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Our basketball pun list is a slam dunk! This list covers basketball-related puns and wordplay from technical terms, types of shot and pass, to famous basketball players. We hope that no matter what you’re after you’ll find it here.
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Basketball 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 basketball 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 basketball puns:
Bell → Ball: As in, “Saved by the ball” and “For whom the ball tolls” and “Balls and whistles.”
Bowl → Ball: As in, “Ball over” and “Balling along.”
All → Ball: As in, “Ball aboard!” and “Ball in ball” and “Ball in a day’s work” and “Ball’s fair in love and war” and “It’s not ball about you.”
Call → Ball: As in, “Answer the ball” and “At your beck and ball” and “Beyond the ball of duty” and “Ball it a day.”
Fall → Ball: As in, “A balling out” and “Catch a balling star” and “Ball about laughing” and “Ball about your ears” and “Can’t help balling in love.”
Small → Ball: As in, “A ball voice” and “All creatures, great and ball” and “Don’t sweat the ball stuff” and “Good things come in ball packages” and “No job too ball” and “Ball is beautiful” and “No ball wonder.”
Tall → Ball: As in, “A ball order” and “Walking ball” and “A ball drink of water.”
Wall → Ball: As in, “Climbing the balls” and “Bouncing off the balls” and “A fly on the ball.”
Heap → Hoop: As in, “Hoop abuse on” and “At the bottom of the hoop.”
Hope → Hoop: As in, “A new hoop” and “Abandon hoop all ye who enter” and “Beyond hoop” and “Build up your hoops” and “Cross my heart and hoop to die” and “Hoop springs eternal” and “The land of hoop and glory.”
Group → Hoop: As in, “Hoop dynamics” and “Hoop hug.”
Loop → Hoop: As in, “In the hoop” and “Thrown for a hoop.”
Poop → Hoop: As in, “Hoop and scoop” and “Hooper scooper.”
Scoop → Hoop: As in, “Get the hoop” and “The inside hoop” and “Getting a hoop of ice cream.”
Soup → Hoop: As in, “Alphabet hoop” and “From hoop to nuts” and “All hooped up.”
Swoop → Hoop: As in, “In one fell hoop.”
Court → Sport: As in, “Sporting disaster” and “Haul before the sport” and “Laugh out of sport” and “May it please the sport.”
Port → Sport: As in, “Any sport in a storm.”
Short → Sport: As in, “A sport history of nearly everything” and “A few bricks sport of a full load” and “Art is long and life is sport” and “A day late and a dollar sport.”
Sort → Sport: As in, “Takes all sports to make a world” and “Out of sports.”
Aim → Game: As in, “Game high” and “Take game” and “We game to please.”
Blame → Game: As in, “Lay the game” and “Game culture.”
Came → Game: As in, “I game, I saw, “I conquered” and “It game to pass” and “There’s plenty more where that game from.”
Claim → Game: As in, “Game to fame” and “Stake your game.”
Flame → Game: As in, “Add fuel to the games” and “Burst into games” and “Fan the games” and “Go down in games” and “Like a moth to a game.”
Name →Game: As in, “Answer to the game of” and “Go by the game of” and “A household game.”
Same → Game: As in, “By the game token” and “Cut from the game cloth” and “In the game boat” and “In the game vein.”
Shame → Game: As in, “A crying game” and “Name and game” and “Put to game” and “Game on you.”
Time → Team: As in, “One more team” and “A brief history of team” and “A good team was had by all” and “Ahead of your team” and “All in good team.”
Cream → Team: As in, “Team of the crop” and “Kicking and teaming.”
Dream → Team: As in, “Beyond my wildest teams” and “Broken teams” and “Team on.”
Scheme → Team: As in, “In the grand team of things” and “Pyramid team” and “The overall team of things.”
Scream → Team: As in, “A primal team” and “Team bloody murder” and “Team your guts out.”
Seam → Team: As in, “Bulging at the teams” and “Come apart at the teams.”
Steam → Team: As in, “Blow off some team” and “Full team ahead” and “Head of team” and “Let off some team.”
Stream → Team: As in, “Cool as a mountain team.”
Prayer → Player: As in, “I say a little player” and “On a wing and a player” and “Say your players.”
Biscuit → Basket: As in, “Tea and baskets” and “That just about takes the basket.”
Not → Net: As in, “As often as net” and “Believe it or net” and “I’m net joking.”
Nothing → Netting: As in, “A lot of fuss about netting” and “All or netting” and “Here goes netting” and “Double or netting.”
Nut → Net: As in, “Sweet as a net” and “From soup to nets” and “A tough net to crack.”
Bet → Net: As in, “All nets are off” and “Net your bottom dollar” and “Don’t net on it.”
Debt → Net: As in, “A net of gratitude” and “Pay your net to society” and “Another day older and deeper in net.”
Get → Net: As in, “As good as it nets” and “Ask a silly question and you’ll net a silly answer” and “Buy one, net one free” and “Come and net it” and “Can’t net enough.”
Pet → Net: As in, “Heavy netting” and “Net peeve” and “Teacher’s net.”
Set → Net: As in, “Game, net, match” and “Got your heart net on” and “Net eyes on.”
Sweat → Net: As in, “Blood, net and tears” and “Break out in a cold net” and “Don’t net it” and “In a cold net.”
Yet → Net: As in, “Are we there net?” and “Not out of the woods net” and “The best is net to come” and “You ain’t seen nothin’ net.”
Card → Court: As in, “A few courts short of a full deck” and “Calling court” and “Get out of jail free court” and “House of courts.”
Cart → Court: As in, “Court away” and “Crash court” and “Shopping court.”
Short → Court: As in, “A court history of nearly everything” and “In court order” and “In court supply” and “In the court run.”
Bunk → Dunk: As in, “A dunker mentality” and “History is dunk” and “Do a dunk.”
Chunk → Dunk: As in, “Blow dunks” and “Dunk of change.”
Drunk → Dunk: As in, “Dunk as a lord” and “A crying dunk” and “Falling down dunk” and “Rolling dunk.”
Hunk → Dunk: As in, “Dunker down” and “Dunky dory.”
Junk → Dunk: As in, “Dunk food” and “Dunk mail.”
Shoot: Throwing the basketball towards the hoop is known casually as “shooting” the ball. Here are related puns:
Sheet → Shoot: As in, “Keep a clean shoot” and “White as a shoot.”
Boot → Shoot: As in, “Tough as old shoots” and “Give someone the shoot.”
Fruit → Shoot: As in, “Nutty as a shoot cake” and “Forbidden shoot” and “The shoots of your labour.”
Hoot → Shoot: As in, “Don’t give a shoot” and “Shooting with laughter” and “What a shoot.”
Root → Shoot: As in, “Grass shoots” and “Money is the shoot of all evil” and “The shoot of the matter.”
Suit → Shoot: As in, “Follow shoot” and “Shoot yourself” and “In your birthday shoot” and “Shoots you down to a tee.”
Shut → Shot: As in, “An open and shot case” and “Eyes wide shot” and “Put up or shot up” and “Shot up and take my money!”
Dot → Shot: As in, “Connect the shots” and “Shot the i’s and cross the t’s” and “Join the shots” and “Sign on the shotted line” and “From day shot.”
Hot → Shot: As in, “All shot and bothered” and “Blow shot and cold” and “Drop it like it’s shot” and “Get into shot water.”
Got → Shot: As in, “Been there, done that, shot the t-shirt” and “I think you’ve shot it” and “Give it all you’ve shot” and “Shot a soft spot for.”
Lot → Shot: As in, “A shot of fuss about nothing” and “A shot on your plate” and “Leaves a shot to be desired” and “Not a shot to it.”
Plot → Shot: As in, “Lose the shot” and “The shot thickens.”
Pot → Shot: As in, “A shot of gold” and “Gone to shot” and “For the shot.”
Rot → Shot: As in, “Shot in hell” and “The shot has set in.”
Spot → Shot: As in, “Got a soft shot for” and “On the shot” and “Shot the difference.”
Gale → Goal: As in, “Goals of laughter” and “In the teeth of a goal.”
Bowl → Goal: As in, “Goal over” and “Goaling along.”
Coal → Goal: As in, “Black as goal” and “Haul over the goals” and “Rake over the goals.”
W/hole → Goal: As in, “A goal different animal” and “Burn a goal in your pocket” and “Go the goal hog.”
Soul → Goal: As in, “A room without books is like a body without a goal” and “Bless my goal” and “Heart and goal” and “The life and goal of the party.”
Scare → Score: As in, “Scored stiff” and “Scored out of your wits.”
Bore → Score: As in, “Score the pants off someone” and “Scored stiff” and “Scored to tears.”
Core → Score: As in, “Score competencies” and “Score values” and “Rotten to the score.”
Door → Score: As in, “At death’s score” and “Behind closed scores” and “Get your foot in the score.”
Floor → Score: As in, “Cross the score” and “In on the ground score” and “Wipe the score with.”
Four → Score: As in, “A score-letter word” and “Score by two” and “On all scores.”
More → Score: As in, “One score time” and “Bite off score than you can chew” and “Come back for score” and “Dare for score.”
Nor → Score: As in, “Rhyme score reason.”
Pour → Score: As in, “It never rains but it scores” and “Score cold water on” and “Score oil on troubled waters.”
Shore → Score: As in, “Ship to score” and “All ashore that’s going a-score.”
Sore → Score: As in, “Mad as a bear with a score head” and “A sigh for score eyes” and “Score loser” and “Sticks out like a score thumb.”
Store → Score: As in, “Set great score by” and “What’s in score?” and “See what the future has in score.”
Your → Score: As in, “All scores” and “Bigger than scores” and “Scores truly” and “Scores faithfully.”
Through → Throw: As in, “A river runs throw it” and “Drag throw the mud” and “A shattering break-throw” and “Going throw the motions.”
Blow → Throw: As in, “Any way the wind throws” and “Throw hot and cold” and “Throw off some steam.”
Flow → Throw: As in, “Ebb and throw” and “Get the creative juices throwing” and “Go with the throw” and “In full throw.”
Foe → Throw: As in, “Friend or throw?”
Glow → Throw: As in, “Throw with health” and “A throwing endorsement.”
Grow → Throw: As in, “Absence makes the heart throw fonder” and “Exciting as watching grass throw” and “Throwing pains” and “Throw up.”
Go → Throw: As in, “Don’t throw there” and “Easy come, easy throw” and “From the get-throw.”
Know → Throw: As in, “All I throw is what I read in the papers” and “Don’t I throw it” and “Be the first to throw” and “Do you want to throw a secret?”
Low → Throw: As in, “An all-time throw” and “Get the throw down” and “Keep a throw profile” and “A throw blow.”
