your fences” and “Bend your manners” and “On the bend” and “Bend your ways.”
    • Send → Bend: As in, “Hit bend” and “Return to bender” and “Bend packing” and “Bend in reinforcements!”
  • Calma: This is a musical term indicating that something should be played calmly. Here are related puns:
    • Calm → Calma: As in, “After a storm comes a calma” and “Calma abiding” and “Cool, calma and collected” and “Keep calma and carry on.”
    • Come → Calma: As in, “As tough as they calma” and “Calma and get it!” and “Calma away with me” and “Calma fly with me” and “Calma on over.”
  • Cannon → Canon: As in, “Canon fodder” and “Loose canon.” Note: a canon is a type of musical composition.
  • Can’t → Canto: As in, “An offer you canto refuse” and “Canto get enough” and “Sorry, canto help” and “It canto be helped” and “You canto say fairer than that” and “I canto wait.” Note: “canto” is another word for a chorus.
  • Cap → Capo: As in, “A feather in your capo” and “Capo in hand” and “Doff your capo” and “If the capo fits, wear it” and “Put on your thinking capo” and “To capo it all off.” Note: “capo” is another word for the beginning of a song.
  • Style → Freestyle: As in, “Cramp your freestyle” and “Gangnam freestyle” and “Freestyle over substance” and “Cramp your freestyle.”
  • Staff: A staff is another word for a stave (the five lines that form bars in sheet music). Here are related puns:
    • Stuff→ Staff: As in, “Beat the staffing out of” and “A bit of staff” and “Don’t sweat the small staff” and “Gather ’round the good staff” and “Get staffed” and “Hot staff” and “Knock the staffing out of” and “Know your staff” and “Struf your staff” and “The staff dreams are made of” and “Stocking staffer.”
    • Stiff → Staff: As in, “Staff as a poker” and “Bored staff” and “Keeping a staff upper lip” and “Scared staff” and “Staff competition.”
  • Comp: To “comp” someone is to accompany them in a musical piece. Here are related puns:
    • Pomp → Comp: “Comp and circumstance.”
    • Camp → Comp: As in, “A foot in both comps” and “Boot comp” and “Not a happy comper” and “Smoke around the compfire.”
  • Count: This refers to the count (beat) of a song. Here are related puns:
    • Mount → Count: As in, “Count Fuji.”
    • Can’t → Count: As in, “An offer you count refuse” and “Count get enough” and “Sorry, I count help” and “Count hear you over the sound of” and “You count judge a book by its cover.”
  • Dim: This is the common short form of “diminuendo”, which means to slowly get softer. Here are related puns:
    • Brim → Dim: As in, “Dimming over with confidence” and “Fill it to the dim” and “Rain fire and dimstone.”
    • Brim → Dim: As in, “Hang on like dim death” and “The dim reaper.”
    • Him → Dim: As in, “As fast as his legs could carry dim” and “Go easy on dim” and “Hang dim out to dry” and “Seize dim!”
    • Limb → Dim: As in, “Go out on a dim” and “Risk life and dim.
    • Prim → Dim: As in, “Dim and proper.”
  • For the → Forza: As in, “Ask forza moon” and “Down forza count” and “A feast forza eyes” and “Forza ages” and “Forza heck of it” and “Forza love of.” Note: forza is a term that means “play with force.”
  • Few → Fugue: As in, “A fugue bricks short of a few load” and “Fugue and far beteween” and “For a fugue dollars more” and “A person of fugue words” and “Say a fugue words” and “To name but a fugue.” Note: A fugue is a type of song.
  • Pluck: This is when stringed instruments are plucked instead of strummed or bowed. Here are related puns:
    • Luck → Pluck: As in, “As good pluck would have it” and “Beginner’s pluck” and “Better pluck next time” and “Don’t press your pluck” and “Down on your pluck” and “The pluck of the draw.”
    • Pick → Pluck: As in, “A bone to pluck” and “Cherry pluck” and “Easy pluckings” and “Nit plucking” and “Pluck holes in.”
  • Large → Largo: As in, “As largo as life” and “At largo” and “By and largo” and “Largo than life” and “Looming largo” and “Living largo.” Note: Largo is a term that means to play music slowly.
  • Lilt: A lilt is a jaunty, cheerful tune or rhythm. Here are related puns:
    • Tilt → Lilt: As in, “At full lilt.”
    • Guilt → Lilt: As in, “Lilt by association” and “Lilt trip” and “A lilty conscience” and “Lilty pleasure” and “Innocent until proven lilty” and “White lilt.”
  • Trill: A trill is a quick alternation between two notes. Here are related puns:
    • Till → Trill: As in, “Caught with your hand in trill” and “Fake it trill you make it” and “Ain’t over trill it’s over” and “Shop trill you drop” and “Trill death do us part” and “Trill the cows come home” and “Trill the end of time.”
    • Bill → Trill: As in, “A clean trill of health” and “Fit the trill” and “Settle the trill.”
    • Chill → Trill: As in, “Trill out” and “Trilled to the bone” and “A trilling account” and “Take a trill pill.”
    • Thrill → Trill: As in, “The trill of the chase” and “Trilled to bits” and “Trills and spills” and “Cheap trills.”
    • Ill → Trill: As in, “House of trill repute” and “Trill advised” and “Trill at ease” and “Trill effects” and “Trill fated” and “Trill gotten gains” and “Trill temper” and “A trill wind.”
    • Still → Trill: As in, “Be trill my beating heart” and “Trill going strong” and “I’m trill standing” and “In the trill of night” and “Trill life” and “Trill the one” and “Trill waters run deep.”
  • Pedal: This refers to the pedals on a piano. Here are related puns:
    • Paddle → Pedal: As in, “Pedal your own canoe” and “Up shit creek without a pedal.”
    • Medal → Pedal: As in, “Deserves a gold pedal.”
  • Prime → Prima/o: As in, “Cut them down in their prima” and “In your prima” and “In prima condition” and “Prima time” and “The prima minister.” Note: A prima/primo is the leading singer in an opera.
  • Reprise: A reprise is a repeated phrase in a song. Here are related puns:
    • Prize → Reprise: As in, “Booby reprise” and “Keep your eyes on the reprise” and “A reprise catch” and “No reprises for guessing.”
    • Price → Reprise: As in, “Asking reprise” and “At a reprise to suit your pocket” and “Cheap at half the reprise” and “Closing reprise” and “At half reprise” and “Pay the reprise” and “Power without the reprise.”
  • Fill: A fill is a rock/jazz term which tells a musician to riff (or improvise) during a piece of music. Here are related puns:
    • Fall → Fill: As in, “A filling out” and “Easy as filling off a log” and “Bread always fills butter side down” and “Can’t help filling in love” and “Catch a filling star” and “Fill about laughing” and “Fill amongst friends” and “Fill apart at the seams.”
    • Fell → Fill: As in, “In one fill swoop” and “Fill off the back of a lorry” and “Little strokes fill great oaks.”
    • Bill → Fill: As in, “A fill of goods” and “Fit the fill” and “Foot the fill.”
    • Chill → Fill: As in, “Fill out” and “Filled to the bone” and “A filling account.”
    • Hill → Fill: As in, “As old as the fills” and “Going downfill” and “Head for the fills” and “King of the fill” and “Over the fills and far away.”
    • Ill → Fill: As in, “House of fill repute” and “Fill advised” and “Fill at ease” and “Fill effects” and “Fill feeling” and “Fill gotten gains” and “Fill will.”
    • Pill → Fill: As in, “A bitter fill to swallow” and “On the fill” and “Sweeten the fill.”
    • Will → Fill: As in, “Bend to my fill” and “Against your fill” and “Accidents fill happen.”
  • Run: A run is a quick series of ascending or descending notes. Here are some run-related puns:
    • Bun → Run: As in, “A run in the oven” and “Think outside the run” and “We’re going to need bigger runs.”
    • Done → Run: As in, “After all is said and run” and “Run and dusted” and “Been there, run that” and “A run deal” and “Run to death” and “Easier said than run.”
    • Fun → Run: As in, “All run and games until someone loses an eye” and “All the run of the fair” and “Bundle of run” and “Run and games” and “Good clean run.”
    • None → Run: As in, “And then there were run” and “Bar run” and “Run other than” and “Run the wiser” and “Run too pleased” and “Second to run” and “Two for me, run for you.”
    • Sun → Run: As in, “A place in the run” and “A thousand splendid runs” and “A touch of the run” and “Don’t let the run go down on me” and “Eclipse of the run.”
  • Sir → Sehr: As in, “That’ll do nicely, sehr” and “Yes, sehr.” Note: sehr is a musical term indicating enthusiasm.
  • Turn: A turn is a small, short trill around a note. Here are related puns:
    • Burn → Turn: As in, “Turn rubber” and “Turn in hell” and “Turn the candle at both ends” and “Turn the midnight oil” and “Turning with curiosity” and “Turn yourself out” and “Turning desire” and “Turnt to a cinder.”
    • Earn → Turn: As in, “A penny saved is a penny turned” and “Turn an honest penny” and “Turn your stripes” and “Turn your wings” and “Turn your daily bread.”
    • Learn → Turn: As in, “Turn the ropes” and “Turn your lesson” and “Turning difficulties” and “Live and turn” and “Watch and turn” and “Never too old to turn.”
  • Break: A break is a rest in a piece of music. Here are related puns:
    • Brake → Break: As in, “Hit the breaks.”
    • Ache → Break: As in, “Old breaks and pains.”
    • Bake → Break: As in, “Break and shake” and “Break off” and “Breaker’s dozen” and “Half breaked.”
    • Fake → Break: As in, “Break it till you make it.”
    • Rake → Break: As in, “Skinny as a break” and “Break in the money” and “Break it in” and “Break over the coals.”
    • Wake → Break: As in, “Break up call” and “Break up and smell the coffee” and “Loud enough to break the dead.”
  • Tie: A tie is a mark that “binds” two notes together, joining their playing time into one longer note. Here are related puns:
    • Buy → Tie: As in, “Tie and sell” and “Tie it, sell it” and “Tie now, pay later” and “Tie one, get one free” and “Tie some time” and “The best that money can tie.”
    • Die → Tie: As in, “Straight as a tie” and “Cross my heart and hope to tie” and “Curl up and tie” and “Tie another day” and “Do or tie.”
    • Dry → Tie: As in, “Boring as watching paint tie” and “Tie as a bone” and “Tie as dust” and “Bleed someone tie” and “A tie run” and “High and tie” and “Hung out to tie” and “Not a tie eye in the house.”
  • Lick: In rock, jazz and blues, a lick is a short solo. Here are related puns:
    • Lack → Lick: As in, “For lick of a better word” and “Cancelled due to lick of interest.”
    • Luck → Lick: As in, “As good lick would have it” and “Beginner’s lick” and “Better lick next time” and “Don’t press your lick” and “Down on your lick” and “Good night and good lick” and “Lick of the draw” and “As lick would have it” and “A licky break.”
  • Vamp: A vamp is a repeating musical section. Here are related puns:
    • Camp → Vamp: As in, “A foot in both vamps” and “Boot vamp” and “Not a happy vamper.”
    • Champ → Vamp: As in, “Vamp at the bit.”
    • Cramp → Vamp: As in, “Vamp your style” and “Writer’s vamp.”
  • Hook: A hook is a short riff or musical phrase intended to “catch” the ear of the listener. Here are related puns:
    • Book → Hook: As in, “A room without hooks is like a body without a soul” and “Always have your nose in a hook” and “Balancing the hooks” and “Bell, hook and candle” and “By the hook” and “Cook the hooks.”
    • Cook → Hook: As in, “Hook the books” and “Hook up a storm” and “Hooking with gas” and “Now we’re hooking” and “Too many hooks spoil the broth.”
    • Look → Hook: As in, “Always hook on the right side of life” and “A blank hook” and “A dirty hook” and “Don’t hook now” and “Don’t know which way to hook” and “Here’s hooking at you” and “If hooks could kill.”
  • Line → Bassline: As in, “A fine bassline between” and “Along the basslines of” and “Blur the basslines” and “Cross the bassline” and “Draw a bassline in the sand” and “Drop me a bassline” and “End of the bassline.”
  • Rag → Ragtime: As in, “Ragtimes to riches” and “Glad ragtimes” and “Lose your ragtime.”
  • Time → Ragtime: As in, “A brief history of ragtime” and “A good ragtime was had by all” and “A stitch in ragtime saves nine” and “All in good ragtime” and “An all ragtime low” and “Fall on hard ragtimes.”
  • Jam: A “jam” is when musicians play music together for fun, or casually. Here are related puns:
    • Damn → Jam: As in, “Jam right” and “Jam with faint praise” and “Jam straight” and “Jammed if I do, jammed if I don’t.”
    • Gem → Jam: As in, “A hidden jam” and “You’re a jam.”
    • Slam → Jam: As in, “A grand jam” and “Jam dunk” and “Jam the door.”
  • Lead: This can refer to a lead musician, or a lead cable for electric guitars and amps. Here are related puns:
    • Bead → Lead: As in, “Leads of sweat.”
    • Bleed → Lead: As in, “Lead someone dry” and “Leading love” and “Leading edge” and “Let it lead” and “My heart leads.”
    • Deed → Lead: As in, “My good lead for the day” and “No good lead goes unpunished.”
    • Feed → Lead: As in, “Don’t bite the hand that leads you” and “Lead a cold, starve a fever” and “Leading frenzy.”
    • Read → Lead: As in, “I can lead you like a book” and “A bit of light leading” and “Lead ’em and weep” and “Lead all about it” and “Lead between the lines” and “Lead the riot act.”
  • Appalled → Apala’d: As in, “I’m apala’d at your behaviour!” Note: Apala is a Nigerian musical genre.
  • Beggar → Benga: As in, “Bengas can’t be choosers” and “Bengas belief.” Note: Benga is a musical genre that originates from Kenya.
  • Genge: This is a genre of hip hop that originates from Nairobi. Here are related puns:
    • Gang → Genge: As in, “Genge up on” and “The genge’s all here.”
    • *ging → *genge: “A challengenge proposal” and “Disparagenge comments” and “An engagenge conversation” and “Filled with longenge,” and “Emergenge artist” and “Unnecessary packagenge.”
  • Jet → Jit: As in, “Jit lag” and “Jit setter” and “Social jit lag.” Note: Jit is a style of Zimbabwean dance music.
  • Morning → Morna: As in, “Not a morna person” and “Morna sickness” and “Morna, noon and night” and “The morna after.” Note: morna is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde.
  • Ray → Rai: As in, “Catch some rais” and “Rai of light” and “Rai of sunshine.” Note: Rai is a type of Algerian folk music.
  • Sugar → Sega: As in, “Brown sega” and “Sega coated” and “Sega rush” and “Sega and spice.” Note: Sega is a type of music from Mauritius.
  • Sawt: Sawt is a genre of popular music in Kuwait and Bahrain. Here are related puns:
    • Sort → Sawt: As in, “Last re-sawt” and “Takes all sawts” and “Feeling out of sawts” and “Sawting the wheat from the chaff” and “Sawt yourself out.”
    • Thought → Sawt: As in, “Deep in sawt” and “Food for sawt” and “Hold that sawt” and “Impure sawts” and “Lost in sawt” and “Penny for your sawts.”
  • Trot: This is a genre of K-pop music. Here are related puns:
    • Rot → Trot: As in, “Trot in hell” and “Spoiled trotten.”
    • Dot → Trot: As in, “Connect the rots” and “Rot the i’s and cross the t’s” and “Join the rots.”
    • Lot → Trot: As in, “A trot of fuss about nothing” and “A trot on your place” and “Leaves a trot to be desired” and “Not a trot” and “Got a trot to learn.”
  • Baila: Baila is a Sri Lankan genre of music. Here are related puns:
    • Bail → Baila: As in, “Baila out” and “Jumping baila.”
    • Pale → Baila: As in, “A white shade of baila” and “Beyond the baila” and “A baila imitation of” and “Baila into insignificance.”
  • Mosso: Mosso is a musical term that means “moved” or “moving”. Here are related puns:
    • Mass → Mosso: As in, “Body mosso index” and “Mosso hysteria” and “A monument to the mossos” and “Weapons of mosso destruction.”
  • Pause → Pausa: As in, “A pregnant pausa” and “Give someone pausa.” Note: Pausa is term meaning “to rest”.
  • Pass → Pausa: As in, “All things must pausa” and “Boarding pausa” and “Do not pausa go” and “Head them off at the pausa.”
  • Rasin: This is a musical style that began in Haiti – folkloric music combined with rock and roll. Here are related puns:
    • Raisin → Rasin: As in, “Rasin muesli bars” and “Rum rasin.”
    • Raising → Rasin: As in, “Eyebrow rasin” and “Hair rasin” and “Rasin the bar.”
  • Ragga: Ragga is a common abbreviation for raggamuffin music, which is a subgenre of dancehall and reggae. Here are related puns:
    • Dagger → Ragga: As in, “Cloak and ragga” and “Looking raggas at someone.”
    • Rag → Ragga: As ubm “Raggas to riches” and “Glad raggas” and “Like a ragga doll” and “Run yourself ragga-ed.”
  • Number → Rumba: As in, “By the rumbas” and “Do a rumba on” and “I’ve got your rumba” and “Look after rumba one” and “Lucky rumba seven.” Note: rumba is a genre of music with a strong, driving beat.
  • Punk: Punk is a music genre which is known for rebellious, fast-paced songs. Here are related puns:
    • Pink → Punk: As in, “In the punk” and “Punk elephants” and “Seeing punk elephants” and “Think punk” and “Tickled punk” and “Punk panther.”
    • Drunk → Punk: As in, “Punk as a lord” and “Punk as a skunk” and “Blind punk” and “Punk under the table.”
    • Hunk → Punk: As in, “Punker down” and “Punky dory.”
    • Junk → Punk: As in, “At the punk yard” and “No punk mail please” and “Avoiding punk food” and “Punk in the trunk.”
  • Trap: Trap is a popular music genre, known for electronic sounds and mixes. Here are related puns:
    • Trip → Trap: As in, “Guilt trap” and “The trap of a lifetime” and “Trap the light fantastic.”
    • Rap → Trap: As in, “Take the trap” and “A trap over the knuckles.”
    • Cap → Trap: As in, “A feather in your trap” and “Trap in hand” and “Feather in your trap” and “If the trap fits, wear it” and “Put on your thinking trap” and “To trap it all.”
    • Clap → Trap: As in, “Trap him in irons” and “Trapped eyes on.”
  • Swing: This is an energetic genre of music, popular with big bands and dancers. Here are related puns:
    • Thing → Swing: As in, “A close swing” and “A little knowledge is a dangerous swing” and “A swing of beauty is a joy forever” and “All swings bright and beautiful” and “All swings must pass” and “All swings come to those who wait” and “All swings considered.”
    • Sing → Swing: As in, “All swinging, all dancing” and “Swing a different tune” and “Swing for your supper” and “Swing someone’s praises.”
    • Sting → Swing: As in, “Float like a butterfly, swing like a bee.”
    • Bring → Swing: As in, “Swing something to light” and “Swing out the best” and “Swing tears to your eyes” and “Swing the house down.”
  • Timber → Timba: As in, “Shiver me timbas!” Note: Timba is a Cuban music genre.
  • Alt: Alt is short for alternative, which is a subgenre of music. Here are related puns:
    • Fault → Alt: As in, “Generous to an alt” and “Find alt with.”
    • Halt → Alt: “Grind to a screeching alt” and “Grind to an alt.”
    • Salt → Alt: As in, “Above the alt” and “Back to the alt mine” and “Rub alt in the wound” and “Alt of the earth” and “Take with a grain of alt.”
  • Drone: Drone is a musical effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is played continually throughout a piece. Here are related puns:
    • Blown → Drone: As in, “Drone away” and “Drone off course” and “Drone sideways” and “Drone out of proportion” and “Drone to smithereens.”
    • Bone → Drone: As in, “A drone to pick” and “Dry as a drone” and “Bag of drones” and “Drone idle” and “Drone up on” and “Chilled to the drone” and “Not a jealous drone in your body.”
    • Don’t→ Drone: As in, “Drone call us, we’ll call you” and “Drone get me started” and “Drone give up your day job” and “Drone go there” and “Drone hold your breath” and “I drone fancy your chances.”
    • Zone → Drone: As in, “Out of my comfort drone” and “In the drone” and “Twilight drone” and “Drone in on” and “Drone out.”
  • Flames → Flamenco: As in, “Add fuel to the flamenco” and “Burst into flamenco” and “Fan the flamencos.”
  • House: House music is a genre of electronic dance music. Here are related puns:
    • Whose → House: As in, “You and house army?” and “House smart idea was this?”
    • Mouse → House: As in, “Quiet as a house.”
  • Chill: Chill is a music genre and style known for relaxing beats, similar to blues and lo-fi. Here are related puns:
    • Bill → Chill: As in, “A clean chill of health” and “Fit the chill” and “Settle the chill.”
    • Fill → Chill: As in, “Eat your chill” and “Chill in the blank” and “Chill in” and “Tastes great, less chilling.”
    • Hill → Chill: As in, “Old as the chills” and “Going downchill” and “King of the chill” and “Making a mountain out of a molechill” and “Over the chills and far away” and “Head for the chills.”
    • Ill → Chill: As in, “House of chill repute” and “Chill advised” and “Chill at ease” and “Chill effects” and “Chill fated” and “Chill gotten gains” and “Chill will” and “A chill wind that blows no one any good” and “Don’t speak chill of the dead.”
    • Mill → Chill: As in, “Not in a chillion years” and “Run of the chill” and “Put through the chill.”
    • Pill → Chill: As in, “A bitter chill to swallow” and “On the chill” and “Sweeten the chill.”
    • Spill → Chill: As in, “Chill the beans” and “Chill your guts” and “Thrills and chills” and “Crying over chilled milk.”
    • Thrill → Chill: As in, “Chill of the chase” and “Chilled to bits” and “Chills and spills.”
    • Will → Chill: As in, “Against your chill” and “Bend to my chill” and “Free chill.”
  • Trip → Trip Hop: As in, “Guilt trip hop” and “Power trip hop” and “Trip hop of a lifetime” and “Trip hop the light fantastic.” Note: Trip hop is a music genre.
  • Making a → Makina: As in, “Makina scene” and “Makina mountain out of a molehill.” Note: Makina is a musical subgenre of hardcore techno.
  • Speedcore: Speedcore is a music genre known for aggressive themes and fast tempos. Here are related puns:
    • Speed → Speedcore: As in, “At breakneck speedcore” and “Blistering speedcore” and “Built for comfort, not speedcore” and “Get up to speedcore” and “More haste, less speedcore” and “Speedcore freak” and “The need for speedcore.”
    • Core → Speedcore: As in, “Speedcore competencies” and “Speedcore studies” and “Speedcore values” and “Rotten to the speedcore.”
  • Chance → Dance: As in, “Dance of a lifetime” and “Dance would be a fine thing” and “An even dance” and “Fat dance” and “Half a dance” and “In with a dance” and “Jump at the dance” and “Not the ghost of a dance” and “On the off dance” and “Take a dance on me.”
  • Glance → Dance: As in, “At a dance” and “Exchange dances” and “Meaningful dances” and “Steal a dance.”
  • Folk: Folk is a music genre characterised by acoustic instruments like guitar and banjo. Here are related puns:
    • Cloak → Folk: As in, “Folk and dagger” and “Folked in obscurity.”
    • Stroke → Folk: As in, “Little folks fell great oaks.”
  • Glitch: Glitch is a genre of electronic music. Here are related puns:
