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Candle Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on candle puns!🕯🔥✨

Even though candles have largely been replaced by modern lightbulbs and torches, they’re still culturally important to us and remain a part of our lives, helping us celebrate holidays and milestones.

Whether you’re ruining the soft-lit ambience of your Valentine’s date, celebrating Hanukkah or cracking jokes about a loved one’s age, we hope you find the perfect pun for your needs in this list.

While this list is as comprehensive and thorough as we could make it, it is specific to candles. If you’re after related puns, we do have fire puns and birthday puns on the way.

Candle 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 candles 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 candle puns:

  • Scandal → Candle: As in, “A red-hot candle” and “Candle sheet.”
  • Handle → Candle: As in, “Fly off the candle” and “Get a candle on” and “Candle with care” and “How much can you candle?” and “Too hot to candle.”
  • Kendall Jenner → Candle Jenner
  • Second → Secandle: As in, “On secandle thought” and “Just one secandle” and “Play secandle fiddle to” and “Secandle best” and “Secandle nature” and “Secandle to none” and “Get a secandle opinion” and “And secandley…”
  • Whack → Wax: As in, “Out of wax” and “Wax-a-mole.”
  • Wax: These wax-related phrases can serve as general candle puns: “Wax and wane” and Wax lyrical” and “Waxing poetic.” Note: to wax poetic or lyrical is to speak at unecessary length.
  • Quick → Wick: As in, “Wick as a flash” and “Cut to the wick” and “Fancy a wickie?” and “Get rich wick” and “In wick succession” and “Kiss me wick” and “Make a wick buck” and “Lightning-wick” and “Wick on the uptake” and “Wick as a whip.”
  • Whack → Wick: As in, “Out of wick” and “A wicky situation.”
  • Weak → Wick: As in, “Wick at the knees” and “A chain is only as strong as its wickest link.”
  • Week → Wick: As in, “A wick is a long time in politics” and “Knock into the middle of next wick” and “A wick from next Tuesday” and “Flavour of the wick” and “A wickly event.”
  • Wake → Wick: As in, “Half awick” and “A rude awickening” and “Wick up and smell the coffee” and “Wick-up call” and “Loud enough to wick the dead” and “Wick up on the wrong side of the bed” and “Wide awick.”
  • Which → Wick: As in, “Any wick way” and “Don’t know wick way to look” and “Don’t know wick way is up” and “See wick way the cat jumps” and “Wickever you like” and “Wick is wick?”
  • Wik* → Wick*: If a word starts with a “wik” sound, then we can replace it with “wick” to make some silly candle puns. As in, wickipedia (wikipedia) and wicktionary (wiktionary).
  • *wick*: Simply emphasize the “wick” in these words: wicked, wicket, wickedness.
  • Lid → Lit: As in, “Flip your lit” and “Blow the lit off” and “Keep a lit on it.”
  • Let → Lit: As in, “Lit there be light” and “Don’t lit the sun go down on me” and “Just lit it lie” and “Lit it bleed” and “Lit bygones be bygones” and “Lit your hair down” and “Lit her rip” and “Lit it all hang out” and “Lit loose” and “Lit me count the ways” and “Lit nature take its course” and “Lit’s get physical” and “A room to lit.”
  • *lat* → *lit*: We can swap the “lat” sound in words with “lit” to make joking references to lit candles. As in, “Articulit yourself clearly” and “Emulit their work” and “Colliteral damage” and “A volitile situation.”
  • *let* → *lit*: As in, “Chain litter” and “Add some littuce” and “I need an outlit” and “Run the gauntlit” and “Bite the bullit.” Other words you could use: pallit (pallet), violit (violet), millit (millet), tablit (tablet), complit (complete), obsolit (obsolete).
  • *lid* → *lit*: As in, “A solit argument” and “Your identity is valit” and “Pallit complexion” and “Don’t treat them like invalits” and “Squalit conditions” and “Holitay season” and “Standing in solitarity” and “Payment valitated.”
  • *lit*: Emphasise the “lit” in these words: “Little by little” and “Read the literature” and “Not literally” and “A literal mess” and “Banana split.” Other words that could be used: litter, litigation, sunlit, moonlit, facilitate, facility, quality, humility, liability, politics, reality and accountability.
  • Let → Light: As in, “Light them down gently” and “Light it be” and “Light bygones be bygones” and “Light it all hang out” and “Light loose” and “Light me be brief” and “Light me count the ways” and “Light me make one thing perfectly clear” and “Light nature take its course.”
  • *lite → *light: As in, “Polight conversation” and “An impolight gesture” and “Satellight tv” and “Wealthy socialights.”
  • *lit* → *light*: As in, “Secret facilighty” and “Facilightate conversation” and “Qualighty control” and “You’re a liabilighty!” and “Polightics is relevant to everyone.” Other words that could work: realighty (reality), accountabilighty (accountability) and humilighty (humility).
  • Late → Light: As in, “Better light than never” and “Catch you lighter” and “Fashionably light” and “Read any good books lightly?” and “It’s never too light to learn” and “A light bloomer” and “Light in the day” and “Light in the game” and “Running light” and “Sooner or lighter” and “Too little, too light.”
  • *lat* → *light*: As in, “Well-articulighted” and “Game emulightor” and “Collighteral damage.”
  • *lit* → *light*: As in, “In the lighterature” and “Not lighterally” and “A lighterary mind” and “Lightany of problems” and “A lighteral disaster.”
  • Light: These light-related phrases can double as candle puns: “Blinded by the light” and “Brought to light” and “Come on baby, light my fire” and “First light” and “Get of lightly” and “Go out like a light” and “Guiding light” and “Half light” and “In light of” and “Leading light” and “Light a fire under” and “Light at the end of the tunnel” and “Light entertainment” and “Light hearted” and “Lighten up!”
  • Taper: Tapers are small wax candles. Refer to them in your wordplay with these puns and phrases:
    • Tape → Taper: As in, “Cut through the red taper” and “This taper will self-destruct.”
    • Type → Taper: As in, “Not my taper” and “The strong, silent taper.”