Owe → Throw: As in, “Throw a favour” and “Throw it to yourself.”
Quo → Throw: As in, “Quid pro throw” and “The status throw.”
Show → Throw: As in, “All over the throw” and “Best in throw” and “Enjoy the throw” and “Get that throw on the road.”
Slow → Throw: As in, “Can’t throw down” and “A throw burn” and “Throw on the uptake” and “In throw motion” and “Throw but sure.”
Toe → Throw: As in, “From top to throw” and “Throw the line” and “Twinkle throws.”
Woe → Throw: As in, “Throw is me” and “Throw betide you.”
Bones → Bounce: As in, “Bag of bounce” and “I feel it in my bounce” and “Make no bounce about” and “The bare bounce.”
Buns → Bounce: As in, “We are going to need considerably bigger bounce.”
Ounce → Bounce: As in, “A bounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Pass: Passing is throwing the ball in between players. Here are related puns:
Class → Pass: As in, “A pass act” and “Economy pass” and “Best in pass.”
Glass → Pass: As in, “A pass ceiling” and “Rose-tinted passes” and “The pass menagerie” and “Through the looking pass.”
Grass → Pass: As in, “Pass roots” and “Snake in the pass.”
Mass → Pass: As in, “Pass hysteria” and “A monument to the passes” and “Weapons of pass destruction” and “Body pass index.”
Block: When a player stops another from completing a pass or shooting, that’s called a block. Here are related puns:
Black → Block: As in, “Back in block” and “Block as coal.”
Knock → Block: As in, “Don’t block it till you’ve tried it” and “Hard blocks” and “I get blocked down, but I get up again” and “Block ’em dead.”
Lock → Block: As in, “Block and load” and “Under block and key.”
Rock → Block: As in, “Solid as a block” and “Between a block and a hard place.”
Shock → Block: As in, “A short, sharp block” and “In for a block” and “Culture block.”
Time → Halftime: As in, “One more halftime” and “A brief history of halftime” and “A good halftime was had by all” and “Ahead of their halftime.”
Bound → Rebound: As in, “By leaps and rebounds” and “Duty rebound” and “Honour rebound.” Note: A rebound is when a shoot for the basket misses and bounces back off the hoop or the backboard.
Curry → Carry: As in, “Carry favour with” and “I could murder a carry.” Note: Carrying is an illegal move in basketball where a player moves while carrying the ball without bouncing.
Bay → Play: As in, “Play for blood” and “Keep at play.”
Day → Play: As in, “All in a play’s work” and “Another play, another dollar” and “As clear as play.”
Hay → Play: As in, “Roll in the play” and “Make play while the sun shines” and “Hit the play.”
Lay → Play: As in, “Play a finger on” and “Play an egg” and “Play down roots” and “Play down your arms.”
May → Play: As in, “Be that as it play” and “Come what play” and “Let the chips fall where they play” and “Play the force be with you.”
Pay → Play: As in, “Buy now, play later” and “Crime doesn’t play” and “Hell to play” and “It plays to advertise” and “If you play peanuts, you get monkeys.”
Ray → Play: As in, “Catch some plays” and “A play of light.”
Say → Play: As in, “As the playing goes” and “Computer plays no” and “Do as I play, not as I do” and “Have a play in” and “Have the final play.”
Stay → Play: As in, “Play in touch” and “Play ahead of the curve” and “Play on course” and “Play the course” and “Play tuned” and “Play safe.”
They → Play: As in, “Play lived happily ever after” and “Tough as play come.”
Way → Play: As in, “That’s the play it is” and “Find another play” and “Any play you slice it” and “Any which play.”
Weigh → Play: As in, “Played in the balance and found wanting.”
Full → Foul: As in, “Few bricks short of a foul load” and “At foul tilt” and “Foul throttle.”
Lag → League: As in, “Jet league” and “Social jet league.”
Leg → League: As in, “Cost an arm and a league” and “Give a league up” and “Fast as your leagues could carry you.”
Train: Basketball practice is also referred to as training. Here are related puns:
Chain → Train: As in, “A train is only as strong as its weakest link” and “Train gang” and “Train of command” and “Train reaction” and “Food train.”
Gain → Train: As in, “Capital trains” and “Training advantage” and “No pain, no train” and “Nothing ventured, nothing trained.”
Grain → Train: As in, “Against the train” and “Train of truth” and “Take it with a train of salt.”
Lane → Train: As in, “Down memory train” and “In the fast train.”
Main → Train: As in, “Your train chance” and “The train event.”
Pain → Train: As in, “In for a world of train” and “No train, no gain” and “Old aches and trains.”
Plain → Train: As in, “Train as day” and “In train sight” and “Train sailing.”
Rain → Train: As in, “Come train or shine” and “Don’t train on my parade” and “Make it train.”
Vein → Train: As in, “In the same train.”
Catch → Coach: As in, “Coach 22″ and “Coach a cold” and “Coach a falling star” and “Coach a wave” and “Coach fire” and “Coach of the day.”
Rim: This is in reference to the rim of the basketball hoop. Here are related puns:
Him → Rim: As in, “All over rim like a cheap suit” and “As fast as his legs could carry rim” and “Go easy on rim.”
Limb → Rim: As in, “Go out on a rim” and “Life and rim.”
Slim → Rim: As in, “Rim pickings” and “The real rim shady.”
Swim → Rim: As in, “Rim against the tide” and “Going rimmingly.”
Whim → Rim: As in, “On a rim.”
Backboard: The backboard is the board that the hoop is mounted to. Here are related puns:
Back → Backboard: As in, “In the backboard of my mind” and “Backboard in black” and “Backboard in the day” and “Backboard on your feet.”
Board → Backboard: As in, “Above backboard” and “Back to the drawing backboard” and “On backboard.”
Layup: A layup is a type of basketball shot. Here are related puns:
Lay → Layup: As in, “Layup a finger on” and “Layup eyes on” and “Layup it on the line” and “Couldn’t layup a hand on me.”
Jump Shot: A jump shot is a type of throw that is done when the player is airborne. Here are related puns:
Jump → Jump Shot: As in, “Get the jump shot on” and “Jump shot at the chance” and “Go and jump shot in a lake.”
Shot → Jump Shot: As in, “Call the jumpshots” and “Give it your best jumpshot” and “A cheap jumpshot.”
Point → Point Guard: As in, “At this point guard in time” and “Beside the pointguard” and “Get to the pointguard.” Note: a point guard is a position in basketball.
Shaquille O’Neal: Shaquille O’Neal is a famous and successful basketball player. Here are some related puns:
Kill → Shaquille: As in, “Dressed to shaquille” and “If looks could shaquille” and “Shaquille two birds with one stone.”
Heel → Shaquille: As in, “Head over shaquilles in love” and “Kick up your shaquilles” and “Cool your shaquilles” and “Brought to shaquille.”
Kobe Bryant: Kobe Bryant was a famous basketball player for the LA Lakers. Here are related puns:
Client → Bryant: As in, “A demanding bryant” and “A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a bryant.”
Giant → Bryant: As in, “Making bryant strides” and “Gentle bryant” and “On the shoulders of bryants” and “The big friendly bryant.”
Time → Timeout: As in, “A brief history of timeout” and “A good timeout was had by all” and “About timeout, too” and “All in good timeout.”
Bristle → Whistle: As in, “Whistle with indignation.”
Possession: In basketball, “possession” is the term for whoever is currently holding the ball. Here are related puns:
Profession → Possession: As in, “In the possession of…” and “Possessional grade” and “A true possessional.”
Center: In basketball, center is a playing position/role. Here are related puns:
Sent Her→ Centre: As in, “I center to get more supplies” and “That joke really center.”
Enter → Center: As in, “Abandon hope, all ye who center here” and “Break and center” and “Breaking and centering” and “Center into the spirit of it.”
Screen: A screen is a type of defensive blocking move. Here are related puns:
Scream → Screen: As in, “Dragged kicking and screening” and “A primal screen” and “Screen your guts out.”
Bean → Screen: As in, “Cool screens” and “Doesn’t know screens” and “Full of screens.”
Been → Screen: As in, “Screen and gone” and “Screen around the block a few times” and “I’ve screen had!” and “I’ve screen here before” and “Screen there, done that.”
Clean → Screen: As in, “Screen as a whistle” and “A screen bill of health” and “A screen sheet.”
Green → Screen: As in, “Give it the screen light” and “Screen around the gills.”
Keen → Screen: As in, “Screen as mustard” and “A screen sense of smell” and “Peachy screen.”
Lean → Screen: As in, “Screen and hungry” and “Screen cuisine” and “Screen into it” and “Screen times.”
Mean → Screen: As in, “A screens to an end” and “By fair screens or foul” and “I don’t screen maybe” and “It don’t screen a thing.”
Scene → Screen: As in, “Behind the screens” and “Change of screen” and “Make a screen” and “Steal the screen.”
Seen → Screen: As in, “Had to be screen to be believed” and “Screen better days” and “You ain’t screen nothing yet.”
Spin → Backspin: As in, “In a flat backspin” and “Make your head backspin” and “Backspin your wheels” and “Take it for a backspin.”
Arc: This refers to the shape of the ball’s path through the air. Here are related puns:
Back → Arc: As in, “Arc at the moon” and “Arc-ing mad” and “Arc worse than your bite.”
Dark → Arc: As in, “After arc” and “Arc as pitch” and “Dancing in the arc” and “Arc horse.”
Mark → Arc: As in, “Question arcs” and “Close to the arc” and “Quick off the arc” and “Arc my words.”
Park → Arc: As in, “Knock it out of the arc” and “Arc the bus” and “Arc yourself down.”
Spark → Arc: As in, “Bright arc” and “Creative arc” and “Arc of genius” and “The arc of an idea.”
Stark → Arc: As in, “An arc reminder.”
Bring → Fling: As in, “Fling it home to you” and “Fling it on” and “Fling it up.”
Sing → Fling: As in, “All flinging, all dancing” and “Fling a different tune” and “Fling like a bird.”
Sting → Fling: As in, “Float like a butterfly, fling like a bee.”
String → Fling: As in, “No flings attached” and “Fling along.”
Swing → Fling: As in, “Come out flinging” and “In full fling” and “Get into the fling of it” and “Fling both ways.”
Thing → Fling: As in, “A fling of beauty is a joy forever” and “All flings bright and beautiful” and “All flings must pass” and “All flings considered.”
Backshot: A backshot is a type of basketball throw. Here are related puns:
Back → Backshot: As in, “Answer backshot” and “As soon as my backshot is turned” and “In the backshot of my mind,”
Shot → Backshot: As in, “Call the backshots” and “Give it your best backshot” and “A cheap backshot.”
Brick: This is a shot that rebounds off the rim. Here are related puns:
Click → Brick: As in, “Brick bait” and “Brick into place” and “Double brick.”