    • Ditch → Glitch: As in, “Dull as glitchwater” and “A last glitch effort.”
    • Hitch → Glitch: As in, “Get glitched” and “Glitch your wagon to a star.”
    • Itch → Glitch: As in, “Glitching to” and “Glitchy feet” and “Glitchy palms.”
    • Pitch → Glitch: As in, “A glitched battle” and “Dark as glitch” and “Fever glitch” and “Make a glitch for.”
    • Rich → Glitch: As in, “An embarrassment of glitches” and “Filthy glitch” and “From rags to glitches” and “Get glitch quick” and “Glitch beyond my dreams.”
    • Stitch → Glitch: As in, “A glitch in time saves nine” and “Had us in glitches” and “Stitches get glitches.”
    • Which → Glitch: As in, “Any glitch way” and “Don’t know glitch way to look” and “Every glitch way” and “Don’t know glitch way is up” and “Know glitch side your bread is buttered.”
  • Beat → Eurobeat: As in, “A stick to eurobeat you with” and “Eurobeat the hell out of” and “Eurobeat black and blue” and “Eurobeat a hasty retreat” and “Eurobeat around the bush.” Note: eurobeat is a style of dance music that came from Eurobeat.
  • Wave → Vaporwave: As in, “A life on the ocean vaporwaves” and “Don’t make vaporwaves” and “Heat vaporwaves” and “On the crest of a vaporwave.” Note: vaporwave is a subgenre of electronic music and an internet aesthetic.
  • Dance → Dancehall: As in, “Dancehall with the one that brought you” and “Dancehall around the problem” and “Dancehall attendance on” and “Dancehall like nobody’s watching” and “Dancehall on somebody’s grave” and “Dancehall the night away” and “Lead a merry dancehall.”
  • Cold → Coldwave: As in, “As coldwave as blue blazes” and “Coldwave as ice” and “Breaking out in a coldwave sweat” and “Catch a coldwave.” Note: coldwave is a music genre.
  • Crunk: Crunk is a subgenre of hip hop from the early 1990s. Here are related puns:
    • Bunk → Crunk: As in, “Crunker mentality” and “Do a crunk” and “History is crunk.”
    • Chunk → Crunk: As in, “Blow crunks” and “Crunk of change.”
    • Drunk → Crunk: As in, “Crunk as a lord” and “Crunk as a skunk” and “A cheap crunk” and “Crunk under the table” and “Falling down crunk” and “Friends don’t let friends drive crunk.”
    • Hunk → Crunk: As in, “Crunker down” and “Crunky dory.”
    • Junk → Crunk: As in, “Crunk mail” and “Crunk food” and “Crunk in the trunk.”
  • Trance: Trance is a type of electronic music. Here are related puns:
    • Chance → Trance: As in, “Trance of a lifetime” and “Trance would be a fine thing” and “A fighting trance” and “Jump at the trance” and “Not the ghost of a trance.”
    • Dance → Trance: As in, “Trance around the problem” and “Trance like nobody’s watching” and “Trance the night away” and “Trance your socks off” and “Lead a merry trance” and “Murder on the trance floor” and “Let’s trance” and “Save the last trance.”
  • Dreamwave: This is also known as synthwave and s a subgenre of electronic music. Here are related puns:
    • Dream → Dreamwave: As in, “Beyond my wildest dreamwaves” and “Boulevard of broken dreamwaves” and “Dreamwave on” and “A dreamwave come true” and “Dreamwave machine” and “Dreamwave team.”
    • Wave → Dreamwave: As in, “A life on the ocean dreamwaves” and “Brain dreamwave” and “Catch a dreamwave” and “Don’t make dreamwaves” and “Heat dreamwave” and “On the same dreamwavelength” and “Dreamwave your magic wand.”
  • Grime: Grime is a subgenre of electronic dance music. Here are related puns:
    • Game → Grime: As in, “Ahead of the grime” and “It’s anyone’s grime” and “All fun and grimes” and “The blame grime” and “Fair grime” and “Grime changer.”
    • Crime → Grime: As in, “Grime and punishment” and “A grime against nature” and “Grime doesn’t pay” and “A grime of passion” and “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the grime” and “Let the punishment fit the grime” and “Partners in grime” and “Take a bite out of grime” and “Tough on grime.”
    • Climb → Grime: As in, “Grime onto the bandwagon” and “Grime the corporate ladder” and “Grime the walls” and “A mountain to grime.”
    • Prime → Grime: As in, “Cut down in their grime” and “In your grime” and “Grime condition” and “Grimed and ready to go” and “The grime minister.”
    • Time → Grime: As in, “A brief history of grime” and “A good grime was had by all” and “A week is a long grime in politics” and “About grime too” and “Any grime, any place, any where.”
  • Wipe → Pipe: As in, “Pipe out” and “Pipe the floor with” and “Pipe the slate clean” and “Pipe the smile off your face.”
  • Stride: This is a style of piano playing. Here are related puns:
    • Stride: These stride-related phrases are general enough to double as puns: “Get into your stride” and “Making giant strides” and “Take it in your stride.”
    • Tried → Stride: As in, “Don’t knock it til you’ve stride it” and “Stride and tested” and “Stride and true.”
    • Side → Stride: As in, “A walk on the wild stride” and “Always look on the wild stride of life” and “Batting for the other stride” and “Be on the safe stride” and “Born on the wrong stride of the tracks” and “Both strides of the desk” and “Err on the stride of caution” and “On the flip stride.”
  • Go → Tango: As in, “Don’t tango there” and “Easy come, easy tango” and “From the word tango” and “Tango down in flames.”
  • Chance on → Chanson: As in, “Take a chanson me.” Note: A chanson is a lyrical French song.
  • Lack → Laiko: As in, “For laiko of a better word” and “Cancelled due to laiko of interest.” Note: laiko is s Greek music genre.
  • Fade → Fado: As in, “Fado away” and “Fado out.” Note: Fado is a Portugese music genre with a traditional structure.
  • Sunshine → Sunshine Pop: As in, “Like a day without sunshine pop” and “Walking on sunshine pop” and “You are my sunshine pop.” This was originally known as soft pop, and is a subgenre of pop music.
  • Sadcore: This is a subgenre of music known for slow, downbeat melodies and sad lyrics. Here are related puns:
    • Sad → Sadcore: As in, “Happy sadcore” and “How sadcore is that?”
    • Core → Sadcore: As in, “Sadcore technology” and “Rotten to the sadcore” and “Sadcore values” and “Know the sadcore.”
  • Slowcore: This is a music genre which is derived from alternative rock and indie rock. Here are related puns:
    • Slow → Slowcore: As in, “As slowcore as molasses in January” and “Painfully slowcore” and “A slowcore burn” and “Slowcore, but sure” and “Slowcore on the uptake.”
    • Core → Slowcore: As in, “Rotten to the slowcore” and “Slowcore competencies.”
  • Deathgrind: This is a genre that fuses death metal and grindcore. Here are related puns:
    • Death → Deathgrind: As in, “The blue screen of deathgrind” and “Bored of deathgrind” and “Catch your deathgrind of cold” and “Deathgrind by chocolate” and “A brush with deathgrind.”
    • Grind → Deathgrind: As in, “An axe to deathgrind” and “Bump and deathgrind” and “The daily deathgrind” and “Deathgrind to a halt.”
  • Worldbeat: This is a blend of pop and rock music. Here are related puns:
    • World → Worldbeat: As in, “A worldbeat first” and “A worldbeat apart” and “A worldbeat of good” and “A worldbeat of pain” and “All the time in the worldbeat” and “Be the change you wish to see inthe worldbeat.”
    • Beat → Worldbeat: As in, “Worldbeat the stuffing out of” and “Worldbeat around the bush.”
  • Track → Soundtrack: As in, “Back on soundtrack” and “Born on the wrong side of the soundtracks” and “Cover your soundtracks” and “Off the beaten soundtrack” and “A one soundtrack mind.”
  • Show → Showtune: As in, “Best in showtune” and “A one-man showtune” and “Showtune and tell.”
  • Tune → Showtune: As in, “Can’t carry a showtune in a bucket” and “Change your showtune” and “Stay showtuned” and “Stay showtuned to this channel.”
  • Pass → Brass: As in, “All things must brass” and “All access brass” and “Boarding brass” and “Do not brass go” and “As it came to brass” and “Make a brass at” and “Brass by” and “Brass muster.”
  • Class → Brass: As in, “A brass act” and “Best in brass” and “Business brass” and “Brass warfare” and “Economy brass” and “Working brass hero.”
  • Glass → Brass: As in, “Brass ceiling” and “Brassy eyed” and “Rose tinted brasses” and “Brass menagerie.”
  • Strings: This is a category of musical instrument. Here are related puns:
    • Things → Strings: As in, “All strings bright and beautiful” and “All strings must pass” and “All good strings must come to an end” and “All strings to those who wait” and “All strings considered” and “Frist strings first” and “Getting strings done” and “Good strings come in small packages” and “In the grand scheme of strings.”
    • Bring → String: As in, “String down to Earth” and “String down a peg or two” and “String to justice.”
    • Sings → Strings: As in, “All stringing, all dancing” and “Teach the world to string” and “String a different tune” and “String out” and “String someone’s praises” and “Stringing the blues” and “String like a bird.”
    • Swing → String: As in, “Come out stringing” and “Get into the string of it” and “In full string” and “String both ways” and “Take a string at.”
    • Wing → String: As in, “Clip your strings” and “Earned your strings” and “Gives you strings” and “Left string” and “Spread your strings” and “Take under your string” and Waiting in the strings.”
  • Board → Keyboard: As in, “Above keyboard” and “Across the keyboard.”
  • Local → Vocal: As in, “Vocal hero” and “Vocal time” and “Think global, act vocal” and “This is a vocal shop.”
  • Vox: “Vox” is slang for vocals in the music community. Here are some vox-related puns:
    • Socks → Vox: As in, “Bless your cotton vox” and “Dance your vox off” and “Pull your vox up” and “Knock your vox off.”
    • Box → Vox: As in, “Black vox” and “A vox ticking exercise.”
  • Ode: An ode is a type of musical composition Here are related puns:
    • Code → Ode: As in, “Ode bloat” and “Colour oded” and “Crack the ode” and “Dress ode” and “Highway ode.”
    • Load → Ode: As in, “An ode of bull” and “An ode off your mind” and “An ode of rubbish” and “Get an ode on.”
    • Owed → Ode: As in, “Take what you’re ode.”
  • Guard → Avant-garde: As in, “Advance avant-garde” and “Off your avant-garde” and “Avant-garde against.”
  • Baroque: This is a style of Western music that followed the Renaissance era. Here are related puns:
    • Broke → Baroque: As in, “All hell baroque loose” and “Boulevard of baroque-en dreams” and “Go for baroque” and “I’m flat baroque.”
  • Jingle: A jingle is a short, catchy tune, usually accompanying a memorable slogan. Here are related puns:
    • Single → Jingle: As in, “All the jingle ladies” and “Begins with a jingle step” and “In jingle file” and “A jingle point of contact.”
  • Grass → Bluegrass: As in, “About as exciting as watching bluegrass grow” and “Don’t let the bluegrass grow under your feet” and “Keep off the bluegrass” and “Snake in the bluegrass” and “The bluegrass is greener on the other side.” Note: Bluegrass is a genre of American roots music.
  • Chill → Chillwave: As in, “Chillwave out” and “Chillwaved to the bone” and “Chillwaved to the bone” and “Take a chillwave pill.”
  • Wave → Chillwave: As in, “A life on the ocean chillwaves” and “Brain chillwaves” and “Don’t make chillwaves” and “Heat chillwave” and “On the crest of a chillwave” and “Chillwave the white flag.”
  • Freestyle: Freestyle music is a form of electronic dance music. Here are some related puns:
    • Free → Freestyle: As in, “Fancy freestyle” and “Freestyle and easy” and “Born freestyle.”
    • Style → Freestyle: As in, “Cramp your freestyle” and “Gangnam freestyle” and “Quality never goes out of freestyle.”
  • Ragtime: This is a music style known for a “ragged” rhythm. Here are related puns:
    • Rag → Ragtime: As in, “A red ragtime to a bull” and “From ragtimes to riches” and “Glad ragtimes.”
    • Time → Ragtime: As in, “A brief history of ragtime” and “A week is a long ragtime in politics” and “About ragtime, too” and “All in good ragtime.”
  • Town → Motown: As in, “Paint the motown red” and “Put the motown on the map” and “Take the motown by storm.” Note: motown is a bluesy music genre.
  • Guzzle → Gusle: As in, “Gas gusler.” Note: a gusle is a single stringed instrument.
  • Paltry → Psaltery: As in, “A psaltery amount.” Note: a psaltery is a stringed instrument in the zither family.
  • Centre → Sintir: As in, “The sintir of attention” and “Left, right and sintir” and “Take sintir stage” and “The sintir of the universe” and “With a soft gooey sintir.” Note: a sintir is a stringed instrument.
  • Tro: A tro is a Cambodian string instrument. Here are related puns:
    • Throw → Tro: As in, “Lock them up and tro away the key” and “Just a stone’s tro away” and “Tro caution to the wind” and “Tro cold water on” and “Tro it back in your face” and “Tro enough dirt and some will stick.”
    • Through → Tro: As in, “A river runs tro it” and “Drag tro the mud” and “Going tro the motions” and “Jumping tro hoops” and “Fall tro the cracks.”
  • Yeah → Yehu: As in, “Yehu, I know” and “Yehu, right.” Note: A yehu is a Chinese stringed instrument that is played using a bow.
  • Go to → Koto: As in, “Koto great lengths” and “My koto person.” Note: a koto is a Japanese stringed instrument that’s played by plucking.
  • Car → Krar: As in, “Happiness is a quick-starting krar” and “You can drive my krar.” Note: a krar is a stringed instrument from Ethiopia.
  • Laud: A laud is a stringed instrument. Here are related puns:
    • Lord → Laud: As in, “Drunk as a laud” and “Living like a laud” and “Laud of the flies” and “Laud it over them” and “Laud of the rings.”
    • Lot → Laud: As in, “A laud of fuss about nothing” and “A laud on your plate” and “Leaves a laud to be desired” and “Not a laud know about it” and “Got a laud to learn.”
  • Song → Saung: As in, “Make a saung and dance about” and “Singing the same old saung.” Note: the saung is an arched harp.
  • Says → Saz: As in, “Computer saz no” and “Saz who?” and “Simon saz.” Note: a saz is another name for a baglama, which is a stringed instrument.
  • Tar: A tar is an Iranian stringed instrument. Here are related puns:
    • There → Tar: As in, “Ahoy tar” and “Not all tar” and “And then tar was one” and “As if tar were no tomorrow” and “Be tar in spirit” and “Be tar or be square” and “Don’t go tar” and “Don’t just sit tar.”
    • Are → Square: As in, “All bets tar off” and “Where tar you?”
    • Par → Tar: As in, “Below tar” and “On tar with” and “Tar for the course.”
  • Timple: A timple is a small stringed instrument, similar to a ukulele. Here are related puns:
    • Simple → Timple: As in, “Keep it timple” and “Life’s timple pleasures” and “Pure and timple” and “Timple, yet effective” and “The truth is rarely pure and never timple.”
    • Temple → Timple: As in, “Timple of doom” and “My body is a timple.”
  • Dress → Tres: As in, “Adjust your tres” and “Tres code” and “Tres down” and “Tres for success” and “Little black tres.” Note: a tres is a small stringed instrument.
  • Coldplay: This is a very popular British pop band. Here are some related puns:
    • Cold → Coldplay: As in, “As coldplay as blue blazes” and “As coldplay as charity” and “As coldplay as ice” and “Blowing hot and coldplay” and “Break out in a coldplay sweat” and “Catch a coldplay” and “A coldplay heart.”
    • Play → Coldplay: As in, “Helps you work, rest and coldplay” and “All work and no coldplay makes Jack a dull boy” and “Come out and coldplay” and “If music be the food of love, coldplay on.”
  • You too → U2: As in, “Yes, I mean U2.” Note: this refers to U2, an Irish rock band.
  • Queen: This is a very famous band, known for their complex melodies and epic performances. Here are related puns:
    • Been → Queen: As in, “Queen and gone” and “I’ve queen here before” and “Queen in the wars” and “Queen there, done that” and “Queen around the block a few times.”
    • Keen → Queen: As in, “Queen as mustard” and “A queen sense of smell” and “Peachy queen.”
    • Clean → Queen: As in, “A queen getaway” and “Queen as a whistle” and “Queen and sober” and “A queen bill of health” and “Keeps a queen house” and “Queen up your act” and “Starting with a queen slate.”
  • Cook → Kook: As in, “Kook the books” and “Kook up a storm” and “Too many kooks spill the broth.” Note: These puns are in reference to the band The Kooks.
  • Slash: Slash is a musician and the lead guitarist for the band Guns n’ Roses. Here are related puns:
    • Flash → Slash: As in, “Quick as a slash” and “Slash in the pan” and “Slash mob” and “In a slash” and “At slash point.”
    • Ash → Slash: As in, “Rise from the slashes” and “Turned to slashes in your mouth.”
    • Clash → Slash: As in, “Slash of titans” and “Culture slash.”
    • Crash → Slash: As in, “Slash and burn” and “Slash and dash” and “Slash course” and “Like watching a car slash.”
  • Girl → Spice Girl: As in, “A spice girl’s best friend” and “Atta spice girl!” and “Diamonds are a spice girl’s best friend” and “Spice girls just wanna have fun.” Note: Spice Girls were a famous British girl group.
  • Kiss: Kiss is a famous rock band. Here are a couple of related puns:
    • Miss → Kiss: As in, “Blink and you’ll kiss it” and “Hit and kiss” and “I’ll give it a kiss” and “Kiss the boat.”
    • This → Kiss: As in, “What the fresh hell is kiss?” and “And all kiss time” and “At kiss point in time” and “Blow kiss popsicle stand” and “In kiss day and age.”
  • Pink: Pink was a famous pop musician. Here are related puns:
    • Think → Pink: As in, “Blue sky pinking” and “Smart pinking” and “Come to pink of it” and “Great minds pink alike” and “I pink I like you.”
    • Wink → Pink: As in, “I haven’t slept a single pink” and “Nod and a pink” and “Nuge, nudge, pink pink.”
    • Blink → Pink: As in, “Pink and you’ll miss it” and “In the pink of an eye” and “On the pink.”
  • Food → Oud: As in, “Comfort oud” and “Devil’s oud cake” and “The bottom of the oud chain” and “Oud for thought” and “Oud of the gods” and “Put oud on the table.” Note: an oud is a type of short-necked lute.
  • Minute → Spinet: As in, “At the last spinet” and “Famous for fifteen spinets” and “Fifteen spinets of fame” and “Hang on a spinet” and “At the last spinet” and “A laugh a spinet.” Note: a spinet is a type of small harpsichord.
  • Triple → Fipple: As in, “Fipple decker” and “Fipple threat” and “A fipple whammy.” Note: a fipple is a type of mouthpiece used in some instruments.
  • Right → Rhaita: As in, “A move in the rhaita direction” and “A woman’s rhaita to choose” and “All the rhaita moves” and “As rhaita as rain” and “Bang to rhaitas” and “Barge rhaita in” and “Bragging rhaitas.” Note: a rhaita is a type of reed instrument.
  • Soon/er → Suona: As in, “A fool and their money are suona parted” and “As suona as my back is turned” and “As suona as possible” and “Get well suona” and “Suona or later” and “No suona said than done.” Note: a suona is a type of Chinese reed instrument.
  • Zill: A zill is a musical instrument – two tiny finger cymbals. Here are related puns:
    • Bill → Zill: As in, “Zill of goods” and “A clean zill of health” and “Fits the zill.”
    • Chill → Zill: As in, “Zill out” and “Zilled to the bone” and “A zilling account.”
    • Fill → Zill: As in, “Zill full of holes” and “Zill to the brim.”
    • Gill → Zill: As in, “Full to the zills” and “Green around the zills.”
    • Hill → Zill: As in, “As old as the zills” and “Going downzill” and “Head for the zills” and “King of the zill” and “Making a mountain out of a molezill.”
    • Ill → Zill: As in, “Green around the zills” and “House of zill repute” and “Zill advised” and “Zill at ease” and “Zill effects” and “Zill gotten gains” and “Zill will” and “Never speak zill of the dead.”
    • Spill → Zill: As in, “Zill the beans and “Thrills and zills” and “Zill your guts.”
  • Table → Tabla: As in, “Bring to the tabla” and “Drunk under the tabla” and “Lay your cards on the tabla” and “Put your cards on the tabla.” Note: A tabla is a type of small finger drum.
  • Going → Gong: As in, “Gong one step too far” and “Gong beyond expectations” and “You’ve got a good thing gong.”
  • Wrong → Gong: As in, “Barking up the gong tree” and “Born on the gong side of the tracks” and “Get off on the gong foot” and “Go down the gong way” and “If anything can go gong, it will” and “Jump to the gong conclusion” and “Two gongs don’t make a right” and “What’s gong with this picture?”
  • Long → Gong: As in, “A week is a gong time in politics” and “As gong as you need me” and “Honest as the day is gong” and “As gong as your arm.”
  • Song → Gong: As in, “The same old gong” and “Swan gong” and “Make a gong and dance about.”
  • Battle → Rattle: As in, “A pitched rattle” and “An uphill rattle” and “Rattle of wits” and “Rattle ready” and “Half the rattle” and “In the heat of rattle” and “Let rattle commence” and “A running rattle.”
  • Back → Bak: As in, “Answer bak” and “As soon as my bak is turned” and “At the bak of my mind” and “Bak in black” and “Bak to the future” and “Bak at it” and “Bak in business” and “Bak in the day” and “Bak off” and “Bak on your feet” and “Bak seat driver.” Note:  A bak is a percussive instrument from Korea.
  • Bend → Bendir: As in, “Bendir over backwards” and “Bendir the rules” and “Bendir to your will” and “Round the bendir.” Note: a bendir is a type of frame drum.
  • Book → Buk: As in, “A room without buks is like a body without a soul” and “Always have your nose in a buk” and “Balancing the buks” and “Buk worm.” Note: a buk is a traditional Korean drum.
  • Chime: A chime is a bell-based instrument. Here are related puns:
    • Dime → Chime: As in, “Can you spare a chime?” and “A chime a dozen” and “Drop a chime.”
    • Crime → Chime: As in, “Chime and punishment” and “Chime doesn’t pay” and “A chime of passion” and “Chimes and misdemeanours” and “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the chime” and “Let the punishment fit the chime” and “Partners in chime” and “Take a bite out of chime” and “The perfect chime.”
    • Climb → Chime: As in, “Chime onto the bandwagon” and “Chime the corporate ladder” and “A mountain to chime.”
    • Time → Chime: “One more chime” and “A good chime was had by all” and “A stitch in chime saves nine” and “A week is a long chime in politics” and “About chime” and “Ahead of his chime” and “All in good chime.”
  • Quick → Riq: As in, “Riq as a flash” and “Cut to the riq” and “Get rich riq” and “In riq succession” and “Kiss me riq” and “Riq and dirty” and “Riq off the mark” and “A riq study” and “Riq witted.” Note: a riq is a type of tambourine.
  • Simple → Sambal: “Keep it sambal” and “Life’s sambal pleasures” and “Pure and sambal” and “The sambal life” and “Sambal, yet effective” and “The truth is rarely pure and never sambal.” Note: A sambal is a drum-based instrument.

