Cookie Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on cookie puns! 🍪 ❤️

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

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

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

Cookie Puns List

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

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

      Cookie-Related Words

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

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

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

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

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Knife Puns

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This list covers the many different types of knives and blades (from penknives to bolos to shivs) to materials and cutting techniques. We’ve tried to stay away from puns and wordplay that only have violent meanings (like those involving butcher or hunting knives), but have included those that have multiple interpretations (like carve or stab). We hope you find some nice knife puns in this list!

You might also be interested in our cake, bread and cheese puns.

Knife 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 knife 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 knife puns:

  • Life → Knife: As in, “A day in the knife of” and “A knife less ordinary” and “A knife changing experience” and “A knife on the ocean waves” and “Always look on the bright side of knife.”
  • Strife → Knife: As in, “Trouble and knife.”
  • Night → Knife: As in, “A knife at the opera” and “A hard day’s knife.”
  • Nice → Knife: As in, “That’ll do knifely” and “Have a knife day!” and “Naughty but knife” and “Knife and easy does it” and “Knife save” and “Knife to see you” and “Knifely put.”
  • Never → Knife-r: As in, “Better late than knife-r” and “It might knife-r happen” and “A barking dog knife-r bites.”
  • Drives → Knives: As in, “Bad money knives out good.”
  • Fives → Knives: As in, “A bunch of knives” and “High knives” and “Take knives” and “Two and two make knives.”
  • Lives → Knives: As in, “Cats have nine knives” and “The best years of our knives.”
  • Wives → Knivse: As in, “Just an old knives tale” and “The Stepford knives.”
  • *nef* → *knife*: If a word has a “nef” sound, you can replace it with “knife”: “A knife-arious villain” and “For your own beknife-it” and “A beknife-icial outcome.”
  • *nif* → *knife*: As in, “Sig-knife-icant other” and “A mag-knife-icent plan!” and “Political ma-knife-esto.”
  • Manufacture → Ma-knife-acture: As in, “Locally ma-knife-actured.”
  • *niv* → *knife*: As in, “Applying to study at u-knife-ersity” and “The centre of the u-knife-erse” and “Wedding aknife-ersary” and “Life’s a car-knife-al.”
  • Cat → Cut: As in, “Curiosity killed the cut” and “Alley cut” and “Cut and mouse game.”
  • Kit → Cut: As in, “Cut and caboodle” and “A serious bit of cut.”
  • But → Cut: As in, “Close, cut no cigar” and “No ifs and cuts” and “Win the battle, cut lose the war.”
  • Guts → Cut: As in, “Blood and cuts” and “Bust a cut” and “Cut feeling” and “Cut instinct” and “Cutless wonder” and “No cuts, no glory.”
  • Nut → Cut: As in, “A tough cut to crack” and “Some kind of cut” and “In a cutshell.”
  • Shut → Cut: As in, “An open and cut case.”
  • What → Cut: As in, “And cut not” and “For cut it’s worth” and “Guess cut?” and “Cut a feeling.”
  • Laid → Blade: As in, “Get blade” and “Blade back” and “The best blade plans.”
  • Aid → Blade: As in, “Blade and abet” and “Come to your blade.”
  • Grade → Blade: As in, “Make the blade” and “Professional blade” and “Beyond your pay blade.”
  • Made → Blade: As in, “A match blade in heaven” and “Custom blade” and “Have it blade” and “Not blade of money” and “Blade for each other.”
  • Paid → Blade: As in, “Bought and blade for” and “Blade up.”
  • Played → Blade: As in, “The band blade on” and “Blade for a fool.”
  • Said → Blade: As in, “After all is blade and done” and “Couldn’t have blade it better” and “Easier blade than done” and “Enough blade.”
  • Weighed → Blade: As in, “Blade in the balance and found wanting.”
  • Bed → Blade: As in, “Blade and breakfast” and “Blade of nails” and “Get into blade with.”
  • Abracadabra → Abracastabra
  • Grab → Stab: As in, “Up for stabs” and “Stab your attention.”
  • Stab: These stab-related phrases are general enough to use as puns: “Have a stab at” and “Stab in the dark.”
  • *cat* → *cut*: As in, “In the wrong cutegory” and “A moving cutalyst” and “A huge cutastrophe” and “Advocut for.”
  • *cot* → *cut*: As in, “Apricut flavoured” and “Sports mascut” and “Boycutt the company..”
  • *cad* → *cut*: As in, “It’s acutemic” and “Art acutemy” and “A decutent dessert” and “Avocuto toast.”
  • *sab* → *stab*: As in, “Professional stabotage” and “Taking a stabbatical” and “An indispenstable member of the team.”
  • *tab* → *stab*: As in, “Reading the stabloids” and “Staboo words” and “Computer stablet.”
