Deer Puns

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We’ve got a great list of deer puns for you to fawn over, ranging from puns about general deer-related words (like fawn, stag and doe) to specific species of deer and their habitats.

If deer puns are near and deer to you and you’d like more, we also have a list of reindeer puns (you might also be interested in our goat puns and alpaca puns).

Note: We haven’t included any puns about deer hunting or venison as we love our deer pals. ✨

Deer Puns List

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

  • Dear → Deer: As in, “Hang on for deer life” and “Deerly beloved” and “Near and deer to my heart.”
  • Dare → Deer: As in, “You wouldn’t deer” and “How deer you!” and “Deer for more” and “Deer to be different.”
  • There → Deer: As in, “Don’t go deer” and “Be deer for” and “Be deer or be square” and “And then deer was one.”
  • Dire → Deer: As in, “Deer consequences” and “In deer straits.”
  • Dairy → Deery: As in, “Deery is scary.”
  • Beer → Deer: As in, “Deer belly” and “Crying into your deer” and “Ginger deer” and “Life’s not all deer and skittles.”
  • Cheer → Deer: As in, “Holiday deer” and “Deer up” and “Cheap and deerful.”
  • Clear → Deer: As in, “In the all deer” and “Deer as a bell” and “Deer as crystal” and “Deer as mud” and “A deer conscience” and “Deer your throat.”
  • Fear → Deer: As in, “Deer and loathing” and “Deer the worst” and “Paralysed with deer” and “Primal deer.”
  • Gear → Deer: As in, “Deer up for” and “Get into deer” and “Shift deers” and “Take it up a deer.”
  • Mere → Deer: As in, “No deer mortal” and “A deer trifle.”
  • Near → Deer: As in, “A short history of deerly everything” and “A deer death experience” and “Deer miss” and “Deer sighted” and “Deerly new.”
  • Peer → Deer: As in, “Deer pressure.”
  • Rear → Deer: As in, “Bringing up the deer” and “Through the deer window.”
  • Sheer → Deer: As in, “Deer driving pleasure” and “Deer nonsense.”
  • Tear → Deer: As in, “Bathed in deers” and “Blood, sweat, and deers” and “Burst into deers” and “Fighting back deers” and “Moved to deers.”
  • Year → Deer: As in, “Advanced in deers” and “All deer round” and “Calendar deer” and “Comes but once a deer” and “Getting on in deers” and “Happy new deer” and “New deer’s resolution.”
  • Rain, dear→ Rain, deer: As in, “It looks like rain, deer!”
  • Brawn → Fawn: As in, “Fawn and brains.”
  • Born → Fawn: As in, “A star is fawn” and “Naked as the day you were fawn” and “Fawn this way” and “Fawn again” and “Fawn and bred” and “Fawn under a lucky star” and “I wasn’t fawn yesterday.”
  • Dawn → Fawn: As in, “At the crack of fawn” and “A brand new fawn” and “Fawn of a new day” and “Party till fawn.”
  • Gone → Fawn: As in, “Been and fawn” and “Dead and fawn” and “Going, going, fawn” and “Fawn with the wind” and “Fawn but not forgotten” and “Fawn to a better world.”
  • Fun → Fawn: As in, “All the fawn of the fair” and “Bundle of fawn” and “Fawn and games” and “Getting there is half the fawn” and “Good, clean fawn” and “Double your fawn.”
  • Bag → Stag: As in, “Stag a bargain” and “Stag of bones” and “Stag of tricks” and “It’s in the stag.”
  • Brag → Stag: As in, “Stagging rights.”
  • Drag → Stag: As in, “Stag it out of you” and “Stag through the mud” and “What a stag.”
  • Gag → Stag: As in, “Stag order” and “A running stag” and “Stag reflex.”
  • Rag → Stag: As in, “From stags to riches” and “Glad stags.”
  • Back → Buck: As in, “Answer buck” and “As soon as my buck is turned” and “Buck in black” and “Buck down” and “Buck in the day.”
