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Ocean Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on ocean puns! 🌊 Whether you’re after some puns for your beach party invites, instagram captions, or you just like puns about the sea, I hope this entry serves you well. There’s word play around all sorts of ocean-related concepts including wave puns, seashell puns, sand puns and lots more. This entry has a lot in common with the beach puns, water puns and fish puns entries, so check them out if you don’t find what you’re looking for here 🙂

Ocean 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 the ocean that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s the list of ocean puns:

Specific → Pacific: As in “You need to be more pacific.” and “Are you sure you have the pacifications for this?” and “Pacifically, there are two apples and three nectarines”.
*ways → *waves: Words than end in “ways” can be made into bad wave puns: alwaves (always), railwaves (railways), sidewaves, pathwaves, lengthwaves, doorwaves.
Waive → Wave: As in, “Could you wave this parking ticket?” Note: to waive something is to refrain from enforcing.
Sway → S-wave: As in, “S-wave with me,” and “You don’t hold any s-wave here.” Note: to hold sway is to have a position of influence or power.
Surf: “Surf the net”
Serve → Surf: As in “First come, first surfed” and “If memory surfs” and “Revenge is a dish best surfed cold” and “Surfs you right”
Service → Surfice: As in, “A better surfice all round,” and “At your surfice,” and “Normal surfice has been resumed,” and “Out of surfice.”
Wave: “Wave goodbye” and “Mexican wave” and “Heat wave” and “Wave the white flag” and “Brain waves“
Title → Tidal: As in “I like it, but I’m not sure on the tidal” and “Use ‘Ms.’ as her tidal” and “The championship tidal match is tomorrow morning.”
Tied → Tide: As in “I’m tide up at the moment, can someone else help?” and “Yep, they tide the knot!”
Passivist → Pascificist: As in “I’m a pascificst. Violence is never the answer.”
Atlantic: There is a well-known newspaper called “The Atlantic”, which might be used to make an Atlantic ocean pun somehow.
Deep: “Deep and meaningful” and “Deep, dark secret” and “Go off the deep end” and “In deep water” and “Skin deep” and “Thrown into the deep end”
Total → Turtle: As in “A turtle stranger”
Tidy → Tidey: As in “After the party we need to tidey the beach.”
Send → Sand: As in “It sands shivers down my spine!” and “Sand him over here.”
San* → Sand*: Replacing “san” with “sand” when it is at the start of a word give some nice corny puns: sanditary (sanitary), sandctioned (sanctioned), sandctuary (sanctuary), sandguine (sanguine), sandctions (sanctions).
Stand → Sand: As in, “Don’t sand so close to me,” and “Do you undersand?” and “Don’t just sand there!” and “I saw her sanding there,” and “My hair was sanding on end,” and “If you can’t sand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” and “It sands to reason,” and “A one night sand,” and “Sand on your own two feet,” and “Sand out from the crowd,” and “Sand up and be counted,” and “Sand up for yourself,” and “A sand up guy,” and “Do I sand a chance?” and “I sand corrected,” and “I’m sanding in for…” and “I can’t sand the sight of,” and “I could do it sanding on my head,” and “United we sand.”
Not → Naut: As in “I’m naut going to keep arguing with you”.
Naughty → Nauty: As in “There’s that nauty sailor again”.
Gullible → Seagullible: As in “Kyani is so seagullible!”
Crazy → Cray-sea: As in “He is so craysea!” and “Enough of this crayseaness!”. Hyphen is, of course, optional.
Wish → Fish: As in “I just fish we had more time!” and “If you rub the lamp you get three fishes“.
About/Abode → Aboat: As in “What aboat the captain?” and “Welcome to my aboat!”
Sooner → Schooner: As in “Schooner or later.” and “I’ll call her schoon“. A “schooner” is a sailing ship with two or more masts. See the boat puns entry for more.
Sel* → Sail*: If a word starts with “sel” a boat pun can often be made by replacing it with “sail”: sailection (selection), sailect (select), sailf (self), sailling (selling), sail (sell), saildom (seldom), sailfish (selfish), sailfless (selfless), sailective (selective).
Bae → Bay: As in “Bay! Please stop with the ocean puns, you’re embarrassing me.”
Bitch → Beach: As in “Those beaches don’t know me!” and “He says you were being a bit beachy“.
Combine → Combrine: As in “With our power combrined we should be able to defeat them.” and “It’s what you get when you combrine salt and water”. Similar puns can be made for most words ending in “bine”: turbrine (turbine), concubrine (concubine), columbrine (columbine).
Sure → Shore: As in “Are you shore?” and “She shore is strong!” and “I shore will.”
Whatever → Waterever: As in “Waterever, I don’t care.” and “Do waterever you want”.
What her → Water: As in “I know water problem is.” and “Do you know water mother thinks about this?”.
What do → Water: As in “Water you think about this?”
What about → Water boat: As in “Water boat we have tofu curry for dinner tonight?” and “Water boat Ching? Does she want to come to the beach too?”
What are → Water: “Water you doing out so late tonight?” and “Water you doing tomorrow?”
What are we → Watery: As in “Watery going to do?” and “Watery doing today, friends?”
Salt: “Take it with a pinch/grain of salt” and “Rub salt in the wound” and “Worth one’s salt“