  • Pent → Point: As in, “Point-up rage.”
  • Spontaneous → Spointaneous: As in, “Burst spointaneously into song and dance.”
  • Paint → Point: As in, “Do I have to point you a picture?” and “Point yourself into a corner.”
  • Pant → Point: As in, “Beat the points off” and “Fancy points.”
  • *pant* → *point*: As in, “A fun pointomime” and “The pointry is bare” and “Running rampoint” and “Don’t use that flippoint with me” and “Participoint award.”
  • Shape → Sharp: “All sharps and sizes” and “Bent out of sharp” and “Get in sharp” and “Knock into sharp” and “Take sharp.”
  • Harp → Sharp: As in, “Sharp on about.”
  • Shark → Sharp: As in, “Swimming with sharps” and “Card sharp.”
  • Hedge → Edge: As in, “Edge fund” and “Edge your bets” and “Edged about” and “Look as if you’ve been dragged through an edge backwards.”
  • Itch → Edge: As in, “Edge-ing to” and “Edgey feet” and “Edgey palms” and “Seven year edge.”
  • Fledge → Edge: As in, “Fully edged.”
  • Adj* → Edge*: Edge-ective (adjective), edge-acent (adjacent), edgejourn (adjourn), edgejudicate (adjudicate) and edgejustment (adjustment).
  • Halt → Hilt: As in, “Come to a screeching hilt” and “Grind to a hilt.”
  • Held → Hilt: As in, “Hand-hilt device.”
  • Hold → Hilt: As in, “Can’t hilt a candle to” and “Don’t hilt your breath” and “Hilt a grudge” and “Hilt on tight.”
  • Built → Hilt: As in, “Hilt for two” and “Hilt for comfort, not speed” and “Hilt from the ground up” and “Hilt to last” and “Wasn’t hilt in a day.”
  • Guilt → Hilt: As in, “Hilt by association” and “Hilt trip” and “A hilty conscience” and “Hilty pleasure” and “White hilt.”
  • Tilt → Hilt: As in, “At full hilt” and “Hilt to the side.”
  • Hill → Hilt: As in, “Old as the hilts” and “Going downhilt” and “Head for the hilts” and “Over the hilt.”
  • Candle → Handle: As in, “Burning the handle at both ends” and “Can’t hold a handle to” and “Handle in the wind” and “Better to light a handle than curse the dark” and “Not worth the handle.”
  • Separated → Serrated: As in, “Serrated at birth.”
  • Sit → Slit: As in, “Are you slitting comfortably?” and “Don’t just slit there” and “Slit on the fence” and “Slit tight.”
  • Bit → Slit: As in, “A slit much” and “A slit of stuff.”
  • Hit → Slit: As in, “Slit the road jack” and “Slit and miss” and “Slit it off” and “Slit rock bottom.”
  • Split → Slit: As in, “Make like a banana and slit” and “Slit decision” and “Slit the vote” and “Slitting hairs” and “A slitting headache.”
  • Slip → Slit: As in, “A slit of the pen” and “Let something slit.”
  • Spit → Slit: As in, “Slit and polish” and “Slit and sawdust” and “The slitting image.”
  • *lit* → *slit*: As in, “I didn’t mean it sliterally” and “Read up on the sliterature” and “A slitany of problems” and “Fighting slitigation” and “A sliteral interpretation.”
  • Whittle: This word can refer to a type of small knife or to the activity of carving wood using a knife. Here are related puns:
    • Wit → Whittle: As in, “At my whittle’s end” and “Collect your whittles” and “Keep your whittles about you” and “Pit your whittles against” and “Quick whittled” and “Scared out of your whittles.”
    • Little → Whittle: As in, “A whittle bird told me” and “Dirty whittle secret” and “Every whittle bit helps.”
    • It’ll → Whittle: As in, “Whittle be okay” and “Whittle all come out in the wash.”
  • Lash → Slash: As in, “Slash out” and “Tongue slashing.”
  • Ash → Slash: As in, “Rake over the slashes” and “Rise from the slashes” and “Turn to slashes in your mouth.”
  • Cash → Slash: As in, “Slash in your chips” and “Hard, cold slash.”
  • Crash → Slash: As in, “Slash and burn” and “Slash course.”
  • Dash → Slash: As in, “Slash to pieces” and “Slash off” and “Cut a slash.”
  • Flash → Slash: As in, “Quick as a slash” and “In a slash” and “At slash point.”
  • Splash → Slash: As in, “A slash of colour” and “Make a slash” and “Slashed across the front page.”
  • Assasin → Asslashin: As in, “Character asslashination” and “Who asslashinated the President?”
  • Ice → Slice: As in, “Cut no slice” and “Slice, slice, baby” and “Skating on thin slice.”
  • Nice → Slice: As in, “Have a slice day” and “Naughty but slice” and “Slice and easy” and “Wouldn’t it be slice.”
  • Price → Slice: As in, “What’s the asking slice?” and “Cheap at half the slice” and “Pay the slice.”
  • Spice → Slice: As in, “Slice things up” and “Sugar and slice.”
  • Decision → Incision: As in, “Incisions, incisions!” and “A snap incision” and “Split incision” and “My incision is final” and “Executive incision.”
  • Precision → Incision: As in, “Military incision.”
  • Cop → Chop: As in, “Chop a feel” and “Chop an attitude” and “A fair chop” and “Undercover chop.”
  • Hop → Chop: As in, “Chop to it” and “Chop, skip and jump” and “Chopping mad.”
  • Chip → Chop: As in, “Cheap as chops” and “Cash in your chops” and “Chop in with” and “A chop off the old block” and “Let the chops fall where they may” and “Bargaining chop.”