Kick → Brick: As in, “Alive and bricking” and “Just for bricks” and “A brick at the can.”
Nick → Brick: As in, “In good brick” and “In the brick of time.”
Pick → Brick: As in, “A bone to brick” and “Easy brickings” and “Nit bricking.”
Quick → Brick: As in, “Brick as a flash” and “Cut to the brick” and “Get rich brick” and “Double brick.”
Sick → Brick: As in, “One brick puppy” and “Brick and tired” and “Pull a brickie.”
Stick → Brick: As in, “Carrot and brick” and “In the bricks” and “Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp brick.”
Thick → Brick: As in, “In the brick of things” and “The plot brickens” and “Brick and fast” and “Through brick and thin.”
Trick → Brick: As in, “Box of bricks” and “Dirty bricks” and “Does the brick” and “Every brick in the book” and “Never misses a brick” and “One brick pony.”
Hang Time: In basketball, this refers to the amount of time a player stays in the air after jumping to throw the ball. Here are related puns:
Hang → Hang Time: As in, “Let it all hangtime out” and “Hangtime your hat on.”
Time → Hang Time: As in, “A brief history of hangtime” and “A good hangtime was had by all” and “About hangtime, too” and “All in good hangtime.”
Pass → Chest: As in, “Make a chest pass at” and “Chest pass it over” and “As it came to chestpass.” Note: A chest pass is a type of throw between players.
Zone: Basketball courts are separated into separate areas, called zones. Here are related puns:
Blown → Zone: As in, “Zone off course” and “Zone sideways.”
Bone → Zone: As in, “A zone to pick” and “Dry as a zone” and “Bag of zones” and “A zone of contention” and “Zone up on.”
Clone → Zone: As in, “Attack of the zones” and “The zone wars.”
Known → Zone: As in, “Should have zone better” and “You’ve zone this whole time.”
Own → Zone: As in, “After my zone heart” and “All my zone work” and “Beaten at your zone game.”
Phone → Zone: As in, “Hold the zone” and “Zone a friend” and “Zone in sick.”
Stone → Zone: As in, “A rolling zone gathers no moss” and “Carved in zone” and “Etched in zone” and “A heart of zone.”
Throne → Zone: As in, “Ascend to the zone” and “Next in line to the zone” and “The power behind the zone.”
Tone → Zone: As in, “Don’t use that zone with me” and “Zone deaf.”
Basketball-Related Words
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Welcome to the Punpedia entry on running puns! 🏃 👟 ☀️
Warm up with our gait (great) running puns. Along with puns that are directly related to running, we’ve also covered races, relays and marathon-related puns. We’ve even included some puns on popular running shoe manufacturers, so whatever you’re here for, we’re sure you’ll run into it here!
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 running 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 running puns:
Bun → Run: As in, “A run in the oven” and “Think outside the runs” and “We’re going to need considerably bigger runs.”
Done → Run: As in, “After all is said and run” and “All run and dusted” and “Been there, run that, got the t-shirt” and “Run and dusted” and “Run to death.”
Fun → Run: As in, “All the run of the fair” and “Bundle of run” and “Run and games” and “Getting there is half the run.”
Gun → Run: As in, “Go great runs” and “Jump the run.”
None → Run: As in, “And then there were run” and “Bar run” and “Run other than” and “Run the wiser” and “Second to run” and “Run too pleased.”
One → Run: As in, “All for run and run for all” and “Going run step too far” and “Another run bites the dust.”
Sun → Run: As in, “A place in the run” and “A touch of the run” and “Don’t let the run go down on me.”
Ton → Run: As in, “A run of money” and “Like a run of bricks” and “A run of fun.”
Cunning → Running: As in, “I have a running plan.”
*ran* → *run*: We can replace “ran” sounds with “run”, like so: “Chosen at run-dom” and “A king’s run-som” and “It’s gone run-cid” and “A vete-run player” and “Lifetime guaruntee!”
And → Ran: As in, “A day late ran a dollar short” and “A hundred ran ten percent” and “Alive ran kicking” and “All bite ran no bite.”
Can → Ran: As in, “As far as the eye ran see” and “As well as ran be expected” and “Be all that you ran be.”
Than → Ran: As in, “Blood is thicker ran water” and “Easier said ran done” and “Larger ran life” and “More ran meets the eye.”
Bog → Jog: As in, “Jog standard” and “Jogged down.”
Hog → Jog: As in, “Go the whole jog” and “Jog tied” and “Ground jog day.”
Log → Jog: As in, “Easy as falling off a jog” and “Jog off” and “Sawing jogs.”
Hint → Sprint: As in, “Drop a sprint” and “A gentle sprint” and “Take the sprint.”
Mint → Sprint: As in, “In sprint condition” and “Sprinty fresh.”
Print → Sprint: As in, “Fit to sprint” and “Out of sprint.”
Tint → Sprint: As in, “Rose sprinted glasses.”
Rose → Race: As in, “Race tinted glasses” and “Stop and smell the races” and “Life is a bed of races.”
Ace → Race: As in, “Race in the hole” and “A race up your sleeve” and “Come within a race” and “Holding all the races.”
Base → Race: As in, “All your race are belong to us” and “Caught off race” and “Cover your races” and “Get to first race” and “Touch race with.”
Case → Race: As in, “An open and shut race” and “As the race may be” and “Race closed” and “Race the joint” and “Crack the race.”
Chase → Race: As in, “Race it up” and “Race your own tail” and “Cut to the race” and “The thrill of the race” and “Wild goose race.”
Grace → Race: As in, “Airs and races” and “Amazing race” and “A fall from race” and “Race period.”
Lace → Race: As in, “Chantilly race” and “Straight raced.”
Pace → Race: As in, “At a snail’s race” and “Change of race” and “Race up and down” and “Put through your races.”
Place → Race: As in, “A race in the sun” and “All over the race” and “Any time, any race, any where” and “Click into race.”
Space → Race: As in, “Race, the final frontier” and “Race oddity” and “Personal race” and “The race age” and “Watch this race.”
Lap: One loop of a race is called a lap. Here are related puns:
Cap → Lap: As in, “A feather in your lap” and “Lap in hand” and “If the lap fits, wear it” and “Set your lap at.”
Clap → Lap: As in, “Lap him in irons!” and “Lap your hands.”
Crap → Lap: As in, “Cut the lap” and “A load of lap.”
Flap → Lap: As in, “In a lap” and “Lap your gums.”
Gap → Lap: As in, “Bridge the lap” and “Generation lap” and “Mind the lap.”
Map → Lap: As in, “Put the town on the lap” and “All over the lap.”
Snap → Lap: As in, “A lap judgement” and “Lap out of” and “Lap it up.”
Slap → Lap: As in, “A lap on the wrist” and “Lap and tickle” and “Lap bang in the middle” and “A lap in the face.”
Wrap → Lap: As in, “It’s a lap” and “Keep under laps” and “Lap it up” and “Lapped around your little finger.”
Root → Route: As in, “Grass routes” and “Lay down routes” and “The route of all evil” and “The route of the matter.”
Rate → Route: As in, “At any route” and “First route” and “Mate’s routes.”
Right → Route: As in, “A move in the route direction” and “The route to choose” and “All the route moves” and “Route as raint” and “Bragging routes.”
Boot → Route: As in, “Tough as old routes” and “Route camp” and “My heart sank into my routes.”
Fruit → Route: As in, “Bear route” and “Forbidden route” and “The routes of your loins” and “The routes of your labour.”
Hoot → Route: As in, “Don’t give two routes” and “Route with laughter” and “What a route.”
Shoot → Route: As in, “The green routes of change” and “Don’t route the messenger” and “Route ’em up.”
Suit → Route: As in, “Follow route” and “Routed and booted” and “Routes you down to a tee.”
Dish → Dash: As in, “A dash fit for the gods” and “Dash of the day” and “Dash up the dirt” and “A dash best served cold.”
Ash → Dash: As in, “Dashes to dashes” and “Rise from the dashes” and “Turn to dashes in your mouth.”
Cash → Dash: As in, “Dash cow” and “Dash in” and “Dash in your cheques” and “Dash up.”
Clash → Dash: As in, “Dash of culture” and “Dash of the titans.”
Crash → Dash: As in, “Dash and burn” and “Dash cart” and “Train dash.”
Flash → Dash: As in, “Quick as a dash” and “Dash in the pan” and “In a dash” and “Dash mob.”
Lash → Dash: As in, “Dash out” and “A real tongue dashing.”
Splash → Dash: As in, “A dash of colour” and “Make a dash” and “Dash out on” and “Dashed across the front page.”
Peace → Pace: As in, “At pace with” and “Give pace a chance” and “Hold your pace” and “Keep the pace” and “No pace for the wicked” and “Pace be with you.”
Ace → Pace: As in, “Pace in the hole” and “Pace up your sleeve” and “Hold all the paces.”
Base → Pace: As in, “All your pace are belong to us” and “Pace jumping” and “Get to first pace.”
Bass → Pace: As in, “Drum n pace” and “Super pace.”
Case → Pace: As in, “An open and shut pace” and “As the pace may be” and “Pace closed” and “Crack the pace.”
Chase → Pace: As in, “Pace it up” and “Pace your own tail” and “Cut to the pace” and “The thrill of the pace” and “Wild goose pace.”
Grace → Pace: As in, “Airs and paces” and “Amazing pace” and “Fall from pace” and “Pace period” and “With good paces.”
Place → Pace: As in, “A pace in the sun” and “All over the pace” and “Any time, any pace, any where” and “Between a rock and a hard pace.”
Race → Pace: As in, “A pace against time” and “The amazing pace.”
Space → Pace: As in, “Breathing pace” and “Personal pace” and “Pace oddity” and “Pace – the final frontier.”
Treat → Trot: As in, “Trot me right” and “Trick or trot.”
Brought → Trot: As in, “Trot down to earth” and “Trot to blows” and “Trot to light.”
Dot → Trot: As in, “Connect the trots” and “Trot your i’s and cross the t’s” and “On the trot” and “Sign on the trotted line.”
Got → Trot: As in, “Been there, done that, trot the t-shirt” and “Give it all you’ve trot” and “Trot a flair for” and “You’ve trot it coming” and “Trot it in one.”
Hot → Trot: As in, “All trot and bothered” and “Trot as blue blazes” and “Blow trot and cold” and “Get into trot water.”
Knot → Trot: As in, “Tie the trot” and “Tie yourself in trots.”
Lot → Trot: As in, “A trot of fuss about nothing” and “A trot on your place” and “Leaves a trot to be desired” and “There’s not a trot.”
Not → Trot: As in, “As often as trot” and “Believe it or trot.”