    • Tap → Taper: As in, “A light taper at the door” and “Tapering (tapping) your foot.”
    • Paper → Taper: As in, “Read the newstaper” and “Couldn’t find your way out of a taper bag” and “Looks good on taper” and “Taper thin” and “Taper trail” and “Put pen to taper.”
  • Fame → Flame: As in, “Claim to flame” and “Flame at last” and “Fifteen minutes of flame” and “Hall of flame.”
  • Famous → Flameous: As in, “Almost flameous” and “Flameous last words.”
  • Aim → Flame: As in, “We flame to please” and “Flame high” and “Take flame.”
  • Blame → Flame: As in, “Flame game” and “Don’t flame the messenger.”
  • *fam* → *flame*: As in, “Flame-ily matters” and “40 hour flame-ine” and “Sued for deflame-ation.”
  • Flam* → Flame*: Flameboyant (flamboyant) and flameingo (flamingo).
  • *phem* → *flame*: Blasflamey (blasphemy) and euflame-ism (euphemism).
  • Much → Match: As in, “Well that’s a bit match” and “How match can you handle?” and “I don’t know match about it, but” and “You’ve seen too match” and “Missed it by that match” and “Match obliged” and “There’s so match more” and “Thank you very match” and “Too match information” and “Too match of a good thing” and “Too match, too soon” and “Well so match for that.”
  • Mitchell → Matchell
  • Michaelangelo → Matchelangelo
  • Maj* → Match*: As in, “Matchority (majority) rule” and “A matchestic display” and “Your matchesty.”
  • Mag* → Match*: matchic (magic) and matchistrate (magistrate).
  • *mat* → *match*: As in, “In the wrong formatch” and “Immatchure arguments” and “Leave it by the doormatch.” Other words that could work: diplomatch (diplomat), matchurity (maturity), prematchure (premature), matchure (mature) and laundromatch (laundromat).
  • Mutual → Matchual: As in, “The feeling is matchual” and “Matchual attraction” and “Matchual admiration” and “Matchually assured destruction.”
  • Match: These match-related phrases are general enough to double as candle puns: “A match made in heaven” and “Game, set, match.” and “Meet your match” and “Mix and match” and “More than a match for” and “A perfect match.”
  • Delight → Tealight: As in, “Afternoon tealight” and “Earthly tealights” and “Turkish tealight” and “My heart’s tealight” and “Take tealight in.”
  • *fair → *fire: As in, “Affire of the heart” and “All’s fire in love and war” and “By fire means or foul.”
  • Far → Fire: As in, “A step too fire” and “As fire as it goes” and “As fire as the eyes can see” and “A fire cry from” and “Few and fire between” and “Over the hills and fire away” and “So fire, so good” and “As fire as I know” and “I wouldn’t go so fire as to..”
  • *far* → *fire*: As in, “a nefireious (nefarious) villain” and “Child welfire” and “Bid you firewell” and “A fireaway look in your eyes.”
  • *fer* → *fire*: As in, “A fireocious battle” and “My final offire.” Other words that could work: defire (defer), confire (confer), transfire (transfer), buffire (buffer), suffire (suffer), refire-ence (reference), diffire-ent (different) and infire-ence (inference).
  • *fir* → *fire*: firest (first), firesthand (firsthand), affiremation (affirmation) and affiremative (affirmative).
  • *for* → *fire*: As in, “Weather firecast” and “For the fireseeable future” and “And therefire…” and “A grim perfiremance.” Other words that could work: perfirem (perform), infiremation (information), firest (forest), afirementioned (aforementioned), firensic (forensic) and befire (before).
  • *phar* → *fire*: firemacy (pharmacy), firemaceutical (pharmaceutical) and fireaoh (pharaoh).
  • *pher* → *fire*: As in, “Perifire-al vision” and “Romantic atmosfire” and “Barefoot philosofire” and “Professional photografire.” Other words that could work: fireomone (pheromone), cifire (cipher), decifire (decipher), parafirenalia (paraphernalia), perifirey (periphery) and hemisfire (hemisphere).
  • Sapphire → Safire
  • *fair* → *fire*: As in, “Airy firey” and “Fireytale ending” and “Firely judged” and “In all fireness” and “Unfire choices” and “All the fun at the funfire.”
  • Chauffeur → Chauffire
  • *fier → *fire: firece (fierce), modifire (modifier), amplifire (amplifier), identifire (identifier), qualifire (qualifier), pacifire (pacifier) and emulsifire (emulsifier). Note: an emulsifier is a substance that keeps different substances together.
  • Later → Lighter: As in, “Catch you lighter” and “It’s lighter than you think” and “Sooner or lighter” and “We’ll continue this lighter” and “Cross that bridge lighter.”
  • Litre → Lighter
  • *lator → *lighter: As in, translighter (translator), escalighter (escalator), manipulighter (manipulator), calculighter (calculator), regulighter (regulator) and percolighter (percolator).
  • Designate → Designite: As in, “Designited driver.”
  • Bite → Bright: As in, “A bright to eat” and “Ankle brighter” and “Another one brights the dust” and “Bright back” and “Bright the bullet” and “Bright your hand off” and “Bright your tongue.”
  • *ban* → *burn*: As in, “Suburburn living” and “Urburn sprawl” and “Adjust your turburn” and “Left aburndoned” and “Burnana ice cream.”
  • *ben* → *burn*: As in, “For your burnefit” and “Burnevolent ruler” and “Burnign tumour.” Other words that could work: burnefactor (benefactor), burnevolence (benevolence) and burneficial (beneficial). Notes: if something is benign, then it isn’t harmful. If something is benevolent or beneficial, then it for good or has good intentions.
  • *bon* → *burn*: As in, “Burn voyage” and “Burn appetit.” Other words that could work: burnafide (bonafide), burnanza (bonanza), ribburn (ribbon), carburn (carbon) and bourburn (bourbon).
  • *bun* → *burn*: As in, “Burndle of joy” and “Thanks a burnch” and “Down in the burnkers.” Other words you could use: aburndance (abundance), aburndant (abundant), burnny (bunny) and burngalow (bungalow). Note: if something is in abundance, then there’s plenty of it; more than required.
  • Barn* → Burn*: burnacle (barnacle) and burnyard (barnyard).
  • Hibernate → Hiburnate
  • Borneo → Burneo
  • *born → *burn: As in, “Stubburn as a mule” and “Newburn baby” and “I feel reburn” and “My firstburn child.”
  • Blow: The next few puns and phrases will be centred around the word “blow” as a reference to blowing out candles:
    • Below → Blow: As in, “Blow par” and “Blow the belt” and “Blow your breath” and “Blow average” and “Blow the surface” and “Hit blow the belt.”
    • Blouse → Blowse
    • Bloat* → Blowt*: As in, “A blowted paragraph” and “Blowting stomach.”
  • Scented: Since scented candles are extremely popular, we’ve included scent-related puns and phrases for you:
    • Sent → Scent: As in, “Heaven scent” and “Scent packing” and “Scent mixed messages.”
    • Send → Scent: As in, “Hit scent” and “Return to scenter” and “Scent packing” and “Scenting shivers down your spine” and “Scent word.”
    • Sense → Scents: As in, “Come to your scent-ses” and “Common scents” and “A keen scents of smell” and “Making scents of” and “More money than scents” and “No nonscents” and “Makes perfect scents” and “Sheer nonscents” and “A sixth scents” and “Not in that scents” and “Yes, in a scents” and “A false scents of security.”
    • Cents → Scents: As in, “Two scents worth” and “Dollars and scents.”
    • *sant* → *scent*: As in, “Incesscent noise” and “Pleascent conversation” and “Peascent blouse” and “Cogniscent of the fact” and “An unpleascent feeling.” Note: to be cognisant of something is to be aware of it.
    • *sent* → *scent*: As in, “An unfinished scentence” and “Scentient beings” and “Loving scentiments.” Other words that could be used: scentimental (sentimental), scentience (sentience), scentry (sentry), prescent (present), conscent (consent), represcent (represent), disscent (dissent), ascent, abscent (absent), misreprescent (misrepresent), esscential (essential) and quintesscential (quintessential).
    • *sint* → *scent*: As in, discentegrate (disintegrate), discenterested (disinterested), miscenterpret (misinterpret) and discentegration (disintegration).
    • *cent* → *scent*: As in, “Front and scentre” and “A scentral apartment” and “Best of the scentury” and “A magnifiscent show.” Other words that could work: scentipede (centipede), scentaur (centaur), complascent (complacent), acscent (accent), adjascent (adjacent), descent (decent), innoscent (innocent), ecscentric (eccentric) and inscentive (incentive).
    • Scintillate → Scentillate: (note: if something is scintillating , then it’s shining or twinkling.)
    • *sand* → *scent*: As in, “Knuckle scentwich” and “Using someone as a scentbag” and “Scentbox game” and “Summer scentdals.” Other words that could work: thouscent (thousand), amperscent (ampersand) and quickscent (quicksand).
    • *send* → *scent*: As in, “Return to scenter” and “Rescent the email” and “An absolute godscent.”
    • *cend* → *scent*: As in, “A condescenting tone” and “Inscentiary topics” and “Bringing to a crescento” and “Ascent to the next level.” Other words that could work: transcent (transcend), descent (descend), condescent (condescend), transcent-dent (transcendent) and descent-dant (descendant).
    • Cinderella → Scenterella
    • Saint → Scent: As in, “The patience of a scent” and “The patron scent of..”
  • Melt: We’ve included some melt-related phrases and puns so you can refer to the melting nature of candle wax in your wordplay:
    • *met* → *melt*: As in, “A mixed meltaphor” and “Melticulous attention to detail” and “My heart plummelted” and “Wear your helmelt” and “Shifted paramelters” and “Geomeltry class.”
    • *mit* → *melt*: As in, “Commeltment (commitment) issues” and “Only intermeltently (intermittently) and “Death by commelttee.”
    • Maltreatment → Meltreatment
    • *mult* → *melt*: meltiple (multiple), meltifaceted (multifaceted), meltimedia (multimedia), melticultural (multicultural), simeltaneously (simultaneously), tumeltuous (tumultuous) and meltitude (multitude). Note: if something is tumultuous, then it’s chaotic and disorderly.
  • Flagrant → Fragrant: As in, “A fragrant disregard for the rules” and “Fragrant abuse of power.”
  • Hate → Heat: As in, “Heat mail” and “Love-heat relationship” and “Heat to say it, but…” and “Heaters gonna heat.”
  • Height → Heat: As in, “Reaching new heats” and “The heat of fashion.”
  • Hit → Heat: As in, “Hard heatting” and “Heavy heatter” and “Heat the road” and “Heat and miss” and “Heat it off” and “Heat it out of the park” and “On someone’s heat list” and “Heat rock bottom” and “Heat the brakes” and “Heat the ground running” and “Heat the hay” and “Heat the jackpot” and “Heat the nail on the head.”
  • Hat* → Heat*: As in, “Down the heatch” and “An immense heatred for” and “Sharpen the heatchet.”
  • *het* → *heat*: heaterosexual (heterosexual), epitheat (epithet), ratcheat (ratchet) and propheat (prophet).
  • *hit* → *heat*: archeatect (architect), archeatecture (architecture) and heatman (hitman).
  • Tahiti → Taheati
  • Haiti → Heati
  • Smack → Smoke: As in, “Smoke dab in the middle” and “Feeling gobsmoked” and “An epic smokedown” and “A smoke on the wrist.”
  • *smic → *smoke: As in, cosmoke (cosmic), seismoke (seismic), cataclysmoke (cataclysmic), orgasmoke (orgasmic) and miasmoke (orgasmic).
  • Soy: Soy candles are a fairly new and popular environmentally friendly (and vegan!) alternative to traditional candle waxes (paraffin, tallow and beeswax). Add soy candles into your repertoire with these soy-related phrases and puns:
    • Say → Soy: As in, “As the soying goes” and “Before you could soy anything” and “Computer soys no” and “Do as I soy, not as I do” and “Does exactly what it soys on the tin” and “Have a soy” and “My final soy” and “I’m hearing what you soy” and “Just soy the word” and “Needless to soy” and “Never soy never” and “Soy a few words” and “Soy goodnight” and “Soy it, don’t spray it” and “Soy what you mean” and “As I was soying” and “If I do soy so myself” and “Soy again?” and “To soy nothing of” and “To soy the least.”
    • So → Soy: As in, “Soy on and soy forth” and “I wouldn’t go soy far as to…” and “How soy?” and “If I do say soy myself” and “Not soy fast!” and “Soy be it” and “Soy long as” and “Soy much for” and “Soy there.”
    • *sey* → *soy*: As in, “An epic odyssoy” and “Hit the bullsoy.”
    • *ser* → *soy*: As in, “Customer soyvice” and “A soyrendipitous (serendipitous) event” and “Things are getting soyrious” and “Filled with soyrenity.” Note: if something is serendipitous, then it’s fortunate or lucky.