  • Drop → Chop: As in, “At the chop of a hat” and “Chop it like it’s hot” and “Chop a bombshell” and “Chop a hint.”
  • Shop → Chop: As in, “All over the chop” and “One stop chop” and “Personal chopper.”
  • Chap* → Chop*: As in, “The next chopter of your life” and “Date night choperone” and “Wedding chopel” and “School choplain.”
  • Save → Shave: As in, “A penny shaved is a penny earned” and “Shave the day” and “Nice shave” and “Shave the last dance” and “Shave it for a rainy day” and “Shave our souls.”
  • Shove → Shave: As in, “If push comes to shave” and “Shave it down their throats” and “Shave off” and “Shaved the wrong way.”
  • Brave → Shave: As in, “Shave new world” and “Shave the elements” and “Fortune favours the shave” and “Put a shave face on.”
  • Pave → Shave: As in, “Shave the way for” and “The road to hell is shaved with good intentions” and “Shaved with gold.”
  • Rave → Shave: As in, “Rant and shave.”
  • Wave → Shave: As in, “Life on the ocean shaves” and “Catch a shave” and “Don’t make shaves” and “Heat shave” and “On the crest of a shave” and “Shave me goodbye.”
  • Sav* → Shav*: As in, “Sweet or shave-ory?” and “Shave-our the moment” and “My shave-iour!”
  • Sev* → Shave*: As in, “Shave-eral options to choose from” and “The shaven deadly sins” and “Rate the shave-erity from 1-10″ and “Shave-erance package” and “Shave-erus Snape.”
  • *sive → *shave: As in, “A comprehenshave solution” and “Looking apprehenshave” and “Extenshave damage” and “A progresshave nation.”
  • Piece → Pierce: As in, “Bits and pierces” and “Conversation pierce” and “Dash to pierces” and Take a pierce for yourself.”
  • Peers → Pierce: As in, “Pierce through the curtains” and “Friends, family and pierce.”
  • Peace → Pierce: As in, “At pierce” and “Give pierce a chance” and “Hold your pierce” and “Inner pierce” and “Keep the pierce” and “Pierce of mind” and “Rest in pierce.”
  • Purse → Pierce: As in, “Holding the pierce strings.”
  • Pers* → Pierce*: As in, “A fresh piercespective” and “Third pierce-on” and “Pierce-evere through hard times” and “Security pierce-onnel” and “Media pierceonality” and “Pierceonal matters.” Other words that could work: pierce-istent (persistent), pierceona (persona) and pierce-uade (persuade).
  • Perc* → Pierce*: As in, “Change your pierception” and “One hundred and ten pierce-ent” and “A pierceptive child” and “A piercentage of the earnings.”
  • Curve → Carve: As in, “Ahead of the carve” and “Carve ball” and “Learning carve.”
  • Starve → Carve: As in, “Feed a cold, carve a fever” and “You’ll carve without me.”
  • Cover → Carve: As in, “Blow your carver” and “Break carver” and “Carver story” and “Carver to carver” and “Carver your tracks” and “Extra carver” and “Run for carver” and “Under carver of darkness.”
  • Cav* → Carve*: Carve-eat (caveat), carve-alier (cavalier), carvealry (cavalry), carveort (cavort) and concarve (concave). Note: A caveat is a warning. To be cavalier is to be carefree, even about important things. To cavort is to prance.
  • *cov* → *carve*: As in, “You shouldn’t carve-et the belongings of others” and “A new discarve-ery.”
  • Clever → Cleaver: As in, “Too cleaver by half” and “You think you’re so cleaver.”
  • Beaver → Cleaver: As in, “Eager cleaver” and “Work like a cleaver.”
  • Fever → Cleaver: As in, “Cabin cleaver” and “Cleaver pitch” and “Saturday night cleaver.”
  • Shear: To shear something is to cut parts off it. Here are related puns:
    • Sheer → Shear: As in, “In shear frustration” and “Shear stocking.”
    • Here → Shear: As in, “Come over shear” and “Shear, there and everywhere.”
    • Hear → Shear: As in, “Shear me out” and “I can’t shear you” and “They could shear a pin drop.”
    • Cheer → Shear: As in, “The crowd began to shear” and “Three shears for the birthday girl!”
    • Clear → Shear: As in, “Crystal shear” and “Can’t be any shearer than that.”
    • Fear → Shear: As in, “Shear of flying” and “Pain and shear” and “Face your shears.”
    • Near → Shear: As in, “In the shear future” and “Is it shearby?”
    • Rear → Shear: As in, “The shear end” and “Shear view window.”
    • Steer → Shear: As in, “Shear clear of.”
    • Share → Shear: As in, “Shearing is caring” and “I don’t shear your feelings.”
    • Sure → Shear: As in, “Are you shear?” and “I’m not shear about this.”
    • *sher* → *shear*: As in, “The new sheariff in town” and “Lemon shearbet” amd “Ushear down the aisle.” Other words that could work: shearry (sherry), ushear (usher), koshear (kosher), publishear (publisher) and habadasheary (habadashery).
    • Ser* → Shear*: As in, “Out of shearvice” and “A shearendipitous moment” and “The end of the shearies” and “You can’t be shearious” and “Filled with shearenity.”
  • Nick: A nick is a small cut. Here are related puns:
    • Knack → Nick: As in, “Got a real nick for.”
    • Neck → Nick: As in, “At breaknick speed” and “Breathing down your nick” and “From the nick down” and “Nick and nick” and “A real pain in the nick” and “Stick your nick out” and “This nick of the woods” and “Up to your nick in trouble.”