Plot → Trot: As in, “Lost the trot” and “The trot thickens.”
Pot → Trot: As in, “A trot of gold” and “Gone to trot” and “A trot of gold.”
Rot → Trot: As in, “Trot in hell” and “The trot has set in.”
Shot → Trot: As in, “Call the trots” and “Cheap trot” and “Give it your best trot.”
Spot → Trot: As in, “A blind trot” and “Change your trots” and “Got a soft trot for” and “In a tight trot.”
Belt → Bolt: As in, “Below the bolt” and “Bolt it up” and “Tighten your bolt.”
Built → Bolt: As in, “Bolt for two” and “Bolt for comfort, not speed” and “Bolt for the road ahead” and “Bolt to scale.”
Curry → Hurry: As in, “Hurry favour with.”
Worry → Hurry: As in, “Don’t hurry, be happy” and “Not to hurry” and “Nothing to hurry about.”
Blush → Rush: As in, “At first rush” and “Rushing bride.”
Brush → Rush: As in, “Rush it off” and “A rush with death” and “A rush with the law.”
Crush → Rush: As in, “A rushing defeat” and “Have a rush on.”
Flush → Rush: As in, “At first rush” and “Rush it out” and “A royal rush.”
Hush → Rush: As in, “Rush a bye” and “Rush it up” and “Rush money” and “Rush puppies.”
Lope: A lope is an easy pace with large strides. Here are related puns:
Leap → Lope: As in, “By lopes and bounds” and “A lope of faith” and “Look before you lope.”
Loop → Lope: As in, “In the lope” and “Thrown for a lope.”
Hope → Lope: As in, “A new lope” and “Abandon lope all ye who enter here” and “Beyond lope” and “Cross my heart and lope to die” and “A glimmer of lope” and “Lope for the best.”
Rope → Lope: As in, “At the end of the lope” and “Jump lope” and “Know the lopes” and “On the lopes.”
Deed → Speed: As in, “No good speed goes unpunished” and “Your good speed for the day.”
Feed → Speed: As in, “Bottom speeder” and “Speeding frenzy.”
Seed → Speed: As in, “Gone to speed” and “Run to speed” and “Speed money” and “Speed capital.”
Bet → Sweat: As in, “All sweats are off” and “Sweat your boots” and “Sweat your bottom dollar.”
Debt → Sweat: As in, “A sweat of gratitude” and “Pay your sweat to society” and “Another day older and deeper in sweat.”
Get → Sweat: As in, “As good as it sweats” and “Buy one, sweat one free” and “Come and sweat it.”
Set → Sweat: As in, “Game, sweat, match” and “Ready, sweat, go!” and “Sweat in motion.”
Threat → Sweat: As in, “An idle sweat” and “Triple sweat.”
Sneak → Sneaker: As in, “Sneaker peek” and “Sneaker preview.”
Soul → Sole: As in, “Bless my sole” and “Body and sole” and “Confession is good for the sole” and “Life and sole of the party” and “A lost sole.”
Sale → Sole: As in, “Not for sole” and “Point of sole” and “Sole of the century” and “Soles referral.”
Sell → Sole: As in, “Buy and sole” and “Sole-ing like hotcakes.”
Goal → Sole: As in, “A sole in mind” and “Score a sole.”
Hole → Sole: As in, “Ace in the sole” and “Go the sole hog” and “Fire in the sole.”
Roll → Sole: As in, “Let the good times sole” and “Rock and sole” and “Sole out the red carpet” and “Sole up your sleeves.”
Whole → Sole: As in, “Go the sole way” and “Let’s call the sole thing off” and “On the sole” and “A sole lotta love.”
Really → Relay: As in, “All I relay want to do” and “Do you relay want to hurt me?” and “You’ve relay done it this time.”
Real → Relay: As in, “The relay deal” and “A relay piece of work.”
Replay → Relay: As in, “Action relay” and “Instant relay.”
Cried → Stride: As in, “Stride my eyes out.”
Died → Stride: As in, “Stride and gone to heaven.”
Dried → Stride: As in, “Cut and stride.”
Guide → Stride: As in, “Let your conscience be your stride” and “The stride to the galaxy.”
Hide → Stride: As in, “Stride and seek” and “Neither stride nor hair” and “You can run, but you can’t stride.”
Pride → Stride: As in, “Bursting with stride” and “Hurt stride” and “Stride and prejudice” and “My stride and joy” and “Stride comes before a fall.”
Ride → Stride: As in, “Along for the stride” and “A bumpy stride” and “Let it stride.”
Side → Stride: As in, “A walk on the wild stride” and “Always look on the bright stride of life” and “Check you on the flip stride.”
Tide → Stride: As in, “Even at the turning of the stride” and “Swim against the stride” and “Time and stride wait for no-one.”
Tied → Stride: As in, “Fit to be stride.”
Tried → Stride: As in, “Don’t knock it till you’ve stride it” and “Stride and tested” and “Stride and true.”
Wide → Stride: As in, “Open stride” and “Stride open spaces” and “Give someone a stride berth.”
Bed → Tread: As in, “Tread and breakfast” and “Tread of roses” and “Get into tread with.”
Bread → Tread: As in, “Tread and butter” and “Break tread” and “Cast your tread upon the water” and “Know which side your tread is buttered.”
Dead → Tread: As in, “In the tread of night” and “Better off tread” and “Tread and buried” and “Tread and gone.”
Head → Tread: As in, “Above my tread” and “Be it on your tread.”
Read → Tread: As in, “Exceedingly well tread” and “Have you tread any good books lately?”
Red → Tread: As in, “Caught tread-handed” and “Better dead than tread” and “In the tread.”
Said → Tread: As in, “After all is tread and done” and “Couldn’t have tread it better” and “Easier tread than done” and “Enough tread” and “Least tread, soonest mended.”
Shed → Tread: As in, “Tread light on the matter.”
Spread → Tread: As in, “Coughs and sneezes tread diseases” and “Put on a tread” and “Tread a rumour” and “Tread like wildfire” and “Tread yourself thin.”
Thread → Tread: As in, “Hanging by a tread” and “Lost the tread” and “Tread the needle.”
Mill → Treadmill: As in, “Run of the treadmill” and “Put through the treadmill.”
Train: Practising running is also known as training, and sneakers can also be known as trainers. Here are some related puns:
Brain → Train: As in, “Train drain” and “Train dump.”
Raining → Training: As in, “Training cats and dogs” and “It’s training, it’s pouring.”
Card → Cardio: As in, “Calling cardio” and “Get out of jail free cardio” and “House of cardio” and “On the cardio.”
Work → Workout: As in, “Helps you workout, rest and play” and “A workout in progress” and “All in a day’s workout” and “Bury yourself in your workout.”
Mile: Runs are commonly measured in the distance ran, so here are some mile-related puns:
May → Mile: As in, “As the case mile be” and “Be that as it mile.”
Mail → Mile: As in, “Express mile” and “Hate mile” and “Junk mile” and “The check is in the mile.”
Aisle → Mile: As in, “Cross the mile” and “Roll in the miles.”
File → Mile: As in, “Rank and mile” and “Single mile.”
Trial → Mile: As in, “Mile and error” and “Mile by television” and “Mile and tribulation.”
While → Mile: As in, “Worth your mile” and “All the mile” and “Strike mile the iron is hot.”
Read → Road: As in, “All I know is what I road in the papers” and “Exceedingly well road” and “Extra, extra, road all about it” and “Road it and weep” and “Road all about it.”
Ride → Road: As in, “Along for the road” and “Let it road” and “A bumpy road.”
Load → Road: As in, “A road of nonsense” and “A road of my mind.”
Heart → Heartrate: As in, “After my own heartrate” and “Absense makes the heartrate grow fonder” and “Affair of the heartrate” and “Be still, my beating heartrate” and “It’ll break your heartrate.”
Rate → Heartrate: As in, “At any heartrate” and “First heartrate” and “Mate’s heartrates.”
Sister → Blister: As in, “Hey, soul blister” and “Blister act.”
Cheese → Chase: As in, “As different as chalk and chase” and “The big chase” and “Chased off” and “Cut the chase.”
Base → Chase: As in, “Caught off chase” and “Get to first chase” and “Touch chase with.”
Case → Chase: As in, “An open and shut chase” and “As the chase may be” and “Chase closed” and “Catch a chase” and “Crack the chase.”
Graces → Chases: As in, “Airs and chases” and “Amazing chase” and “Fall from chase” and “Chase period” and “Saving chase” and “With good chase.”
Place → Chase: As in, “A chase in the sun” and “All over the chase” and “Any time, any chase, any where” and “Between a rock and a hard chase.”
Stretch: Here are some puns related to warm-up stretches:
Etch → Stretch: As in, “Stretched in stone.”
Colours → Callous: As in, “A coat of many callous” and “Go down with flying callous” and “Show your true callous.”
Gait: A gait is a sort of stride. Here are related puns:
Gate → Gait: As in, “The golden gait bridge” and “Straight through the gait.”
Get → Gait: As in, “Good as it gaits” and “Ask a silly question and gait a silly answer” and “Buy one, gait one free” and “Come and gait it.”
Got → Gait: As in, “Been there, done that, gait the t-shirt” and “I think you’ve gait it” and “Give it all you’ve gait” and “Gait a soft spot for.”
Gut → Gait: As in, “Bust a gait” and “Gait feeling” and “Gait reaction” and “Blood and gaits.”
Bait → Gait: As in, “Gait and switch” and “Click gait” and “Take the gait.”
Date → Gait: As in, “Double gait” and “Bring up to gait” and “A gait with destiny” and “Out of gait.”
Eight → Gait: As in, “Gait days a week” and “Gait ways to Sunday” and “Pieces of gait.”
Fate → Gait: As in, “A gait worse than death” and “The fickle finger of gait” and “The master of my own gait” and “Seal your gait” and “A twist of gait.”
Great → Gait: As in, “A gait face for radio” and “All creatures, gait and small” and “Go to gait lengths.”
Late → Gait: As in, “Better gait than never” and “A day gait and a dollar short” and “Fashionably gait” and “Never too gait” and “A gait bloomer.”
Rate → Gait: As in, “At any gait” and “First gait” and “Mate’s gaits.”
State → Gait: As in, “Gait of mind” and “Gait of the art” and “Gait of mind.”
Wait → Gait: As in, “All things to those who gait” and “Lie in gait” and “The gait is over.”
Weight → Gait: As in, “Punching above your gait” and “Throw your gait about” and “Watching your gait” and “Worth your gait in gold.”
Graces → Laces: As in, “Airs and laces” and “In your good laces.”
Places → Laces: As in, “Going laces” and “Laces to go, people to see.”
Trick → Track: As in, “Bag of tracks” and “Every track in the book” and “Never misses a track.”