Salty: “You’re just salty because I beat you at chess earlier.”
Boy → Buoy: As in “It’s a buoy!” and “His buoyfriend is a nice person”.
See → Sea: As in, “As far as the eye can sea” and “Can’t sea beyond the end of your nose” and “Can’t sea the wood for the trees” and “Come and sea me sometime.”
She → Sea: As in, “Ain’t sea sweet?” and “Sea doesn’t belong to anyone.”
Say → Sea: “As the sea-ing goes” and “Computer seas no” and “Have the final sea” and “I’m hearing what you sea.”
Sea*: Most words starting with “sea” are easy sea puns: season, seasonal, seated, searingly, sealants, seam, seatbelt.
See* → Sea*: If a word starts with “see” it can often be replaced with “sea” to create a simple sea pun: seaminly, seads, seaker, seathe, seap, seak, sean, sea (see).
Sealant / Sealing / Seal: Easy seal puns can be made with words starting with “seal” (e.g. sealant, seal) or “ceil” (e.g. sealing).
Se* → Sea*: Some words that start with just “se” also have a “sea”-ish sound, and the ones that don’t can usually be made into terrible puns anyway: seacret, searious, seargeant, seacretion, seacure, seacurity, seacondary, seacretariat, seaconds, seacrete, searum, searenity, searvitude, seanile, seadation, seaclusion, seacretive, seaze, seaquential, sealection, seacretly, seaquences, seanior, seaniority, seagregate, seaping, seacession, seariousness, seaminars, seaveral, seaxual, seaparation, seantimental, seansational, seaquential, seacluded, seacularist, seathing, seaquin, seasame, seaclusion.
Se*cy/Ce*cy → Sea*sea: Most words that start with “se” or “ce” and end with “cy” can be double sea puns: seacresea (secrecy), sealibasea (celibacy).
*cy → *sea: If a word ends in “cy” it’s an easy “sea” pun: polisea, agensea, democrasea, currensea, emergensea, efficiensea, tendensea, frequensea, fansea, constituensea, pregnansea, accurasea, redundansea, bureaucrasea, presidensea, legasea, conspirasea, mersea, privasea, bankruptsea, consistensea, literasea, urgensea, deficiensea, dependency, consultansea, tenacity, isea (icy), secrecy, intimasea.
Seizure → Seazure: As in “If I read one more ocean pun I’m going to have a seazure.”
Confiscate → Conch-fish-scate: As in “I’m going to have to conchfishcate your pun licence for that one.”
*fici* → *fishi*: If a word contains “fici” it can often be replaced with “fishi”. Here are some examples: affishionado, artifishial, benefishial, coeffishient, defishiency, defishit, ineffishient, suffishient, ofishial, profishient, superfishial.
Issue → Fishue: As in “That’s not the fishue here though.” and “I was fishued a sign for parking without a ticket”.
Net: “net” has two senses: “net weight” and “net income” is one sense, and “fish net” is the other sense.
Bereft → Bereeft: “bereft of” means “deprived of” of “lacking”. So an example sentence might be: “The old, stark beach house of bereefed of colour”.
Enemy → Anemone: As in “They’re my worst anemones” and “Let’s not make anemones of each other!”.
Simmer → Swimmer: As in “I left the pot swimmering and now my vegetable curry is burnt!” and “Hey swimmer down, there’s no need to turn this into a fight”.
*sip* → *ship*: If a word contains “sip” it can usually be replaced with “ship”. For example: gosship (gossip), dishipate (dissipate), shipping (sipping), inshipid (insipid). See the boat puns entry for more.
*sib* → *ship*: If a word contains “sib” it can usually be replaced with “ship” to create a terrible pun. For example: posshiply (possibly), accesshipility (accessibility), incomprehenshiple, feashipble, irresponshipble, invishipble, ostenshipbly, revershipble, vishipble. An example sentence might be: “I am responshiple for my puns.” See the boat puns entry for more.
Kill → Keel: As in “We can be healthy with plants, keeling animals is not necessary.”
Seal: “I sealed the deal” and “Seal of approval” and “Seal your fate”
Island: As in, “No man is an island,” and “Treasure island,” and “A tropical island.”
I land → Island: As in “Islanded a job at that new tech company.”
Aligned → Island: As in and “Our incentives are well-island.”
Choppy: This term is an adjective that describes something that has many abrupt transitions – e.g. “Choppy prose”, but it is also commonly used to describe the ocean when it has many small waves.
Coast: “The coast is clear” and “I’m just coasting“
Pawn/Pwn → Prawn: This pun can be used in the gamer-culture sense: “I got prawned by a pro last night”, in the chess sense “He moved his prawn to C4″, and in the pawnbroker sense: “I had to prawn all my stuff to pay for college.”
Kid* → Squid*: The prefix “kid” can be replaced with “squid” as follows: squidding (kidding), squidnapped (kidnapped), squidney (kidney), squid (kid).
?id* → Squid*: If a word begins with “?id” where ‘?’ represents any letter, then this prefix can sometimes be replaced with “squid”. For example: squiddle (middle), squidlife crisis (midlife crisis), squidget (midget), squiddle (riddle), squidiculous (ridiculous), squideotape (videotape), squiddish (yiddish), squidth (width), squidow (widow), squidget (widget).
Well/Welcome → Whale/Whalecome: As in “Whalecome to our home!” and “Whale, whale, whale, what do we have here?”. Whale puns can be made with many more words like welfare (whalefare), welsh (whalesh) and wellness (whaleness). Check out the entry on whale puns for more.