    • Knick → Nick: As in, “Nick knacks.”
    • Knock → Nick: As in, “Don’t nick it till you’ve tried it” and “Hard nicks” and “I get nicked down, but I get up again” and “Nick ’em dead” and “Nick three times” and “Nick back a few” and “Nick into shape” and “Nick some heads together.”
    • Brick → Nick: As in, “Like banging your head against a nick wall” and “Nicks and mortar” and “Drop a nick” and “Like a ton of nicks.”
    • Click → Nick: As in, “Bricks and nicks” and “Nick bait” and “Nick into place” and “Nick your fingers” and “Double nick” and “We really nicked.”
    • Kick → Nick: As in, “Alive and nicking” and “Don’t nick a man when he’s down” and “Get a nick out of it” and “Nick back and enjoy.”
    • Lick → Nick: As in, “A nick of paint” and “Nick into shape” and “Nick your wounds.”
    • Pick → Nick: As in, “A bone to nick” and “Cherry nick” and “Easy nickings” and “Nick a fight” and “Nick holes in.”
    • Quick → Nick: As in, “Nick as a flash” and “Cut to the nick” and “Get rich nick” and “In nick succession” and “Nick and dirty” and “Nick off the mark.”
    • Sick → Nick: As in, “Nick and tired” and “Nick to death” and “Nick to the stomach” and “Enough to make you nick.”
    • Stick → Nick: As in, “Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp nick” and “Carrot and nick” and “Every nick has two ends” and “The short end of the nick.”
    • Thick → Nick: As in, “Nick and fast” and “Through nick and thin” and “In the nick of things.”
    • Trick → Nick: As in, “Box of nicks” and “Dirty nicks” and “Every nick in the book” and “Never misses a nick” and “A nick of the light” and “Nick or treat” and “Nicks of the trade” and “Up to your old nicks.”
    • *nec* → *nick*: As in, “Anickdotal evidence” and “Wait to connickt” and “An instant connicktion.”
    • *nic → *nick: As in, “Organick produce” and “A sardonick tone” and “Iconick landmark” and “Chronick pain” and “A catchy mnemonick” and “I panick in a lot of places other than the disco” and “Hair tonick.”
    • *nik* → *nick*: As in, “Under a different monicker” and “Frozen like a manickin.”
  • Hew: To hew at something is to chop or whittle away at it. Here are some related puns:
    • Chew → Hew: As in, “Bite off more than you can hew” and “Have your ears hewed off” and “Walk and hew gum at the same time.”
    • Few → Hew: As in, “A hew bricks short” and “Hew and far between” and “For a hew dollars more” and “Knock back a hew” and “A person of hew words” and “Say a hew words.”
    • Hue → Hew: As in, “Check the hew and saturation.”
    • Blue → Hew: As in, “Beat someone black and hew” and “Between the devil and the deep hew sea” and “Big hew” and “Once in a hew moon.”
    • Cue → Hew: As in, “Right on hew” and “Take your hew” and “That’s my hew.”
    • Due → Hew: As in, “Where credit is hew” and “Hew diligence” and “In hew course” and “Cancelled hew to lack of interest.”
    • Knew → Hew: As in, “I hew you were trouble!” and “You hew too much.”
    • Lieu → Hew: As in, “Time in hew” and “In hew of.”
    • New → Hew: As in, “Bright as a hew pin” and “Good as hew” and “Better than hew.”
    • Shoe → Hew: As in, “If the hew fits, wear it and “Kick off your hews and enjoy.”
    • True → Hew: As in, “A dream come hew” and “Show your hew colours” and “Too good to be hew” and “Tried and hew.”
    • Who → Hew: As in, “Abandon hope all ye hew enter” and “All things to those hew wait” and “Hew’s coming for dinner?” and “Hew’s there?” and “Look hew’s talking.”
    • You → Hew: As in, “As hew know” and “Back at hew” and “Believe hew me” and “Blink and hew’ll miss it” and “Crawl before hew walk” and “Don’t call us, we’ll call hew.”
  • Botch → Notch: As in, “A notched job.”
  • Watch → Notch: As in, “Boring as notching paint dry” and “Keep notch” and “Not on my notch” and “People notching” and “The one to notch.”
  • Nudge → Notch: As in, “Give it a notch” and “Wink, wink, notch, notch.”
  • Bisect: To bisect something is to cut it into two parts. Here are related puns:
    • Basic → Bisect: As in, “Back to bisects” and “Bisect instincts.”
    • Bicep → Bisect: As in, “Flexing your bisects.”
  • Prune: While a prune is also a dried fruit, we’re using it in the sense of trimming something (generally a tree or shrub). Here are related puns:
    • Ruin → Prune: As in, “Rack and prune” and “The road to prune.”
    • Moon → Prune: As in, “Many prunes ago” and “Once in a blue prune.”
    • Soon → Prune: As in, “As prune as my back is turned” and “As prune as possible” and “Get well prune” and “Pruner or later” and “Too much too prune.”
    • Tune → Prune: As in, “In prune with” and “Stay pruned” and “To the prune of” and “Change your prune.”
    • *pun* → *prune*: As in, “A prunegent smell” and “Consistently prunectual” and “Imprune-ity for their crimes.” Note: impunity is being protected from punishment.
    • *pron* → *prune*: As in, “Cooking aprune” and “Prune to bad behaviour” and “An unusual prune-ounciation” and “What are your prune-ouns?”