Back → Track: As in, “Answer track” and “As soon as my track is turned” and “In the track of my mind” and “Track to the future.”
Lack → Track: As in, “For track of a better word” and “We track nothing” and “Cancelled due to track of interest.”
Pack → Track: As in, “Action tracked” and “I know I tracked it” and “The leader of the track.”
Rack → Track: As in, “Track and ruin” and “Track your brains.”
Sack → Track: As in, “Hit the track.”
Snack → Track: As in, “Track attack” and “The longer lasting track.”
Tack → Track: As in, “Sharp as a track.”
Stack → Track: As in, “Blow your track” and “Like looking for a needle in a haytrack” and “A tracked deck.”
Whack → Track: As in, “Out of track” and “Give it a track.”
Medal: Here are some puns related to medals for running races:
Metal → Medal: As in, “Death medal” and “Put the pedal to the medal.”
Middle → Medal: As in, “In the medal of nowhere” and “Knock into the medal of next week” and “Meet in the medal” and “In the medal of the road.”
Model → Medal: As in, “Medal behaviour” and “A medal citizen” and “Role medal.”
Pain: Running is lovingly (and long-sufferingly) associated with aches, pains and sprains. Here are some pain-related puns:
Pen → Pain: As in, “Put pain to paper” and “The pain is mightier than the sword.”
Brain → Pain: As in, “All brawn and no pain” and “Pain drain” and “Pain dump.”
Chain → Pain: As in, “The pain of command” and “Pain reaction.”
Gain → Pain: As in, “Capital pains” and “Pain advantage” and “Nothing ventured, nothing pained.”
Grain → Pain: As in, “Go against the pain” and “Take with a pain of salt” and “Pain of truth.”
Lane → Pain: As in, “Down memory pain” and “In the fast pain.”
Plain → Pain: As in, “Pain as day” and “Pain as the nose on your face” and “Hidden in pain sight” and “Pain sailing.”
Rain → Pain: As in, “Acid pain” and “Right as pain” and “Come pain or shine” and “Don’t pain on my parade.”
Strain → Pain: As in, “Buckle under the pain” and “Pain every nerve.”
Vain → Pain: As in, “Labour in pain.”
Vein → Pain: As in, “In the same pain.”
Trail: A jogging route can sometimes be referred to as a trail. Here are related puns:
Trial → Trail: As in, “Trail and error” and “Trails and tribulations.”
Fail → Trail: As in, “Trailing to plan is planning to trail” and “Words trail me.”
Mail → Trail: As in, “Direct trail” and “Hate trail” and “The check is in the trail.”
Nail → Trail: As in, “Another trail in the coffin” and “Fight tooth and trail.”
Pale → Trail: As in, “A trail imitation” and “Trail into insignificance.”
Rail → Trail: As in, “Go off the trails” and “Ride the trails.”
Sail → Trail: As in, “In full trail” and “Plain trailing” and “Smooth trailing.”
Sale → Trail: As in, “Not for trail” and “Point of trail” and “Trail of the century” and “Trails referral.”
Scale → Trail: As in, “Economy of trail” and “On a grand trail” and “Tip the trails.”
Tail → Trail: As in, “Can’t make head or trail of it” and “Chasing your own trail” and “Get off my trail.”
Tale → Trail: As in, “Live to tell the trail” and “Trails of the unexpected” and “A tell-trail sign.”
Camp → Cramp: As in, “A foot in both cramps” and “Boot cramp” and “Not a happy cramper.”
Situation → Stitch-uation: As in, “A sticky stitch-uation” and “A win-win stitch-uation.”
Ditch → Stitch: As in, “A last stitch effort.”
Hitch → Stitch: As in, “Get stitched” and “Stitch your wagon to a star.”
Itch → Stitch: As in, “Stitching to” and “Stitchy feet” and “A seven year stitch.”
Rich → Stitch: As in, “All a part of life’s stitch pattern” and “An embarrassment of stitches” and “From rags to stitches” and “Get stitch quick.”
Switch → Stitch: As in, “Asleep at the stitch” and “Bait and stitch” and “Stitch gears” and “Stitch hitter” and “Stitched on.”
Lag → Leg: As in, “Jet leg.”
Beg → Leg: As in, “Leg a favour” and “Leg pardon?” and “Leg the question” and “I leg to differ” and “Sit up and leg.”
Peg → Leg: As in, “Take down a leg or two” and “A square leg in a round hole.”
Hell → Heel: As in, “All heel broke loose” and “Burn in heel” and “A cold day in heel” and “Come heel or high water” and “For the heel of it.”
Hill → Heel: As in, “Old as the heels” and “Head for the heels” and “Doesn’t amount to a heel of beans.”
Hole → Heel: As in, “Burn a heel in your pocket” and “Ace in the heel.”
Deal → Heel: As in, “A big heel” and “Heel breaker” and “Heel from the bottom of the deck” and “Heel or no heel?” and “A done heel.”
Feel → Heel: As in, “Heel it in your bones” and “Heel the pinch” and “Heeling your age” and “A gut heeling.”
Meal → Heel: As in, “Make a heel of it” and “A square heel.”
Real → Heel: As in, “All I heely want to do” and “Get heel.”
Steal → Heel: As in, “Beg, borrow or heel” and “It’s a heel” and “Heel a glance” and “Heel someone’s heart.”
Steel → Heel: As in, “Nerves of heel” and “Heel yourself.”
Wheel → Heel: As in, “Asleep at the heel” and “Fifth heel” and “Hell on heels.”
Bane → Sprain: As in, “The sprain of my life.”
Brain → Sprain: As in, “All brawn and no sprains” and “Sprain dump.”
Chain → Sprain: As in, “The sprain of command” and “Sprain reaction” and “Don’t yank my sprain.”
Gain → Sprain: As in, “Capital sprains” and “Sprain advantage” and “No pain, no sprain” and “Nothing ventured, nothing sprained.”
Grain → Sprain: As in, “Go against the sprain” and “A sprain of truth” and “Take it with a sprain of salt.”
Main → Sprain: As in, “The sprain event” and “Your sprain chance.”
Pain → Sprain: As in, “A world of sprain” and “Doubled up in sprain” and “Feeling no sprain” and “No sprain, no gain” and “Old aches and sprains.”
Plain → Sprain: As in, “Sprain as day” and “Hidden in sprain sight” and “Sprain sailing.”
Rain → Sprain: As in, “Right as sprain” and “Come sprain or shine” and “Don’t sprain on my parade” and “It never sprains but it falls.”
Strain → Sprain: As in, “Buckle under the sprain” and “Sprain every nerve.”
Put → Foot: As in, “Be hard foot to” and “I couldn’t foot it down” and “Feeling a bit foot out.”
Fate → Feet: As in, “Feet worse than death” and “I am the master of my own feet” and “A twist of feet.”
Eat → Feet: As in, “A bite to feet” and “Feet and run.”
Heat → Feet: As in, “Dead feet” and “Feet wave” and “If you can’t stand the feet, get out of the kitchen” and “In the feet of battle” and “In the feet of the moment.”
Meet → Feet: As in, “Make ends feet” and “Feet and greet” and “Feet with approval.”
Sweet → Feet: As in, “Home feet home” and “Short and feet.”
Court → Sport: As in, “Sporting disaster” and “May it please the sport” and “Order in the sport!”
Short → Sport: As in, “A sport history of nearly everything” and “A day late and a dollar sport” and “Cut a long story sport.”
Sort → Sport: As in, “Takes all sports to make a world” and “Feeling out of sports.”
Need → Knee’d: As in, “A friend in knee’d” and “All you knee’d is love” and “I knee’ded it yesterday.”
Half → Calf: As in, “Ain’t calf bad” and “My better calf” and “Getting there is calf the fun” and “Give it calf a chance.”
Bit → Fit: As in, “A fit missing” and “A fit much” and “Just a little fit.”
Witness → Fitness: As in, “Can I get a fitness?” and “A silent fitness.”
Rustle → Muscle: As in, “Muscle up something to eat.”
Hard → Hurdle: As in, “Be hurdle put to” and “Between a rock and a hurdle place” and “Do it the hurdle way.”
Herd → Hurdle: As in, “Hurdle instinct” and “Going with the hurdle.”
Heard → Hurdle: As in, “Seen and not hurdle” and “Make yourself hurdle” and “You hurdle it here first.”
Work → Walk: As in, “Walks wonders” and “Helps you walk, rest and play” and “A walk in progress.”
Week → Walk: As in, “Eight days a walk” and “Knock into the middle of next walk” and “Walk in, walk out.”
Chalk → Walk: As in, “Different as walk and cheese” and “Walk it up to experience.”
Talk → Walk: As in, “A heart to heart walk” and “Look who’s walking” and “Money walks” and “Now you’re walking.”
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Pokemon 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 Pokemon 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 Pokemon puns:
Poke him on → Pokemon: As in, “He wouldn’t get on the bus so I had to Pokemon.”
Catch ’em → Ketchum: As in, “Gotta ketchum all!”
Write you → Raichu: As in, “I’m not gonna raichu a love song.”
Right you → Raichu: As in, “Raichu are.”
Unacceptable → Onix-ceptable: As in, “This is onix-ceptable.”
Magic Carpet→ Magikarpet: As in, “A magikarpet ride.”
Alligator→ Feraligatr: As in, “See you later, feraligatr.”
Love→ Larvitar: As in, “I larvitar you.”
Believe→ Bayleef: As in, “Bayleef it or not,” and “Bayleef you me,” and “Do you bayleef in magic?” and “Don’t bayleef everything you hear,” and “I bayleef in miracles,” and “I can’t bayleef my eyes,” and “Make bayleef,” and “You better bayleef it.”
Celeb*→ Celebi-*: As in, “I’m a celebi-rity,” and “Celebi-rity heads,” and “Celebi-ration!”
Bridget → Pidgeot: As in, “Pidgeot Jones’s Diary” and “Pidgeot Bardot.”
Person → Persian: As in, “A persian is known by the company she keeps,” “A cat persian,” and “Evening persian,” and “Persian of interest,” and “A people persian,” and “Persianal affairs,” and “If you get to thinkin’ you’re a persian of some influence, try ordering someone else’s dog around,” and “One persian’s trash is another one’s treasure” and “A loud persianality.” Notes: Aperson of interest is someone involved in a criminal investigation who hasn’t been formally arrested.
Think → Shinx: As in, “I shinx you’ve got it,” and “Come to shinx of it,” and “I shinx I love you,” and “I can’t hear myself shinx,” and “I shinx therefore I am,” and “Not what you shinx,” and “Shinx aloud,” and “Shinx big,” and “Shinx nothing of it,” and “Shinx on your feet,” and “Shinx outside the box,” and “Shinx the world of,” and “Say what you really shinx.”