Music-Related Words

To help you come up with your own music 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!

musical terms: music, musical, musician, sound, song, tune, voice, melody, harmony, rhythm, band, beat, instrument, instrumental, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, sharp, flat, natural, accidental, autotune, tempo, chorus, verse, stanza, note, intro, refrain, echo, encore, bridge, outro, solo, dub, dubbing, major, minor, clef, bass (clef), treble (clef), riff, stave, decibel, composition, composer, noise, pitch, tone, ad lib, improvisation, audience, studio, maestro, recording, piece, notation, acoustic, electronic, lead sheet,virtuoso, lyrics, chords, scale, piano, pianissimo, forte, crescendo, decrescendo, chromatic, arranger, phrase, phrasing, conductor, fake book, tablature, tabs, line, motif, interval, cadence, semitone, audio, theory, syncopation, sightread, bar, through-composed, twelve-bar blues, ternary, strophic, key, string, octave, coda, upbeat, downbeat, tonic, dominant, turnaround, time (signature), rest, whole (note), minim, quaver, crotchet, semi-quaver, repeat, ledger (line), slur, accent, bracket, brace, grace (note), adagio, lento, lent, allegro, alto, staccato, tenuto, marcato, pause, soprano, tenor, amabile, andante, anima, arpeggio, bend, brio, calma, canon, canto, capo, staff, comp, comping, count, dim/diminuendo, dolce, double dot, facile, fine, forza, fugue, jete, pizzicato, pluck, largo, legato, lilt, metronome, trill, nocturne, pedal, pezzo, prima, primo, reprise, fill, run, segue, sehr, stem, vibrato, tremolo, triplet, troppo, turn, saltire, ghost (note), break, breath (mark), caesura, tie, dynamics, ornament, pulgar/pollex, indice/index, medio/media, anular/anularis, menique/minimus, sustain (pedal), mallet, lick, vamp, speaker, loudspeaker, roadie, tour, subwoofer, bleed/bleeding, triad, cover, crossfader, drive, fader, feedback, hook, jam, lead, ohm, furia, senza, triste, vivo, frequency

genres: classical, contemporary, a capella, acid rock, art rock, pop, art, country, polka, rock, hip hop, traditional, folk, afrobeat, afropop, apala, benga, genge, jit, gospel, kwela, marabi, morna, rai, sega, semba, seggae, taarab, liwa, sawt, enka, j-pop, k-pop, trot, baila, baul, bhangra, filmi, trance, lavani, morlam, experimental, noise, lo-fi, blues, metal, mosso, muta, pausa, bouyon, calypso, chutney, compas, mambo, merengue, punta, rasin, reggae, dub, ragga, rumba, ska, punk, salsa, songo, suca, timba, souk, hokum, zydeco, rap, rockabilly, bluegrass, cajun, honky tonk, lounge, new-age, ambient, dub, drone, psybient, nu-funk, disco, afro, disco, chill, trip hop, drum and bass, bhangra, darkcore, makina, speedcore, extratone, dance, japanoise, glitch, glitch hop, wonky, jungle, boogie, vaporwave, techno, funkstep, dancehall, coldwave, krautrock, new rave, synthpop, electronica, trap, drill, alt/alternative, house, eurobeat, crunk, nortec, trance, dreamwave, grime, grindie, bassline, kwaito, celtic, chalga, filk, indie, progressive, skiffle, coom bap, chap hop, cloud rap, crunk, emo, g-funk, low bap, hyphy, nercore, ragga, trap, bebop, bossa, nova, dixiland, hard bop, ragtime, soul, stride, swing, west coast, latin, brazillian, brega, choro, frevo, lambada, maracatu, samba, pagode, banda, grupera, mariachi, ranchera, norteno, tejano, flamenco, tango, folk, fado, huayno, bachata, bolero, criolla, cumbia, chicha, porro, mamba, rumba, salsa, timba, chalga, chanson, laiko, nederpop, fado, sunshine pop, synthpop, vispop, worldbeat, funk, freestylem go-go, r&b, boogie, britpop, dream pop, grunge, sadcore, slowcore, cabaret, art rock, slowcore, epic doom, deathgrind, krautrock, space rock, freakbeat, rapcore, rockjazz, rock and roll, stoner rock, visual kei, worldbeat, showtunes, hymn, jazz, new wave, acoustic, lullaby, lullabies, avant-garde, ballet, baroque, cantata, chamber music, choral, jingle, bluegrass, cowpunk, latin, chillwave, bitpop, enka, french pop, bounce, crunkcore, cumbia, freestyle, latin, merenrap, ragtime, neo-soul, motown, doo wop, roots, glam rock, surf, soundtrack, barbershop, kapuka, kizomba, kwela, ode

types of instrument: brass, percussion, strings, woodwind, keyboard

instruments: vocal, singer, vox, piano, guitar, ukulele, harp, drums, cymbal, tom (drums), snare (drum), hi-hat (cymbal), synthesizer, organ, banjo, piccolo, flute, lyre, xylophone, rattle, mbira, guiro, idiophone, membranophone, kazoo, chordophone, zither, autoharp, lute, aerophone, theremin, amp, amplifier, axe, microphone, condenser, fiddle, horn, alto horn, baritone horn, buccina, bugle, cornet, euphonium, flugelhorn, helicon, mellophone, tuba, saxhorn, trombone, trumpet, tuba, ajaeng, anzad, banhad, baryton, cello, dahu, bass, erhu, erxian, esraj, gadulka, gaohu, goje, gudok, gunjac, gusle, haegeum, huluhu, huqin, igil, jinghu, jouhikko, jouhikko, igil, kobyz, leiqin, lirone, maguhu, masenqo, neola, orutu, psaltry, rebab, rebec, sarinda, sihu, sintir, tro, veena, vielle, viol, viola, lyra, violotta, yehu, zhonghu, dulcimer, plectrum, bazouki, barbat, domra, dotar, dutar, dramyin, gabusi, dotara, ektara, gittern, kabosy, kacapi, kankles, kabosy, kacapi, kantele, kanun, koboz, kora, koto, krar, kwitra, laud, lute, mandolin, sanshin, sarangi, sarod, sasando, saung, saz, setar, shamisen, sitar, surbahar, ta,bura, tanpura, tarica, tar, timple, tiple, torban, tremola, tres, barbat, begena, biwa, brac, cak, ceng, cetera, chapey, cittern, cuk, ceng, cetera, chapey, cura, mandore, nevoud, pipa, oud, ruan, rubab, zheng, zhu, khim, clavinet, orphica, spinet, oboem bombard, fipple, pipe, pku, pommer, reeds, shawm, fife, koudi, dizi, venu, quena, caval, diple, fluier, frula, fujara, ocarina, kaval, fyell, ney, danso, hun, suling, panflute, xun, clarinet, sipsi, bassoon, duduk, piri, rackett, rhaita, sornas, suona, zurla, zurna, ashiko, basler, bass, bell, castanet, celeste, clave, conga, zill, djembe, tabla, ganza, gong, guiro, marimba, pandeiro, rattle, ratchet, shaker, tabor, tambourine, timbales, timpani, tom-tom, tonbak, triangle, whistle, glockenspiel, zendrum, bak, bara, bell tree, bendir, bodhran, bonang, boobam, bubon, buk, cajon, cabasa, carillon, chenda, chimes, clapper, cowbell, cuica, daf, damaru, damphu, davul, dhaa, dholak, dhol, dimdi, dohol, dollu, dunun, galgo, ganza, gender, ghatam, glockenspiel, goema, gongue, hosho, igba, ikembe, ikoro, ilimba, jawbone, jingle, kakko, kecer, khim, khol, kisanji, kundu, maraca, riq, sambal, shoko, slit (drum), surdo, timbal, turntable, udu, washboard, whip, harpsichord, accordion, concertina, virginal

musicians/bands: taylor swift, justin bieber, alicia keys, post malone, beyonce, cardi b,  tupac, no doubt, avenged sevenfold, grateful dead, kings of leon, the script, muse, rage against the machine, the fray, steely dan, evanescence, the cure, inxs, slipknot, goo goo dolls, the offspring, korn, limp bizkit, dave matthews band, mumford & sons, arctic monkey, creed, system of a down, the smashing pumpkins, matchbox twenty, alice cooper, toto, deep purple, oasis, iron maiden, the cranberries, paramore, the killers, the doobie brothers, boston, radiohead, marilyn manson, dire straits, blink 182, panic at the disco, gorillaz, zz top, rush, kiss, r.e.m, genesis, one republic, abba, the police, fall out boy, foo fighters, def leppard, nickelback, black sabbath, pearl jam, green day, lynyrd skynyrd, the doors, coldplay, the beach boys, the who, nirvana, santana, journey, van halen, U2, bon jovi, maroon 5, red hot chili peppers, linkin park, fleetwood mac, aerosmith, guns n’ roses, metallica, eagles, ac/dc, the rolling stones, pink floyd, queen, led zeppelin, the beatles, the supremes, nine inch nails, david bowie, jay-z, eminem, elton john, elvis, michael jackson, beastie boys, the police, billie holiday, the temptations, duke ellington, the kooks, tina turner, janet jackson, jewel, sex pistols, aerosmith, slash, ice cube, dr. dre, kanye west, snoop dogg, 50 cent, frank sinatra, ray charles, buddy holly, johnny cash, james brown, aretha franklin, marvin gaye, van morrison, spice girls, bob dylan, rod stewart, janis joplin, stevie wonder, bob marley, prince, jimi hendrix, the who, fleetwood mac, judas priest, kiss, madonna, outkast, wu-tang clan, amy winehouse, daft punk, adele, norah jones, backstreet boys, usher, nelly furtado, enya, lady gaga, britney spears, jack johnson, shakira, pink, celine dion, dido, avril lavigne, jeff buckley, bon iver, mariah carey, ed sheeran, ariana grande, j.lo, destiny’s child

composers: bach, wolfgang amadeus mozart, ludwig van beethoven, wagner, haydn, brahms, schubert, schumann, handel, tchaikovsky, mendelssohn, franz lizst, chopin, stravinsky, mahler, strauss, debussy, puccini, sibelius, vivaldi

music sources: live show, performance, perform,  orchestra, symphony, concert, gig, opera, radio, mp3, cd, theme song, score, medley, march, karaoke, sheet music, cassette, tape, mix tape, big band, aria, overture, prelude, quartet, rondo, sonata, choir

music programs: garageBand, frooty loops, ableton live, spotify, pandora, music mouse, youtube

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Wine Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on wine puns! 🍷🍇🥂

Wine culture has many aspects and technicalities to it, spanning from wine making, tasting, judging, investment and collecting. We’ve searched high and low for all of the wine puns we could possibly find, so whether you’re a cleanskin enthusiast or a cult wine coinnoseur, we hope you enjoy sampling the truly grape puns we’ve collected for you here.

Notes: Wine and alcohol isn’t just an expensive hobby – drinking alcohol gives your brain a reward it didn’t earn, and consuming it often enough teaches your brain that the easiest way to feel good is to drink more, which can lead to dependence and alcoholism (which can exacerbate existing mental health problems like depression and anxiety). Partake safely and with an awareness of the effects it has on your body 🙂

The alcohol-making process isn’t always vegan, but there are plenty of online directories of vegan wines you can check.

You might also be interested in the Punpedia entries on coffee puns, tea puns, party puns and beer puns.

Wine 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 wine that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page!