    • Ceylon (tea) → Soylon
    • *sor* → *soy*: As in, “Chaos and disoyder” and “Business consoytium (consortium).” Note: a consortium is a joint venture between businesses or organisations.
    • *sur* → *soy*: As in, “A soyreal (surreal) situation” and “Bring to the soyface” and “Plastic soygery.”
    • Thesaurus → Thesoyrus
    • *seur* → *soy*: As in, “Wine coinnossoy (coinnosseur)” and “Artist psoydonym.”
    • *soc* → *soy*: As in, “Modern soyciety” and “Soycial media” and “A soyciable mood” and “Shame by assoyciation.” Other words you could use: assoyciated (associated), assoyciate (associate), soycket (socket), soyciopath (sociopath) and soycialism (socialism).
    • *sig* → *soy*: As in, “By desoyn (design)” and “An insoytful observation” and “A massive oversoyt (oversight)” and “Second soyt (sight)” and “Desoygnated (designated) driver.”
    • *sy* → *soy*: As in, “Common courtesoy” and “Easoy does it” and “Clumsoy oaf” and “In perfect soymmetry” and “Maply soyrup” and “Filled with jealousoy.” Other words that could work: daisoy (daisy), heresoy (heresy), idiosyncrasoy (idiosyncrasy), soystem (system), soyndrome (syndrome), soynonym (synonym), soynergy (synergy), psoychology (psychology), soyllabus (syllabus), soymphony (symphony), soyringe (syringe), fantasoy (fantasy), ecstasoy (ecstasy), asoylum (asylum), hypocrisoy (hypocrisy), flimsoy (flimsy), whimsoy (whimsy), unsoympathetic (unsympathetic), epilepsoy (epilepsy), autopsoy (autopsy), biopsoy (biospy) and controversoy (controversy).
    • *so* → *soy*: espressoy (espresso), virtuosoy (virtuoso), esoyteric (esoteric), philosoyphy (philosophy), resoylution (resolution), soylution (solution), soyphisticated (sophisticated) and soydium (sodium).
  • Palm: We can make joking references to palm wax with the following puns and phrases (note that the palm oil industry is a very controversial one):
    • 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
  • Berry → Bayberry: As in, “Brown as a bayberry” and “Bayberry flavoured.” Note: bayberry wax is a vegetable wax that’s used in candle-making.
  • Handle → Chandler: As in, “Fly off the chandler” and “Get a chandler on” and “Chandler with care” and “How much can you chandler?” and “Love chandlers” and “Too hot to chandler” and “You can’t chandler the truth!” Note: a chandler is someone who makes candles for a living.
  • Stick → Candlestick: As in, “Cross as two candlesticks” and “Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp candlestick” and “Carrot and candlestick” and “Got hold of the wrong end of the candlestick” and “More than you can shake a candlestick at” and “Short end of the candlestick” and “Speak softly and carry a big candlestick” and “A candlestick in the mud.”
  • Trim: Since candle wicks can need trimming (to reduce smoke), we’ve got some trim-related phrases and puns here for you:
    • Dream → Trim: As in, “Beyond my wildest trims” and “Broken trims” and “Trim on” and “Trim away” and “Trims can come true” and “Trim big” and “Living the trim” and “Sweet trims.”
    • *tram* → *trim*: trimpoline (trampoline) and ultrimarine (ultramarine).
    • *trem* → *trim*: As in, “A trimendous effort” and “Earthly trimors” and “Trimbling with fear” and “That helped trimendously” and “Extrim sports” and “Extrimly angry” and “Cover your extrimities.”
    • *trom* → *trim*: As in, trimbone (trombone) and malestrim (maelstrom). Note: a maelstrom is a particularly turbulent situation.
    • *trum* → *trim*: As in, “Not to blow my own trimpet” and “A colourful spectrim” and “Temper tantrim” and “Instrimental to our plan” and “Musical instriment.”
    • *tim* → *trim*: As in, “Victrimless crime” and “The ultrimate revenge” and “Intrimate partner violence” and “A legitrimate reason” and “By my estrimation…” and “Loving sentriments.” Other words you could use: trimid (timid), trimber (timber), verbatrim (verbatim), penultrimate (penultimate), optrimal (optimal). Notes: if something is verbatim, then it’s word for word. Penultimate means second to last.
    • *im → *trim: If a word starts with “im”, then we can change it to “trim”: trimminent (imminent), trimpact (impact), trimplement (implement), trimperative (imperative), trimage (image), trimplication (implication), trimpetus (impetus), trimportant (important), trimpose (impose).
    • *trim*: Emphasise the “trim” in these words: detrimental, detriment, patrimony, matrimony, trimester and matrimonial.
  • Suffer → Snuffer: As in, “Long snuffering” and “Making everyone snuffer.” Note: a snuffer is a tool that snuffs out (extinguishes) a candle.
  • Gotten → Cotton: As in, “Ill cotton gains” and “Another fine mess you’ve cotton me into” and “Gone, but not forcotton.” Note: candle wicks are made from cotton, which is why we’ve included cotton in this list.
  • Motive → Votive: As in, “Ulterior votives” and “Dirty votives.” Note: a votive is a type of ceremonial candle.
  • Scones → Sconce: As in, “Tea and sconce.” Note: a sconce is a type of wall fixture where candles could be placed.
  • Torch: When candles are put into a portable holder of some sort, they can be referred to as torches, so we’ve got torch-related puns and phrases for you:
    • Touch → Torch: As in, “A torch of frost” and “A torch of the sun” and “Don’t torch!” and “Finishing torches” and “The golden torch” and “Losing torch with” and “Stay in torch” and “Torch and go” and “Torching base with” and “Torch wood” and “Torched a nerve” and “A torching tribute” and “Torchy feely.”
    • Teach → Torch: As in, “Experience is the best torcher” and “Torch someone a lesson” and “That’ll torch you” and “Torching an old dog new tricks.”
    • *tach* → *torch*: As in, “No strings attorched” and “Forming attorchments” and “Detorch yourself from” and “Feeling detorched.”
    • Starch → Storch
    • Interchangeable → Intorchangeable
  • Light → Rushlight: As in, “Bring to rushlight” and “First rushlight” and “Give it the green rushlight” and “My guiding rushlight‘ and “In rushlight of” and “Let there be rushlight.” Note: a rushlight is a type of cheap outdoor candle.

