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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!

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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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