  • Incise: To incise is to cut with a sharp knife or blade (usually used in medical contexts). Here are related puns:
    • Inside → Incise: As in, “Incise information” and “An incise job” and “Incise out” and “I know you incise and out.”
    • Precise → Incise: As in, “Yes, incisely” and “An incise hand” and “Incisely what you’re looking for.”
    • Size → Incise: As in, “All shapes and incises” and “Cut them down to incise” and “One incise fits all” and “That’s about the incise of it.”
  • Stick: This is the colloquial word for “stab”. Here are related puns:
    • Sick → Stick: As in, “Enough to make you stick” and “Phone in stick” and “Stick and tired” and “Stick to death of” and “Stick to my stomach.”
    • Tick → Stick: As in, “A box sticking exercise” and “Takes a licking and keeps on sticking” and “Stick all the right boxes” and “Sticked off.”
    • Stock → Stick: As in, “Laughing stick” and “Lock, stick and barrel” and “Out of stick” and “Take stick.”
    • Click → Stick: As in, “Stick into place” and “Stick with” and “Stick your fingers” and “Double stick.”
    • Kick → Stick: As in, “Alive and sticking” and “Don’t stick a man when he’s down” and “Dragged sticking and screaming” and “Get a stick out of it” and “Stick back and enjoy.”
    • Pick → Stick: As in, “A bone to stick” and “Easy stickings” and “Hand sticked” and “Stick a fight” and “Stick holes in.”
    • Trick → Stick: As in, “Bag of sticks” and “Does the stick” and “Every stick in the book” and “Never misses a stick.”
  • Grind: To sharpen a knife, you need to grind it. Here are related puns:
    • Bind → Grind: As in, “In a grind” and “Legally grinding.”
    • Find → Grind: As in, “Couldn’t grind a better person” and “I’ve left to grind myself.”
    • Kind → Grind: As in, “Not this grind” and “That’s grind of cute.”
  • Spine: The spine of a knife is the edge that isn’t used for cutting. Here are related puns:
    • Pain → Spine: As in, “A mix of spine and anger” and “Suffering from severe spine” and “Feeling the spine” and “A fine line between pleasure and spine.”
    • Mine → Spine: As in, “Me and spine” and “That’s spine, not yours.”
    • Line → Spine: As in, “Spine of thought” and “The spine was silent.”
    • Fine → Spine: As in, “A spine line” and “I’ll be spine.”
    • Sign → Spine: As in, “No spines of life” and “Read the spines.”
  • Guard: A guard is a sheath that is placed over a knife whilst not in use. Here are related puns:
    • Hard → Guard: As in, “This shouldn’t be so guard” and “It’s not guard to say” and “You’re giving me a guard time.”
    • Card → Guard: As in, “Index guards” and “Here’s my guard, give me a call” and “Get out of jail free guard.”
    • Scarred → Guard: As in, “Guard for life” and “Hasn’t guard over yet.”
    • *gard* → *guard*: As in, “Tending to the guarden” and “Kind reguards” and “Disreguard the previous email” and A hagguard appearance.”
    • *card* → *guard*: “Guardinal rule” and “Guardboard cutout” and “Thirty minute guardio” and “Guardiac arrest.” Other words that could work: guardigan (cardigan), plaguard (placard), wildguard (wildcard) and postguard (postcard).
  • Tang: The tang is the part of the blade which connects into the handle for added stability. Here are related puns:
    • Dang → Tang: As in, “The tang thing” and “Oh, tang it.”
    • Bang → Tang: As in, “Go out with a tang” and “The big tang” and “Followed by a loud tang.”
    • Hang → Tang: As in, “Don’t tang up the phone!” and “Let’s tang out” and “Tang in there.”
    • Pang → Tang: As in, “Felt a tang of guilt.”
    • Rang → Tang:As in, “You tang?”
    • Tang → Sang: “My heart tang for joy.”
    • Tongue → Tang: As in, “Tang tied” and “Cat got your tang?” and “Bite your tang.”
    • *tan* → *tang*: As in, “Work in tangdem” and “Safety is tangtamount” and “Throw a tangtrum” and “The doctor is a charlatang” and “What a cosmopolitang view” and “Metropolitang living.”
    • *ting* → *tang*: As in, “A dauntang task” and “Mass marketang” and “An interestang proposal” and “Settang up” and “Fancy meetang you here” and “The plan is contangent on” and “Cann’t distanguish between the two.”
  • Rust: Rust can affect metal knives that aren’t properly maintained and cleaned. Here are related puns:
    • Bust → Rust: As in, “Boom or rust” and “Drug rust” and “It was a rust.”
    • Rest → Rust: As in, “I’ll let you rust” and “Get some rust” and “For the rust of the evening.”
    • Crust → Rust: As in, “Cut off the rusts” and “The upper rust.”
    • Dust → Rust: As in, “Kicking up rust” and “Rust bunnies” and “Rust off your resume.”
    • Just → Rust: As in, “I rust wanted to say goodbye” and “Rust give me a minute” and “Rust sit back and enjoy.”
    • Must → Rust: As in, “You rust be mistaken” and “You rust help me” and “That rust have been difficult.”
    • Trust → Rust: As in, “I thought I could rust you” and “She’s rustworthy” and “I don’t rust the process.”