Candle-Related Words

To help you come up with your own candle 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!

candle, wax, wick, lit, light, illuminate, flame, fire, match, lighter, ignite, light, bright, flicker, burn, blow, melt, fragrance, scent/scented, soy, paraffin, palm, carnauba, bayberry, flaxseed, heat, tealight, chandler, candlestick, chandelier, candelabrum, candelabra, candleholder, trim, smoke, snuffer, extinguish, cotton, votive, sconce, bobeche, pitch torch, rushlight, taper, garden candle, tiki torch, menorah, braid

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Snowman Puns

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Snowmen are a popular way to spend time with loved ones over the holidays – whether you’re watching horror movies about them, uplifting cartoons, or actually making one, you can make the time more cringeworthy with our list of snowman puns.

While we’ve made this list as comprehensive as possible, this list is specific to snowmen. We also have lists on snowflake puns, reindeer puns, snow puns and Santa puns and will have more Christmas-specific lists coming soon!

Snowman 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 snowmen 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 snowman puns:

  • No man→ Snowman: As in, “Boldly go where snowman has gone before,” and “Snowman is an island,” and “Time waits for snowman.” Note: to say that no man is an island is to say that no person is truly separate from others.
  • No way, man→ Snow way, man
  • Nobody→ Snowbody: As in, “Dance like snowbody’s watching,” and “Like snowbody’s business,” and “Snowbody does it better,” and “Snowbody’s perfect.”
  • No→ Snow: As in, “All bark and snow bite,” and “All dressed up and snowhere to go,” and “In snow time,” and “In snow uncertain terms,” and “Snow buts,” and “Snow holds barred,” and “Snow love lost,” and “Snow matter how you slice it,” and “Snow prizes for guessing,” and “Snow two ways about it.”
  • So→ Snow: As in, “Snow on and snow forth,” and “And snow on,” and “Snow?” and “You think you’re snow clever,” and “I wouldn’t go snow far as..” and “How snow?” and “If I do say snow myself,” and “Not snow fast!” and “Snow be it,” and “Snow far, snow good,” and “Snow long as,” and “Snow there,” and “Why is it snow quiet?” and “You little snow-and-snow.”
  • Know*→ Snow*: As in, “A little snowledge is a dangerous thing,” and “A person is snown (known) by the company they keep,” and “Don’t I snow it,” and “Be the first to snow,” and “Better the devil you snow,” and “Do you want to snow?” and “Everybody snows,” and “For all I snow,” and “It’s general snowledge,” and “Goodness snows,” and “I should have snown better,” and “You don’t snow anything,” and “It takes one to snow one,” and “Snow all the answers,” and “Snow by heart,” and “I snow for a fact,” and “You snow full well,” and “Snowledge is power,” and “A snowledgeable person.”
  • Show→ Snow: As in, “All over the snow,” and “Best in snow,” and “Enjoy the snow,” and “Get this snow on the road,” and “A one-man snow,” and “Snow and tell,” and “Snow me the money,” and “Snow pony,” and “Snow some appreciation,” and “I’m snowing you the door,” and “Snow up,” and “Snow your true colours,” and “Steal the snow,” and “Stop the snow,” and “The greatest snow on Earth,” and “The snow must go on,” and “There’s no business like snow business,” and “The only snow in town.”
  • *show*→ *snow*: As in, snowcase (showcase), snowdown, snowboat (showboat), snowroom, slidesnow, and peepsnow.
  • Slow→ Snow: As in, “Snow as molasses in January,” and “Can’t snow down,” and “Painfully snowly,” and “A snow burn,” and “Snow, but sure,” and “In snow motion,” and “Snow on the uptake,” and “A snow news day.” Note: if something is slow as molasses in January, then it’s extremely slow.
  • Stow→ Snow: As in, “A hidden snowaway.”
  • No*→ Snow*: As in, “Make a snowte (note),” and “Going snowhere fast,” and “Snowbody knows,” and “Did you snowtice?” and “What a snowvel (novel) idea,” and “On the snowse (nose),” and “Snowble intentions,” and “Snowcturnal (nocturnal) sleeping habits.”
  • Now→ Snow: This one is a bit tricky as “snow” and “now” have different pronunciations, but it definitely works visually and is easy to figure out. As in, “And snow for something completely different,” and “Can you hear me snow?” and “I can see clearly snow,” and “I’ll be leaving you snow,” and “It’s all coming back to me snow,” and “It’s snow or never,” and “I need you snow,” and “Snow and again,” and “Snow is the winter of our discontent!” and “Snow you’re talking.” Note: “Now is the winter of our discontent” is a quote from Shakespeare.
  • Snow: Use snow-related phrases as terrible snowman puns in the right context: “Pure as the driven snow,” and “White as snow,” and “Let it snow,” and “Snow job,” and “A snowball in hell’s chance,” and “Snowed under.”
  • For he’s→ Freeze: As in, “Freeze a jolly good fellow!”
  • For his→ Freeze: As in, “Freeze own sake.”
  • Ball→ Snowball: As in, “Break your snowballs,” and “Snowballs to the wall,” and “Bust your snowballs,” and “A different snowball game,” and “Dropped the snowball,” and “Get the snowball rolling,” and “Got you by the snowballs,” and “Have a snowball,” and “The snowball is in your court.”
  • Man→ Snowman: As in, “A snowman for all seasons,” and “A dog is a snowman’s best friend,” and “A drowning snowman will clutch at a straw,” and “A good snowman is hard to find,” and “A snowman after my own heart,” and “A snowman among men,” and “A snowman’s got to do what a snowman’s got to do,” and “I’m not half the snowman I used to be.”
  • Care at→ Carrot: As in, “I couldn’t carrot all.”
  • Care about→ Carrot bout: As in, “Why should I carrot ’bout that?”
  • Carat→ Carrot: As in, “24 carrot gold.”
  • Rot→ Carrot: As in, “Carrot in hell!” and “Spoiled carrotten.”
  • Carrot: Use a couple of carrot-related phrases in your snowman wordplay: “Carrot and stick,” and “Dangle the carrot.”