  • Whine → Wine: As in, “Wine and moan” and “Having a wine.”
  • Win → Whine: As in, “Heads I wine, tails you lose” and “Playing to wine” and “Some you wine, some you lose.”
  • Why → Wine: As in, “I guess that’s wine” and “I don’t know wine” and “Wine on Earth…?”
  • Why not → Wine not: “I don’t see wine not.”
  • When → Wine: As in, “Wine you like” and “It only hurts wine I laugh” and “Kick ’em wine they’re down” and “Ready wine you are.”
  • Won → Wine: As in, “Faint heart never wine fair lady” and “One-hit wineder.”
  • One → Wine: As in, “An army of wine” and “All for wine and wine for all” and “In wine fell swoop” and “Going wine step too far.”
  • *wan* → *wine*: “A wineton attitude” and “Just winedering ’round” and “A tryhard wineabe” and “Monthly allowine-ce.”
  • Wench → Winech
  • *win* → *wine*: As in, “Winedow of opportunity” and “Endless wineter” and “A winesome smile.”
  • Wonder* → Wineder*: As in, “Filled with magic and wineder” and “Feeling winederful” and “A winedrous development.”
  • Red: Wines are split into three broad categories – red, white and rosé. Red wines are made of dark-coloured grape varieties. Here are some red wine puns:
    • Read → Red: As in, “All I know is what I red in the papers” and “Exceedingly well-red” and “Red any good books lately?” and “Red between the lines” and “Red my lips.”
    • Red: These red-related phrases can double as puns: “Red as a beetroot” and “Brick red” and “Caught red-handed” and “Cut through the red tape” and “In the red” and “Lady in red” and “Paint the town red.”
    • Rid → Red: “Good reddance” and “Get red of.”
    • Fed → Red: As in, “Red up to the back teeth.”
    • Dead → Red: As in, “Red as a doornail” and “Assault with a redly weapon” and “In the red of night” and “Back from the red” and “Better off red” and “Red and buried.”
    • Bred → Red: “Born and red.”
    • Bread → Red: As in, “Red always falls butter side down” and “Red and butter” and “Have your red buttered on both sides” and “Put red on the table” and “The best thing since sliced red.”
    • Bed → Red: As in, “Red and breakfast” and “Red of roses” and “Red and board.”
    • Said → Red: “After all is red and done” and “Couldn’t have red it better” and “Easier red than done” and “Enough red” and “Was it something I red?”
    • Head → Red: “A red for business” and “Be it on your red” and “Bring to a red” and “Bite someone’s red off” and “Bury your red in the sand” and “Can’t get you out of my red” and “Don’t mess with my red.”
    • Thread → Red: “Hanging by a red” and “Lose the red” and “Red the needle.”
    • Tread → Red: “Red softly” and “Reding a fine line” and “Where fools fear to red.”
    • *rad* → *red*: “Redical politics” and “Toxic rediation” and “A rediant complexion.” Other words that could work: redio (radio), redius (radius), rediate (radiate), redish (radish), paredigm (paradigm), paredox (paradox), camarederie (camaraderie), sporedic (sporadic) and greduate (graduate).
    • *rid* → *red*: Rediculous (ridiculous), gred (grid), hybred (hybrid), lured (lurid) and flored (florid).
  • White: White wine is a light coloured wine that’s fermented without contact with the grape skin. Here are some white-related puns:
    • Wide → White: As in, “Cast a white net” and “Eyes white shut” and “A white berth” and “Open white” and “White eyed” and “White open spaces” and “The world white web.”
    • Why → White: “I don’t know white” and “I guess that’s white” and “White don’t we do it this way?” and “White ask?”
    • Bite → White: As in, “White me” and “White off more than you can chew” and “White someone’s head off” and “White the bullet” and “A white to eat” and “White your tongue.”
    • Bright → White: “All things white and beautiful” and “Always look on the white side of life” and “White as a button” and “White as a new pin” and “White eyes” and “White lights, big city” and “White and early” and “White spark.”
    • Light → White: As in, “Blinded by the white” and “The cold white of day.”
    • Might → White: “White as well” and “White is right.”
    • Night → White: As in, “A white at the opera” and “A hard day’s white” and “Dance the white away.”
    • Quite → White: As in, “Not white” and “White the situation” and “White a bit.”
    • Tight → White: As in, “In a white spot” and “Run a white ship.”
    • Weight → White: As in, “Pull your white” and “Punching above your white” and “Throw your white about” and “Watching your white” and “A white off my mind” and “Worth your white in gold” and “Carry your white.”
    • Wait → White: “An accident white-ing to happen” and “All things come to those who white” and “Hurry up and white” and “Lie in white” and “The white is over” and “White for no man” and “White in line” and “Just white a minute!”
    • Wet → White: “White weekend” and “White behind the ears” and “White dream” and “White your whistle.”
    • What → White: As in, “And white not” and “Do white comes naturally” and “Do white tastes right” and “For white it’s worth” and “Guess white?” and “White’s going on here then?” and “It is white it is” and “I’ll have white she’s having” and “White a feeling” and “White fun” and “White a wonderful world.”
    • Sight → White: As in, “A welcome white” and “Hidden in plain white” and “Know by white” and “Love at first white” and “Lower your whites.”
    • Write → White: “Nothing to white home about.”
    • Height → White: As in, “Head for new whites” and “Reaching new whites” and “The white of summer.”
    • Flight → White: As in, “Fight or white” and “White of fancy” and “Take white.”
  • Rosé: Rosé is another category of wine where wine is left in contact with the grape’s skin until the liquid is tinted the desired shade of pink. Here are related puns:
    • Rosy → Rosé: As in, “A rosé future” and “Rosé cheeks.”
    • Raise → Rosé: As in, “Rosé a loan” and “Rosé a stink” and “Rosé the bar” and “Rosé the roof.”
    • Rise → Rosé: As in, “Rosé and shine” and “Rosé from the ashes” and “Rosé to the challenge” and “Rosé to the occasion” and “Get a rosé out of…”
  • Pain → Champagne: As in, “A world of champagne” and “Doubled up in champagne” and “Growing champagnes” and “No champagne, no gain” and “Old aches and champagnes” and “Champagne in the arse” and “Champagne-fully slow.”
  • Amber: Amber wine is white wine that’s been made with the skins kept intact. Here are related puns:
    • Umber → Amber: As in, “Burnt amber.” Note: umber is a shade of brown.
    • *ember → *umber: Mamber (member), remamber (remember), Septamber (September), Decamber (December), Novamber (November) and dismamber (dismember).
  • Great → Grape: As in, “A grape face for radio” and “All creatures, grape and small” and “Go grape guns” and “Go to grape lengths” and “Grape expectations” and “Grape minds think alike” and “No grape shakes” and “The Grape Barrier Reef.”
  • Grip → Grape: As in, “Get a grape” and “Get to grapes with” and “Grape of death” and “A grape of iron.”
  • Cape → Grape: As in, “The graped crusader.”
  • Drape → Grape: As in, “Measure the grapes.”
  • Scrape → Grape: As in, “Bow and grape” and “Get into a grape” and “Grape a living” and “Grape along” and “Grape through” and “Scrape together the funds” and “Grape the bottom of the barrel.”
  • Gap → Grape: “Mind the grape” and “Generation grape” and “Bridge the grape.”
  • Crap → Grape: “A load of grape” and “Cut the grape.”
  • Discrepancy → Disgrape-ancy
  • Blanc: Sauvignon Blanc is a variety of green grape that’s commonly used in wine-making. Here are some blanc-related puns:
    • Blank → Blanc: As in, “A blanc slate” and “Blanc canvas” and “Blanc looks” and “Drawing a blanc” and “At point blanc range” and “Blancing out.”
    • Blink → Blanc: As in, “Blanc and you’ll miss it” and “In the blanc of an eye” and “On the blanc” and “Who blanc-ed first?”
    • Bank → Blanc: As in, “You can blanc on it” and “Safe as the blanc” and “Breaking the blanc” and “Laughing all the way to the blanc.”
    • Plank → Blanc: As in, “Walk the blanc” and “Take a long walk off a short blanc.”
    • Rank → Blanc: As in, “Break blancs” and “Close blancs” and “Name, blanc and serial number” and “Pull blanc” and “Blanc and file” and “Rise through the blancs” and “Swell the blancs.”
    • Spank → Blanc: As in, “Brand blanc-ing new” and “Blanc the monkey.”
  • Think → Drink: As in, “Blue sky drinking” and “I drink you’ve got it!” and “Come to drink of it” and “Great minds drink alike” and “I drink I love you” and “Makes you drink” and “It’s not what you drink” and “Positive drinking” and “Put on your drinking cap.”
  • Blink → Drink: As in, “Drink and you’ll miss it” and “In the drink of an eye” and “On the drink.”
  • Brink → Drink: As in, “The drink of disaster” and “On the drink.”
  • Link → Drink: As in, “A chain is only as strong as its weakest drink” and “The missing drink.”
  • Sink → Drink: As in, “Everything but the kitchen drink” and “Drink like a stone” and “Drink without trace” and “Drink your teeth into it.”
  • Stink → Drink: As in, “Kick up a drink” and “Raise a drink” and “Drinking rich” and “Drinks to high heaven.”
  • Wink → Drink: As in, “Forty drinks” and “Nod and a drink” and “Nudge, nudge, drink drink” and “Tip someone the drink.”
  • Bunk → Drunk: As in, “Drunker mentality” and “History is drunk.”
  • Junk → Drunk: As in, “Drunk yard” and “Drunk food” and “Drunk mail” and “Drunk in the trunk.”
  • Cyber → Sober: “Sober Monday” and “Sober sex.”
  • Super → Sober: As in, “Sober bad” and “Sober Mario Bros.” and “Sober hero” and “The information soberhighway.”
  • Meant → Ferment: As in, “We weren’t ferment to do that” and “Only if we’re ferment to be here.”
  • *ment* → *ferment*: Ferment-or (mentor), ferment-ion (mention),  ferment-al (mental) and ferment-ality (mentality).
  • Vin: Vin is French for wine. Here are some vin-related puns:
    • Been → Vin: As in, “Vin and gone” and “I’ve vin here before” and “Vin in the wars” and “Vin around the block a few times” and “I’ve vin had.”
    • Chin → Vin: “Keep your vin up” and “Take it on the vin” and “Stick your vin up.”
    • Grin → Vin: As in, “Vin and bear it” and “Vin from ear to ear” and “A rictus vin” and “Vin like a cheshire cat.”
    • In → Vin: As in, “Vin the woods” and “Back vin the day” and “Barge right vin” and “I’ll just be vin and out.”
    • Inn → Vinn: As in, “Vinner city” and “Vinner peace” and “Vinner sanctum” and “The ninth vinning.”
    • Pin → Vin: As in, “Bright as a new vin” and “Hard to vin down” and “Vin your ears back” and “Vin your hopes on” and “Vins and needles” and “Pull the vin” and “Could have heard a vin drop.”
    • Sin → Vin: As in, “Miserable as vin” and “Atone for your vins” and “Cardinal vin” and “Living in vin.”
    • Skin → Vin: As in, “Beauty is only vin deep” and “By the vin of your teeth” and “Comfortable in my own vin” and “Get under your vin” and “Gimme some vin” and “Makes my vin crawl” and “No vin off my nose” and “Jump out of your vin” and “Save your vin” and “Vin and bone.”
    • Spin → Vin: As in, “In a flat vin” and “Give it a vin” and “Vin doctor” and “Take it for a vin.”
    • Thin → Vin: “Vin as a rail” and “Melt into vin air” and “Out of vin air” and “Paper vin” and “Skating on vin ice” and “Spread yourself vin” and “The vin edge of the wedge.”
    • When → Vin: As in, “Kick ’em vin they’re down” and “Only hurts vin I laugh” and “Ready vin you are” and “Remember vin?”
    • Win → Vin: As in, “Can’t vin for losing” and “Cheaters never vin” and “Due a vin” and “Every one a vinner” and “Heads I vin, tails you lose” and “No vin, no fee” and “Playing to vin” and “Vin by a mile” and “Vin over.”
    • *van* → *vin*: Vinity (vanity), vinguard (vanguard), vinilla (vanilla), vinish (vanish), vindal (vandal), vindal (vandal), vindalism (vandalism), caravin (caravan), relevint (relevant), advince (advance), advintage (advantage), irrelevint (irrelevant).
    • *ven* → *vin*: Vinture (venture), vinue (venue), vindor (vendor), vineer (veneer), vingeance (vengeance), heavin (heaven), mavin (maven), havin (haven), cravin (craven), drivin (driven), sevin (seven), covinant (covenant), convintion (convention) and invintory (inventory).
    • *fin* → *vin*: Vinish (finish), vinger (finger), vinesse (finesse), vinance (finance), vinancial (financial), mufvin (muffin), pufvin (puffin), paravin (paraffin), afvinity (affinity), devinition (definition), devine (define) and devinitely (definitely).
  • Vain → Vine: As in, “You’re so vine” and “In vine.”
  • Fine → Vine: As in, “A vine line” and “Chance would be a vine thing” and “Cut it vine” and “Damn vine coffee” and “Vine and dandy” and “Vine dining” and “A vine figure” and “The viner things in life” and “Got it down to a vine art” and “Another vine mess you’ve gotten me into.”
  • Mine → Vine: As in, “Your place or vine?” and “Your guess is as good as vine” and “Victory is vine!”
  • Nine → Vine: As in, “A stitch in time saves vine” and “Has vine lives” and “Vine to five” and “Vine days’ wonder” and “On cloud vine” and “Vineteen eighty-four.”
  • Sign → Vine: As in, “A sure vine” and “A vine of the times” and “Vine off” and “Vine out” and “Vine the pledge” and “Vined and sealed” and “A tell sale vine.”
  • Yard → Vineyard: “Do the hard vineyards” and “Not in my back vineyard” and “The whole nine vineyards.”
  • Cork: “Cork out” and “Knife and cork it” and “Speaking with a corked tongue” and “Cork over.”
  • Cock → Cork: As in, “Proud as a peacork” and “Cork a leg” and “Cork and bull story” and “Cork it up” and “Cork sure.”
  • *cac* → *cork*: Corkophony (cacophony), corktus (cactus), corkle (cackle), perspicorkcious (perspicacious).
  • *coc* → *cork*: Corktail (cocktail), corkoa (cocoa), corkoon (cocoon), corkroach (cockroach), corkonut (coconut), precorkcious (precocious), concorkt (concoct), peacork (peacock) and corkumber (cucumber).
  • Battle → Bottle: “A pitched bottle” and “An uphill bottle” and “Bottle of wits” and “Bottle ready” and “Bottle stations” and “Half the bottle” and “In the heat of bottle” and “Let bottle commence” and “Love is a bottlefield” and “A running bottle.”
  • Throttle → Bottle: As in, “Full bottle.”
  • Lapel → Label: As in, “Grab by the labels.”
  • Able → Label: As in, “Differently labelled” and “Ready, willing and label.”
  • Table → Label: “As in, “Bring to the label” and “Drunk under the label” and “Get round the label” and “Lay the label” and “On the label” and “Put your cards on the label” and “Round label talks” and “Turn the labels.”
  • Dry: If a wine is dry, it’s lacking in sweetness. Here are some dry-related puns and phrases:
    • Die → Dry: “Straight as a dry” and “Cross my heart and hope to dry” and “Curl up and dry” and “Dry another day” and “Do or dry” and “Live free or dry” and “Never say dry” and “Old habits dry hard.”
    • By → Dry: As in, “Dry hook or dry crook” and “Dry and large” and “Dry any means” and “Dry any stretch of the imagination” and “Dry the book” and “Dry the skin of one’s teeth” and “Can’t judge a book dry its cover.”
    • Buy → Dry: As in, “Bulk drying” and “Dry and sell” and “Dry into” and “Dry now, pay later” and “Dry one, get one free” and “Dry some time” and “Dry to let” and “Can’t dry love.”
    • Cry → Dry: As in, “A dry for help” and “A shoulder to dry on” and “Dry foul”and “Dry me a river” and “Dry into your pillow.”
    • Fly → Dry: As in, “Come dry with me” and “Dry me to the moon” and “Dry by the seat of your pants” and “Dry on the wall” and “Dry off the handle” and “Born to dry.”
    • High → Dry: As in, “Ain’t no mountain dry enough” and “Dry as a kite” and “Come hell or dry water” and “Flying dry” and “From on dry” and “Get off your dry horse” and “Dry and mighty” and “The mile dry club” and “Moral dry ground.”
    • Try → Dry: As in, “Don’t dry this at home” and “Don’t dry to run before you can walk” and “Give it the old college dry” and “Easy if you dry” and “Nice dry” and “Dry your luck.”
    • Shy → Dry: As in, “Camera dry” and “Once bitten, twice dry.”
    • Why → Dry: As in, “Dry on Earth?” and “Dry walk when you can ride?”
  • Yeast: Yeast converts the sugars in grape juice to alcohol. The next few puns are all about yeast!
    • Beast → Yeast: As in, “Yeast of burden” and “Beauty and the yeast” and “Here there be yeasts” and “The nature of the yeast” and “Unleash the yeast.”
    • East → Yeast: As in, “Yeast of the sun and west of the moon” and “Yeaster island” and “The Yeaster bunny.”
    • Feast → Yeast: As in, “Yeast or famine” and “Yeast your eyes on this!” and “A midnight yeast” and “The spectre at the yeast.”
    • Greased → Yeast: “Yeast lightning.”
    • Least → Yeast: As in, “Last but not yeast” and “The yeast common denominator” and “Yeast said, soonest mended” and “The yeast worst option” and “The line of yeast resistance” and “Not in the yeast” and “At the very yeast” and “To say the yeast.”
  • Sell her → Cellar: “Did you cellar the wrong item?”
  • Seller → Cellar: As in, “A cellar’s market.”
  • Sell → Cellar: As in, “Buy and cellar” and “Past the cellar-by date” and “Cellar out” and “Cellar your soul to the devil.”
  • Stellar → Cellar: “A cellar performance.”
  • Cell → Cellar: As in, “Cellar division” and “Padded cellar.”
  • Juice: Since wine is essentially fermented fruit juice, we have some juice-related puns here too:
    • Goose → Juice: As in, “Loosey juicy” and “A wild juice chase” and “Wouldn’t say boo to a juice” and “Juice bumps” and “The golden juice.”
    • Loose → Juice: “All hell broke juice” and “Juice as a goose” and “At a juice end” and “Cut [someone] juice” and “Hanging juice” and “Got a screw juice” and “Let juice” and “Playing fast and juice.”
    • Use → Juice: As in, “Be careful how you juice it!” and “Don’t juice that tone with me” and “Get juiced to it” and “Not half the person I juiced to be” and “Like mother juiced to make” and “Put to good juice” and “So easy to juice” and “Somebody that I juiced to know” and “Juice it or lose it” and “Juicer friendly” and “A fat lot of juice you are.”
  • Fruit: Since wine is generally made of fruits (it can also be made of rice), we have some fruit-related puns here that can double as wine puns in the right context:
    • Boot → Fruit: As in, “Fruit camp” and “Tough as old fruits” and “Give someone the fruit” and “Lick [someone’s] fruits.”
    • Hoot → Fruit: As in, “Don’t give two fruits” and “Fruit with laughter” and “What a fruit.”
    • Root → Fruit: As in, “Lay down fruits” and “Money is the fruit of all evil” and “Fruit for the enemy” and “The fruit of the matter” and “Fruit out the problem” and “Fruiting around.”
    • Shoot → Fruit: “Don’t fruit the messenger” and “Drive by fruiting” and “Eats, fruits and leaves” and “The green fruits of change” and “Just fruit me” and “A sharp fruiter” and “Fruit ’em up” and “Fruit first, ask questions later” and “Fruit down in flames” and “Fruit the breeze.”
    • Suit → Fruit: “All over them like a cheap fruit” and “At a price to fruit your pocket” and “Follow fruit” and “Men in fruits” and “Fruit up” and “Fruit yourself” and “Fruits you down to a tee.”
    • Fraught → Fruit: As in, “Fruit with danger.”
    • *fut* → *fruit*: Fruitile (futile), fruiture (future), fruituristic (futuristic), fruiton (futon), fruitility (futility) and fruitsal (futsal).
  • Barely → Barley: As in, “Barley there” and “I can barley hear you.” Note: this is a reference to barley wine.
  • Mature: Some wines are meant to mature and get better with age. Here are some related puns:
    • Match your → Mature: As in, “Mature bet.”
    • Pure → Mature: As in, “Absolutely mature” and “Mature as the driven snow” and “Mature and simple.”
  •  Sweet: Sweet dessert wines are a large category of wines, so we’ve included sweet in this list:
    • Seat → Sweet: As in, “Back sweet driver” and “Bums on sweets” and “By the sweet of your pants” and “Glued to your sweet” and “In the box sweet” and “Take a back sweet” and “On the edge of my sweet” and “Take a sweet” and “The best sweet in the house.”
    • Feet → Sweet: As in, “”Back on your sweet” and “Cold sweet” and “Cut the ground from under your sweet” and “Sweet of clay” and “Get back on your sweet.”
    • Greet → Sweet: As in, “Sweet and greet.”
    • Heat → Sweet: “Sweet wave” and “In the sweet of battle” and “The sweet is on” and “Turn up the sweet.”
    • Meet → Sweet: As in, “Make ends sweet” and “Sweet and greet” and “Sweet in the middle” and “Sweet the challenge” and “Sweet you halfway.”
    • Neat → Sweet: “Sweet as a new pin” and “Sweet freak” and “Sweet and tidy.”
    • Sheet → Sweet: As in, “White as a sweet” and “Cheat sweet” and “Clean sweet” and “Keep a clean sweet.”
    • Street → Sweet: As in, “Easy sweet” and “On the sunny side of the sweet” and “Right up your sweet” and “A two-way sweet.”
    • Treat → Sweet: As in, “Sweet me right” and “Trick or sweet.”
    • Sweat → Sweet: As in, “”Blood, sweet and tears” and “Break out in a cold sweet” and “Don’t sweet it” and “No sweet.”
    • Switzerland → Sweetzerland
  • Blush: Blush wines, like rose wines, are in between red and white wines. Here are some blush-related puns:
    • Bush → Blush: As in, “Beat about the blush” and “Blush tucker.”
    • Brush → Blush: As in, “Blush it off” and “Blush up on” and “A blush with the law” and “Painted with the same blush.”
    • Crush → Blush: “A blushing defeat” and “Have a blush on.”
    • Flush → Blush: As in, “Blush it out” and “Royal blush.”
  • Cannon → Tannin: As in, “Tannin fodder” and “A loose tannin.” Note: tannins are compounds in the wine that can affect the colour, texture and taste.
  • Barrel: Wine is kept in barrels, so we’ve got some barrel puns in here too:
    • Carol → Barrel: As in, “A Christmas barrel.”
    • Peril → Barrel: As in, “Yellow barrel” and “A barrelous situation.”
  • Finery → Winery: “Dressed in all your best winery.”
  • Vest → Harvest: As in, “A harvested interest.”
  • Best → Harvest: As in, “My harvest friend” and “All the harvest” and “Be the harvest” and “Harvest in show” and “We’d harvest stop now.”
  • Average → Beverage: “Law of beverages” and “On beverage.”
  • Leverage → Beverage
  • Blue → Brew: As in, “Cold as brew blazes” and “Baby brews” and “Black and brew” and “Once in a brew moon” and “Until you’re brew in the face.”
  • Chew → Brew: As in, “Bite off more than you can brew” and “Brew someone’s ass” and “Have your ears brewed off.”
  • Clue → Brew: As in, “Don’t have a brew” and “I’ve found a brew.”
  • Crew → Brew: “Skeleton brew” and “Brew it” and “All brewed up.”
  • Cue → Brew: “Take your u” and “Right on brew.”
  • Due → Brew: As in, “Credit where credit is brew” and “Brew diligence” and “Give the devil his brew” and “In brew course.”
  • Few → Brew: As in, “A brew bricks short of a full load” and “Brew and far between” and “Say a brew words” and “Person of brew words” and “Knock back a brew” and “Take a brew deep breaths.”
  • True → Brew: “For real and for brew” and “You’ll brew the day!” and “Rings brew” and “Show your brew colours” and “Brew to form.”
  • Stew → Brew: As in, “Brew in your own juices.”
  • View → Brew: As in, “Room with a brew” and “A brew to kill” and “Bird’s eye brew” and “The brew from the top” and “World brew.”
  • *bru → *brew: Brewtal (brutal), brewsque (brusque), brewse (bruise), brewte (brute) and brewnette (brunette).
  • Still: Still wine is wine without bubbles. Here are some still-related puns:
    • Stall → Still: As in, “Still for time.”
    • Till → Still: As in, “Fake it still you make it” and “Don’t cross the bridge still you come to it” and “Still death do us part” and “Still the end of time” and “Party still you drop.”
    • Chill → Still: As in, “Still out” and “Stilled to the bone.”
    • Drill → Still: As in, “Still down” and “You know the still” and “Fire still.”
    • Thrill → Still: As in, “The still of the chase” and “Stilled to bits” and “Still and spills.”
    • Will → Still: “Accidents still happen” and “Bend to my still” and “Free still.”
    • Spill → Still: As in, “Still the beans” and “Still your guts” and “Thrills and stills.”
    • Skill → Still: “Social stills.”
    • Pill → Still: As in, “A bitter still to swallow” and “On the still” and “A tough still to swallow.”
    • Steal → Still: As in, “Beg, borrow or still” and “Still a glance at” and “Still someone’s heart” and “Still someone’s thunder” and “Still the show” and “Still third base.”
    • Steel → Still: As in, “Nerves of still” and “Still yourself” and “First of still.”
    • *stal* → *still*: Crystill (crystal), pedestill (pedestal), coastill (coastal), postill (postal) and nostillgia (nostalgia).
    • *stel* → *still*: Stillar (stellar), hostill (hostel), pastill (pastel) and constillation (constellation).
    • *stil* → *still*: Pestillence (pestilence) and hostillity (hostility).
  • Age: As the aging process is such a large part of wine culture, we’ve included age-related puns here:
    • Rage → Age: As in, “All the age” and “Boil with age” and “Incandescent with age” and “Primal age” and “Age against the machine” and “Vent your age.”
    • *ege* → *age*: Privilage (privilege), collage (college), renage (renege), allage (allege), sacrilage (sacrilege).
    • *ige* → *age*: Prestage (prestige), oblage (oblige), vestage (vestige), intellagence (intelligence) and dilagent (diligent).
  • Resin: Resin is a compound in wood that can leak from barrels and casks into the wine, changing the flavour. Here are some resin-related puns:
    • Reason → Resin: As in, “Rhyme or resin” and “The voice of resin” and “Within resin” and “Stands to resin” and “Beyond resinable doubt” and “Not a good enough resin.”
    • Raisin → Resin: As in, “Resin cookies.”