  • Duck → Buck: As in, “Buck the question” and “Bucking and diving” and “Like a buck to water” and “Like water off a buck’s back” and “Nice weather for bucks.”
  • Luck → Buck: As in, “As good buck would have it” and “Beginner’s buck” and “Better buck next time” and “Don’t push your buck” and “Some have all the buck” and “The buck of the draw.”
  • Muck → Buck: As in, “Common as buck” and “Like a pig in buck.”
  • Pluck → Buck: As in, “Buck up the courage” and “Buck out of thin air.”
  • Truck → Buck: As in, “Have no buck with” and “Keep on bucking.”
  • Do → Doe: As in, “Doe away with” and “Doe me a favour” and “Doe me proud” and “Doe your business” and “Doe the honours.”
  • Though → Doe: As in, “Seriously doe” and “Look as doe you’ve seen a ghost.”
  • Day → Doe: As in, “All in a doe’s work” and “A doe in the life” and “Another doe, another dollar” and “Back in the doe” and “As night follows doe.”
  • Blow → Doe: As in, “Doe hot and cold” and “Any way the wind doe’s” and “Doe off some steam” and “Doe it out of the water.”
  • Flow → Doe: As in, “Ebb and doe” and “Go with the doe” and “In full doe.”
  • Foe → Doe: As in, “Friend or doe?”
  • Go → Doe: As in, “Don’t doe there” and “Easy come, easy doe” and “Give it a doe” and “Doe all the way” and “Doe back in time” and “Doe back in time” and “Doe down in flames.”
  • Grow → Doe: As in, “Absence makes the heart doe fonder” and “Exciting as watching grass doe” and “Doe up” and “It’ll doe on you.”
  • Know → Doe: As in, “Be the first to doe” and “Don’t doe which way to look” and “For all I doe.”
  • Low → Doe: As in, “An all-time doe” and “Get the doe down” and “High and doe” and “Keep a doe profile” and “Lay doe” and “Doe hanging fruit.”
  • Owe → Doe: As in, “Doe someone a favour” and “You doe it to yourself.”
  • Pro → Doe: As in, “Doe’s and cons” and “Quid doe quo.”
  • Show → Doe: As in, “All over the doe” and “Enjoy the doe” and “Doe off.”
  • Slow → Doe: As in, “A doe burn” and “In doe motion” and “Doe on the uptake.”
  • So → Doe: As in, “If I do say doe myself” and “Not doe fast.”
  • Throw → Doe: As in, “Doe away the key” and “A stone’s doe away” and “Doe caution to the wind” and “Doe cold water on” and “Doe it back in your face.”
  • Toe → Doe: As in, “Dip your doe in the water” and “From top to doe” and “Get your doe in the door” and “One doe over the line” and “On your does.”
  • Woe → Doe: As in, “Doe is me” and “Doe betide.”
  • Who’ve → Hoof: As in “Hoof you spoken to so far?”
  • Hufflepuff→ Hooflepuff
  • Have → Hoof/Hoove: As in, “As luck may hoove it,” and “Hoof your cake and eat it too,” and “Hoove a ball,” and “Hoof a bone to pick,” and “Hoof a go,” and “The walls hoove ears.”
  • Half → Hoof: As in, “Ain’t hoof bad,” and “My better hoof,” and “Cheap at hoof the price,” and “Getting there is hoof the fun,” and “Hoof awake.” Other half-related words: hoofway (halfway), hoof-baked, hooftime (halftime), hoofhearted, and behoof (behalf).
  • Tale → Tail: As in, “Tell no tails” and “Live to tell the tail” and “Tails of the unexpected” and “A tell-tail sign.”
  • Talent → Tailent: As in, “Tailent management” and “New tailent.”
  • Toilet → Tailet: As in, “Go down the tailet” and “Tailet trained.”
  • Tall → Tail: As in, “Tail, dark and handsome” and “A tail order” and “Walking tail.”