  • Knows→ Nose: As in, “Mother nose best,” and “Goodness nose,” and “As far as she nose,” and “A man who nose everything.”
  • *nos*→ *nose*: As in, nosetalgia (nostalgia), sopranose, dominose, agnosetic, diagnosesis, prognosesis and dinosesaur.
  • Nice→ Ice: As in, “Have an ice day,” and “Make ice,” and “Ice and easy,” and “Did you have an ice time?” and “Ice save,” and “Ice try,” and “Ice work if you can get it,” and “No more Mr. Ice Guy,” and “Wouldn’t it be ice?” and “Couldn’t happen to an icer..” Note: to make nice is to be pleasant to someone you dislike or have issues with.
  • Eyes→ Ice: As in, “Avert your ice,” and “Bat your ice,” and “Bedroom ice,” and “Before your very ice,” and “Bright ice,” and “Brings tears to my ice,” and “Cried my ice out,” and “Do my ice deceive me?” and “Easy on the ice,” and “Ice in the back of your head,” and “Ice like saucers,” and “Feast your ice on this!” and “I can’t take my ice off you,” and “In the ice of the law,” and “Keep your ice on the prize,” and “Keep your ice peeled.”
  • Ice: These ice-related phrases could serve as some bad snowman puns in the right context: “Cold as ice,” and “Break the ice,” and “Ice up,” and “Ice, ice baby,” and “On ice,” and “Skating on thin ice,” and “Tip of the iceberg.” Some ice-related words that could also work: iceberg, ice-cream and icebreaker.
  • *ice: Emphasise the “ice” in certain words: “Thank you for your service,” and “Needs practice,” and “Pride and Prejudice,” and “Running for office,” and “I need your advice,” and “Where is the justice?” and “Left to your own devices,” and “Not that you’d notice.” Note: Pride and Prejudice is a classic romance novel.
  • Eyes*→ Ice*: As in, “You’re an ice-sore,” and “Poor icesight,” and “Sultry iceshadow.”
  • *is*→ *ice*: As in, “A thorough analysice,” and “A groundbreaking hypothesice,” and “Arch nemesice (nemesis),” and “What’s the basice for your belief?” and “All down to logicestics,” and “Sophicestication at its finest,” and “You never told me otherwice.”
  • *ise→ *ice: As in, “Should any problems arice,” and “An exciting premice,” and “Adviceory board,” and “No promices,” and “Exercice your discretion,” and “An enterprice-ing individual,” and “I require your expertice.”
  • *ize→ *ice: A quick note that these words would have originally been spelled with “ize” using American spelling, and would have been spelled with “ise” using the British/Australian system: “I didn’t realice,” and “Do you recognice me?” and “I apologice,” and “Don’t patronice me,” and “One sice fits all,” and “Eyes on the price,” and “Galvaniced into action.” Note: to galvanise is to shock or stimulate into action.
  • I see→ Icy: As in, “I call ’em as icy ’em,” and “Icy what you did there.”
  • *icy*: Emphasise the “icy” in some words to make some punny snowman jokes: “Open-door policy,” and “Honesty is the best policy,” and “Not too spicy,” and “Like a fish needs a bicycle.”
  • Internet→ Winternet: As in, “Empowering the winternet generation,” and “Surfing the winternet,” and “The winternet of things.”
  • Intern→ Wintern: As in, “Looking for winterns,” and “I’m winterning this summer.”
  • Winner→ Winter: As in, “Winter takes all,” and “Everyone’s a winter!” and “A real winter’s attitude.”
  • Winter: We’ve included some winter-related phrases to help mix up your snowy wordplay: “Dead of winter,” and “Now is the winter of our discontent,” and “A winter warmer.” Note: “Now is the winter of our discontent” is a quote from Shakespeare which is still used as a joke in some memes. A winter warmer is a type of alcohol that’s used for warmth in the cold of winter.
  • First→ Frost: As in, “A world frost,” and “At frost blush,” and “Be the frost to know,” and “Cast the frost stone,” and “Frost blood,” and “Frost come, frost served,” and “Frost impressions last,” and “Frost rate,” and “Frost things frost,” and “Head frost,” and “Love at frost sight,” and “Safety frost.”
  • *first*→ *frost*: Frosthand, frostly (firstly), frostborn, frost-rate, frost aid, headfrost, feet frost.
  • Frost*: Emphasise the “frost” in certain words in your chilly jokes: frostbite (as in, “What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire? Frostbite!”), frosty, frosted and frostily.
  • Cruel→ Cool: As in, “Cool and unusual punishment,” and “Don’t be cool,” and “Cool to be kind.”
  • *cal*→ *cool*: As in, “Advent coolendar,” and “Counting coolories,” and “Mental calcoolations,” and “A certain coolibre,” and “Natural coolamities.” Other words that could work: empiricool, radicool, criticool, cynicool, practicool, physicool, whimsicool and reciprocool. Notes: a calibre is a measure of quality or ability.
  • *col*→ *cool*: As in, “Work coolleague,” and “In coollusion with,” and “Added to my coollection,” and “Coollateral damage.” Other words that would work: coolon (colon), coollege, coollaberate, coolumn (column), protocool, coolour and chocoolate. Note: a collusion is a secret agreement or cooperation.
  • *cul*→ *cool*: As in, “3rd coolture kid,” and “Who’s the coolprit?” and “The coolinary world,” and “Pecooliar (peculiar) behaviour.” Other words that could work: cooltivate (cultivate), cooll (cull), coolpable (culpable), coolminate (culminate), articoolate (articulate), secoolar (secular), curricoolum, vernacoolar (vernacular), particoolar and meticoolous. Notes: a 3rd culture kid is someone raised in a culture other than their own. If something is secular, then it’s unconnected to religion.
  • *kel*→ *cool*: As in, nicool (nickel), snorcool (snorkel), pumpernicool (pumpernickel) and coolp (kelp).
  • Cool: Use some cool-related phrases to make some terrible snowman puns: “Cool as a cucumber,” and “Cool as a mountain stream,” and “Cool beans,” and “A cool million,” and “Cool your heels,” and “Keep a cool head,” and “Lose your cool,” and “Play it cool.”
  • *col*→ *cold*: As in, “An extensive cold-lection,” and “Cold-lateral damage,” and “Going to cold-lege,” and “A cold-laborative effort,” and “Newspaper cold-lumnist,” and “Standard protocold,” and “Smooth as chocoldlate.”