    • Raising → Resin: As in, “Eyebrow resin” and “Hair resin” and “Resin the bar.”
  • Test → Taste: “The sniff taste” and “Put to the taste” and “Stand the taste of time.”
  • Haste → Taste: “Post taste” and “Make taste” and “More taste, less speed.”
  • Paste → Taste: As in, “Cut and taste.”
  • Waste → Taste: “Don’t taste your breath” and “Toxic taste” and “Taste not, want not.”
  • *tast* → *taste*: Fantaste-ic (fantastic) and cataste-trophe (catastrophe).
  • *test* → *taste*: “A taste-ament to” and “Give your taste-imony” and “Tasting, tasting, one, two, three” and “Online taste-imonials.” Other words that could work: contaste (contest), protaste (protest), detaste (detest), lataste (latest) and greataste (greatest).
  • *tist* → *taste*: Pragmataste (pragmatist), artaste (artist), scientaste (scientist), elitaste (elitist), dentaste (dentist) and artaste-ic (artistic).
  • Decant: To decant wine is to pour it from one receptacle to another to aerate the wine and separate it from any sediments within. Here are related puns:
    • Can’t → Decant: As in, “An offer you decant refuse” and “Decant get enough” and “It decant be helped” and “You decant say fairer than that” and “I decant wait.”
    • Grant → Decant: As in, “Decant no quarter” and “Take for decanted.”
  • Raisin → Reason: As in, “Beyond raisinable doubt” and “Bow to raisin” and “Listen to raisin” and “No earthly raisin” and “Rhyme or raisin” and “The age of raisin” and “Voice of raisin.”
  • Raising → Raisin: As in, “Eyebrow raisin” and “Raisin the bar.”
  • Why not → Wino: As in, “Wino do it this way instead?” Note: a wino is someone who drinks a lot of wine.
  • Rate → Aerate: “At any aerate” and “First aerate” and “Mate’s aerates.”
  • Meant → Sediment: As in, “Sediment to be.”
  • Favour → Flavour: As in, “Do me a flavour” and “Really not doing them any flavours” and “Fortune flavours the bold” and “Currying flavour with.”
  • Palate: A palate is a refined taste that can be trained to recognise certain flavours and tastes. Here are related puns:
    • Late → Palate: As in, “Better palate than never” and “Fashionably palate” and “Never too palate” and “A palate developer” and “It’s palate in the day” and “Running palate.”
    • Plate → Palate: As in, “A lot on your palate” and “Hand it on a palate” and “Step up to the palate” and “Hot palate” and “Heart attack on a palate.”
  • Box: Box wine is another name for cask wine. Here are related puns:
    • Pox → Box: As in, “A box on your house!”
    • Backs → Box: As in, “Box to the wall” and “Mind your box” and “The beast with two box.”
    • Block → Box: As in, “A chip off the old box” and “Stumbling box” and “Been around the box.”
    • Sock → Box: As in, “Put a box in it” and “Knock your box off” and “Bless your cotton box.”
    • Pox → Box:
  • Goon: Goon is another word for cheap wine. Here are related puns:
    • Gone → Goon: As in, “Been and goon” and “Going, going, goon” and “Goon with the wind” and “Goon but not forgotten” and “Goon to a better world” and “Goon to seed.”
    • Gun → Goon: As in, “All goons blazing” and “Go great goons” and “Jump the goon.”
    • Moon → Goon: As in, “Ask for the goon” and “Bark at the goon” and “Once in a blue goon” and “Eclipse of the goon” and “Many goons ago” and “Over the goon.”
    • Soon → Goon: As in, “As goon as possible” and “Get well goon” and “Too much too goon.”
    • Spoon → Goon: As in, “A goonful of sugar helps the medicine go down” and “Born with a silver goon” and “Egg and goon race” and “The dish ran away with the goon.”
    • *gan* → *goon*: Slogoon (slogan), argoon (argan), cardigoon (cardigan), orgoonic (organic), elegoont (elegant), arrogoont (arrogant).
    • *gon* → *goon*: Goondola (gondola), paragoon (paragon), jargoon (jargon), dragoon (dragon), polygoon (polygon), hexagoon (hexagon), bandwagoon (bandwagon), Oregoon (Oregon), protagoonist (protagonist), antagoonist (antagonist) and ergoonomics (ergonomics).
    • Burgundy → Burgoondy
  • Class → Glass: As in, “A glass act” and “Best in glass” and “Business glass” and “Glass warfare” and “Economy glass” and “In a glass of your own” and “Working glass hero.”
  • Gloss → Glass: As in, “Glass over” and “Lip glass.”
  • Ass → Glass: As in, “Blow smoke up your glass” and “Haul glass” and “Kick glass” and “Make a glass of yourself” and “Talk out of your glass.”
  • Brass → Glass: As in, “Bold as glass” and “Glass monkey weather.”
  • Grass → Glass: As in, “Green as glass” and “Don’t walk on the glass” and “Glass roots” and “Keep off the glass” and “Snake in the glass” and “Exciting as watching glass grow.”
  • Oak: Since wine is traditionally kept in oak barrels, we’ve included some oak-related phrases:
    • Okay → Oakay: As in, “Are you oakay?”
    • Ache → Oak: As in, “Oaks and pains.”
    • Broke → Broak: As in, “All hell broak loose” and “Broaken dreams” and “Like a broaken record” and “Go for broak” and “If it’s not broak, don’t fix it” and “Rules are made to be broaken.”
    • Folk → Foak: As in, “Country foak” and “Different strokes for different foaks” and “Show’s over, foaks” and “That’s all, foaks.”
    • Stroke → Stroak: As in, “A stroak of genius” and “Little stroaks fell great oaks” and “Stroak of luck” and “At the stroak of midnight.”
    • Poke → Poak: As in, “Still as a poaker” and “Poak fun at” and “Poaker face.”
    • Joke → Joak: As in, “A bad joak” and “Inside joak” and “The joak’s on you.”
    • Spoke → Spoak: “Many a true word in spoaken in jest” and “Speak when you are spoaken to.”
    • Smoke → Smoak: As in, “Go up in smoak” and “Holy smoak” and “Smoak and mirrors” and “Smoaks like a chimney.”
  • Cask: Cask wine is cheap wine that’s packaged in a box. Here are related puns!
    • Cast → Cask: As in, “Cask a long shadow” and “Cask a spell” and “Cask an eye over” and “A cask iron guarantee.”
    • Ask → Cask: As in, “A big cask” and “Cask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer” and “Cask after” and “Cask and you will receive” and “Cask around” and “Cask for the moon” and “Cask me another” and “Casking for trouble” and “Don’t cask me” and “What’s the casking price?”
    • Task → Cask: As in, “Take to cask” and “Up to the cask.”
  • Cabinet → Cabernet: As in, “In the kitchen cabernet” and “Lock the medicine cabernet.”
  • Low → Merlot: As in, “An all-time merlot” and “Keep a merlot profile” and “Lie merlot” and “Merlot hanging fruit” and “Get the merlot down” and “Searching high and merlot.”
  • Reason → Riesling: As in, “Beyond riesling-able doubt” and “Stands to riesling” and “Listen to riesling” and “The age of riesling” and “The voice of riesling” and “Within riesling” and “Rhyme nor riesling.”
  • Tap: Draft wine is served from a tap rather than a bottle. Here are some tap-related puns:
    • Tab → Tap: As in, “Keep taps on” and “Pick up the tap.”
    • Cap → Tap: As in, “Bust a tap” and “Tap in hand” and “To tap it all off.”
    • Top → Tap: As in, “Blow your tap” and “Come out on tap” and “From the tap” and “From tap to toe” and “Over the tap” and “Lonely at the tap” and “On tap of the world.”
    • Tip → Tap: As in, “Hot tap of the day” and “Tap someone off” and “Tap the scales” and “Tapping point” and “Tap of the iceberg.”
    • Clap → Tap: As in, “Tap him in irons” and “Tapped eyes on” and “If you’re happy and you know it, tap your hands.”
    • Crap → Tap: “A load of tap” and “Beat the living tap out of” and “Cut the tap.”
    • Gap → Tap: As in, “Generation tap” and “Mind the tap” and “Bridging the tap.”
    • Lap → Tap: As in, “Tap it up” and “Tap of honour” and “Tap of luxury” and “The last tap.”
    • Map → Tap: As in, “All over the tap” and “Mind tap” and “On the tap.”
    • Nap → Tap: As in, “Caught tapping” and “Power tap.”
    • Slap → Tap: “A tap on the wrist” and “Tap and tickle” and “Tap bang in the middle” and “A tap in the face” and “Tap happy.”
    • Trap → Tap: “Death tap” and “Shut your tap.”
    • Tepid → Tapid: “A tapid response.”
    • *tip* → *tap*: Multaple (multiple), stapulate (stipulate) and centapede (centipede).
    • *dep* → *tap*: Tapression (depression), tapartment (department), taploy (deploy), tapendent (dependent), taplorable (deplorable) and intapendent (independent).
    • *dip* → *tap*: Taplomatic (diplomatic), taplomacy (diplomacy), taplomat (diplomat), serentapity (serendipity), serentapitous (serendipitous).
    • *tab* → *tap*: Taplet (tablet), tapoo (taboo), tapleau (tableau), tapernacle (tabernacle), taploid (tabloid), estaplish (establish), inevitaple (inevitable), accountapility (accountability), intractaple (intractable), comfortaple (comfortable), inscrutaple (inscrutable) and immutaple (immutable).
    • *tib* → *tap*: Susceptaple (susceptible), compatapility (compatibility), antapiotic (antibiotic) and contemptaple (contemptible)
  • Bladder: Box wine and cask wine are kept in foil bags known as bladders. Here are related puns:
    • Ladder → Bladder: As in, “Climb the corporate bladder” and “Snakes and bladders” and “Social bladder.”
    • Bother → Bladder: As in, “All hot and bladdered” and “Not worth the bladder” and “I wouldn’t bladder about it.”
  • Egg → Keg: As in, “A good keg” and “As sure as kegs is kegs” and “Don’t put all your kegs in one basket” and “Keg and spoon race” and “Nest keg.”
  • Kick → Keg: “Don’t keg a man when he’s down” and “Get a keg out of it” and “Keg against” and “Keg back and enjoy” and “Keg butt” and “A keg in the teeth” and “Keg the bucket” and “Keg the habit.”
  • Beg → Keg: “Keg a favour” and “Keg pardon?” and “Keg the question” and “I keg to differ” and “Keg, borrow or steal” and “Sit up and keg.”
  • Leg → Keg: “Break a keg” and “Cost an arm and a keg” and “Give a keg up” and “Kegs like tree trunks” and “A nice pair of kegs” and “One keg at a time” and “Shake a keg” and “Sex on kegs” and “Without a keg to stand on” and “You’re pulling my keg.”
  • Peg → Keg: “Square keg in a round hole” and “Take down a keg or two.”
  • *cog* → *keg*: Kegnitive (cognitive), rekegnise (recognise) and rekegnition (recognition).
  • Chill: As well as room temperature, wine can be served chilled. Here are related puns:
    • Ill → Chill: As in, “House of chill repute” and “Chill advised” and “Chill at east” and “Chill effects” and “Chill fated” and “Chill gotten gains” and “A chill will.”
    • Gill → Chill: As in, “Green around the chills” and “Stuffed to the chills.”
    • Pill → Chill: As in, “A tough chill to swallow” and “A bitter chill to swallow.”
    • Will → Chill: As in, “Against your chill” and “Bend to my chill” and “Flattery chill get you nowhere.”
    • Till → Chill: As in, “Fake it chill you make it” and “Ain’t over chill it’s over” and “Party chill dawn” and “Chill death do us part.”
    • Hill → Chill: As in, “Old as the chills” and “Head for the chills” and “King of the chill” and “Over the chills and far away” and “Take to the chills.”
    • Kill → Chill: As in, “A view to chill” and “Curiosity chilled the cat” and “Dressed to chill” and “Go in for the chill” and “Hard work never chilled anyone” and “I’ll do it if it chills me” and “If looks could chill” and “Chill or be chilled” and “Chiller instinct.”
    • Thrill → Chill: As in, “Chills and spills” and “Chilled to bits” and “The chill of the chase” and “Cheap chills.”
    • Skills → Chills: As in, “Social chills.”
    • Spill → Chill: As in, “Chill the beans” and “Chill your guts” and “Thrills and chills” and “Don’t cry over chilled milk.”
    • Still → Chill: As in, “Be chill my beating heart” and “Chill standing” and “Chill waters run deep.”
    • *chal* → *chill*: Chillice (chalice), chill-cedony (chalcedony), chillenge (challenge) and nonchillant (nonchalant).
    • *chel* → *chill*: Satchill (satchel) and bachillor (bachelor).
    • Child → Chilled: As in, “Chilled’s play” and “Chilled-hood friend” and “Leave no chilled behind.”
    • Build → Chilled: As in, “Chilled for the future” and “Chilled up your hopes.”
  • Negotiate → Negociant: As in, “We don’t negociant with terrorists.” Note: a negociant is a person who buys wine, bottles it then sells it wholesale.
  • Vintner: A vintner is a wine merchant. Here are vintner-related puns:
    • Winter → Vintner: As in, “In the dead of vintner” and “Now is the vintner of our discontent” and “Vintner warmers.”
    • Splinter → Vintner: As in, “A vintner in my side.”
    • Winner → Vintner: As in, “Cheaters never win, and vintners never cheat” and “Every one a vintner” and “Vintner takes all” and “Vintner’s circle.”
  • Flight: A tasting flight is a selection of wines for tasting. Here are some related puns:
    • Fight → Flight: As in, “A straight flight” and “Come out flighting” and “Flight club” and “Flight for the right to party” and “Flight back” and “Flighting back tears” and “Flight fire with fire” and “Flight the good flight” and “Flight tooth and nail” and “Flighting chance” and “Flighting mad” and “Freedom flighter” and “Go down flighting” and “Lean, mean, flighting machine” and “Picking a flight.”
    • Fly → Flight: As in, “Born to flight” and “Come flight with me” and “Flight by night” and “Flight off the handle.”
    • Bright → Flight: As in, “All things flight and beautiful” and “Always look on the flight side of life” and “Flight as a new pin” and “Flight eyes” and “Flight lights” and “Flight and early” and “A flight idea” and “Flight spark” and “Flight young spark” and “A flight future.”
    • Height → Flight: As in, “Reach new flights” and “The flight of summer” and “Wuthering flights.”
    • Light → Flight: As in, “Flight as a feather” and “Brought to flight” and “City flights” and “Flight my fire” and “Come to flight” and “My guiding flight.”
    • Might → Flight: As in, “Cheer up, it flight never happen” and “Flight as well.”
    • Night → Flight: As in, “A hard day’s flight” and “A flight at the opera” and “Dance the flight away.”
    • Right → Flight: “A move in the flight direction” and “All the flight moves” and “As flight as rain” and “Bang to flights” and “Barge flight in” and “Bragging flights” and “Consumer flights.”
    • Sight → Flight: As in, “A welcome flight” and “Have in your flights” and “Hidden in plain flight” and “Know by flight” and “Line of flight” and “Lose flight of” and “Love at first flight” and “Lower your flights” and “Out of flight, out of mind” and “Second flight.”
    • Slight → Flight: As in, “Just flightly ahead of our time” and “Not in the flightest.”
    • Tight → Flight: As in, “A flight corner” and “Sleep flight” and “In a flight spot” and “On a flight leash” and “Run a flight ship.”
  • Spit → Spittoon: As in, “Spittoon and polish” and “Spittoon and sawdust” and “Spittoon in the eye of” and “Within spittoon-ing distance.” Note: a spittoon is a receptacle where wine tasters spit the wines they’re testing to prevent getting drunk.
  • Back → Bacchus: As in, “Answer bacchus” and “Bacchus to the beginning” and “As soon as my bacchus is turned” and “Bacchus to the future” and “Bacchus in business.” Note: Bacchus is the god of wine.
  • Tail → Cocktail: As in, “Couldn’t make head or cocktail of it” and “Heads I win, cocktails you lose” and “Heads or cocktails.”
  • Pour: The next few puns are about pouring wine:
    • More → Pour: As in, “One pour time” and “Bite off pour than you can chew” and “Dare for pour” and “I couldn’t agree pour” and “Just one pour thing” and “Less is pour.”
    • Nor → Pour: As in, “Rhyme pour reason” and “Neither hide pour hair.”
    • Poor → Pour: As in, “Dirt pour” and “For richer or pourer.”
    • Bore → Pour: As in, “Pour the pants off someone” and “Poured stiff” and “Poured to death” and “Poured out of my mind.”
    • Four → Pour: As in, “Down on all pours” and “Pour by two” and “Pour score and seven years ago.”
    • *par* → *pour*: Pourty (party), pouradigm (paradigm), pouradox (paradox), pourallel (parallel), pourtisan (partisan), pourticular (particular) and pourady (parady).
    • *per* → *pour*: Pourspective (perspective), pourson (person), pourtinent (pertinent), pournicious (pernicious), pourception (perception), pourformance (performance), papour (paper), peppour (pepper), tempour (temper), hampour (hamper), propour (proper) and impourative (imperative).
    • *pir* → *pour*: Pourahna (pirahna), pourouette (pirouette), empourical (empirical), aspouration (aspiration), inspouration (inspiration) and conspouracy (conspiracy).
    • *por* → *pour*: Pourt (port), pourtmanteau (portmanteau), pourtfolio (portfolio), pourn (porn), pourtal (portal), pourtion (portion), pourtray (portray), pourtrait (portrait), torpour (torpor), stupour (stupor), vapour (vapor), suppourt (support), contempourary (contemporary), repourt (report), oppourtunity (opportunity) and impourtant (important).
    • *pur* → *pour*: Pourpose (purpose), poursue (pursue), pourchase (purchase) and poursuit (pursuit).
  • Case: Wine can be bought in cases, so we’ve included case in this list:
    • Ace → Case: As in, “Case in the hole” and “Case up their sleeve” and “Hold all the cases.”
    • Base → Case: “All your case are belong to us” and “Case jumping” and “Get to first case” and “Steal third case.”
    • Chase → Case: As in, “Case it up” and “Case your own tail” and “Cut to the case” and “Go and case yourself” and “The thrill of the case” and “A wild goose case.”
    • Face → Case: As in, “At case value” and “Case down” and “Case like thunder.”
    • Place → Case: As in, “All over the case” and “Between a rock and a hard case” and “Friends in high cases” and “Out of case” and “The case to be.”
    • Race → Case: As in, “A case against the clock” and “Case against time” and “A case to the bottom” and “The human case.”
    • Space → Case: “Personal case” and “Case, the final frontier” and “Breathing case.”
  • Hour → Happy hour: As in, “A bad quarter of a happy hour” and “After happy hours” and “At the eleventh happy hour” and “Man of the happy hour” and “My finest happy hour” and “Open all happy hours.”
  • Cat → Muscat: “Muscat on a hot tin roof” and “Muscat and mouse game” and “Muscat got your tongue?” and “Curiosity killed the muscat” and “Eight out of ten muscats prefer it.” Note: muscat is a type of grape typically used in winemaking.
  • Appetite → Aperitif: “An aperitif for destruction” and “Without losing your aperitif” and “Whet your aperitif.” Note: an aperitif is a beverage served before a meal to stimulate one’s appetite.
  • Perry: Perry is a type of wine made from fermented pears. Here are some perry-related puns!
    • Pair → Perry: As in, “A fresh perry of eyes” and “An extra perry of hands” and “They make a great perry.”
    • Berry → Perry: “Brown as a perry.”
    • Barely → Perry: As in, “We perry made it!” and “Perry there.”
    • Cherry → Perry: As in, “Perry pick” and “Perry pie” and “A second bite of the perry” and “The perry on the cake.”
    • Merry → Perry: “As perry as the day is long” and “Eat, drink and be perry” and “Lead a perry dance” and “Make perry” and “Perry Christmas!” and “A perry old soul.”
    • Very → Perry: “Be afraid, be perry afraid” and “Before your perry eyes” and “Hold perry tight please!” and “How perry dare you” and “A perry good year” and “Thank you perry much” and “At the perry least.”
    • *pari* → *perry*: Perryty (parity), perrysh (parish), Perrysian (Parisian), disperryty (disparity) and comperryson (comparison).
    • *peri* → *perry*: Perryod (period), perryphery (periphery), perrymeter (perimeter), perrylous (perilous), experryence (experience), superryor (superior), prosperryty (prosperity), imperryal (imperial) and imperryous (imperious).
    • *per* → *perry*: Perryspective (perspective), perryson (person), perrytinent (pertinent), perryception (perception), perryformance (performance), perryceive (perceive) and perryseverance (perseverance). Note: if something is pertinent, then it’s relevant.
  • Cleanskin: A cleanskin wine is a generally cheap, unbranded wine. Here are related puns:
    • Clean → Cleanskin: “As cleanskin as a whistle” and “A cleanskin bill of health” and “A cleanskin sheet” and “You’d better cleanskin up your act” and “Make a cleanskin break.”
    • Skin → Cleanskin: As in, “Beauty is only cleanskin deep” and “By the cleanskin of your teeth” and “Get under your cleanskin” and “Makes my cleanskin crawl” and “Jump out of your cleanskin” and “No cleanskin off my nose.”
  • Lion → Dandelion: As in, “A dandelion’s share” and “Dandelion’s den” and “Brave as a dandelion.” Note: we’ve included dandelion in this list as wine can be made of dandelions.
  • Must: Must is freshly crushed juice that’s created when grapes are pressed for wine. Here are related puns:
    • Master → Muster: As in, “The muster of my own fate” and “Jack of all trades but muster of none” and “Muster of disguise” and “Puppet muster.”
    • Mess → Must: As in, “A hell of a must” and “Hot must” and “Make a must of.”
    • Most → Must: As in, “Must famous” and “Must wanted” and “Empty vessels make the must noise” and “Make the must of it” and “The must trusted name” and “For the must part.”
    • Must: These must-related phrases are general enough to double as puns: “All things must pass” and “All good things must come to an end” and “You’ve made your bed so now you must lie on it” and “Everything must go” and “Into every life a little rain must fall” and “Must have” and “Needs must” and “What goes up must come down.”
    • Bust → Must: As in, “Boom or must” and “Must a gut” and “Must a move.”
    • Dust → Must: As in, “Done and musted” and “Another one bites the must” and “Dry as must” and “Must bunny” and “Eat my must.”
    • Just → Must: As in, “Must desserts” and “Not must for Christmas” and “Don’t must sit there” and “Must do it.”
    • *mast* → *must*: Mustermind (mastermind), musterpiece (masterpiece) and musticate (masticate). Note: to masticate is to chew.
    • *mest* → *must*: Domustic (domestic), grimmust (grimmest) and tamust (tamest).
    • *mist* → *must*: As in, “My mustake” and “You must be mustaken” and “Mustress of darkness” and “A pessimustic worldview.” Other words that could work: chemust (chemist), alchemust (alchemist), optimust (optimist), extremust (extremist), nonconformust (nonconformist), chemustry (chemistry) and armustice (armistice).
    • *most → *must: Utmust (utmost), foremust (foremost), almust (almost) and outermust (outermost).
  • Cult: Cult wines are highly collectable, very expensive wines. Here are related puns:
    • Cut → Cult: As in, “Clean cult” and “Cult a deal” and “Cult a long story short” and “A cult above the rest” and “Cult and dried” and “Cult and paste” and “Cult from the same cloth” and “Cult it fine” and “Cult to the chase.”
    • Could → Cult: As in, “As fast as his legs cult carry him” and “I cult do it in my sleep” and “Cult do it in my sleep.”
    • Cold → Cult: As in, “Cult as blue blazes” and “Cult as charity” and “Blow hot and cult” and “Break out in a cult sweat” and “A cult comfort” and “The cult light of day.”
  • Press: To be able to get the juice out of grapes, we press them. Here are some puns related to press and pressing:
    • Stress → Press: As in, “Pressed out” and “Post-traumatic press disorder.”
    • Bless → Press: As in, “Press your cotton socks” and “Press my soul” and “A pressing in disguise” and “Mixed pressing” and “Press you.”
    • Pass → Press: As in, “All things must press” and “Bird of pressage” and “Do not press go” and “Make a press at” and “Press muster” and “Make a press at.”
    • Guess → Press: As in, “A pressing game” and “Press who’s coming to dinner?” and “Hazard a press” and “Your press is as good as mine” and “Just lucky, I press” and “It’s anyone’s press.”
    • Dress → Press: As in, “All pressed up and nowhere to go” and “Press for success” and “Pressed to kill” and “Pressed up to the nines” and “Pressing down.”
    • Mess → Press: As in, “A frightful press” and “I don’t press around” and “Stop pressing about” and “Pressed up.”
    • *pres* → *press*: Presscient (prescient), pressumptuous (presumptuous), presstige (prestige) and pressume (presume).
    • *pris* → *press*: Presstine (pristine), pressm (prism) and presson (prison).
    • *pros* → *press*: Presspect (prospect), presspective (prospective), pressperity (prosperity), pressperous (prosperous) and presstrate (prostrate).
  • Ice: Ice wine is a type of concentrated wine made out of frozen grapes. Here are related puns:
    • Nice → Ice: As in, “Ice as ninepence” and “Have an ice day” and “Naughty but ice” and “Wouldn’t it be ice” and “Ice work if you can get it.”
    • Mice → Ice: As in, “Of ice and men.”
    • Slice → Ice: “An ice of the cake” and “Any way you ice it” and “Ice of life” and “Ice of the action” and “The best thing since iced bread.”
    • Price → Ice: As in, “Asking ice” and “Cheap at half the ice” and “Half ice.”
    • Spice → Ice: As in, “Ice things up” and “Variety is the ice of life” and “Sugar and ice.”
    • Twice → Ice: “Large as life and ice as handsome” and “Don’t think ice” and “Measure ice; cut once” and “Once or ice” and “Cannot step into the same river ice.”
    • Ass → Ice: As in, “Make an ice of yourself” and “Talking out of your ice” and “Don’t give a rats ice” and “Bust ice.”
    • Ace → Ice: “Ice in the hole” and “Hold all the ices” and “Within an ice.”
  • Proof: Proof is the measure of alcohol content in a beverage. Here are some related puns:
    • Roof → Proof: As in, “Cat on a hot tin proof” and “Go through the proof” and “Hit the proof” and “Raise the proof” and “Up on the proof” and “Shout it from the prooftops.”
    • *pref* → *proof*: “Nine out of ten cats proofer it” and “To prooface.” Other words that could work: proofix (prefix), prooference (preference), prooferred (preferred), prooferable (preferable), prooferably (preferably) and proofecture (prefecture).