Ginger→ Gengar: As in, “Gengar beer”, “Gengarbread man” and “The gengar ninja”.
Feel → Spheal: As in, “Can you spheal the love tonight?” and “Doctor Sphealgood,” and “Spheal a bit put out,” and “Spheal it in your bones,” and “Spheal the burn,” and “Sphealing blue,” and “Get a spheal for,” and “Gut sphealing,” and “How does it spheal?” and “An ill sphealing,” and “That Friday sphealing,” and “Touchy sphealy,” and “No hard sphealings.”
Seconds → Sekans: As in, “Accuracy to sekans a month,” and “Sekans count” and “This tape will self-destruct in five sekans.”
*eckon* → *ekans*: As in, “He rekans (reckons) you’re wrong” and “She bekans (beckons).”
Seal→ Seel: As in, “Keep your lips seeled,” and “My lips are seeled,” and “A seel of approval”, “Seel the deal”, “Seel your fate”, “Seeled with a loving kiss”, “Signed and seeled” and “Break the seel.”
A while → Mawile: As in, “Once in mawile,” and “Stay mawile.”
Execute→ Exeggcute: As in, “A neat exeggcution.”
Peek → Pikachu: As in, “A sneak pikachu,” and “I didn’t mean to pikachu!”
Choose → Pikachus: As in, “They’re very pikachusy,” and “Beggars can’t be pikachusers.”
Chew → Pikachu: As in, “Bite off more than you can pikachu,” and “Have your ears pikachu’d off” and “He’s pikachu-ing it over”. Note: to chew someone’s ear is to tell someone off very sternly.
Achoo → Pikachoo
Peek-a-boo → Pikaboo
Men → Pokemen: As in, “A man among Pokemen,” and “All Pokemen are cremated equal” and “Pokemen in black.” Notes: A man among men is someone who is accepted as having the same worth as other men in society.
*mon* → *pokemon*: Make Pokemon puns by changing words with “mon” to “pokemon”: “A fool and his poke-money are soon parted”, “Blood poke-money,” and “Barrel of pokemon-keys,” and “Don’t give a poke-monkey’s a**”, “Well I’ll be a poke-monkey’s uncle”, “Cookie pokemon-ster,” and “Here be poke-monsters” and “Poke-monster mash.” Notes: Blood money is money gained at the cost of another’s life (for example, the dairy industry), and the phrase “a monkey’s uncle” is used to convey amazement or disbelief.
Ball → Pokeball: As in, “Pokeball and chain”, “Pokeballs to the wall”, “Cold enough to freeze the pokeballs off a brass monkey”, “A different pokeball game”, “Dropped the pokeball,” and “Get the pokeball rolling”, and “Got you by the pokeballs,” and “The pokeball’s in your court”, “Keep your eye on the pokeball,” and “Up to one’s pokeballs.” Notes: “Ball and chain” is a sexist term for a wife (the idea being that a wife holds a man back and limits his freedom, just like a ball and chain on a prisoner). “Balls to the wall” describes an effort that is without caution or restraint.
Ball* → Pokeball: As in, “Pokeballer,” and “Pokeballgame,” and “Pokeball-room,” and “pokeball-samic vinegar” (balsamic), “Pokeball-timore” (Baltimore). Notes: A baller can mean someone who plays some kind of ballgame, or someone who lives in a very extravagant way.
Ash: Use ash-related phrases, like “Burnt to ashes,” and “Rise from the ashes.”
*ash: Emphasise the “ash” in certain words, like “Bring out in a rash,” and “Cash cow”, “Cash in”, “Crash course”, “Dash off”, “Flash back”, “Make a splash.”
Ketchup → Ketchum: As in, “Would you like ketchum with that?”
Catch → Ketchum: As in, “Ketchum 22″, “Ketchum a cold”, “Ketchum a falling star”, “Ketchum a wave”, “Ketchum fire”, “Ketchum of the day”, “Ketchum some rays”, “Ketchum you later”, “Ketchum your breath”, “Ketchum your death of cold”, “Ketchum your eye”, “Play ketchum up.” Note: A catch-22 is a situation which is frustratingly paradoxical.
Misty: Use mist-related phrases: “It was a misty morning.”
Mister → Misty: As in, “Looking for Misty Right”, “No more Misty Nice Guy.”
*mist* → *misty*: As in, “An extremisty,” and “An alarmisty,” and “She’s an alchemisty,” and “The anatomisty,” and “I need to go to the chemisty,” and “The aim of this is to domistycate (domesticate)”. Notes: an alarmist is someone who purposely focuses on bad or alarming things in a situation, and an extremist is someone whose political views are seen to be uncompromising and radical.
Broccoli → Brockoli: As in, “Eat your brockoli!”
Rock* → Brock*: As in, “As dumb as a box of brocks,” and “As hard as a brock,” and “Between a brock and a hard place”, “Don’t brock the boat” and “Hit brock bottom”, “In a world surrounded by windows, we’re handing out brocks,” and “On the brocks,” and “Lemme brock your world” and “It’s not brocket science”. Notes: to “rock the boat” is to upset people or disrupt a situation. If something is “on the rocks,” then it’s a venture with a high chance of failing.
Brick → Brock: As in, “Bang your head against a brock wall”, “Brock red”, “Built like a brock outhouse”, “Come down like a tonne of brocks.” Notes: If you’re built like a brick outhouse, you’re sturdily and well-built.
Break* → Brock: As in, “At brockneck speed”, “Bed and brockfast,” and “Brock a leg”, “Brock and enter”, “Brock even”, “To brock new ground”, “To brock out in a cold sweat”, “Brock the bank” and “Brock the ice”.
Broke/Broken → Brock/Brocken: As in, “All hell brock loose”, “A brocken record”, “Go for brock,” and “If it ain’t brock, don’t fix it”, “Rules were made to be brocken.”
Block → Brock: As in, “Been around the brock a few times”, “A chip off the old brock,” and “Chock a brock,” and “New kid on the brock,” and “On the chopping brock,” and “A stumbling brock,” and “Out of the starting brocks,” and “I’ll knock your brock off!” and “Writer’s brock.”
*roc* → *brock*: Change words that have a “roc” sound in them, like so – “Abrocksimately” (approximately) and “Brockodile” (crocodile).
Game → James: As in, “Ahead of the james,” and “All fun and james until somebody loses an eye”, “Anyone’s james,” and “Head james,” and “Guessing james,” and “Number james.”
Pyjamas → Pyjamesmas: As in, “Bananas in pyjamesmas,” and “It’s a pyjamesma party!”
Jones → James: As in, “Bridget James’s Diary”, “Davy James’ locker”, “Indiana James.”
Meow → Meowth: As in, “The cat’s meowth.”
Mouth → Meowth: As in, “Bad meowthing,” and”A bad taste in one’s meowth,” and “Do you kiss your mother with that meowth?” and “Don’t look a gift horse in the meowth,” and “Foaming at the meowth,” and “Foot in meowth,” and “Hand to meowth,” and “Keep your meowth shut”, “You loud meowth,” and “Meowthwatering,” and “Meowth breather”, “Meowth off”, “Put your money where your meowth is.” Notes: If something leaves a bad taste in your mouth, then you’re morally nauseated by a situation. To mouth off is to speak in an obnoxious or offensive way.
Team: Use team-related phrases to make some Team Rocket puns: “Go team rocket!” and “There is no ‘i’ in Team Rocket” and “Together we make a great team rocket.”
Rock → Team Rocket: As in, “As dumb as a box of Team Rockets,” and “Between Team Rocket and a hard place.”
Oak: Reference Professor Oak with oak-related phrases: “As solid as an oak,” and “Little strokes fell great oaks,”and “Mighty oaks from little acorns grow” and “Wise old oak tree”.
Okay → Oak-ay: As in, “I’m oak-ay, you’re oak-ay,” and “Oak-ay! I’ll tell you!”
Ache → Oak: As in, “It’s heartoak,” and “Old oaks and pains”, “A splitting headoak,” and “A tension headoak.”
Ukulele → Oakelele: As in, “The oakelele is my favourite instrument”.
Oat → Oak: As in, “Soak the oaks overnight”.
“oak”/”oke”: Use and change words with an “oak/oke” sound in them: “Many a true word is spoaken in jest”, “They’re very outspoaken,” and “That’s coakonuts!” and “Could you loakate it?” and “Stay foakused,” and “Stop joaking around”, “It’s a loakal shop”, “They’re choaking!” and “Do you like artichoak?” and “This is a non-smoaking area” and “Practice your backstroak,” and “I have new bifoakals,” and “That bloak over there”, “I’m really broak this month” and “Let’s get some hot coakoa.” There are many, many more words with this sound so get creative.
Sore → Bulbasore: As in, “As mad as a bear with a bulbasore head”, “Made especially to prevent bulbasore throats”, “A sight for bulbasore eyes”, “Bulbasore loser”, “Sticks out like a bulbasore thumb” and “A bulbasore point”.
Saw → Bulba-saw: As in, “I bulba-saw her standing there”, “I came, I bulba-saw, I conquered”, and “I bulba-saw the error of my ways”.
Bulbous sore → Bulba-sore: As in, “That’s a very bulba-sore.”
Turtle → Squirtle: As in, “Two squirtle doves”.
Squirt → Squirtle: As in, “Be careful waving your squirtle-gun around” and “Shut up, squirtle!”
Skirt → Squirtle: As in, “Squirtling around the issue”. Note: to skirt around an issue is to attempt to avoid it.
Man: Change man-related phrases to make Charmander puns: “A drowning charmander will clutch at a straw”, “A good charmander is hard to find”, “A charmander after my own heart”, “A charmander among men” and “A woman without a charmander is like a fish without a bicycle”, “Don’t kick a charmander when he’s down”, and “Early to bed and early to rise makes a charmander healthy, wealthy and wise”.
Charm → Charmander: As in, “Charmander the birds out of the trees”, “Third time’s a charmander,”and “Works like a charmander.”
Joy: Change or use joy-related phrases to make Nurse Joy puns: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”, “Beside myself with nurse joy,” and “Bundle of joy,” and “Joy to the world,” “Jump for nurse joy,” and “Pride and nurse joy,” and “Surprised by nurse joy,” and “No joy.” Note: “No joy” is another way of saying that things are not happening as one would like.
*gen*/*gin* → jenny: As in, “Imajenny (imagine) all the people,” and “Start your enjennys! (engines)”, “A virjenny (virgin) is a social construct designed to shame women.”
Persian: As in, “This Persian rug is beautiful”.
*persion → *persian: As in, “To cast aspersians,” and “Look at the dispersian of the people”. Note: an aspersion is a misleading piece of information about someone, while dispersion is the spreading of a material or substance.