  • *cul*→ *cold*: As in, coldture (culture), coldtivate (cultivate), coldprit (culprit), coldinary (culinary), coldpable (culpable), coldminate (culminate).
  • Cold: We’ve included some phrases related to cold in this list: “Cold as blue blazes,” and “Cold as ice,” and “Break out in a cold sweat,” and “A cold heart,” and “Going cold turkey,” and “Cold comfort,” and “A cold day in hell,” and “Cold feet,” and “The cold light of day,” and “The cold shoulder,” and “Stone cold sober,” and “In cold blood,” and “Leave out in the cold,” and “Out cold.”
  • Bicycle→ Icicle: As in, “Like a fish needs an icicle.”
  • Icy cool→ Icicle
  • Free→ Freeze: As in, “A symbol of freezedom,” and “Freeze as a bird,” and “Breathe freezely,” and “Buy one, get one freeze,” and “Freezedom fighter,” and “Get out of jail freeze card,” and “The best things in life are freeze,” and “No such thing as a freeze lunch,” and “Walk freeze,” and “Leader of the freeze world.” Some free-related words: freezelance, freezeloader, carefreeze, scot-freeze, painfreeze and fancy-freeze. Note: to get off scot-free is to get away without penalty or punishment.
  • Freeze: Some freeze-related phrases for you to play with: “Freeze frame,” and “Freeze someone out,” and “Freeze up,” and “Until hell freezes over.”
  • *phrase→ *freeze: As in, parafreeze, catchfreeze and refreeze (rephrase).
  • *fee*→ *freeze*: As in, freeze‘d (feed), freezedback, freezeling (feeling), freezeble (feeble), coffreeze, toffreeze.
  • Foe→ Froze: As in, “Friend or froze?”
  • Flow*→ Froze*: As in, “Ebb and froze,” and “Get the creative juices froze-ing,” and “Go with the froze.”
  • Ferocious→ Frozecious: As in, “A frozecious facial expression.”
  • *ber*→ *brr*: As in, “Brry flavoured,” and “Stop brrr-ating (berating) me,” and “A wide brrth (berth),” and “Going brrrserk (berserk).” Other words that would work: brreft (bereft), brreavement (bereavement), numbrr, chambrr, ubrr (uber), sobrr (sober), fibrr (fiber), ambrr (amber), membrr, calibrr, remembrr, delibrrate, librral (liberal), librrty (liberty), abrration (aberration), cumbrrsome.
  • *bir*→ *brr*: As in, “A little brrdy (birdy) told me,” and “Give brrth (birth),” and “Happy brrthday,” and “What’s your brrthdate?”
  • *bor* → *brr*: As in, “Beg, steal or brrow (borrow),” and “Dying from brredom,” and “Unpaid labrr,” and “Harbrring (harbouring) a fugitive,” and “Good neighbrrs,” and “An elabrrate plan.” Other words that could be used: corrobrrate (corroborate), collabrrate (collaborate), stubbrrn (stubborn).
  • *bur*→ *brr*: As in, “Brrst my bubble,” and “Brrning the midnight oil,” and “A heavy brrden (burden),” and “Brry (bury) the hatchet.” Other words that could work: reimbrrsement, brrrow (burrow), brrgeoning (burgeoning), brr (burr), excalibrr (excalibur), brrito (burrito).
  • *br*→ *brrr*: As in, “A clean brreak,” and “A brreach of trust,” and “A warm embrrace,” and “Breaking brread,” and “Trouble brreathing,” and “Brranching out,” and “The brravest warrior.” Other words you could use: brracket, brrain, brrand, brrace, brreath, brreed, ombrr (ombre), macabrr (macabre), timbrr (timbre), fibrr (fibre) and sombrr (sombre).
  • *per*→ *brr*: As in, “A fresh brrspective (perspective),” and “Brrson (person) of interest,” and “The brrception of beauty is a moral test.” Other words you could use: brrtinent (pertinent), brrformance (performance), brrfect (perfect), brrseverance (perseverance), imbrrative (imperative).
  • *pir*→ *brr*: As in, brrahna (pirahna), asbrration (aspiration) and insbrration (inspiration).
  • *por*→ *brr*: As in, contembrrary (contemporary) and obrrtunity (opportunity).
  • *pur*→ *brr*: As in, “My life’s brrpose (purpose),” and “Impulse brrchases (purchases),” and “Quick brrsuit (pursuit),” and “Hold my brrse (purse).”
  • *pr*→ *brr*: As in, “Due brrocess (process),” and “On brrinciple,” and “Out of brractice (practice),” and “No time like the brresent (present).” Other words that could be used: brrotocol (protocol), brremise (premise), brrogram (program), brragmatic (pragmatic), brrovide (provide) and brractitioner (practitioner).
  • Melt: As all snowmen are doomed to melt eventually, we’ve included some melt-related words and phrases for you to play with: “Butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth (this one would be particularly good if you’re talking about a snowlady – since butter/Nuttelex literally wouldn’t melt in “her” mouth),” and “In the melting pot,” and “Melt into thin air,” and “Melting my heart,” and “Don’t have a meltdown,” and “Whoever s-melt it, dealt it.” Note: if you’re saying that butter (or vegan equivalent) wouldn’t melt in someone’s mouth, it means that someone is being overly cool.
  • *chal*→ *chill*: As in, “Take up the chillenge (challenge),” and “A chillenging game,” and “A patriarchill (patriarchal) society.” Other words that could work: chillice (chalice), matriarchill (matriarchal) and nonchillant (nonchalant). Note: to be nonchalant is to be calm or relaxed. Patriarchal refers to a system that is controlled by men, while matriarchal is controlled by women.
  • Chelsea→ Chillsea
  • *chel*→ *chill*: As in, “A new satchill (satchel),” and “The upper echillons (echelons),” and “The Bachillor.” Note: “The Bachelor” is a reality show based around dating. An echelon is a level or status within a system/organisation.
  • Chil*→ Chill*: As in, “Lost chilld,” and “Will somebody please think of the chill-dren!” and “Award-winning chilli,” and “Chilldcare centre,” and “Chill-dish behaviour,” and “A happy chill-dhood,” and “Chilling tales.”
  • *chol*→ *chill*: As in, “High chillesterol (cholesterol),” and “Love in the Time of Chillera (cholera),” and “A melanchilly (melancholy) expression,” and “Studying psychillogy (psychology),” and “A psychillogical thriller.” Note: “Love in the Time of Cholera” is a famous novel.
  • Jel*→ Chill*: As in, chilly (jelly), chillyfish and chillybaby (jellybaby).
  • Jealous→ Chillous: As in, “Stop being so chillous.”