Wail → Whale: As in “Poor thing, he’s been whaling over his grandmother who recently passed.” and “A good whale can help one overcome grief”.
While → Whale: As in “Whale we agreed on most points, we did have some disagreements.” and “All the whale …” and “Whistle whale you work”.
Help → Kelp: As in “Can you please kelp me build a sand castle?” and “Katie, kelp your brother lift that please”.
Purpose → Porpoise: As in “I didn’t do it on porpoise!” and “Clarity of porpoise” and “What is the porpoise of this?” See the dolphin puns entry for more.
What is → Waters: As in “Waters going on here?” and “Waters the porpoise of this?”
Defin* → Dolphin: As in “We dolphinitely need more time to finish the mission.” and “What is the dolphinition of this word?” and “Please dolphine this word.” and “It’s the dolphinitive source of Nordic history.” See the dolphin puns entry for more.
Endorphines → Endolphins: As in “I love that rush of endolphins you get after a good hard swimming session.”
Humanity → Humanatee: As in “If only we could have some humanatee in our treatment of sea animals” and “Have some humanatee“. Note that terrible puns can also be made of insanity (insmanatee) and profanity (profmanatee).
In* → Fin*: A lovely and shameful pun can be made from any word starting with “in”. Simply replace “in” with “fin”: finformation, finfluence, finvolve, finternational, finvolved, fintroduce, findeed, finvestment, finto, finclude, finteresting, fintellectual, finjury, fintend, finterview, finsurance, finstrument, … Thousand more can be made with the help of a list like this. You can also check out the entry on dolphin puns for more puns of this nature.
Imp* → Shrimp*: If a word starts with “imp”, you can usually replace it with “shrimp”, for example: shrimportant (important), shrimpossible (impossible), shrimply (imply), shrimpose (you get the idea), shrimpose, shrimport, shrimpudent, shrimpact, shrimperfect, shrimpaled, shrimpartial, shrimpart. Shrimp puns probably deserve their own entry, but until then you can use this list to help you.
Symb* → Shrimpb*: Replacing the suffix “symb” with “shrimpb” gives some pleasantly jarring shrimp pins: shrimpbolic (symbolic), shrimpbolises (symbolises), shrimpbiosis (symbiosis).
Should* → Shoald*: A “shoal” can refer to a large group of fish, or an area of shallow water, or an underwater sand bank. We can use “shoal” be used to make puns like: shoald (should), shoalder (shoulder), shoaldering.
Show l* → Shoal: This is a subtle one because it involves a word break. Whenever you use the word “show”, and the following word starts with an “L”, then you can replace “show” with “shoal” (a shoal is a large school of fish). For example: “That’s cool! You should shoal Liam.” and “She laughs when we shoal little blue flowers to her.”.
*tual* → *shoal*: As mentioned above, A “shoal” can refer to a large group of fish, or an area of shallow water, or an underwater sand bank. If a word contains “tual” it can often be replaced with “shoal” for a cute little pun: actshoal (actual), actshoality (actuality), intellectshoal (intellectual), ritshoal (ritual), spiritshoal, mutshoally, eventshoal, eventshoally, conceptshoal, conceptshoalise, virtshoal, contractshoal, factshoal, factshoally, perpetshoal, textshoal, contextshoal, perceptshoal, punctshoal, instinctshoal, actshoally, habitshoally.
*sole → *shoal: As in “The shoal of my shoe is worn down.” and “Your new gaming conshoal is cool.” and “Yeah, he’s a bit of an asshoal.”
More → Moray: As in “Mum, we need moray sunscreen!”.
Mor* → Moor*: Words that begin with the “more” sound can be turned into a pun on the boat-related word, moor (meaning “to tie a boat to the shore or an anchor”): moore, moorning, moortgage, mooral, moortality, moorale, moortar, moorphine, moorgue, moorphologically.
*pear → *pier: As in “Then all of a sudden she dissapiered!” and “After appiering to check his watch, he quickly ran away.” and “That is a sharp spier you’ve got there”.
Brilliant → Krilliant: As in “Isn’t the weather just krilliant today?” Krill are small shrimp-like plankton.
Brilliant → Brill-iant: “Brill” are a type of European flatfish.
Angrily→ Ankrilly: As in “The monster roared ankrilly“.
Hungrily→ Hunkrilly: As in “She hunkrilly ate the sweet potato slices”.
Serf → Surf: A serf was a sort of slave in medieval times who worked for a feudal lord. It’s sometimes used as an insult.
*cial → *shell: When a word has “cial” as a suffix, this suffix can usually be swapped out for “shell” to create a shell pun: soshell (social), speshell (special), offishell (official), finanshell, commershell, crushell, judishell, artifishell, provinshell, rashell, benefishell, superfishell, fashell, glashell, sacrifishel, antisoshell.
Shall→ Shell: As in “Shell I compare thee to a summer’s day?” and “He who lives by the sword shell die by the sword.”
Selfish → Shellfish: As in “Stop being so shellfish.” See the next item for a generalisation of this pun.
Sel* → Shell*: If a word starts with “sel” a shell pun can be made by switching it with “shell”. For example: shellection (selection), shellect (select), shelldom (seldom), shellfless (selfless).
Harbour: As in, “Harbour a grudge,” and “Safe harbour.”
Pier: As in, “Take a long walk off a short pier.”
Peer → Pier: As in, “Pier pressure,” and “Pier-ing through the curtains.”