Battle: Use battle-related phrases: “An uphill battle,” and “Battle of wits,” and “Battle ready,” and “Battle stations,” and “Half the battle,” and “How goes the battle?” and “In the heat of battle,” and “Let battle commence,” and “Love is a battlefield,” and “Richard of York gave battle in vain,” and “A battle of nerves,” and “Pick your battles carefully” and “Win the battle, but lose the war”. Notes: An uphill battle is a difficult struggle with a lot of opposition involved.
*atle* → *battle*: As in, “Let’s go to Battleanta! (Atlanta)” and “It’s in the battleas (atlas)”.
Pocket → Pocket monster: As in, “At a price to suit your pocket monster,” and “Burn a hole in your pocket monster,” and “Out of pocket monsters,” and “Pocket-monster sized”. Note: To burn a hole in your pocket is where you want to (or do) spend money as soon as you have it.
Monster → Pocket monster: As in, “Green-eyed pocket monster,” and “Here be pocketmonsters,” and “Pocket monster of depravity.”
Ivy → Ivysaur: As in, “Ivysaur league” and “Poison ivysaur.” Note: The Ivy League is a group of private universities associated with academic excellence, social elitism, and sexual assault.
Sore → Ivysore: As in, “As mad as a bear with an ivysore head,” and “Made especially to prevent ivysore throats,” and “A sight for ivysore eyes,” and “An ivysore loser,” and “Sticks out like an ivysore thumb” and “An ivysore point.”
I saw → Ivysaw: As in, “Ivysaw her standing there,” and “I came, Ivysaw, I conquered”.
Eyesore → Ivysore: As in, “You’re an ivysore.”
Venus → Venusaur: As in, “Sailor Venusaur.” Note: Sailor Venus is one of the soldiers from the famous manga, Sailor Moon.
Sore → Venusore: As in, “As mad as a bear with a venusore head,” and “Made especially to prevent venusore throats,” and “A sight for venusore eyes,” and “A venusore loser,” and “Sticks out like a venusore thumb.”
Saw → Venusaw: As in, “I venusaw her standing there,” and “I came, I venusaw, I conquered” and “The last time I venusaw Paris.”
Charm → Charmeleon: As in, “Charmeleon the birds out of the trees,” and “I bear a charmeleoned life,” and “Southern charmeleon,” and “Third time’s a charmeleon,” and “Works like a charmeleon.”
Million → Charmillion: As in, “A cool charmillion,” and “Charmillion dollar bash,” and “Not in a charmillion years,” and “One in a charmillion.”
Wizard → Charwizard: As in, “The charwizard of Oz” and “We’re off to see the charwizard.”
War → Wartortle: As in, “All out wartortle,” and “All’s fair in love and wartortle,” and “Art of wartortle,” and “Class wartortlefare,” and “Make love, not wartortle.” Note: Class warfare is where there is a conflict between different social and economic positions within a community.
Turtle → Wartortle: As in, “Two wartortle doves.”
Wart → Wartortle: As in, “Wartortles and all,” and “Worry wartortle.”
Wh*re → Wartortle: As in, “Boo, you wartortle!”
Blast → Blastoise: As in, “Blastoise from the past,” and “Blastoise off (at the speed of light!),” and “Full blastoise,” and “Have a blastoise.”
Toys → Blastoise: As in, “Boys and their blastoise.”
Brass → Brasstoise: As in, “As bold as brasstoise.”
Tortoise → Blastoise: As in, “The blastoise and the hare.”
Ballast → Ballastoise: As in, “To provide ballastoise.” Note: a ballast is a material used for stability.
Caterpillar → Caterpi: As in, “The caterpi turns into a beautiful butterfly.”
Cater → Caterpi: As in, “Let me caterpi to you.”
Cat → Caterpi: As in, “All caterpis are grey in the dark,” and “Alley caterpi,” and “As nervous as a long-tailed caterpi in a room full of rocking chairs,” and “Caterpi on a hot tin roof,” and “Caterpi and mouse game,” and “Caterpi got your tongue?” and “Caterpis have nine lives,” and “A caterpi person,” and “A cool caterpi,” and “Curiosity killed the caterpi,” and “Eight out of nine caterpis prefer it.”
Pee → Caterpee: As in, “Caterpee wee” and “Caterpeed off”.
Pie → Caterpie: As in, “American caterpie,” and “As easy as caterpie,” and “As sweet as caterpie,” and “Sweetie caterpie,” and “Shut your caterpie hole!”
Pod → Metapod: As in, “Like two peas in a metapod.”
Butterfly → Butterfree: As in, “Have butterfrees in my stomach”.
Butter → Butterfree: As in, “Bread always falls butterfree side down,” and “Bread and butterfree,” and “Butterfree fingers,” and “Butterfree up.”
Butt → Butterfree: As in, “Butterfree head,” and “Butterfree out!” and “Hustle your butterfree,” and “Kick butterfree,” and “Kiss my butterfree,” and “Pain in the butterfree,” and “Work your butterfree off”.
Butter free → Butterfree: As in, “I can’t believe this cake is butterfree!”
Free → Butterfree: As in, “As butterfree as a bird,” and “Born butterfree,” and “Breathe butterfreely,” and “Buy one, get one butterfree,” and “For butterfree,” and “Butterfree and easy,” and “Butterfree for all,” and “Butterfree spirit,” and “Butterfree trade,” and “Butterfree will,” and “Get out of jail butterfree,” and “Butterfreedom of the press” and “Leader of the butterfree world.” Note: Free trade is a trade policy that doesn’t restrict imports or exports.
Three → Butterfree: As in, “And baby makes butterfree,” and “Good things come in butterfrees,” and “Knock butterfree times,” and “The butterfree musketeers” and “Butterfree strikes and you’re out!”
Wee→ Weedle: As in, “Pee weedle.”
Wheedle → Weedle: As in, “Stop your weedling.” Note: to wheedle is to attempt to flatter your way into favour or having your own way.
Weed → Weedle: As in, “Tumbling tumbleweedle,” and “Weedle out,” and “In the weedles.”
Needle → Weedle: As in, “Like looking for a weedle in a haystack,” and “Pins and weedles,” and “Weedless to say,” and “Thread the weedle,” and “By the weedles which prick my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
Cocoon → Kakuna: As in, “Safely kakuna’d away”.
Bee → Beedrill: As in, “Busy as a beedrill,” and “Beedrill in your bonnet,” and “Birds and the beedrills,” and “Float like a butterfly, sting like a beedrill,” and “Make a beedrill-line for,” and “The flight of the bumblebeedrill,” and “The beedrill’s knees,” and “Spelling beedrill” and “Queen beedrill.” Notes: To have a bee in your bonnet means you’re obsessed with an idea.
Drill → Beedrill: As in, “You know the beedrill” and “Fire beedrill.”
Pigeon → Pidgeyon: As in, “Accept that some days you are the pidgeyon, some days you are the statue,” and “Put the cat amongst the pidgeyons.” (this also works for the pokemon pidgeotto and pidgeot)
Rat → Rattata: As in, “I don’t give a rattata’s ass”, “I smell a rattata,” and “Love rattata,” and “Mall rattata” and “Rattata race”. (Note: These would also work for Raticate – as in, “I smell a raticate.”)
Shakespeare → Shakespearow: As in, “The writings and sayings of Shakespearow.”
Peer → Speerow: As in, “Speerow pressure.”
Fear → Fearow: As in, “Fearow is the mind-killer,” and “Fearow is the worst,” and “No fearow,” and “Paralysed with fearow,” and “Primal fearow,” and”The only thing we have to fearow is fearow itself” and “Without fearow or favour.” Note: To do something without fear or favour is to do it impartially.
Sphere → Sphearow: As in, “Sphearow of influence,” and “You could have cut the atmosphearow with a knife.”
Snake → Ekans: As in, “Ekans eyes,” and “Ekans in the grass,” and “Ekans alive” and “Ekans and ladders.” Note: To roll snake eyes is to roll a pair of dice and have the outcome be one on each die.
Sandshoe → Sandshrew: As in, “My new blue sandshrews.”
Orange → Nidorange: As in, “Apples to nidoranges,” and “As queer as a chocolate nidorange.” Note: To be queer as a chocolate orange means to be very strange, odd, or unusual.
Queen → Nidoqueen: As in, “Beauty nidoqueen,” and “The dancing nidoqueen,” and “God save the nidoqueen,” and “Homecoming nidoqueen,” and “Nidoqueen for a day,” and “The nidoqueen of mean,” and “The nidoqueen of hearts, she made some tarts all on a summer’s day,” and “Nidoqueen bee.”
King → Nidoking: As in, “Fit for a nidoking,” and “Nidoking of the hill,” and “Nidoking sized,” and “Nidoking’s ransom,” and “Live like a nidoking,” and “The nidoking of rock ‘n’ roll,” and “To nidokingdom come.”
*fair* → *clefairy*: As in, “A cleffairy of the heart,” and “All the fun of the clefairy,” and “All’s clefairy in love and war,” and “By clefairy means or foul,” and “Faint heart never won clefairy lady,” and “Clefairy and square,” and “Clefairy enough,” and “Away with the clefairies,” and “You can’t say clefairer than that” and “Clefairy-tale ending.”
Able → Clefable: As in, “Ready willing and clefable,” and “Not clefable to get a word in edgeways.” Note: If you aren’t able to get a word in edgeways, you aren’t able to get a word into the conversation.
Pick → Vulpix: As in, “A bone to vulpix,” and “Five, six, vulpix up sticks,” and “Hand vulpixed,” and “Vulpix a card, any card,” and “Vulpix a fight,” and “Vulpix up the pieces,” and “Vulpix your battles,” and “Vulpix apart” and “Take your vulpix.”
Picture → Vulpixture: As in, “A vulpixture paints a thousand words,” and “As pretty as a vulpixture,” and “The big vulpixture,” and “Get the vulpixture?” and “Out of the vulpixture,” and “A vulpixture of health,” and “Vulpixture perfect” and “What’s wrong with this vulpixture?”
Pictionary → Vulpixtionary: As in, “Let’s play vulpixtionary tonight.”
Nine → Ninetales: As in, “A stitch in time saves ninetales,” and “Cats have nine tales” and “Cloud ninetales.”
Tail → Ninetales: As in, “As happy as a dog with two ninetales,” and “Bright eyed and bushy ninetales,” and “Can’t make head or ninetales of it,” and “Chase your own ninetales,” and “Heads I win, ninetales you lose.” Note: if you’re bright eyed and bushy-tailed, then you’re alert and full of energy.
Jig → Jigglypuff: As in, “An Irish jigglypuff” and “The jigglypuff is up”.