  • *gel*→ *chill*: As in, “Chocolate chillato (gelato),” and “There are ethical alternatives to chillatin (gelatin),” and “My guiding anchill (angel).”
  • Child→ Chilled: As in, “Chilled’s play,” and “Chilledhood friend,” and “Chilledhood memories,” and “Heavy with chilled,” and “Love chilled,” and “Leave no chilled behind,” and “A problem chilled,” and “Sunday’s chilled is full of grace.”
  • Chill: Some chill-related phrases for you to use as snowman puns in the right context: “Chill out,” and “Chilled to the bone,” and “A chilling account,” and “Take a chill pill,” and “Netflix and chill,” and “No chill.”
  • *hat*: Emphasise the “hat” in certain words in your snowy wordplay: “Down the hatch,” and “Full of hate,” and “My hatred for…” and “What about that?” and “Free for a chat?” and “They were very emphatic.” Note: to be emphatic is to be forceful in the way you express or do something.
  • Hat: Since hats and scarves are the traditional decorations/clothing for a snowman, we’ve included hat-related phrases in this entry: “Mad as a hatter,” and “At the drop of a hat,” and “Hats off to,” and “I’ll eat my hat,” and “Tip your hat.” Note: if something happens at the drop of a hat, then it happens at once.
  • *het*→ *hat*: As in, haterosexual (heterosexual), epithat (epithet), ratchat (ratchet), prophat (prophet), ricochat (ricochet), rhatoric (rhetoric), aesthatic (aesthetic), pathatic (pathetic), archatype (archetype). Note: an epithet is a characteristic quality or attribute. An archetype is a typical example of something.
  • *hit*→ *hat*: As in, hatherto (hitherto), hatman (hitman) and archatecture (architecture). Note: “hitherto” means “at this time”.
  • *hot*→ *hat*: As in, hatel (hotel), hatspot (hotspot), hatline (hotline), hatshot (hotshot), hatbed (hotbed), hatdog (hotdog), dichatomy (dichotomy), phato (photo) and phatosynthesis (photosynthesis).
  • Scarf: As hats and scarves are typical snowman attire, we’ve included some scarf-related phrases: “Don’t forget your scarf,” and “He’s really scarfing it down.”
  • Stick: Sticks are commonly used as arms for snowmen, so we’ve included stick-related phrases and puns for you to use: “Cross as two sticks,” and “Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick,” and “Carrot and stick (this would work particularly well, since carrots are also used on snowmen to make their nose),” and “The wrong end of the stick,” and “More than you can shake a stick at (this would be quite good since a snowman’s stick is their arm – so “shaking a stick” would be shaking their fist),” and “Stick in the mud,” and “Come to a sticky end.”
  • Stick*: Some stick-related words to add to your repertoire: yardstick, slapstick, broomstick, candlestick, drumstick and joystick.
  • Stick→ Stock: As in, “Laughing stick” and “Sticking filler,” and “Take stick,” and “Stick-still.” Other words that could work: stickade (stockade), stickpile (stockpile) and stickbroker (stockbroker).
  • *stac*→ *stick*: As in, “A stickato (staccato) voice,” and “Numerous obstickals (obstacles).” Note: if something is staccato, then it’s made up of short, separate sounds.
  • *stic*→ *stick*: As in, “A holistick treatment,” and “I’m agnostick,” and “How characteristick.” Other words you could use: heuristick (heuristic), altruistick and enthusiastick, optimistick, fantastick, bombastick, narcissistick and sophistickated. Notes: if something is holistic, then it’s relating to an entire system rather than just a part of it. A heuristic is a method of teaching. If something is bombastic, then it’s unnecessarily long and difficult.
  • *stak*→ *stick*: As in, “This was a mistick,” and “Painstickingly difficult,” and “It was unmistickable.”
  • *sec*→ *stick*: As in, stickular (secular), stickurity (security), sticktion (section), stickure (secure), stickond (second), stickret (secret), constickutive (consecutive).
  • *sic*→ *stick*: As in, “How stickening,” and “Make sweet mustick,” and “A classtick movie,” and “It’s only phystickal.” Other words you could use: whimstickal (whimsical), extrinstick (extrinsic), analgestick (analgesic), forenstick (forensic), bastick (basic), intrinstick (intrinsic), stickly (sickly) and stickle (sickle). Notes: “Extrinsic” refers to the outer qualities or attributes of something.
  • *tic*→ *stick*: As in, “That’s the sticket,” and “Eclecstick taste,” and “Authenstick art.” Other words you could use: arstickulate (articulate), aesthestick (aesthetic), sticklish (ticklish). If something is eclectic then it’s a collection from various sources. Aesthetic refers to things that are nice to look at.
  • *tec*→ *stick*: “Cutting-edge sticknology,” and “Good sticknique,” and “To get sticknical,” and “Sticktonic plates.”
  • Stone: Stones are commonly used as eyes and a mouth for snowmen, so we’ve included stone-related phrases in this list: “A rolling stone gathers no moss,” and “Cold as any stone,” and “Carved in stone,” and “Cast the first stone,” and “Drop like a stone,” and “Etched in stone,” and “Heart of stone,” and “Leave no stone unturned,” and “Sink like a stone,” and “Stone cold sober,” and “A stone’s throw.”
  • Jack: Refer to one of the most famous snowmen of our time, Jack Frost, with these Jack-related phrases: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” and “Hit the road, Jack,” and “Hit the jackpot,” and “Jack of all trades,” and “Jack the Ripper (a melting snowman could be referred to as “Jack the Dripper, perhaps).”
  • Oh, laugh→ Olaf: As in, “Olaf it off.” Note: Olaf is the living snowman in the movie Frozen.

Snowman-Related Words

To help you come up with your own snowman 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!

snowman, snow, snowy, snowball, carrot, hat, scarf, head, torso, body, sticks, stones, ice, winter, snowflake, frost/frosty, cool, cold, icicle, freeze, brrr, melt, melting, frosty the snowman, jack frost, olaf, frozen, abominable snowman

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