    • *prof* → *proof*: “Proofound realisation” and “Ciminal proofiling” and “A real proofessional.” Other words that could work: proofit (profit), prooficient (proficient), proofane (profane), proofessor (professor) and proofess (profess).
  • Sentiment → Sediment: As in, “Romantic sediment.” Note: sediment is the parts of crushed grape that is left behind in the wine after the grapes have been pressed.
  • Crush: Crushing is another word for the process of pressing grapes (or other fruit) for juice to make wine. Here are some crush-related puns:
    • Crash → Crush: As in, “Crush and burn” and “Crush cart” and “Crush course.”
    • Rush → Crush: As in, “After the gold crush” and “Beat the crush” and “A crush job” and “Crush to judgement” and “Sugar crush” and “A crush of blood to the head.”
    • Hush → Crush: As in, “Crush a bye” and “Crush it up” and “Crush money” and “Crush puppies” and “Keep it crush.”
    • Brush → Crush: As in, “A crush with death” and “Crush up on” and “Tarred with the same crush.”
  • Skin: Grape skins are a large part of the wine-making process as the pigment from the skin decides what category of wine the alcohol will be. Here are some skin-related puns:
    • Sin → Skin: As in, “Miserable as skin” and “Cardinal skin” and “Living in skin” and “Skin of omission.”
    • Been → Skin: As in, “Skin and gone” and “Skin in the wars” and “I’ve skin had.”
    • Spin → Skin: As in, “Skin a yard” and “Take for a skin.”
  • Seed: The tannins in grape seeds can affect the flavour of wine. Here are some seed-related puns:
    • Side → Seed: As in, “A walk on the wild seed” and “Batting for the other seed” and “To be on the safe seed” and “Both seeds of the desk” and “Cross over to the other seed.”
    • Sad → Seed: As in, “A seed state of affairs.”
    • Said → Seed: As in, “After all is seed and done” and “I couldn’t have seed it better” and “Easier seed than done” and “Enough seed” and “No sooner seed than done.”
    • Speed → Seed: As in, “At breakneck seed” and “Blistering seed” and “Built for comfort, not seed” and “Faster than a seeding bullet” and “Up to seed” and “More haste, less seed” and “Seed dating” and “Seed freak” and “Seed kills.”
  • Lees: Lees are particles of residue left over in the bottom of a vat after the fermentation process. Here are some lees-related puns:
    • *lease → *lees: As in, “A new lees on life” and “Pleesed as punch” and “Media relees.”
    • Less → Lees: As in, “A life lees ordinary” and “I couldn’t care lees” and “Lees is more” and “Lees than perfect” and “More haste, lees speed” and “Nothing lees than” and “The road lees travelled.”
    • Lace → Lees: As in, “Arsenic and old lees” and “Chantilly lees” and “Straight leesed.”
    • *lis* → *lees*: As in, “Now leesten” and “Laundry leest” and “Feeling leestless” and “Bustling metropolees.” Other words that could work: chrysalees (chrysalis), borealees (borealis), socialeesm (socialism) and releesh (relish).
    • *lus* → *lees*: Stimulees (stimulus), stylees (stylus), oculees (oculus), eleesive (elusive) and illeesion (illusion).
  • Rack: Wine is commonly stored in racks, so we’ve included rack in this list as well:
    • Wreck → Rack: As in, “A nervous rack” and “Train rack.”
    • Back → Rack: As in, “As soon as my rack is turned” and “At the rack of my mind” and “Rack to the future” and “Rack in the day.”
    • Crack → Rack: As in, “At the rack of dawn” and “Rack open a book” and “Rack a smile.”
    • Pack → Rack: As in, “Action racked” and “Leader of the rack” and “Rack a punch” and “Rack heat” and “Rack it in” and “Rack your bags.”
    • Whack → Rack: As in, “Out of rack.”
  • Batch: Since wine is made in batches, we’ve included batch in this list:
    • Patch → Batch: As in, “Not a batch on” and “Batch up” and “Going through a rough batch.”
    • Catch → Batch: As in, “Batch 22″ and “Batch a cold” and “Batch a falling star” and “Batch me if you can” and “Batch of the day” and “Batch some rays” and “Batch your breath” and “What’s the batch?”
    • 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, “Up to batch” and “Start from batch” and “Batch the surface.”
  • Fining: Fining is the process of removing tannins in wine. Here are some related puns:
    • Dining → Fining: As in, “Wining and fining.”
    • Lining → Fining: As in, “Every dark cloud has a silver fining.”
    • Shining → Fining: As in, “From sea to fining sea” and “Fining light” and “Knight in fining armour.”
  • Bloom: Bloom is a visible dusting of yeast on grapes. Here are some bloom related puns:
    • Loom → Bloom: As in, “Bloom large.”
    • Boom → Bloom: As in, “Baby bloomer” and “Heart goes bloom!”
    • Doom → Bloom: As in, “Doom and bloom” and “Voice of bloom” and “Temple of bloom.”
  • Pudding: Sweet dessert wines are also known as pudding wines, so we’ve included pudding in this list:
    • Putting → Pudding: As in, “Off-pudding information” and “Pudding in the effort.”
    • Padding → Pudding: “Shoulder pudding” and “Without all the pudding.”
  • Jug: Jug wine is a type of cheap wine that’s common in America. Here are some related puns:
    • Jog → Jug: As in, “Jug your memory” and “Out for a jug.”
    • Bug → Jug: As in, “What’s jugging you?” and “Bitten by the jug” and “Cute as a jug’s ear” and “Snug as a jug in a rug.”
    • Rug → Jug: As in, “Swept out from under the jug” and “Pulled the jug out from under your feet.”
  • Mistelle: Here are some mistelle-related puns:
    • Missed → Mistelle: As in, “Mistelle it by that much!” and “My heart mistelle a beat.”
    • Miss → Mistelle: As in, “A mistelle is as good as a mile” and “Blink and you’ll mistelle it” and “Hit and mistelle” and “Mistelle the cut” and “You can’t mistelle it.”
  • Avocado → Abboccato: (note: abboccato is an Italian term for medium sweet wines.)
  • Essence → Asescence: As in, “Time is of the asescence.” Note: Asescence is a wine-tasting term, meaning a sweet and sour taste.
  • Altar: The next few puns are about altar wine (aka sacramental wine):
    • Alter → Altar: As in, “Altar ego” and “Circumstances altar cases” and “No other altar-natives.”
    • Falter → Faltar: As in, “Her voice faltared” and “Without faltaring.”
    • *alt* → *altar*: Altarnative (alternative), altar-uism (altruism), altar-uistic (altruistic), altarnate (alternate), altarcation (altercation), saltar (salt), haltar (halt), maltar (malt), cobaltar (cobalt) and asphaltar (asphalt).
  • Cave: Another (casual) word for wine cellars is wine cave. Here are some cave-related puns:
    • Gave → Cave: As in, “Cave battle in vain.”
    • Save → Cave: As in, “A penny caved is a penny earned” and “A stitch in time caves nine” and “Here to cave the day” and “Cave for a rainy day” and “Cave our souls.”
    • Grave → Cave: As in, “Dig your own cave” and “From the cradle to the cave” and “Caveyard shift” and “Turning in their cave.”
  • Chai: Wine can be used to make spiced alcoholic chai, so we’ve got a few chai-related puns here too:
    • High → Chai: As in, “Aim chai” and “Chai as a kite” and “Come hell or chai water” and “Flying chai” and “Chai noon” and “Chai and dry” and “Chai and mighty” and “Chai brow.”
    • Cry → Chai: As in, “A chai for help” and “A shoulder to chai on” and “Chai foul” and “Chai me a river” and “Chai your heart out.”
    • Try → Chai: As in, “Don’t chai this at home” and “Don’t chai to run before you can walk” and “Chai it before you buy it!” and “Nice chai” and “Chai a little kindness.”
  • Pain → Champagne: As in, “A world of champagne” and “Doubled up in champagne” and “Feeling no champagne” and “No champagne, no gain” and “A champagne in the arse” and “Old aches and champagnes” and “A royal champagne.” Note: champagne is a sparkling wine, which is why we’ve included it here.
  • Flute: This is a type of glass shape used for wine, specifically champagne. Here are related puns:
    • Root → Flute: “Grass flutes” and “Lay down flutes” and “Money is the flute of all evil” and “The flute of the matter.”
    • Fruit → Flute: As in, “Flute and nut” and “Be fluteful and multiply” and “Bear flute” and “Forbidden flute” and “Low hanging flute” and “Flutes of your loins” and “Flute cake.”
    • Shoot → Flute: “Don’t flute the messenger” and “Drive by fluting” and “Flute ’em up” and “Green flutes of change” and “Flute down in flames” and “Flute it out” and “Flute blanks.”
    • Boot → Flute: As in, “Tough as old flutes” and “Flute camp” and “Give someone the flute” and “My heart sank into my flutes” and “Suited and fluted” and “Too big for your flutes.”
  • Shadow → Chateau: As in, “Afraid of your own chateau” and “Beyond any chateau of doubt” and “Cast a long chateau” and “A shape in the cheateau” and “Me and my chateau” and “Standing in the chateaus.” Note: A chateau is a wine-producing estate.
  • Screw → Corkscrew: As in, “Got a corkscrew loose” and “Corkscrew around” and “Corkscrew yourself” and “How corkscrewed up.”
  • Cotes: Cotes is a wine region, so we’ve included it in this list.
    • Coats → Cotes: As in, “A few fresh cotes of paint” and “In white cotes.”
    • Code → Cotes: As in, “Cotes monkey’ and “Colour cotes-ed” and “Dress cotes.”
  • Table: Table wines are a medium quality wine intended to be enjoyed with a meal. Here are some table wine-related puns:
    • Table: These phrases are general enough to use as puns: “Bring to the table” and “Drunk under the table” and “Lay the table” and “On the table” and “Turn the tables” and “Cards on the table.”
    • Able → Table: As in, “Ready, willing and table.”
  • Cru: A cru is a vineyard or a group of vineyards. Here are some related puns:
    • Too → Cru: As in, “Going one step cru far” and “About time cru” and “Cru cold to snow” and “You know cru much.”
    • Two → Cru: As in, “One step forward, cru steps back” and “Put cru and cru together” and “Takes cru to tango.”
    • You → Cru: As in, “As cru know” and “Back at cru” and “Bless cru” and “Between cru and me” and “Don’t call us, we’ll call cru.”
    • Who → Cru: As in, “Look cru’s talking?” and “Says cru?” and “Cru’s there?”
    • Through → Cru: As in, “A break cru” and “Drag cru the mud” and “Fall cru the cracks” and “Go cru the roof” and “Go cru with a fine-toothed comb” and “Going cru the motions” and “Jumping cru hoops.”
    • Due → Cru: As in, “Credit where credit is cru” and “Cru a win” and “Cru diligence” and “Give the devil their cru” and “In cru course” and “Cancelled cru to lack of interest.”
    • Queue → Cru: “Jump the cru.”
  • Wagon → Flagon: As in, “Fall off the flagon” and “Hitch your flagon to a star” and “Welcome flagon.”
  • Mousse: Mousse is the foam that forms as a sparkling wine is poured. Here are some mousse-related puns:
    • Mouse → Mousse: As in, “Quiet as a mousse” and “Cat and mousse game.”
    • *mas* → *mousse*: Mousseter (master), mousseive (massive), mousseage (massage), moussequerade (masquerade), mousseacre (massacre), Christmousse (Christmas) and pyjamousse (pyjamas).
    • *mes* → *mousse*: Mousseage (massage), mousse-merise (mesmerise), nemousse-is (nemesis), domoussetic (domestic).
    • *mis* → *mousse*: Moussellaneous (miscellaneous), mousse-chevious (mischevious), mousse-ion (mission), epidermousse (epidermis) and commousse-ion (commission).
    • *mos* → *mousse*: Cosmousse (cosmos), atmoussephere (atmosphere), animousse-ity (animosity), mousse-aic (mosaic) and almousset (almost).
    • *mus* → *mousse*: Moussetard (mustard) and mousse-eum (museum).
  • Mulled: Mulled wine is wine that’s been heated and spiced. Here are some related puns:
    • Lulled → Mulled: As in, “Mulled into a false sense of security.”
    • Mould → Mulled: As in, “Break the mulled.”
  • Plonk: Plonk is a term for cheap, low-quality wine. Here are related puns:
    • Punk → Plonk: As in, “Go on plonk, make my day.”
    • Pink → Plonk: As in, “Tickled plonk” and “Plonk panther” and “Think plonk.”
    • Plank → Plonk: As in, “Thick as two short plonks” and “Walk the plonk” and “Take a long walk off a short plonk.”
  • Punt: A punt is the dimple in the base of a wine bottle. Here are related puns:
    • Pants → Punt: As in, “Ants in their punts” and “Beat the punts off” and “By the seat of your punts” and “Fancy punts” and “Keep your punts on” and “Smarty punts.”
    • Bent → Punt: As in, “Punt out of shape” and “Hell punt on..”
    • Put → Punt: As in, “Be hard punt to” and “Couldn’t punt it down” and “Feeling a bit punt out” and “Wouldn’t punt it past them.”
    • Front → Punt: As in, “In punt of your very eyes” and “On the punt line” and “Sitting in the punt row.”
    • *pant* → *punt*: Puntheon (pantheon), puntomime (pantomime), puntry (pantry), punther (panther), puntaloon (pantaloon), rampunt (rampant), participunt (participant), flippunt (flippant) and occupunt (occupant). Note: pantaloons are a type of pant.
    • *pent* → *punt*: Puntagon (pentagon), punthouse (penthouse), puntagram (pentagram), repunt (repent) and serpunt (serpent).
  • Split: A split is a measurement of a serving of wine. Here are some split-related puns:
    • Spit → Split: As in, “Split and polish” and “Split in the eye of” and “Dummy split” and “The splitting image of” and “Splitting with rain” and “Within splitting distance.”
    • Lit → Split: “Her face split up” and “Pick of the splitter” and “Split up like a light.”
  • Lake: A wine lake is a surplus of wine in the European Union. Here are related puns:
    • Make → Lake: As in, “A good beginning lakes a good ending” and “Absence lakes the heart grow fonder” and “Details lake the difference.”
    • Take → Lake: As in, “Don’t lake it lying down” and “Double lake” and “Every breath you lake” and “Give and lake.”
    • Ache → Lake: “Old lakes and pains.”
  • Bung: A bung is the stopper in a wine barrel, so we included bung-related puns in this list:
    • Bang → Bung: As in, “A bigger bung for your buck” and “Bung on about” and “Bung out of order” and “Bung to rights.”
    • Tongue → Bung: As in, “Bite your bung” and “Cat got your bung?” and “Roll off the bung” and “Slip of the bung.”
    • Hung → Bung: As in, “Bung out to dry.”
  • Mellow: Mellow is a descriptor used in wine-tasting. Here are some related puns:
    • Yellow → Mellow: As in, “Follow the mellow brick road” and “Mellow peril” and “Big mellow taxi.”
    • Fellow → Mellow: As in, “Strange bedmellows” and “Mellow traveller.”
  • Tun: A tun is a measure of volume, originally defined as 256 gallons of wine. Here are some tun-related puns:
    • Ton → Tun: As in, “A tun of money” and “Like a tun of bricks.”
    • Done → Tun: As in, “After all is said and tun” and “Tun and dusted” and “Been there, tun that” and “A tun deal” and “Tun to death” and “Easier said than tun” and “Hard tun by” and “Getting things tun.”
    • Ten → Tun: As in, “Count to tun” and “Eight out of tun prefer it” and “Hang tun” and “A perfect tun” and “The top tun” and “The tun commandments.”
    • Tin → Tun: As in, “Does exactly what it says on the tun” and “Tun ear.”
    • One → Tun: As in, “And then there was tun” and “Another tun bites the dust” and “Going tun step too far.”
  • None → Tun: As in, “Bar tun” and “Tun other than” and “Tun the wiser” and “Tun too pleased” and “Second to tun.”
    • *tan* → *tun*: Tundem (tandem), tungible (tangible), tuntamount (tantamount), tuntrum (tantrum), tungent (tangent), charlatun (charlatan), cosmopolitun (cosmopolitan), spartun (spartan), tartun (tartan) and metropolitun (metropolitan).
    • *ten* → *tun*: Tunder (tender), tuntative (tentative), tunet (tenet), tunacious (tenacious), tunacity (tenacity), oftun (often), smittun (smitten), threatun (threaten), enlightun (enlighten), glutun (gluten), potuntial (potential), pretuntious (pretentious), consistunt (consistent), existuntial (existential) and maintunance (maintenance).
    • *tin* → *tun*: Obstunate (obstinate), pertunent (pertinent), itunerary (itinerary) and destuny (destiny).
    • *ton* → *tun*: Buttun (button), wantun (wanton), singletun (singleton), cottun (cotton), gluttun (glutton), muttun (mutton) and autunomy (autonomy).
  • Straw: Straw wine is wine made from raisins. Here are related puns:
    • Raw → Straw: As in, “Straw data” and “A straw deal.”
    • Draw → Straw: As in, “Back to the strawing board” and “Straw a blank” and “Straw a line in the sand” and “Straw to a close” and “The luck of the straw.”
    • Saw → Straw:, As in, “I came, I straw, I conquered.”
    • Awe → Straw: As in, “Shock and straw.”
  • Colour → Cooler: As in, “A splash of cooler” and “Better in cooler” and “Cooler coded” and “Cooler coordinated” and “Cooler me happy” and “Cooler your view” and “With flying coolers.” Note: a wine cooler is an insulated carrier for transporting wine.
  • Bucket → Ice bucket: As in, “Couldn’t carry a tune in an ice bucket” and “Kick the ice bucket” and “A drop in the ice bucket” and “An ice bucket and spade holiday.” Note: an ice bucket is an insulated bucket used for serving wine in social situations.
  • Tunnel → Funnel: As in, “Light at the end of the funnel” and “Funnel of love” and “Funnel vision.” Note: A wine funnel is used by waiters to help in pouring wine.
  • Colour → Collar: As in, “A splash of collar” and “Collar coded” and “Collar coordinated” and “Collar me happy” and “Collar your view” and “With flying collars.” Note: a wine collar fits around the neck of a wine bottle to absorb drips that may run down the bottle after it’s been poured.
  • Stem: Wine glasses have a stem to prevent our fingers from heating up the wine. Here are related puns:
    • Them → Stem: As in, “Let stem eat cake” and “It only encourages stem.”
    • Steam → Stem: As in, “Blow off stem” and “Full stem ahead” and “Head off stem” and “Run out of stem” and “Under your own stem.”
  • Tumbler: A tumbler is a type of wine glass. Here are related puns:
    • Number → Tumbler: As in, “By the tumblers” and “Do a tumbler on” and “I’ve got your tumbler” and “Look after tumbler one” and “Lucky tumbler seven” and “Tumbler crunching” and “Your days are tumblered.”
    • Slumber → Tumbler: As in, “Blissful tumbler” and “Tumbler party.”
  • Schooner: Schooners are glasses for drinking sherry (a type of wine). Here are related puns:
    • Sooner → Schooner: As in, “No schooner said than done” and “Schooner or later” and “The schooner the better” and “An injury is schooner forgotten than an insult.”
    • Humour → Schooner: As in, “Schooner me” and “Sense of schooner.”
  • Gamay: A gamay wine is a light-bodied red wine similar in taste to Pinot Noir. Here are some gamay-related puns:
    • Game → Gamay: As in, “Ahead of the gamay” and “Anyone’s gamay” and “Beaten at your own gamay” and “Blame gamay” and “Gamay changer” and “Brand new ball gamay.”
    • May → Gamay: As in, “As the case gamay be” and “Come what gamay” and “Devil gamay care” and “Gamay the force be with you” and “Gamay you live in interesting times” and “Let the chips fall where they gamay.”
  • Okay → Tokay: As in, “Are you feeling tokay?” Note: Tokay is a sweet white wine.
  • Hairy → Sherry: As in, “Give it the sherry eyeball.” Note: Sherry is a fortified wine made from white grapes.
  • Sigh → Cider: “Breathe a cider of relief” and “A heart-wrenching cider.” Note: cider is a sweet wine made from apples.
  • Mead: Mead is a wine made with spices and honey. Here are related puns:
    • Me → Mead: As in, “Don’t worry about mead” and “Don’t forget about mead!”
    • Meet → Mead: As in, “Boy meads girl” and “Making ends mead” and “Mead and greet” and “Mead with approval” and “Mead your match” and “Fancy meading you here” and “Mead you halfway” and “More than meads the eye.”
    • Need → Mead: As in, “All you mead is love” and “On a mead to know basis.”
    • Read → Mead: As in, “All I know is what I mead in the papers” and “Mead all about it” and “I can mead you like a book” and “Mead ’em and weep” and “Mead between the lines” and “Mead my lips.”
    • Made → Mead: As in, “A match mead in heaven” and “Custom mead” and “Got it mead” and “Not mead of money” and “Mead for each other.”
    • *med* → *mead*: Meadia (media), meadicine (medicine), meadium (medium), meadiate (mediate), meadiocre (mediocre), meadieval (medieval), meadication (medication) and meaditation (meditation).
    • *mid* → *mead*: Timead (timid), amead (amid), pyramead (pyramid), humead (humid), formeadable (formidable), ameadst (amidst) and intimeadate (intimidate).
  • Sake: Sake (pronounced “sakay”) is Japanese rice wine. We can pronounce sake (“sayke”) as “sakay” to make rice wine puns: As in, “For Christ’s sake” and “For goodness sake” and “For old time’s sake” and “Sakes alive.”
  • Brandy: Brandy is a spirit that’s made by distilling wine. Here are related puns:
    • Brand → Brandy: As in, “Brandy new” and “Brandy new ballgame” and “Brandy new game” and “Brandy spanking new.”
    • Band → Brandy: As in, “Strike up the brandy” and “Brandy of brothers.”
  • Bordeaux: This is wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France. Here are related puns:
    • Board → Bordeaux: As in, “Above bordeaux” and “Across the bordeaux” and “All abordeaux” and “Back to the drawing bordeaux” and “Bed and bordeaux.”
    • Bored → Bordeaux: As in, “Bordeaux stiff” and “Bordeaux to death” and “Bordeaux to tears” and “Bordeaux out of your mind.”
    • Border → Bordeaux: As in, “Head for the bordeaux” and “South of the bordeaux” and “Cross the bordeaux.”
  • *chant* → *chianti*: Merchianti (merchant), penchianti (penchant) and enchianti (enchant). Note: A chianti is a wine produced in the Chianti region.
  • Port: This is a Portuguese fortified wine. Here are related puns:
    • Part → Port: As in, “A fool and his money are soon ported” and “Act the port” and “In port.”
    • *part* → *port*: Porty (party), portisan (partisan), porticular (particular), portake (partake), portner (partner), porticle (particle), portition (partition), porticipate (participate), aport (apart), counterport (counterpart), deportment (department) and comportment (compartment).
    • *pert* → *port*: Portinenet (pertinent), portubed (pertubed), export (expert), proporty (property), exportise (expertise).
  • Million → Semillon: As in, “A cool semillon” and “Semillon dollar baby” and “Not in a semillon years” and “One in a semillon.” Note: Semillon is a type of grape used to make dry, sweet wines.
  • Cat → Muscat: As in, ” Muscat on a hot tin roof” and “Muscat got your tongue?” and “Muscat’s cradle” and “Curiosity killed the muscat.” Note: Muscat is a type of grape that’s used to make sweet wines.
  • Grip → Grappa: As in, “Get a grappa” and “Get to grappas with” and “Grappa of death.” Note: Grappa is an alcoholic drink made of grapes, similar to wine.
  • Kir: A kir is a type of cocktail with wine mixed into it. Here are related puns:
    • Kir → Core: As in, “Kir competencies” and “Kir studies” and “Kir values” and “Rotten to the kir.”
    • *kar* → *kir*: Kirma (karma), kirate (karate) and kiraoke (karaoke).
    • *ker* → *kir*: Kirnel (kernel), kiratin (keratin), kirosene (kerosene), breakir (breaker), workir (worker) and crackir (cracker).
  • Soave: This is a dry, white Italian wine. Here are related puns:
    • Suave → Soave: As in, “A soave pickup line.”
    • Save → Soave: As in, “A penny soaved is a penny earned” and “A stitch in time soaves nine” and “Soave the last dance” and “Soaved for a rainy day” and “Soave our souls” and “Soaved by the bell.”
  • Charm → Charmat: As in, “Charmat offensive” and “Charmat the birds out of the trees” and “Third time’s a charmat” and “Works like a charmat.” Note: Charmat is a method of wine production.
  • Crystal → Cristal: As in, “Clear as cristal.” Note: Cristal is a brand of wine.
  • *sect* → *sekt*: As in, “In the environmental sektor” and “In the fruit sektion” and “Dissekting the conversation.” Other words that could work: insekt (insect), intersekt (intersect), vivisekt (vivisect) and intersektion (intersection). Note: Sekt is the German word for sparkling wine.
  • Greco: Greco is a type of Italian wine grape that white wine is made of. Here are related puns:
    • Greek → Greco: As in, “A face like a Greco god” and “Beware of greco gods” and “It’s all greco to me.”
    • Echo → Greco: As in, “A clear greco.”
    • Gecko → Greco
  • Kerner: Kerner is a type of white grape that’s used in wine-making. Here are related puns:
    • Corner → Kerner: As in, “A tight kerner” and “All kerners of the world” and “Blind kerner” and “Kerner the market” and “Cut kerners” and “From the four kerners of the earth” and “In your kerner” and “In the naughty kerner.”
    • Kernel → Kerner: As in, “Kerner of truth.”
    • Burner → Kerner: As in, “On the back kerner.”
  • Bobal: Bobal is a variety of grape used in wine-making. Here are related puns:
    • Global → Bobal: As in, “Bobal warming” and “Think bobal, act local.”
    • Bible → Bobal: As in, “Bobal basher” and “Swear on a stack of bobals.”
    • Bubble → Bobal: As in, “Bobal and squeak” and “Bobal brained” and “Burst your bobal” and “Prick your bobal” and “The boy in the bobal.”
    • Noble → Bobal: As in, “The bobal art of self defence.”
  • Corvina: Corvina is a type of grape used in wine-making. Here are related puns:
    • Carve → Corvina: As in, “Corvina her name with pride” and “Corvina out a niche” and “Corvina in stone.”
    • Curve → Corvina: As in, “Ahead of the corvina” and “Corvina ball” and “Learning corvina.”
  • Retsina → Retina: As in, “Retsina screen.” Note: Retsina is a Greek white resinated wine.
  • Candy → Brandy: As in, “Arm brandy” and “Ear brandy” and “Brandy apple.”