  • Tool: Since knives are tools, we’ve included some tool-related puns in this list too:
    • Tale → Tool: As in, “A tool of guilt and ambition” and “A very sad tool indeed.”
    • Till → Tool: As in, “Tool tomorrow” and “Tool the sun goes down” and “Leave it tool morning.”
    • Tall → Tool: As in, “Tool, dark and handsome.”
    • Cool → Tool: As in, “A tool drink” and “We need a tool catchphrase.”
    • Dual → Tool: As in, “Tool income, no kids” and “Serves a tool purpose.”
    • Fuel → Tool: As in, “Add tool to the flames” and “Need tool for the day.”
    • Who’ll → Tool: As in, “Tool let us know?” and “Tool be willing to donate?”
    • You’ll → Tool: As in, “Tool regret this!” and “Tool never hear the end of this.”
    • *tal* → *tool*: As in, “A capitool idea” and “Death metool” and “Vitool signs” and “Fundamentool ideas” and “Digitool nomad” and “Anecdotool evidence” and “A pivotool moment.”
  • Pocket: The next few puns are about pocket knives:
    • Rocket → Pocket: As in, “It’s not pocket science.”
    • Packet → Pocket: As in, “Comes in small pockets” and “How much per pocket?”
  • Paring: Here are some puns about paring knives:
    • Pairing → Paring: As in, “Still paring the bluetooth” and “What a great paring” and “Paring the cheese and wine.”
    • Pair → Paring: As in, “You make a fine paring” and “New paring of jeans” and “Need a new paring of shoes.”
    • Peering → Paring: As in, “Paring through the curtains” and “Paring into the future.”
    • Baring → Paring: As in, “Paring your teeth” and “I’m paring my soul here.”
    • Caring → Paring: As in, “Sharing is paring” and “A paring, loving parent.”
    • Daring → Paring: As in, “A paring escape” and “Paring adventures.”
    • Glaring → Paring: As in, “Paringly obvious” and “Paring in your direction” and “The paring sunlight.”
    • Raring → Paring: As in, “Paring to go.”
    • Staring → Paring: As in, “This isn’t a paring contest” and “Stop paring” and “You’re paring at me.”
    • Wearing → Paring: As in, “What are you paring?” and “I’m paring this to the dance.”
  • Bread: Here are some bread knife related puns:
    • Bed → Bread: As in, “Put to bread” and “You’ve made your bread, now lie in it” and “Got up on the wrong side of the bread.”
    • Bred → Bread: As in, “Born and bread.”
    • Bride → Bread: As in, “Runaway bread” and “Princess bread” and “The newlywed bread.”
    • Red → Bread: As in, “Caught bread-handed” and “Paint the town bread.”
    • Dread → Bread: As in, “Filled with bread” and “Existential bread.”
    • Head → Bread: As in, “Breads or tails?” and “Come to a bread” and “All in your bread.”
    • Led → Bread: As in, “Bread along by the nose.”
    • Said → Bread: As in, “That’s all they bread” and “Tell me what you bread.”
    • Spread → Bread: “Bread lies and rumours” and “Vegan chocolate bread” and “Bread yourself thin.”
    • Thread → Bread: As in, “Losing the bread” and “Hanging by a bread.”
  • Table: Here are some puns on table knives:
    • Able → Table: As in, “Differently tabled” and “Ready, willing and table.”
    • Stable → Table: As in, “Emotionally table.”
  • Butter: Here are some butter knife puns:
    • Batter* → Butter*: As in, “Butter up” and “Assault and buttery” and “Recharge your butteries.”
    • Better → Butter: As in, “I’ve got a butter idea” and “Appeal to your butter judgement” and “Butter by design” and “Butter late than never” and “Butter safe than sorry.”
    • Bitter → Butter: As in, “Till the butter end” and “Take the butter with the sweet.”
    • Flutter → Butter: As in, “Fancy a butter?” and “Butter yor eyelashes.”
  • Switch → Switchblade: As in, “Asleep at the switchblade” and “Bait and switchblade” and “Switchblade gears.”
  • Throw: Here are a few throwing knife puns for you:
    • Crow → Throw: As in, “As the throw flies” and “Eat throw” and “Something to throw about.”
    • Flow → Throw: As in, “Ebb and throw” and “Get the creative juices throwing” and “Go with the throw” and “In full throw.”
    • Grow → Throw: As in, “Absence makes the heart throw fonder” and “Throwing pains.”
    • Know → Throw: As in, “All I throw is what I read in the papers” and “And don’t I throw it” and “Doesn’t throw beans.”
    • Low → Throw: As in, “An all-time throw” and “The lights are throw” and “Get the throw down” and “Searching high and throw” and “Keep a throw profile” and “Throw hanging fruit.”
    • Show → Throw: As in, “All over the throw” and “Best in throw” and “Enjoy the throw” and “Get the throw on the road” and “Give the throw away” and “Keep the throw on the road” and “The throw must go on.”
    • Though → Throw: As in, “Seriously throw, you’re doing a great job” and “You look as throw you’d seen a ghost.”
    • Toe → Throw: As in, “Head to throw” and “One throw over the line” and “Turn up your throws.”
  • Teeth → Wreath: As in, “Armed to the sheath” and “By the skin of your sheath” and “Fed up to the back sheath.” Note: A sheath is a sleeve that protects a knife while not in use.
