Welcome to the Punpedia entry on koala puns! 🐨 This entry starts with some koala-specific puns and also has some general bear puns which should pass off as koala puns in the right context. Enjoy!
Koala 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 koala 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 koala puns:
- Quality → Koalaty: “Spend some koalaty time” and “Premium koalaty” and “Top-koalaty“
- Qualifications → Koalafications: “Are you sure you have the koalafications?”
- Qualify → Koalafy: “I’ve got through the koalafying rounds.”
- Qualitative → Koalatative: “My thesis mainly involves koalatative research.”
- Qualia → Koalia: “Koalia is still a controversial issue in philosophy.”
- Disqualification → Diskoalafication: “Cheating will result in diskoalafication.”
- Disqualified → Diskoalafied: “I was diskoalafied in the third round.”
- Equality → Ekoalaty: “Gender ekoalaty is an important issue in the world.”
- Overqualified → Overkoalafied: “I’m overkoalafied for this job.”
- Underqualified → Underkoalafied: “Before getting my degree I was underkoalafied for my chosen career.”
- Squalid → Skoalad: “A skoalad, overcrowded prison.”
- Her before → Herbivore: “I’ve never met herbivore.”
- Joy → Joey: A baby koala (like a baby kangaroo) is called a “joey”, and thus we might make a tenuous pun with “joy”: “My pride and joey” and “Joey to the world” and “Joey rider” and “Jump for joey” and “A bundle of joey“
- I see → Aussie: Since koalas only exist in Australia, a pun like this might be a viable koala pun in the right context: “Aussie what you did there” and “Aussie dead people” and “Aussie what you mean.”
- Try → Tree: Koalas live in trees and rarely come down to the ground, so tree puns may be viable koala puns depending on the situation: “I’m treeing my hardest” and “Don’t tree this at home” and “Nice tree, pal” and “Tree your luck at this”
- Mum’ll (Mum will) → Mammal: Good luck finding a sentence or context to make this koala pun work!
- Leave → Leaf: Since a koala’s diet consists entirely of leaves (eucalyptus leaves, to be more specific), some leaf puns may pass off as koala puns in the right context: “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?”
- Bear: The term “bear” itself has many different meanings other than the one which refers to the animal. These can all be used for 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?”
- Bearings: “Just let me get my bearings.”
- Bearer: “I hate to be the bearer of bad news.”
- Barbarian → Barbearian: “He thinks he’s Conan the Barbearian.”
- Barbaric → Barbearic: “Their behaviour is barbearic.”
- Bare → Bear: “The landscape is bear.”
- Barefoot → Bearfoot: “We’ll have to walk bearfoot.”
- Barefaced → Bearfaced: “A bearfaced lie.”
- Barely → Bearly: “I can bearly stand another of your puns.”
- Baritone → Bearitone: “We’ll need another bearitone for the chorus.”
- Barium → Bearium: “Bearium is a chemical element.”
- Baron → Bearon: “The bearon will see you now.”
- Baroness → Bearoness: “The bearoness controls most of this territory.”
- Barricade → Bearicade: “We’ll need to bearicade these doors.”
- Barrier → Bearier: “This industry has a high bearier-to-entry.”
- Barrister → Bearister: “They’ve hired very good bearisters.”
- Bearable: “The music is the only thing that makes this party bearable.”
- Bearings: “The axle needs new bearings.”
- Burial → Bearial: “This is an ancient bearial site.”
- Buried → Bearied: “We bearied the chest on the beach,”
- Bury → Beary: “She was bearied in thought.”
- Cadbury → Cadbeary: “Cadbeary should bring out a dairy-free line.”
- Childbearing: “This grizzly is of childbearing age.”
- Embarrass → Embearass: “Oh, I’m so embearassed!”
- Embarrassment → Embearassment: “This evening has been a complete embearassment.”
- Embarrassing → Embearassing: “Oh, how embearassing!”
- Forbearance: “He’s very annoying. It will require patient forbearance.”
- Forebears: “Generations of our forebears have lived in this forest.”
- Gooseberry → Goosebeary: “Ripe yellow goosebearies.” Also works for mulbeary, rasbeary, strawbeary, cranbeary, blackbeary, etc.
- Berries → Bearies: “Mmm, these bearies are so sweet!”
- Threadbare → Threadbear: “She was wearing a tattered, threadbear overcoat.”
- Unbearable: “These puns are almost unbearable.”
- Unbearably: “He was unbearably patronising.”
- Wheelbarrow → Wheelbearow: “A wheelbearow would make this job a lot easier.”
- Very → Beary: “I saw it with my beary own eyes.”
- Be* → Bear*: If a word begins with “be” it can usually be turned into a very corny koala bear pun: before (bear-fore), become (bear-come), between (bear-tween), because (bear-cause), believe (bear-lieve), begin (bear-gin), best (bear-st), bed (bear-d), benefit (bear-nefit), behaviour (bear-haviour), behind (bear-hind), began (bear-gan), became (bear-came), beginning (bear-ginning), belief (bear-lief), bedroom (bear-droom), belong (bear-long), believed (bear-lieved), benefits (bear-nefits), becomes (bear-comes), becoming (bear-coming), beside (bear-side), berlin (bear-lin), beneath (bear-neath), belt (bear-lt), begun (bear-gun), benjamin (bear-njamin), begins (bear-gins), behalf (bear-half), besides (bear-sides), beliefs (bear-liefs), beaten (bearten), belly (bear-lly), bedrooms (bear-drooms), belonged (bear-longed), believing (bear-lieving), belonging (bear-longing), beneficial (bear-neficial), beneficiary (bear-neficiary), bedside (bear-dside), belongs (bear-longs), betray (bear-tray), beginner (bear-ginner), betrayal (bear-trayal), believer (bear-liever), beloved (bear-loved), behaved (bear-haved), benefited (bear-nefited), bereavement (bear-reavement), beforehand (bear-forehand), beginnings (bear-ginnings), behaving (bear-having), behaviours (bear-haviours), bellow (bear-llow), belts (bear-lts), benchmark (bear-nchmark), benefactor (bear-nefactor), beneficiaries (bear-neficiaries), benign (bear-nign), bestow (bear-stow), bewildered (bear-wildered).
- Beard → Bear-d: “A very bushy bear-d“
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