Ocean-Related Words

Here’s a list of ocean-related concepts to help you come up with your own ocean puns:

wave, surf, beach, water, sea, Arctic, Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Antarctic, deep, shallow, deep blue, deep sea, ship, dolphin, shark, turtle, whale, fish, starfish, crab, seal, penguin, island, choppy, swell, hydrosphere, mariana trench, coastal, coast, coral, shore, seawater, saltwater, salty, salt, underwater, bay, archipelago, pelagic zone, sea bed, oceanic, marine, kelp, seaward, waters, cape, planktonic, shorline, seashore, lobster, reef, benthic, demersal, aphotic, photic, epipelagic, mesopelagic, liquid, seashell, oceanview, continental shelf, sail, sailing, boat, depths, littoral, bermuda, submerged, driftwood, seaspray, swim, estuary, floating, high seas, tide, sea gull, gull, penguin, shrimp, harbour, high tide, manta ray, transatlantic, oceanic, brine, oceanography, transpacific, canal, seascape, nemo, dory, albatross, barnacle, offshore

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Flower Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on flower puns! 🌼🌸💐 This entry has rose puns, tulip puns, petal pun and wordplay on all sorts of flower-related concepts. But please note, this entry is a work-in-progress! Please help us out by suggesting puns that we don’t have in the comment 🙂

You might also like to check out the entries on bee puns, leaf puns and tree puns.

Flower 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 flowers that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s the list of flower puns:

Pulling → Pollen: As in “I’m just pollen your leg.” and “It’s like pollen teeth” and “We don’t have enough pollen power.”
Pedal → Petal: As in “Put the petal to the metal” and “Backpetal” and “Soft-petal (downplay)”
Peddle → Petal: As in “She went from house to house petaling her wares.”
Flower: “Flower power” and “The flower of one’s youth”
Boom! → Bloom!
Bud: This is short of “buddy”, and can also refer to a flower bud. This dual meaning could be used for a pun: “Hey bud, how’s it growing?”
Buddy: See above.
Bed → Bud: As in “Budtime” and “Bud and breakfast” and “Bud of nails”
Bad → Bud: As in “Do you want the good news or the bud news?” and “A bud omen” and “A bud apple” and “A bud time” and “Don’t give a dog a bud name” and “It went from bud to worse” and “In bud faith” and “Bud news travels fast” and “Not too bud” and “Make the best of a bud situation” and “In bud taste” and “It ended on bud terms” and “A bud hair day”
But → Bud: As in “Gone, bud not forgotten” and “Last bud not least” and “All bud one” and “Anything bud” and “Bud hey, at least …” and “Silent, bud deadly” and “Bud seriously” and “Thanks, bud no thanks” and “No ifs or buds“
Anybody → Anybudy: “Somebudy? Anybudy?”
Morbid → Morbud
Ombudsman: An ombudsman is a government employee who investigates complaints by non-government people against the government.
Butt → Bud: As in “A kick in the bud” and “At the bud of the joke” and “Let’s kick some bud” and “Bustin’ my bud” and “A pain in the bud” and “Bud naked”
Blossom: We use this word to describe something that is growing or developing quickly as in “Her business has blossomed and she’s doing well.”
For all → Floral: As in “Once and floral” and “Floral intents and purposes.”
Floor I’ll → Floral: As in “If you mop the flor, al wipe the benches – deal?”
Floor is → Florist: As in “Did you clean the kitchen? The florist still dirty.”
Flourished → Florist: As in “She has florist into an intelligent, strong young woman.”
Okay → Bouquet: As in “Are you feeling bouquet?”
Dizzy → Daisy: As in “I’m feeling a bit light-headed and daisy.”
Days is → Daisies: As in “Three daisies enough time to complete the task.”
Fruit: Flowers give rise to fruit which bare the fertilised seeds of the plant, thus, a fruit pun could be a viable flower pun: “This has been a fruitful discussion.” and “The fruits of our labour”
Rose: Some simple rose puns can be made with the past tense of rise: “She rose to the occasion” and “I rose above it”
Dandy lion → Dandelion: The term “dandy” can refer to someone who dresses fancy all the time, or it can just be a synonym for “excellent”. Good luck finding a context where this pun will come in useful! 😛
Awkward → Orchid: As in “You’ve put me in an orchid position.”
Or kid → Orchid: As in “Adults orchids – it doesn’t matter.”
Lovin’ the → Lavender: As in “I’m lavender tunes that this DJ is playing!”
Garden variety: This is a term meaning “standard, unexceptional” – e.g. “He’s just your garden variety politician – nothing special there.”
Guarding → Garden: As in “Fox garden the hen house.”
Oh very → Ovary: In the flowering plants, an ovary is a part of the female reproductive organ of the flower.
Floor it → Floret: The phrase “floor it” refers to pushing the car accerlerator until it hits the floor – i.e. it means “go fast”. A “floret” is one of many small flowers which make up a larger “composite” flower.
Flowery: The term “flowery” means “full of elaborate or literary words and phrases”. It’s a synonym to “fancy”, “flamboyant” and “high-sounding”. The phrase “Flowery prose” is common.
Stamina → Stamena: The stamen is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. The term “stamina” refers to the ability to sustain prolonged physical or mental effort.
Two lips → Tulips: As in “Everyone has two lips.”
I lack → Lilac: As in “Lilac the ability to finish things that I start.”
Leave → Leaf: “Take it or leaf it” and “Absent without leaf” and “You should leaf now.” and “Leaf an impression” and “Leafed for dead” and “Leaf it at that” and “Leaf me alone!” and “Leaf of absence” and “Leaf out in the cold” and “Take leaf” and “Leafing so soon?” See the entry on leaf puns for more.
Pistol → Pistil: A pistil is a part of a flower.
Car pull → Carpel: Carpels are parts of the pistils of flowers.
Saw → Seed: Fertilised flowers result in a fruit (not all are edible) that contains one or more seeds. An imaginary past tense of “see” could make for a silly flower pun.
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Flower-Related Words