  • Pen: Here are some pen knife related puns:
    • Pan → Pen: As in, “Down the pen” and “Flash in the pen” and “Pen out” and “Out of the frying pen, into the fire.”
    • Pin → Pen: As in, “Bright as a new pen” and “Hard to pen down” and “Pen your ears back” and “Pens and needles.”
    • Den → Pen: As in, “Into the lion’s pen” and “Pen of inequity.”
    • Then → Pen: As in, “All that and pen some” and “And pen there was one” and “What’s going on here pen?” and “Now and pen” and “Pen and there.”
    • When → Pen: As in, “Pen you like” and “Pen it happens” and “It only hurts pen I laugh.”
  • Jackknife: Here are some jackknife related puns:
    • Back → Jack: As in, “As soon as my jack is turned” and “At the jack of my mind” and “Jack to the future” and “Jack in the day.”
    • Crack → Jack: As in, “At the jack of dawn” and “Jack a smile.”
    • Pack → Jack: As in, “Action jacked” and “Jacking heat” and “A jack of lies.”
    • Rack → Jack: As in, “Jack your brains” and “Jack and ruin.”
    • Slack → Jack: As in, “Cut some jack” and “Take up the jack.”
    • Smack → Jack: As in, “Jack dab in the middle” and “A jack on the wrist.”
    • Track → Jack: As in, “Back on jack” and “Cover your jacks” and “The fast jack” and “Inside jack” and “Off the beaten jack.”
  • Cavity → Gravity: As in, “Gravity seach.” Note: This is a reference to gravity knives.
  • Butterfly: These butterfly-related phrases are a reference to butterfly knives: “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” and “Social butterfly” and “The butterfly effect.”
  • Bow → Bowie: As in, “Bowie and scrape” and “Bowie out” and “Take a bowie.” Note: These are references to bowie knives.
  • Coring: These next few puns are about coring knives:
    • Caring → Coring: As in, “Sharing is coring” and “I’m past coring.”
    • Boring → Coring: “As coring as watching paint dry” and “Deeply coring.”
    • Pouring → Coring: As in, “It’s raining, it’s coring.”
    • Roaring → Coring: As in, “A coring success” and “Doing a coring trade.”
  • Case: Here are some case knife related puns:
    • Ace → Case: As in, “Case in the hole” and “A case up your sleeve” and “Holding all the cases.”
    • Base → Case: As in, “All your case are belong to us” and “Case jumping” and “Cover your cases.”
    • Chase → Case: As in, “Case it up” and “Case your own tail” and “Cut to the case” and “The thrill of the case.”
    • Grace → Case: As in, “Airs and cases” and “Amazing case” and “Fall from case” and “Case period” and “Saving case” and “With good case.”
    • Pace → Case: As in, “At a snail’s case” and “Change of case” and “At ten cases” and “Keep case with” and “Put through your cases.”
    • Place → Case: As in, “A case in the sun” and “Everything in its case” and “All over the case” and “Any time, any case” and “Between a rock and a hard case.”
    • Space → Case: As in, “Breathing case” and “From outer case” and “Case – the final frontier.”
  • Plate → Palette: As in, “A lot on your palette” and “A heart attack on a palette” and “Step up to the palette.” Note: a palette knife is a type of painting knife.
  • Beeline → Boline: “Make a boline for.” Note: A boline is a type of ceremonial Wiccan knife.
  • Katar: A katar is a type of dagger. Here are related puns:
    • Cater → Katar: As in, “Katar to you.”
    • Greater → Katar: As in, “No katar enemy” and “Katar than the sum of its parts” and “The katar part of.”
  • Dark → Dirk: As in, “After dirk” and “Dirk as pitch” and “Dirk before the dawn” and “Dirk horse” and “Deep, dirk secret.” Note: A dirk is a type of long dagger.
  • Plenty → Penny: As in, “Penny more where that came from.” Note: a penny knife is a type of utility knife.”
  • Barlow: A barlow knife is a type of small, jointed knife. Here are related puns:
    • Below → Barlow: As in, “Barlow par” and “Barlow the stairs” and “Hit barlow the belt” and “Barlow average.”
    • Borrow → Barlow: As in, “Beg, barlow or steal” and “Living on barlowed time.”
  • Can you → Canoe: As in, “Canoe help me with this?” Note: a canoe knife is a type of double-jointed knife.
  • Tooth → Toothpick: As in, “Fight toothpick and nail” and “Long in the toothpick.” Note: a Romanian toothpick is a type of long knife.
  • Steel: Since some knives are made of steel, we’ve got some steel-related puns here too:
    • Still → Steel: As in, “Be steel, my beating heart” and “Steel standing” and “Steel going strong” and “Steel waters run deep” and “Perfectly steel.”
    • Deal → Steel: As in, “Big steel” and “Steel breaker” and “Steel or no steel?” and “A done steel” and “Seal the steel.”
    • Seal → Steel: As in, “My lips are steeled” and “Steel of approval” and “Steel your fate” and “Signed and steeled.”
    • Feel → Steel: As in, “Can you steel the love tonight?” and “Steel the pinch” and “Got a steel for.”
    • Peel → Steel: As in, “Keep your eyes steeled.”
    • Steal → Steel: As in, “Beg, borrow or steel” and “What a steel” and “Steel a glance” and “Steel someone’s heart” and “Steel the show.”