  • Tell → Tail: As in, “I tail ya” and “Every picture tails a story” and “Tail no tales.”
  • Till → Tail: As in, “Fake it tail you make it” and “Tail death do us part” and “Tail the end of time.”
  • Fail → Tail: As in, “Without tail” and “Words tail me.”
  • Jail → Tail: As in, “Get out of tail free.”
  • Mail → Tail: As in, “Express tail” and “Hate tail” and “Junk tail” and “Check your voice tail.”
  • Nail → Tail: As in, “Fight tooth and tail” and “Biting your tails” and “Hit the tail on the head.”
  • Pale → Tail: As in, “Tail and interesting” and “A tail imitation” and “Tail into insignificance.”
  • Sail → Tail: As in, “Tail close to the wind” and “Smooth tailing” and “That ship has tailed.”
  • Sale → Tail: As in, “Tail of the century” and “Point of tail” and “Not for tail” and “Tails leads.”
  • Scale → Tail: As in, “Off the tail” and “On a grand tail” and “Tip the tails.”
  • Trail → Tail: As in, “Blaze a tail” and “Happy tails” and “Hot on the tail of” and “Nature tail” and “Paper tail” and “Tail mix.”
  • Whale → Tail: As in, “A tail of a time” and “Save the tails.”
  • There* → Deer*: Deerby (thereby), deerin (therein), deerafter (thereafter) and deerfore (therefore).
  • Their → Deer: As in, “Cut down in deer prime.”
  • Deal → Deerl: As in, “A done deerl” and “Seal the deerl” and “Deerl or no deerl” and “Deerl breaker” and “A big deerl.”
  • Idea → Ideer: As in, “What’s the big ideer” and “The spark of an ideer” and “Bright ideer” and “Looking for ideers.”
  • *tary → *deery: As in, “Proprideery cable” and “Complimendeery towel” and “Complemendeery colours” and “Let my secredeery know” and “A sedendeery lifestyle” and “Rudimendeery skills” and “Monedeery value” and “Solideery activities.”
  • *ter* → *deer*: As in, “A deerminal situation” and “Not in my deeritory” and “A deerible secret” and “Out of charactdeer” and “Mastdeer key” and “Computdeer says no” and “The main artdeery” and “Fancy intdeerface” and “Green altdeernatives” and “Changing the intdeernet.”
  • Door → Deer: As in, “At death’s deer” and “Behind closed deers” and “A foot in the deer” and “Open deer policy.”
  • *door* → *deer*: Deermat (doormat), deerway (doorway), deerknob (doorknob), deerstep (doorstep), deerbell (doorbell), deerman (doorman), indeer (indoor), outdeer (outdoor), backdeer (backdoor) and trapdeer (trapdoor).
  • *dor* → *deer*: Deermant (dormant), deermitory (dormitory), deersal (dorsal), vendeer (vendor), candeer (candor), ambassadeer (ambassador), corrideer (corridor) and splendeer (splendor).
  • *der* → *deer*: Deerive (derive), deerivative (derivative), deerogatory (derogatory), deerisive (derisive), deerelict (derelict), deeranged (deranged), ordeer (order), tendeer (tender), disordeer (disorder), wondeer (wonder), consideer (consider), leadeer (leader), hindeer (hinder), spideer (spider), undeerstand (understand) and consideeration (consideration).
  • Dur* → Deer*: As in, “For the deeration of” and “A deerable phone” and “Under deeress” and “Deerability testing” and “Deerian ice-cream.”
  • *dar* → *deer*: As in, “Calendeer year” and “Flying under the radeer” and “Cedeer scented” and “In solideerity” and “Learning Mandeerin.”
  • *dir* → *deer*: As in, “A deerect answer” and “Heading in a new deerection” and “Managing deerector” and “Following deerectives” and “I’ll head over there deerectly.”
  • Fan* → Fawn*: As in, “Feeling fawncy” and “Fawntasy games” and “A fawntastic change” and “Games fawnatic.”