Here’s a list of flower-related concepts to help you come up with your own flower puns:

blossom, pollen, pollinate, petal, bud, floral, florist, bouquet, fruit, daisy, rose, lily, chrysanthemum, daffodil, dandelion, lavender, bloom, blooming, sunflower, angiosperm, garden, spring, wallflower, flowering, stamen, nectar, ovary, poppy, orchid, hibiscus, floret, lilac, hibiscus, jasmine, saffron, tulip, petunia, flora, sunflower, snapdragon, rhododendron, flowery, fragrant, fragrance, pollination, sandwort, inflorescence, carpel, seed, leaf, marigold, gazania, corydalis, lotus, amaranth, calyx, posy, pistil, dahlia, aster, azalea, begonia, bellflower, bitterroot, black-eyed Susan, bluebells, bluebonnet, bougainvillea, calendula, camellia, carnation, chicory, cosmo, corocus, delphinium, dianthus, forget-me-not, foxglove, freesia, gardenia, gillyflower, gladiolus, hawthorn, hollyhock, honeysuckle, hydrangea, iris, oleander, pansy, primrose, sepal, snapdragon, thistle, tiger lily, trillium, wolfsbane, yucca, mayflower

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Animal Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on animal puns! 🐻🐝🐦🐈🐔🐄🐕🐬🐘🐟🐸🐐🐎🐒 This entry is an aggregation of all the entries of specific types of animals. Each item in the list has a bunch of example puns and then a link to the full entry where there are many more. Enjoy! 🙂

Animal Puns List

If you know of any puns about animals that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s the list of animal puns:

Bear puns: “Bear with me.” and “I can’t bear this anymore.” and “I will bear the responsibility for this.” and “Child-bearing.” and “Will you bear this luggage across the river for me?” and “Does this tree bear fruit?” and “Just let me get my bearings.” and “Oil the bearings” and “I hate to be the bearer of bad news.” See the entry on bear puns 🐻 for more .
Bee puns: “Bee in your bonnet” and “As busy as a bee” and “Busy bee” and “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” and “The bee’s knees” and “None of your bee’s wax” and “Queen bee” and “Put the bee on (someone)” and “The birds and they bees” and “If truth bee told” and “Not all it’s cracked up to bee” and “A force to bee reckoned with” and “Well I’ll bee!” and “Appearances can bee deceiving.” and “Honey, I’m home!” and “The land of milk and honey” and “Honey-mouthed (smooth, persuasive, seductive)” and “Honey trap” and “You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.” See the entry on bee puns 🐝 for more.
Bird puns: “A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush” and “A bird-brain” and “Bird’s eye view” and “A little bird told me …” and “An early bird” and “Early bird gets the worm” and “Like a bird in a gilded cage” and “The birds and the bees” and “Birds of a feather flock together” and “Flip someone the bird” and “Free as a bird” and “The bird has flown” and “Sing like a bird” and “Jailbird“. See the entry on bird puns 🐦 for more.
Rabbit puns: “(To) go down the rabbit hole” and “At it like rabbits” and “Breed like rabbits” and “Rabbit food (referring to vegetables)” and “Pull the rabbit out of the hat” and “The rabbit died (referring to someone being pregnant)” and “A hop, skip and a jump” and “Hopping mad” and “Full of hops” and “Hop to it!” See the bunny puns 🐇 entry for more.
Cat puns: “A scaredy-cat” and “Playing cat and mouse” and “All cats are grey in the dark” and “The cat’s whiskers” and “Cat got your tongue?” and “Cat in the sack” and “Cool cat” and “Cool cat” and “Look at what the cat dragged in!” and “Raining cats and dogs” and “See which way the cat jumps” and “When the cat’s away, the mice will play” and “Curiosity killed the cat” and “Like a cat on a hot tin roof” and “They let the cat out of the bag” and “A fat cat” and “You’ve cat to be kidding (or kitten) me.” and “Cat it in one!” and “It’s cat me stumped” and “I haven’t cat all day” and “You’ve cat another thing coming” and “I’m not feline well today.” and “A gut feline” and “Are you feline okay?” and “He’s got felines for him” and “Hurt felines” and “I’m feline like a million dollars!” and “I’ve got mixed felines about this” and “No hard felines” See the cat puns 🐈 entry for more.
Chicken puns: “A chicken and egg situation” and “Chicken out of something” and “Don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched” and “Chicken sh*t” and “Get up with the chickens” and “You’re chicken (scared)” and “Curses, like chickens, come home to roost” and “Chicken feed (small amount of money/something)” and “Don’t let the fox guard the hen-house” and “As scarce as hen’s teeth” and “A mother hen” and “Hen-pecked” and “Hen’s night/party” and “By fair means or fowl” and “Cry fowl” and “Fowl language” and “Fowl up” and “No harm, no fowl” and “A fowl-mouthed person” and “Fowl play” and “A bad egg” and “Egg on” and “A hard egg to track” and “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” and “Egg on one’s face” and “A good egg” and “A rotten egg” and “Egg and spoon race” and “The pecking order” and “Peck at (eat only a bit)” and “You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die.” See the chicken puns 🐔 entry for more.
Cow puns: “A cash cow” and “Don’t have a cow!” and “Holy cow” and “A sacred cow” and “How now, brown cow?” and “Until the cows come home” and “Why buy a cow when you can get milk for free?” and “A cock-and-bull story” and “Like a bull in a china shop” and “Bull-headed” and “Grab the bull by its horns” and “Full of bull” and “Bull’s-eye” and “Mess with the bull and you get the horns” and “Hung like a bull” and “Bull-headed” and “What a load of bull/BS” and “Bullish (aggressively confident)” and “Like a red flag to a bull” and “Udderly ridiculous!” and “I overherd them speaking about …” and “The last I herd, …” and “Your herd it here first.” and “You could have herd a pin drop.” and “Stop me if you’ve herd this one” and “Hay, what’s up?” and “We missed the bus and had to hoof it home.” See the cow puns 🐄 entry for more.
Crab puns: “That was an incredibly crabtivating speech.” and “He just woke up, he’s a little crabby.” and “Crab ahold of something/someone” and “The old hermit has lived there for years.” and “We should have a shellebration.” and “High-fat, low-crabohydrate diets are just an unhealthy fad.” See the crab puns entry for more.
Dinosaur puns: “Do you think he saurus (saw us)?” and “I came, I saur, I conquered.” and “You’re a saur loser” and “A sight for saur eyes” and “Sticks out like a saur thumb” and “A bone to pick” and “A bone of contention” and “All skin and bones” and “Bare-bones” and “As dry as a bone” and “Ship rex” and “Train rex” and “Nervous rex” and “Jurassic (you’re a sick) puppy, James.” and “Jurassic times call for Jurassic measures.” and “Can I do it? You bet Jurassican.” and “I dino whether that’s the correct answer.” See the dinosaur puns entry for more.