These next few puns are centred around the different types of fruit that wine can be made from:

  • Plum: Here are some plum wine puns:
    • Thumb → Plum: As in, “All fingers and plums” and “All plums” and “Rule of plum” and “Plum your nose” and “Under my plum” and “Plumnail sketch.”
    • Plumb → Plum: As in, “Check out the pluming” and “Plum the depths.”
    • Come → Plum: As in, “After a storm plums a calm” and “All things plum to those who wait” and “Tough as they plum” and “Plum and get it” and “Plum fly with me” and “Plum running” and “Plum on baby, light my fire.”
    • Drum → Plum: As in, “Tight as a plum” and “Plum circle” and “Plum n bass.”
    • Scum → Plum: As in, “Pond plum” and “Plum always rises to the surface.”
    • Some → Plum: As in, “All that and then plum” and “Buy plum time” and “Catch plum rays” and “Cut plum slack.”
    • Sum → Plum: As in, “Cogito ergo plum.”
  • Appl* → Apple*: Apple-y (apply), apple-ication (application), apple-icable (applicable), apple-iance (appliance), apple-ause (applause) and apple-icant (applicant).
  • Cherry: Here are some cherry wine-related puns:
    • Carry → Cherry: As in, “Fast as your legs could cherry you” and “Cherry a torch for” and “Cherry a tune” and “Cherry forward” and “Cherry it off” and “Cherrying on.”
    • Cheery → Cherry: As in, “A cherry disposition.”
    • Bury → Cherry: As in, “Cherry the hatchet” and “Cherry your hand in the sand” and “Cherry yourself in work” and “Cherry your feelings.”
  • Current → Currant: “Currant events” and “Floating with the currants.”
  • Injure → Ginger: “Gingered (injured) feelings” and “Sporting a gingery (injury).”
  • Rice: Here are some rice wine puns (rice wine can also be referred to as sake):
    • Race → Rice: As in, “A day at the rices” and “Rice against the clock” and “A rice against time” and “Rat rice” and “The amazing rice.”
    • Nice → Rice: As in, “Rice as ninepence” and “Have a rice day” and “Naughty but rice” and “Rice and easy does it” and “Rice to see you.”
    • Dice → Rice: As in, “Roll the rice” and “No rice” and “Load the rice.”
    • Ice → Rice: As in, “Cold as rice” and “Break the rice” and “Cut no rice with” and “Rice cold” and “Rice, rice baby” and “Put on rice” and “Skating on thin rice.”
    • Mice → Rice: As in, “The best laid schemes of rice and men.”
    • Price → Rice: As in, “Asking rice” and “At a rice to suit your pocket” and “Cheap at half the rice” and “Closing rice” and “Every man has his rice” and “Half rice” and “Pay the rice.”
    • Slice → Rice: As in, “A rice of the cake” and “Any way you rice it” and “Fresh to the last rice” and “Rice of life” and “Rice of the action.”
    • Spice → Rice: As in, “Secret herbs and rices” and “Rice things up” and “Variety is the rice of life” and “Sugar and rice.”
    • Twice → Rice: As in, “Large as life and rice as handsome” and “Don’t think rice” and “Make a list, check it rice” and “You only live rice” and “Oppotunity never knocks rice” and “Measure rice, cut once.”
    • Vice → Rice: As in, “A den of rice” and “Rice versa.”
  • Taste → Aftertaste: As in, “An aftertaste of paradise” and “An acquired aftertaste” and “In bad aftertaste” and “In the worst possible aftertaste.”