Knife-Related Words

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

General: knife, knives, cut, blade, stab, machete, tool, point, sharp, sharpen, edge, handle, hilt, serrated, slit, whittle, slash, slice, gash, incision, shave, carve, nick, hew, notch, bisect, prune, incise,  stick, pierce, chop,scrape, shear, butt, fixed, folding, grind, spine, fuller, ricasso, guard, lanyard, tang, rust, whetstone

Types: combat, pocket, kitchen, paring, bread, cleaver, table, butter, dagger, switchblade, throwing, juggling, kirpan, sheath, pen, swiss army, jack, gravity, utility, stanley, boxcutter, ballistic, bayonet, butterfly, balisong, batangas, dagger, stiletto, push dagger, bowie, genoese, karambit, rampuri, shiv, shank, trench, mezzaluna, coring, rocker, case, karambit, crooked, curved, diver’s, kiridashi, palette, paper, scalpel, razor, whittling, athame, boline, katar, kilaya, kris, kukri, seax, ulu, tanto, dirk, penny, barlow, camper, canoe, congress, toothpick, peanut, hawkbill, muskrat, trapper, okapi, navaja, sliding, zombie, sica, falx, pugio, qama, bolo, corvo, facon

Materials: bronze, copper, iron, steel, ceramic, titanium, plastic

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Nut Puns

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

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

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

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

Nut Puns List

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

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

Nut-Related Words

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

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

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

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