Dog puns: “Dog eat dog” and “Barking dogs seldom bite” and “As crooked as a dog’s hind leg” and “As sick as a dog” and “Dog days” and “Dog in the manger” and “Dog tired” and “Dog’s bollocks” and “Dog’s breakfast” and “Don’t keep a dog and bark yourself” and “Every dog has her/his day” and “Give a dog a bad name” and “Hot diggety dog” and “The dog ate my homework” and “The tail wagging the dog” and “Work like a dog” and “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” and “A shaggy dog story” and “A sly dog” and “Call off the dogs” and “Everybody and their dog” and “Doggie paddle” and “Ruff and tumble” and “Ruff around the edges” and “Diamond in the ruff” and “Ruff stuff” and “Take the ruff with the smooth” and “Ruff someone up” and “With all my mutt” and “Mutt as well” and “Try as I mutt” and “It was a mastiff waste of time.” See the dog puns 🐕 entry for more.
Dolphin puns: “I didn’t do it on porpoise!” and “They porpoisefully moved toward me.” and “I can tell you’re being porpoisely vague.” and “They are not to be used for illegal porpoises.” and “I love my new multi-porpoise cleaning spray!” and “Oh will you stop spouting your nonsense please.” and “There’s somefin about the way he walks” See the dolphin puns 🐬 entry for more.
Duck puns: “Duck and weave” and “A sitting duck” and “Like water off a duck’s back” and “Duck and cover” and “Duck out” and “Duck off” and “Ducking and diving” and “Get one’s ducks in a row” and “Golden duck” and “If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and (etc.) like a duck, it probably is a duck” and “Take to like a duck to water” and “Lame duck” and “Ducked the question” and “The duck side of the moon” and “A duck horse” and “A shot in the duck” and “Be kept in the duck (about something)” and “Duck clouds on the horizon” and “It’s always duckest just before dawn” and “Deep, duck secret.” See the duck puns entry for more.
Eel puns: “When a moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s a moray.” and “I’m feeling a bit eel.” See the eel puns entry for more.
Elephant puns: “Your comment is irrelephant” and “That’s not relephant.” and “Ivory now and then” and “Ivory so often” and “Ivory bit as good as …” and “Ivory last inch” and “Ivory which where” and “Each and ivory one” and “Are you up to the tusk?” and “It’s a thankless tusk” and “It’s hard to stay on tusk with all the noise” and “The elephant in the room” and “I overherd them speaking about …” and “The last I herd, …” and “Your herd it here first.” See the elephant puns 🐘 entry for more.
Fish puns: “Cod we be friends?” and “I’ll mullet over and get back to you.” and “I am a pacifisht.” and “I’ve got no fin left to give!” and “Any fin goes.” and “Door-to-dorsals people are really annoying.” and “She has always been my arch nemosis.” See the fish puns 🐟 entry for more.
Frog puns:”This documentary is ribbeting!” and”I’ve frogotten all the lyrics!” and”I’m sorry. Can I have your frogiveness?” and”We need to frogo some of our privileges so that we can help others in need.” and “This is froggin’ awesome!” and “Toaday is the big day!” and “Frog puns are toadally awesome.” and “Someone you can depond on.” See the frog puns 🐸 entry for more.
Goat puns: “Sorry, I didn’t mean to get your goat (annoy you)” and “Separate the sheep from the goats” and “Play the goat (act silly)” and “Act the giddy goat” and “Old goat” and “Goatie” and “Scapegoat” and “You have goat to be kidding me” and “I haven’t goat all day” and “Cat goat your tongue?” and “Goat it in one!” and “Goat me stumped” and “Goat to get moving” and “Goat to run” and “(Someone) has goat game” and “Something’s goat to give” and “The one that goat away” and “You goat it!” and “You’ve goat me there” and “You’ve goat another thing coming” and “You’ve goat me there” and “You’ve goat to do what you’ve goat to do.” and “Egoatistical” See the goat puns 🐐 entry for more.
Horse puns: “Quit horsing around, will you?” and “As rare as rocking horse droppings” and “A dark horse” and “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth (meaning:don’t be ungrateful for gifts)” and “Eat like a horse” and “Get off your high horse” and “Horse of a different colour” and “Horse play” and “Hung like a horse” and “One horse town” and “Put the cart before the horse” and “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” and “Hold your horses” and “Straight from the horse’s mouth” and “A horse of a different colour” and “A one-horse race” and “Closing the barn/stable door after the horse has bolted” and “Don’t change horses in the middle of the river” and “Horses for courses” and “A trojan horse” and “A one-trick pony” and “Pony up (pay up)” and “Dog and pony show” and “A show pony” and”C’mon, quit foaling around, will you?” and “Foal me once, shame on you, foal me twice, shame on me” and “It’s a foal’s errand” and “Foal’s gold” and “Make a complete foal of yourself” and “Played for a foal” and “Play the foal” and “Played for a foal” and “I think he’s foal of it.” and “At foal throttle/pelt” and “Foal blast” and “A foal-bodied coffee” and “Foal of beans/bologna” and “In foal feather” and “You know foal-well that …” and “In foal swing” and “On a foal stomach”. See the horse puns 🐎 entry for more.
Koala puns: “Spend some koalaty time” and “Premium koalaty” and “Top-koalaty” and “Are you sure you have the koalafications?” and “I’ve got through the koalafying rounds.” and “My thesis mainly involves koalatative research.” and “Gender ekoalaty is an important issue in the world.” and “I’m overkoalafied for this job.” and “I was diskoalafied in the third round.” See the koala puns 🐨 entry for more.