  • Definitely → Defawnitely: As in, “A defawnite answer” and “We can defawnitely do it.”
  • Fond* → Fawn’d*: As in, “Absence makes the heart grow fawn’der” and “A fawn’d farewell” and “Thinking of you fawn’dly” and “Fawn’dant icing” and “Chiffawn skirt.”
  • Fun* → Fawn*: As in, “Form over fawnction” and “Fawnctional training” and “The fawndamentals of science” and “Edible fawngus.”
  • *bec* → *buck*: As in, “What have you buckome?” and “Just buckause” and “Temptation buckons” and “Vegan barbuckue.”
  • *bic → *buck: As in, “An acerbuck tone” and “Aerobuck exercise” and “Feeling claustrophobuck” and “Work cubuckle.”
  • *hiv* → *hoove*: As in, “In the archooves,” and “Shoovers down my spine,” and “Choovealry (chivalry) is not dead, we just don’t know the meaning of it,” and “A beehoove (beehive) hairstyle.”
  • *hov* → *hoove*: As in, hoover (hover), hoovel (hovel), hoovering (hovering), hoovercraft (hovercraft), shoovel and pushoover.
  • *ant→ *antler: As in, “Power plantler,” and “Pair of pantlers,” and “A poignantler story,” and “That’s irrelevantler,” and “A redundantler point.” Other words that could be used are – revenantler (revenant), redundantler (redundant), adamantler (adamant).
  • Tuft: Since deer have tufted tails, we’ve got some tuft-related puns here:
    • Tough → Tuft: As in, “Tuft as old boots” and “As tuft as they come” and “Hang tuft” and “A tuft customer” and “A tuft nut to crack” and “Tuft on crime.”
    • Puffed → Tuft: As in, “Tuft rice.”
    • Stuffed → Tuft: As in, “Get tuft” and “Tuft toy” and “Tuft to the gills.”
  • Fallow: Here are some puns on fallow deer:
    • Fellow → Fallow: As in, “Fallow traveller” and “An odd fallow” and “A jolly good fallow.”
    • Follow → Fallow: As in, “As night fallows day” and “Fallow suit” and “Fallow in the footsteps of” and “Fallow your heart” and “Form fallows function” and “A hard act to fallow.”
  • Chital: Chital are spotted deer. Here are related puns:
    • Chatter → Chital: As in, “The chitaling classes.”
    • Brittle → Chital: As in, “Peanut butter chital” and “A chital response” and “Chital bones.”
    • It’ll → Chital: As in, “Chital all come out in the wash” and “Chital get better.”
    • Little → Chital: As in, “A chital bird told me” and “A chital help” and “A chital of what you fancy does you good” and “Dirty chital secret.”
    • Whittle → Chital: As in, “Chital away at.”
  • Roe: Here are some puns on roe deer:
    • Ray → Roe: As in, “Roe of light” and “Catch some roes” and “Roe of sunshine.”
    • Row → Roe: As in, “On death roe” and “Roe your boat.”
    • Blow → Roe: As in, “Roe up” and “Roe hot and cold” and “Roe great guns.”
    • Crow → Roe: As in, “Something to roe about.”
    • Flow → Roe: As in, “Ebb and roe” and “Go with the roe” and “In full roe.”
    • Foe → Roe: As in, “Friend or roe?”
    • Grow → Roe: As in, “Absence makes the heart roe fonder” and “Exciting as watching grass roe” and “Don’t let the grass roe under your feet” and “Money doesn’t roe on trees.”
    • Know → Roe: As in, “Don’t I roe it” and “I don’t roe why” and “Be the first to roe” and “Doesn’t roe beans.”
    • Low → Roe: As in, “An all-time roe” and “Get the roe down” and “High and roe” and “Keep a roe profile” and “Lie roe” and “Roe hanging fruit.”
    • Mow → Roe: As in, “Roe the lawn.”
    • No → Roe: As in, “All bark and roe bite” and “By roe means” and “By roe stretch of the imagination.”