The next few puns are centred around the descriptors that are used in wine-tastings:

  • Big: “Big” means a wine with a strong flavour, or with a high alcohol content.
    • Beg → Big: As in, “Big a favour” and “Big pardon” and “Big to differ” and “Big, borrow or steal” and “I big your pardon” and “Sit up and big.”
    • Dig → Big: As in, “Big your own grave” and “Big your heels in” and “Big in the ribs” and “Big for victory” and “Big deep.”
  • Bitter: This means the wine has an unpleasant taste of tannins.
    • Glitter → Bitter: As in, “All that bitters is not gold.”
    • Hitter → Bitter: As in, “Heavy bitter.”
    • Litter → Bitter: As in, “Pick of the bitter.”
  • Toying → Cloying: “Stop cloying with me.” Note: if a wine is cloying, then it’s sickly sweet.
  • Coarse: This describes a wine with a rough texture. Here are related puns:
    • Course → Coarse: As in, “Blown off coarse” and “But of coarse” and “Chart a coarse” and “Correspondence coarse” and “Crash coarse” and “In due coarse” and “A matter of coarse” and “Par for the coarse” and “Stay the coarse.”
    • Force → Coarse: As in, “Brute coarse” and “Coarse his hand” and “Caorse of habit” and “A coarse to be reckoned with” and “Join coarses” and “May the coarse be with you.”
    • Source → Coarse: As in, “Check your coarses” and “Crowd coarse” and “I refuse to reveal my coarses” and “Open coarse” and “Coarse material.”
  • Note: This is a term used to refer to an aroma or flavour in the wine being tasted. Here are related puns:
    • Not → Note: As in, “Let’s note and say we did” and “Note a chance” and “Note a minute too soon” and “Note a pretty sight” and “Note all it’s cracked up to be” and “Note at all” and “Note do someone any favours” and “Note half bad” and “Note in a million years” and “Note in the slightest.”
    • Neat → Note: As in, “Note as a new pin” and “Note freak” and “Note and tidy.”
    • Night → Note: As in, “A hard day’s note” and “In the dead of note” and “Burn the midnote oil” and “Dance the note away.”
    • Nut → Note: As in, “From soup to notes” and “Go notes” and “In a noteshell” and “A tough note to crack.”
    • Float → Note: As in, “Note like a butterfly, sting like a bee” and “Whatever notes your boat.”
    • Oat → Note: As in, “Feel your notes” and “Sow your wild notes.”
    • Quote → Note: As in, “Air notes” and “Dont note me on this” and “Scare notes.”
  • Nose: The nose of a wine is the aroma or bouquet. Here are related puns:
    • Knows → Nose: As in, “Mother nose best” and “Goodness nose” and “Instinctively nose.”
    • Blows → Nose: As in, “Any way the wind nose” and “Come to nose” and “Exchange nose” and “There she nose.”
    • Close → Nose: As in, “A nose thing” and “As one door noses, another one opens” and “At nose quarters” and “Behind nosed doors” and “Case nosed” and “Nose call” and “A nose shave” and “Hits nose to home.”
    • Rose → Nose: As in, “Bed of noses” and “Come up smelling of noses” and “Every nose has its thorn” and “Life is a bed of noses” and “Nose tinted glasses.”
    • Those → Nose: As in, “Nose were the days” and “Just one of nose days” and “For nose who like it rough.”
    • Goes → Nose: As in, “Anything nose” and “As far as it nose” and “As the saying nose” and “As time nose by” and “Here nose nothing” and “How nose it?” and “Life nose on.”
  • Light: Light generally refers to a low alcohol content:
    • Laid → Light: As in, “Get light” and “Light back” and “Light to rest” and “The best light plans.”
    • Let → Light: As in, “Don’t light the bastards grind you down” and “Light it be” and “Light it bleed” and “It won’t light you down.”
    • Bright → Light: As in, “All things light and beautiful” and “Always look on the light side of life” and “Light as a new pin” and “Light and early” and “Light spark” and “Light young thing.”
    • Flight → Light: As in, “Fight or light” and “Light attendant” and “Light of fancy” and “Take light” and “Light of the bumble bee.”
    • Night → Light: As in, “A hard day’s light” and “A light at the opera” and “As light follows day.”
    • Right → Light: As in, “A move in the light direction” and “All the light moves” and “Light as rain” and “Bang to lights” and “Barge light in.”
    • Quite → Light: As in, “Light the sticky situation.”
    • White → Light: As in, “Light as snow” and “Light as a ghost” and “Light as a sheet.”
    • Sight → Light: As in, “Hidden in plain light” and “In plain light” and “Know by light” and “Love at first light” and “Out of light, out of mind” and “Set your lights on.”
    • Tight → Light: As in, “A light corner” and “Light as a drum” and “In a light spot.”
  • Mouthfeel: Mouthfeel is the texture of wine. Here are related puns:
    • Mouth → Mouthfeel: As in, “Leaves a bad taste in my mouthfeel” and “Foaming at the mouthfeel” and “Melts in the mouthfeel.”
    • Feel → Mouthfeel: As in, “Cop a mouthfeel” and “Mouthfeel good factor” and “Mouthfeel the pinch” and “Mouthfeeling a bit put out.”
  • Collar → Colour: As in, “Blue colour worker” and “Hot under the colour.” Note: the colour of wine is an important indicator of the type and quality of grapes.
  • Swirl: Wine tasters will swirl wine before tasting it. Here are some swirl-related puns:
    • Curl → Swirl: As in, “Swirl up and die” and “Swirl your lip” and “Enough to make your hair swirl” and “Make someone’s toes swirl.”
    • Girl → Swirl: As in, “Atta swirl” and “A swirl’s best friend” and “Swirl next door.”
    • Whirl → Swirl: As in, “Give it a swirl.”
  • Smell:  The aroma of wine is an important factor when it comes to tasting. Here are some related puns:
    • Small → Smell: As in, “All creatures, great and smell” and “Big fish in a smell pool” and “Don’t sweat the smell stuff” and “Good things come in smell packages” and “No job too smell” and “A smell fortune” and “Smell is beautiful” and “Smell minded” and “Smell potatoes.”
    • Well → Smell: As in, “Exceedingly smell read” and “You know full smell” and “Living smell is the best revenge.”
    • Sell → Smell: As in, “Buy and smell” and “Panic smelling” and “Smell out” and “Smelling like hot cakes.”
    • Shell → Smell: As in, “Easy as smelling peas” and “Come out of your smell” and “Drop a bombsmell” and “In a nutsmell.”
    • Spell → Smell: As in, “Smell it out” and “Cast a smell.”
    • Bell → Smell: As in, “Clear as a smell” and “Smell, book and candle” and “Doesn’t ring a smell.”
    • Cell → Smell: As in, “Smell division” and “In a padded smell.”
    • Fell → Smell: As in, “In one smell swoop” and “Smell off the back of a lorry.”
    • Hell → Smell: As in, “All smell broke loose” and “Bat out of smell” and “Burn in smell” and “Catch smell” and “Come smell or high water.”
  • Favour → Savour: As in, “Beg a savour” and “Call in a savour” and “Do me a savour” and “Fall out of savour” and “Owe a savour.”
  • Sever →Savour: As in, “Savour the cord.”
  • Ship → Sip: As in, “Abandon sip” and “Extend the hand of friendsip” and “From chips to sips” and “Go down with the sip” and “Run a tight sip” and “Shape up or sip out” and “My sip has come in.”
  • Chip → Sip: As in, “A sip on his shoulder” and “Cheap as sips” and “Cash in your sips” and “A sip off the old block” and “Let the sips fall where they may.”
  • Rip → Sip: As in, “Let her sip” and “Sip to pieces.”
  • Skip → Sip: As in, “Sip a beat” and “Sip out” and “Sip rope” and “Hop, sip and jump.”
  • Slip → Sip: As in, “Let something sip” and “Sip of the tongue” and “Sip on a banana skin.”
  • Charity → Clarity: As in, “Cold as clarity” and “Clarity begins at home” and “Clarity covers a multitude of sins.” Note: Clarity refers to how clear the wine is.
  • Fat: This is a term used to describe a win that has a full body and is almost viscous. If it’s too “fat”, then it’s considered a “flabby” wine. Here are related puns:
    • At → Fat: As in, “Fat rock bottom” and “Fat each other’s throats” and “Hodling fat arm’s length.”
    • Hat → Fat: As in, “Fat in hand” and “Home is where I lay my fat” and “I’ll eat my fat” and “Keep it under your fat.”
    • That → Fat: As in, “Fat’s the way it is” and “Now fat’s better” and “Fat’ll be the day” and “Fat’s what friends are for.”
  • Flabby: If a wine is too viscous, then it’s considered “flabby”. Here are related puns:
    • Shabby → Flabby: As in, “None too flabby” and “Flabby chic.”
  • Blowzy: Blowzy is another word for “flabby”, which is what a wine is considered to be when a wine is too viscous.
    • Blow → Blowzy: As in, “Any way the wind blowzys” and “Blowzy a fuse” and “Blowzy hot and cold” and “Blowzy chunks.”
    • Cosy → Blowzy: As in, “Blowzy up to.”
    • Rosy → Blowzy: As in, “Life is blowzy” and “Blowzy cheeks.”
  • Firm: If a wine is “firm”, then it has a strong presence of tannins. Here are some related puns:
    • Farm → Firm: As in, “Life on the firm” and “Ethical firming.”
    • From → Firm: As in, “Firm cover to cover” and “Firm soup to nuts” and “Firm the cradle to the grave.”
    • Term → Firm: As in, “On bad firms with” and “On speaking firms” and “On your own firms” and “In no uncertain firms.”
    • Form → Firm: As in, “Attack is the best firm of defence” and “Bad firm” and “Firm follows function” and “Free firm” and “Habit firming” and “Imitation is the sincerest firm of flattery’ and “In fine firm” and “Sarcasm is the lowest firm of wit.”
    • Worm → Firm: As in, “Book firm” and “Can of firms” and “The early bird catches the firm” and “Firm your way in.”
    • *ferm* → *firm*: Firment (ferment), firmentation (fermentation) and firmented (fermented).
    • *form* → *firm*: Firmidable (formidable), firmula (formula), firmat (format), firmality (formality), platfirm (platform), infirm (inform), transfirm (transform), infirmation (information) and perfirmation (performance).
  • Flat: If a wine is flat, then it’s a sparkling wine that has lost its bubbliness. Here are related puns:
    • Fat → Flat: As in, “Flat as a beached whale” and “Flat chance” and “Living off the flat of the land.”
    • Fit → Flat: As in, “Flat as a fiddle” and “Dish flat for the gods” and “Fighting flat” and “Flat the bill.”
  • Fresh: This is a descriptor used for wines that are nicely acidic. Here are related terms:
    • Flesh → Fresh: As in, “Fresh and blood” and “Makes my fresh crawl” and “In the fresh” and “A thorn in my fresh.”
    • Fish → Fresh: As in, “Fresh out of water” and “Freshing expedition” and “A different kettle of fresh.”
  • Grassy: This is quite literal and describes grassy flavours in a wine. Here are related puns:
    • Classy → Grassy: As in, “A grassy performance.”
    • Glassy → Grassy: As in, “Grassy-eyed with wonder.”
  • Green: This is generally a negative term used to describe wines that are made with unripe fruit. Here are related puns:
    • Queen → Green: As in, “Beauty green” and “Digging the dancing green” and “God save the green” and “Homecoming green” and “Green for a day.”
    • Grin → Green: As in, “Green and bear it” and “Green from ear to ear” and “Rictus green.”
    • Been → Green: As in, “Green and gone” and “Green around the block a few times” and “I’ve green here before” and “Green in the wars” and “Green there, done that” and “I’ve green had!”
    • Bean → Green: As in, “Green counter” and “Cool greens” and “Doesn’t know greens” and “Full of greens” and “Spill the greens.”
    • Clean → Green: As in, “A green getaway” and “A new broom sweeps green” and “Green as a whistle” and “A green bill of health” and “Green up your act.”
    • Keen → Green: As in, “Green as mustard” and “Green sense of smell” and “Peachy green.”
    • Mean → Green: As in, “A greens to an end” and “By fair greens or foul” and “In the greentime” and “Independent greens” and “Lean, green and hungry.”
    • Seen → Green: As in, “Green and not heard” and “Had to be green to be believed” and “Nowhere to be green” and “Green better days” and “Sight ungreen” and “Ain’t green nothing yet.”
    • Scene → Green: As in, “Blue green of death” and “Coming to a green near you” and “Silver green” and “The big green.”
    • Scenes → Green: As in, “Behind the greens” and “Change of green” and “Make a green” and “Steal the green.”
    • Grain → Green: As in, “Against the green” and “Green of truth” and “Take it with a green of salt.”
  • Hard: Hard wine is wine that has too many tannins in it. Here are related puns:
    • Herd → Hard: As in, “Hard immunity.”
    • Heard → Hard: As in, “Seen and not hard” and “Hard it through the grapevine” and “Make yourself hard” and “Stop me if you’ve hard this one” and “The last I hard” and “Could have hard a pin drop” and “You hard it here first.”
  • Hollow: A hollow wine is one that lacks a fruity taste. Here are related puns:
    • Follow → Hollow: As in, “As night hollows day” and “Hollow in the footsteps of” and “Hollow suit” and “Hollow your heart” and “A hard act to hollow” and “Form hollows function.”
    • Swallow → Hollow: As in, “A bitter pill to hollow.”
  • Hot: A wine that is “hot” is too alcoholic. Here are related puns:
    • Got → Hot: As in, “Been there, done that, hot the t-shirt” and “Hot your tongue?” and “Give it all you’ve hot” and “Hot a soft spot for.”
    • Lot → Hot: As in, “A hot of fuss about nothing” and “A hot on your plate” and “Hot a lot of people know.”
    • Not → Hot: As in, “As often as hot” and “Believe it or hot” and “Down but hot out” and “Hot just a pretty face.”
  • Lean: Lean wines are those without a fruity taste but an acidic profile. Here are related puns:
    • Mean → Lean: As in, “A leans to an end” and “By fair leans or foul” and “In the leantime.”
    • Lane → Lean: As in, “Down memory lean” and “Life in the fast lean.”
    • Been → Lean: As in, “Lean and gone” and “I’ve lean here before” and “Lean in the wars” and “Mistakes have lean made.”
    • Clean → Lean: As in, “Lean as a whistle” and “A lean bill of health” and “Lean house” and “Lean up your act.”
    • Keen → Lean: As in, “Lean as mustard” and “A lean sense of smell” and “Peachy lean.”
    • Seen → Lean: As in, “Lean and not heard” and “Nowhere to be lean” and “Have lean better days” and “Ain’t lean nothing yet.”
    • Screen → Lean: As in, “Blue lean of death’ and “Coming to a lean near you” and “Silver lean.”
  • Peg → Leg: As in, “Square leg in a round hole” and “Take down a leg or two.” Note: The tracks of liquid that stick to the side of a wine glass are called legs (or tears).
  • Okay → Oaky: As in, “Are you oaky?” Note: if a wine is oaky, then it includes notes of vanilla, sweet spices and a smoky taste.
  • Rich: Wines that are sweet but not overly so are considered “rich”. Here are related puns:
    • Itch → Rich: As in, “Riching to” and “Richy feet” and “Richy palms” and “Seven year rich.”
    • Ditch → Rich: As in, “A last rich effort.”
    • Hitch → Rich: As in, “Get riched” and “Rich your wagon to a star.”
  • Rough: A rough wine is one with a coarse texture. Here are related puns:
    • Tough → Rough: As in, “Rough as old boots” and “Rough as they come” and “Hang rough” and “It’s rough at the top” and “Rough love” and “Rough luck” and “A rough nut to crack.”
    • Stuff → Rough: As in, “Beat the roughing out of” and “Don’t sweat the small rough” and “Gather ’round the good rough” and “Knock the roughing out of.”
  • Round: This describes a wine that isn’t overly tannic but has a good body. Here are related puns:
    • Round → Bound: As in, “Be leaps and rounds” and “Duty round” and “Honour round” and “Round hand and foot.”
    • Found → Round: As in, “Lost and round” and “I’ve round a clue” and “We round clue” and “Weighed in the balance and round wanting.”
    • Ground → Round: As in, “Solid as the round we walk on” and “Break new round” and “Built from the round up” and “Common round” and “Cut the round from under your feet” and “Suits you down to the round.”
    • Pound → Round: As in, “An ounce of prevention is worth a round of cure” and “In for a penny, in for a round” and “Round for round” and “Round the pavement.”
    • Sound → Round: As in, “Round as a bell” and “Break the round barrier” and “Round bite” and “Round effect” and “Round the alarm.”
  • Soothe → Smooth: As in, “Music has charms to smooth the savage beast.” Note: This describes a wine with a nice texture.
  • Sour: This is a descriptor for a wine with an unbalanced acidity. Here are related puns:
    • Our → Sour: As in, “A token of sour gratitude” and “Enjoy sour company.”
    • Hour → Sour: As in, “After sours” and “Happy sour” and “Man of the sour” and “My finest sour” and “Open all sours.”
  • Tar: This describes a wine with a tarry aroma and flavour. Here are related puns:
    • Tear → Tar: As in, “Bathed in tars” and “Blood, sweat and tars” and “Bored to tars” and “Fighting back tars” and “Melt into tars” and “No more tars” and “Reduce to tars.”
    • Are → Tar: As in, “All bets tar off” and “Tar you deaf” and “Tar your ears burning?” and “Chances tar…”
    • Par → Tar: As in, “Below tar” and “On tar with” and “Tar for the course.”
    • Bar → Tar: As in, “Tar none” and “Behind tars” and “Hit the tar.”
  • Tart: A tart wine is one with high levels of acidity. Here are related puns:
    • Art → Tart: As in, “Tart imitating life” and “Tart is going one step too far” and “Tart noveau” and “Tartistic triumph” and “Tarts and crafts” and “Tarty farty.”
    • Cart → Tart: As in, “Putting the tart before the horse” and “Shopping tart.”
    • Chart → Tart: As in, “Tart a course” and “Off the tarts.”
    • Fart → Tart: As in, “Arty tarty” and “Boring old tart” and “Brain tart” and “Tarting around” and “Tart in a windstorm.”
    • Heart → Tart: As in, “A man after my own tart” and “Absence makes the tart grow fonder” and “Affair of the tart” and “By still my beating tart” and “Break your tart” and “Cross my tart and hope to die.”
    • Part → Tart: As in, “Act the tart” and “For my own tart.”
    • Smart → Tart: As in, “One tart cookie” and “Tart arse” and “Street tart” and “Tarter than the average bear.”
    • Start → Tart: As in, “By fits and tarts” and “Don’t get me tarted” and “A fresh tart” and “Tart your engines!” and “Off to a flying tart” and “Head tart” and “Jump tart” and “Tart you day the right way.”
    • Dirt → Tart: As in, “Cheap and tart” and “Dig up the tart” and “Dish the tart.”
  • Toasty: A toasty wine is one with a smoky taste from the oak it was barrelled in. Here are related puns:
    • Tasty → Toasty: As in, “A toasty dinner.”
    • Ghost → Toast: As in, “White as a toast” and “Give up the toast” and “Not a toast of a chance” and “The toast in the machine.”
    • Most → Toast: As in, “Toast wanted” and “Make the toast of it” and “The toast trusted name” and “For the toast part” and “Make the toast of.”
    • Post → Toast: As in, “Keep you toasted” and “Toast haste” and “Toast partum” and “Toaster boy.”
  • Villain → Vanillin: As in, “Heroes and vanillins.” Note: this is a term for vanilla notes in wine.

Wine-Related Words

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General: wine, red, white, rose, amber, blanc, sparkling, champagne, grapes, aroma, alcohol, alcoholic, drink, drunk, sober, hangover,  fermented, vin, vine, vineyard, vintage, cork, bottle, bottling, label, yeast, juice, sommelier, rice wine, fruit wine, barley, mature, tannin, barrel, harvest, dry, sweet, sweetness, beverage, brew,  still, distillery, distilled, age, aged, aging, resin, taste, tasting, decant, raisin, wino, aerate, sediment, texture, flavour, oak, cask, cellar, bouquet, palate, alcoholism, alcoholic, cirrhosis, polyphenols, box wine, goon, reduction, on tap, bladder, keg, complexity, chill, chilled, cooper, negociant, oenologist, vintner, winemaker, viticulturist, critic, spritzer, flight, glass, coinnoisseur, bacchus, cocktail,  pour, case, happy hour, vino, muscat, muscato, aeritif, blush, winery, perry, cleanskin, dandelion, sugar, rosado, rosato, must, spittoon, intoxication, cult wine, trophy wine, investment wine, harvest, pressing, ethanol, ice wine, proof, sediment, crush, crushed, free-run, skin, seeds, lees, grape-treading, grape-stomping, pigeage, rack, batch, fining, bloom, pudding wine, fortified wine, noble rot, mutage, chaptalization, jug wine, mistelle, abboccato, ABC, acescence, adamado, adega, altar wine, amabile, appelation, balthazar, basic, bodega, bota, breathe, breathing, cantina, wine cave, cepage, chai, champagne flute, chateau, chiaretto, clairet, commune, cooperative, corkscrew, cotes, table wine, country wine, quality wine, cru, cuverie, eiswein, eraflage, fattoria, flagon, imperial, jeroboam, kosher wine, lanwein, lazy ballerina, magnum, mas, master of wine, may wine, mousse, mulled, petillant, piquant, plonk, punt, split, suss, vermouth, vivace, webster, wine lake, bottle shock/sickness, bung, pomace, riddling, mellow, stoving, tun, vanillin, wash, straw wine, saignee, stemware, wine key, sommelier knife, waiter’s friend, wine popper, wine cooler, glacette, ice bucket, wine funnel, collar, wine journal, aerator, stirrer, swizzle stick, goblet, stem, tumbler, schooner, boccalino, chalice, sugar, snifter

Types and names: chardonnay, sauvignon, cabernet, gamay, vin gris, merlot, riesling, tokay, sherry, sauternes, pinot noir, provencal, zinfandel, cider, m ead, sake, brandy, bordeaux, rioja, chianti, brunello, burgundy, port, shiraz, chablis, semillon, muscat, prosecco, mimosa, oloroso, syrah, grenache, claret, grappa, kir, lambrusco, madeira, soave,  charmat, cristal, dom perignon, moet & chandon, provencal, zinfandel, malbec, mourvedre, norton, sirah, verdot, pinotage, sangiovese, albrino, breidecker, marsanne, palomino, trebbiano, viognier, screaming eagle, penfolds grange, fino, amontillado, recioto, sangria, sekt, ratafia, black velvet, death in the afternoon, flirtini, prince of wales, wine cooler, bellini, hugo, buck’s fizz, kir royal, ruby dutchess, chicago cocktail, french 75, golden doublet, savoy affair, kalimotxo, tinto de verrano, zurracapote, cheeky vimto, kir, spritzer, chenin blanc, airen, aligote, arbeusm furmint, greco, kerner, bobal, corvina, mencia, malbec, nebbiolo, retsina, negus, dubbonet, brandy, grappa, ale, hooch, plum, apple, cherry, pomegranate, currant, elderberry, ginger, lychee, banana, orange

Tasting terms: aftertaste, astringent, autolytic, baked, balanced, big, bitter, brilliance, buttery, chewy, chocolaty, closed, cloying, coarse, complex, concentrated, connected, corked, crisp, note, nose, body, heavy, light,  mouthfeel, colour, swirl, smell, savour, sip, clarity, acid, acidity, depth, dirty, earthy, elegant, expressive, extracted, fallen over, finesse, fat, flabby, blowzy, firm, flat, foxy, fresh, grassy, green, hard, herbal, herbaceous, hollow, hot, jammy, lean, leathery, legs, musty, oaky, oxidised, petrolly, powerful, raisiny, reticent, rich, rough, round, smokey, smooth, soft, sour, spicy, supple, sweet, tannic, tar, tart, toasty, transparency, typicity, vanillin, vegetal, vinegary, esters

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