Llama puns: “But first, llama take a selfie” and “Llama think about that for a bit.” and “No probllama.” and “Against my wool” and “Accidents wool happen” and “Time wool tell” and “Every dog wool have its day” and “Heads wool roll” and “Love wool find a way” and “Fifty-fifty spit” and “Spit hairs” and “Spit second” and “Spit up (with someone)” and “I overherd them speaking about …” and “The last I herd, …” and “Your herd it here first.” and “Llama Del Rey” and “Kendrick Llama” and “Dalai Llama” See the llama puns entry for more.
Monkey puns: “Monkeying around” and “Monkey business” and “Monkey see, monkey do” and “Monkey’s uncle” and “A monkey on one’s back” and “More fun than a barrel of monkeys” and “Grease monkey” and “Make a monkey of (someone)” and “Brass monkey” and “Don’t give a monkey’s” and”I am bananas for you.” and “He’s going bananas!” and “Banana republic” and “She’s the top banana around here.” and “No worries, that’s a one-banana problem.” and “You will be gibbon no quarter” and “We can take that as a gibbon” and “At any gibbon hour” and “I was gibbon the sack today” and “Capuchino“. See the monkey puns 🐒 entry for more.
Otter puns: “You should have see the otter guy!” and “Hey, hold up! Wait for the otters!” and “We need to leave now, otterwise we’ll be late!” and “My otterney advised me to plead guilty.” and “I hope one day we can explore otter space.” and “The otterocities and war crimes.” and “Only the most otterocious otter puns are allowed.” and “Ten minutes otter be enough time.” See the otter puns entry for more.
Owl puns: “She’s a real night owl” and “Owl if you will” and “Free-for-owl” and “A jack of owl trades” and “A man for owl seasons” and “A rising tide lifts owl boats” and “After owl is said and done” and “A know-it-owl” and “Above owl” and “Against owl odds” and “Owl at once” and “I’m owl ears” and “Owl else being equal, …” and “Owl by my lonesome” and “Owl hands on deck” and “Owl hell breaks loose” and “Owl gone” and “Owl good things must come to an end” and “Owl in owl” and “Owl in a day’s work” and “It’s owl in your head” and “Owl manner of …” and “Owl of a sudden” and “Owl or nothing” and “Owl over the place” and “Owl right.” and “Owl rights reserved” and “Owl smiles” and “Owl systems are go” and “Hoot have thought it would be so easy?” and “I don’t give a hoot” and “Look hoo’s talking!” and “Says hoo?” See the owl puns entry for more.
Panda puns: “The newspapers are pandaing to people’s baser instincts.” and “What was originally a small argument ended in utter pandamonium.” and “This unassuming disease has caused a panda-emic.” and “It just feels like you think I’m ex-panda-ble.” and “Living in China for a few years expandad my world-view” and “Our monthly ex-panda-ture is over 5 thousands dollars.” and “Panda camera slowly to the left” See the panda puns 🐼 entry for more.
Pig puns: “Stop hogging all the food!” and “Give me some! You’re such a hog.” and “Go hog wild” and “He’s a ball hog who doesn’t know what teamwork means.” and “The road hog was straddling 2 lanes.” and “We went whole hog” and “That’s utter hogwash and you know it.” and “Boared out of my brains” and “Boared to tears/death” and “Boar someone stiff” and “Boar the pants off someone” and “Boared silly” and “Boared out of my mind” and “Hogs and kisses” and”I’m a morning porcine” and “I’m not a people porcine” and “Couldn’t have happened to a nicer porcine” and “I feel like a new porcine” and “Porcine of interest” and “Taken for grunted” and “Wallowing in self-pity” and “Wallowing in money”. See the pig puns 🐖 entry for more.
Shark puns: “There’s some fin about the way he walks” and “I’ve got no fin left to give!” and “Any fin goes.” and “Vanished into fin air.” and “You’re skating on fin ice.” and “Jawsome” See the shark puns entry for more.
Sheep puns: “A wolf in sheep’s clothing” and “Separate the sheep from the goats” and “Make sheep’s eyes at” and “Counting sheep” and “Black sheep of the family” and “Cast a sheep’s eye” and “Of all sheeps and sizes” and “Any way, sheep or form” and “Bent out of sheep” and “It’s all gone pear-sheeped” and “Abandon sheep!” and “Go down with the sheep” and “That sheep has sailed” and “Sheep skate” and “Dirt sheep” and “On the sheep“. See the sheep puns 🐑 entry for more.
Squid puns: “I have an inkling that he’s lying.” and “You’ve got to be squidding me!” and “I squid you farewell!” and “Hahaha you’re kraken me up!” and “It will go the the highest squidder.” and “I squid you not.” and “The last tunacorn.” and “I’m a physics grad working on tunafication of fundamental forces.” See the squid puns entry for more.
Tuna puns: “The tunaverse is massive.” and “The members tunanimously voted to ban fish puns.” and”I don’t know how to tuna violin.” See the tuna puns 🐟 entry for more.
Turtle puns: “I am in turtle awe of her skills.” and “Turtley!” and “This is turtley amazing!” and “It’s a cruel turtle-itarian regime.” and “Oh! You sturtled me!” and “That was sturtling news.” and “Turtle-neck sweater” and “He who lives by the sword shell die by the sword.” and “A shell of a time” and “Our parents tortoise to be kind to animals”. See the turtle puns 🐢 entry for more.
Whale puns: “Whale, whale, whale, what do we have here?” and “I hope you and your family are whale.” and “It’s been a whale since we last saw each other.” and “Strike whale the iron is hot.” and “All the whale, he just sat there.” and “Don’t call us, whale call you” and “And narwhal (now we’ll) take a minute to thank our sponsors”. See the whale puns 🐳 entry for more.

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