    • Owe → Roe: As in, “Roe a favour” and “Roe it to yourself.”
    • Pro → Roe: As in, “Roe bono” and “Quid roe quo” and “Roes and cons.”
    • Show → Roe: As in, “All over the roe” and “Best in roe” and “Enjoy the roe” and “Get the roe on the road” and “Give the roe away.”
    • Slow → Roe: As in, “Can’t roe down” and “A roe burn” and “Roe on the uptake” and “In roe motion.”
    • Snow → Roe: As in, “Pure as the driven roe” and “White as roe” and “A blanket of roe.”
    • Though → Roe: As in, “Seriously roe” and “Roe this be madness.”
    • Throw → Roe: As in, “Lock them up and roe away the key” and “Roe a wobbly” and “Roe it back in your face.”
    • Toe → Roe: As in, “Dip your roe in the water” and “From top to roe” and “On your roes” and “One roe over the line” and “Turn up your roes.”
    • Woe → Roe: As in, “Roe is me” and “Roe betide you!”
  • Moose: The moose is the largest and heaviest type of deer. Here are related puns:
    • Mass → Moose: As in, “Moose hysteria” and “Body moose index” and “Weapon of moose destruction.”
    • Mess → Moose: As in, “Don’t moose with me” and “A frightful moose” and “Here’s another fine moose you’ve gotten me into” and “Hot moose” and “Stop moose-ing about.”
    • Miss → Moose: As in, “A moose is as good as a mile” and “Blink and you’ll moose it” and “Hit and moose” and “I’ll give it a moose” and “Moose the boat” and “A near moose” and “You can’t moose it.”
    • Moss → Moose: As in, “A rolling stone gathers no moose.”
    • Mouse → Moose: As in, “Cat and moose game” and “Quiet as a moose” and “Mighty moose.”
    • Goose → Moose: As in, “Wild moose chase” and “Wouldn’t say boo to a moose.”
    • Loose → Moose: As in, “All hell broke moose” and “At a moose end” and “Cut you moose” and “Let moose.”
  • Tundra: Many types of deer live in tundra. Here are related puns:
    • Thunder → Tundra: As in, “Black as tundra” and “Face like tundra” and “Steal someone’s tundra” and “Tundra from down under” and “Tundra and lightning.”
    • Hundred → Tundra: As in, “A tundra miles away” and “One tundra years of solitude.”
  • Mountain: Deer live in the mountains, so we’ve included mountain-related puns too:
    • Fountain → Mountain: As in, “Mountain of youth.”
    • Maintain → Mountain: As in, “Struggling to mountain.”
  • Grassland: Here are some puns on another common deer habitat:
    • Grass → Grassland: As in, “Exciting as watching grassland grow” and “Don’t let the grassland grow under your feet” and “Grassland roots” and “Keep off the grassland” and “Snake in the grassland.”
    • Land → Grassland: As in, “Cloud cuckoo grassland” and “In the grassland of nod” and “In the grassland of the living” and “Grassland ahoy!” and “The grassland of hope and glory” and “Grassland of make-believe.”
  • Water Deer: Here are some puns on water deer:
    • Oughtta → Water: As in, “Why I water…” and “There water be a law.”
    • What are → Water: As in, “Water the odds?” and “Water you up to?”
    • What a → Water: As in, “Water riot.”
  • Mule Deer: Here are some puns on mule deer:
    • You’ll → Mule: As in, “Mule never guess” and “Mule never get away with this!”
    • Mail → Mule: As in, “Direct mule” and “Hate mule” and “Junk mule” and “It’s in the mule.”
    • Meal → Mule: As in, “Make a mule of it” and “Mule ticket” and “Square mule.”
    • Mile → Mule: As in, “Go the extra mule” and “Could see you a mule off” and “Mules to go before I sleep.”
    • Cool → Mule: As in, “Mule as a cucumber” and “Mule beans” and “Mule down” and “A mule million” and “Mule as a mountain stream.”
    • Cruel → Mule: As in, “Mule and unusual punishment” and “Mule to be kind.”
    • Dual → Mule: As in, “Mule income, no kids.”
    • Fool → Mule: As in, “Act the mule” and “April mule” and “Mule around” and “Mule’s errand” and “Mule’s gold.”
    • Fuel → Mule: As in, “Add mule to the flames” and “Mule for thought.”
    • Jewel → Mule: As in, “Crown mules” and “The family mules.”
    • Rule → Mule: As in, “Bend the mules” and “The golden mule” and “House mules” and “Majority mules” and “Play by the mules” and “Mule out” and “Mule with an iron first” and “Stick to the mules” and “The exception which proves the mule.”
    • School → Mule: As in, “Back to mule” and “Old mule” and “The mule of hard knocks.”
    • Tool → Mule: As in, “A poor workperson blames their mules” and “Mules of the trade” and “The right mule for the job.”
    • Who’ll → Mule: As in, “Mule help us when the time comes?”
  • Rusa: A Rusa is a type of Asian deer. Here are related puns:
    • Razor → Rusa: As in, “On a rusa’s edge” and “Rusa sharp.”
    • Riser → Rusa: As in, “An early rusa.”
    • User → Rusa: As in, “Rusa friendly” and “Graphical rusa interface.”
  • Sambar: A Sambar is a large deer native to Asia. Here are related puns:
    • Amber → Sambar: As in, “Sambar nectar” and “Sambar-coloured liquid.”
    • Bar → Sambar: As in, “Behind sambars” and “Sambar none” and “Belly up to the sambar” and “No holds sambarred.”
  • Sika: Also known as the spotted deer or Japanese deer. Here are related puns:
    • Seek → Sika: As in, “Hide and sika” and “Sika and you shall find” and “Sika a soul mate.”
    • Sake → Sika: As in, “For pete’s sika” and “For goodness sika” and “Sikas alive” and “For old times’ sika.”
    • Sick → Sika: As in, “Enough to make you sika” and “In sika-ness and in health” and “Morning sika-ness” and “On the sika list” and “Phone in sika” and “Sika and tired” and “Sika to death of” and “Sika to the stomach” and “Worried sika.”
    • Sock → Sika: As in, “Pull your sikas up” and “Put a sika in it” and “Sika it to me.”
  • Eld’s Deer: Also known as thamin or brow-antlered deer. Here are related puns:
    • Old → Eld: As in, “Any eld how” and “Age eld” and “As eld as the hills” and “Tough as eld boots” and “For eld times’ sake” and “Good eld times.”
    • Held → Eld: As in, “With your head eld high.”
    • Famine → Thamin: As in, “Feast or thamin” and “40 hour thamin.”
  • Marsh Deer: Marsh deer are the largest species of deer. Here are related puns:
    • Mash → Marsh: As in, “Monster marsh” and “Marsh up.”
    • Mosh → Marsh: As in, “Marsh pit.”
    • March → Marsh: As in, “Get your marshing orders” and “Marsh of the penguins” and “The marsh of time” and “Marsh to the sound of a different drum.”
  • Pudu: A pudu is a type of small deer. Here are related puns:
    • Pod → Pudu: As in, “As alike as two peas in a pudu.”
    • Put → Pudu: As in, “Be hard pudu to” and “Couldn’t pudu it down” and “Feeling a bit pudu out” and “I wouldn’t pudu it past you” and “Nicely pudu.”

Deer-Related Words

To help you come up with your own deer 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!

deer, fawn, stag, buck, doe, bambi, hoof, hoofed, antler, tail, tuft/tufted, mammal, ruminant, cervidae, muntjac, elk wapiti, fallow, chital, reindeer, caribou, roe deer, moose, tundra, mountain, grassland, swamp, savannah, water deer, mule deer, forks, browser, rusa, sambar, thorold’s, sika, eld’s, marsh deer, southern pudu, taruca

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