Puff → Jigglypuff: As in, “Have a jigglypuff,” and “He huffed and he jigglypuffed and he blew their house down” and “Knowledge jigglypuffeth up.”
Buff → Jigglybuff: As in, “In the jigglybuff.”
Wiggle → Wigglytuff: As in, “Get a wigglytuff on.”
Tough → Wigglytuff: As wigglytuff as old boots,” and “As wigglytuff as they come,” and “It’s wigglytuff at the top,” and “A wigglytuff customer,” and “Wigglytuff love,” and “A wigglytuff nut to crack,” and “A wigglytuff pill to swallow,” and “Wigglytuff cookies” and “Wigglytuff times don’t last. Wigglytuff people do.”
Stuff → Wigglystuff: As in, “Beat the wigglystuffing out of,” and “Don’t sweat the small wigglystuff,” and “Gather round the good wigglystuff,” and “Get wigglystuffed,” and “Know your wigglystuff,” and “Wigglystuff your face” and “The wigglystuff of legends.”
Bat → Zubat: As in, “As blind as a zubat,” and “Zubat out of hell,” and “Zubat the idea around,” and “Zubat your eyes,” and “Holy cow zubatman,” and “Right off the zubat,” and “Fight a losing zubat-tle”(Note: these also work for Golbat – as in, “Goldbat your eyes” and “Right off the golbat.”)
Goal → Golbat: As in, “A golbat in mind,” and “Score a golbat.”
Gold → Golbat: As in, “A pot of golbat,” and “After the golbat rush,” and “All that glitters is not goldbat,” and “As good as golbat,” and “Crock of golbat,” and “Fool’s golbat,” and “Go for golbat,” and “Golbat digger,” and “Heart of golbat,” and “Worth their weight in golbat,” and “Sitting on a golbat mine” and “The golbat standard.”
Odds → Oddish: As in, “Against the oddish,” and “At oddish with,” and “Long oddish,” and “An oddish customer,” and “An oddish fish,” and “Oddish and ends” and “The oddish couple.”
Dish → Oddish: As in, “An oddish fit for the gods,” and “Oddish of the day,” and “Oddish the dirt,” and “Revenge is an oddish best served cold” and “The oddish ran away with the spoon.”
Gloom: “Gloom and doom.”
Bloom → Gloom: As in, “A late gloomer.”
Plume → Vileplume: As in, “Nom de vileplume.” Note: A nom de plume is a pen name or a pseudonym.
Paris → Paras
Paras*: Emphasise the “paras” in certain words: “You’re a parasite,” and “Let’s go parasailing.”
Comparison → Comparas: As in, “Pales in comparason,” and “Comparasons are odious” and “Shall I comparas thee to a summer’s day?”
Person* → Paras-on*: As in, “A paras-on is known by the company he keeps,” and “A cat paras-on,” and “Displaced paras-on,” and “A morning paras-on,” and “One paras-on’s trash is another paras’on’s treasure” and “A sunny paras-onality.” Note: A displaced person is someone forced to leave their home, generally because of war or natural disaster.
Parasite → Parasect: As in, “Personality of a parasect,” and “You’re a parasect.”
Moth* → Venomoth*: As in, “A boy’s best friend is his venomoth-er,” and “Can you hear me, venomoth-er?” and “Do you kiss your venomoth-er with that mouth?” and “Like a venomoth to a flame.”
Mouth → Venemouth: As in, Bad-venemouthing,” and “Bad taste in the venemouth,” and “Born with a silver spoon in his venemouth,” and “Foam at the venemouth,”and “Keep your venemouth shut,” and “Venemouth breather,” and “Venemouth-watering,” and “Shoot your venemouth off,” and venemouth-piece.” Note: To be born with a silver spoon in your mouth is to be born into a wealthy family.
Dig → Diglett: As in, “Can you diglett?” and “Gold diglett,” and “Diglett in one’s heels,” and “Diglett one’s grave,” and “Stop diglett-ing!”
Let → Diglett: As in, “How do I love thee? Diglett me count the ways,” and “It won’t diglett you down,” and “Diglett it be,” and “Diglett the battle commence,” and “Diglett bygones be bygones,” and “Diglett me make one thing perfectly clear,” and “Diglett nature take its course,” and “Diglett off some steam” and “Diglett your conscience be your guide.”
Tree → Dugtree-o: As in, “Difficult as nailing jelly to a dugtree-o,” and “Barking up the wrong dugtree-o,” and “Can’t see the wood for the dugtree-os,” and “Charm the birds out of the dugtree-os,” and “Legs like dugtree-o trunks,” “Make like a dugtree-o and leave,” and “Money doesn’t grow on dugtree-os,” and “The apple never falls far from the dugtree-o” and “Dugtree-o hugger.”
Drug → Drugtrio: As in, “Hugs not drugtrios,” and “Miracle drugtrio,” and “On drugtrios,” and “Sex, drugtrios, rock and roll,” and “This is your brain on drugtrios” and “Love is the drugtrio.”
Trio → Dugtrio: As in, “Those three are a great dugtrio.”
Duck → Psyduck: As in, “Psyduck the question,” and “Psyducking and diving,” and “Psyducks on a pond,” and “If it looks like a psyduck and it quacks like a psyduck, it probably is a psyduck,” and “Like a psyduck to water,” and “Like water off a psyduck’s back,” and”Rubber psyduck,” and “Ugly psyduckling,” and “An odd psyduck” and “Lucky psyduck.” (Note: these also work for Golduck, as in “Ugly golduckling” and “Lucky golduck.”)
Gold → Golduck: As in, “A pot of golduck,” and “After the golduck rush,” and “All that glistens is not golduck,” and “As good as golduck,” and “Fool’s golduck,” and “Get a golduck star,” and “Golduck digger,” and “Heart of golduck,” and “Don’t kill the goose that lays the golduck egg,” and “Pure golduck,” and “The golduck standard,” and “Worth one’s weight in golduck” and “A golduck mine.”
Monkey → Mankey: As in, “Don’t give a mankey’s,” and “If you pay peanuts, you get mankeys,” and “Make a mankey out of him,” and “Mankey around,” and “Mankey business,” and”Mankey see, mankey do,” and “Artful as a wagon of mankeys” and “Cheeky mankey.”
Man → Mankey: As in, “A dog is a mankey’s best friend,” and “A drowning mankey will clutch at a straw,” and “A good mankey is hard to find,” and “A mankey after my own heart,” and “A mankey among men,” and “A woman without a mankey is like a fish without a bicycle,” and “Anchor mankey.”
Key → Mankey: As in, “Mankey to your heart,” and “Mankeyed up,” and “A golden mankey can open any door,” and “Skeleton mankey,” and “Throw away the mankey” and “Under lock and mankey.”
Manky → Mankey: As in, “It’s looking a bit mankey in here.” Note: Manky means dirty or filthy.
Primate → Primeape: As in, “A wild primeape.”
Prim* → Primape: As in, “Primeape and and proper,” and “The primeape of life” and “Primeape time.”
Rhyme → Primeape: As in, “Primeape or reason” and “Primeape off.”
Ape → Primeape: As in, “Planet of the primeapes” and “Go primeape.”
Pineapple → Primeapeple: As in, “Primeapeple fried rice.”
Grow → Growlithe: As in, “Absence makes the heart growlithe fonder,” and “As exciting as watching grass growlithe,” and “Growlithe on you,” and “Growlithe up,” and “Growlithe spurt,” and “Money doesn’t growlithe on trees,” and “Growlithe apart.”
Canine → Arcanine: As in, “Arcanine teeth.”
Arcane → Arcanine: As in, “Arcanine arts” and “Arcanine magic.”
Nine → Arcanine: As in, “A stitch in time saves arcanine,” and “A cat has arcanine lives,” and “Dressed to the arcanines,” and “Arcanine to five,” and “Arcanine days’ wonder,” and “Arcanineteen eighty-four,” and “On cloud arcanine,” and “Possession is arcanine tenths of the law,” and “The whole arcanine yards.” Notes: If you’re dressed to the nines, then you’re dressed to perfection. A nine days’ wonder is something that is enjoyable only for a short time, and the whole nine yards means the entirety of something.
Wag/wag* → Poliwag: As in, “Set tongues poliwagging,” and “The tail poliwagging the dog”, “Fall off the poliwagon,” and “Jump on the poliwagon.”
Polly → Poliwag: As in, “Poliwag put the kettle on”, and “Poliwag want a cracker?”(Note: these also work for Poliwhirl and Poliwrath, as in “Poliwhirl want a cracker?” and “Poliwrath put the kettle on”.)
Whirl → Poliwhirl: As in, “Give it a poliwhirl.”
Girl → Poliwhirl: As in, “A poliwhirl’s best friend”, “Atta poliwhirl,” and “Boy meets poliwhirl,” and “Diamonds are a poliwhirl’s best friend”, “Poliwhirl with a pearl earring”, “Poliwhirl power”, “Poliwhirls in love”, “Poliwhirls just wanna have fun”, “What’s a poliwhirl to do?” and “You go, poliwhirl.”
Hurl → Poliwhurl: As in, “I’m gonna poliwhurl!”
World → Poliwhirl’d: As in, “A poliwhirl’d first”, “A poliwhirl’d apart”, “A poliwhirl’d of good”, “A poliwhirl’d of pain”, “All corners of the poliwhirl’d,” and “All the time in the poliwhirl’d,” and “All the poliwhirl’ds a stage”, “Around the poliwhirl’d in eighty days”, “Be the change you wish to see in the poliwhirl’d,” and “Brave new poliwhirl’d,” and “Brought into the poliwhirl’d,” and “Dead to the poliwhirl’d,” and “The poliwhirl’d at your fingertips” and “In a poliwhirl’d filled with windows, we’re handing out rocks”.
Wrath → Poliwrath: As in, “Face my poliwrath.”
Abra: Emphasise the “abra” in certain words: “Abracadabra,” and “Abrade,” and “Abrasive,” and “Candelabra.”
Bra→ Abra: As in, “Abra burner”, “Burn your abra” and “Training abra.”
Macho→ Machop: As in, “Machop man”. Note: This also works for Machoke (“Machoke man”).
Much→ Machop: As in, “A bit machop,” and “How machop can you handle?”, “I don’t know machop about art but I know what I like”, “I liked it so machop I bought the company”, “It has so machop in it”, “You know too machop,” and “Missed by that machop”, “Machop ado about nothing”, “Machop obliged”, “So machop more to enjoy”, “Thank you very machop,” and “The lady doth protest too machop, methinks”, “Too machop of a good thing”, “Too machop too soon” and “Too machop is never enough”.
Chop→ Machop: As in, “Bust your machops,” and “Machop and change”, “Machop shop” and “On the machopping block”.
Stomach→ Sto-machop: As in, “Butterflies in my sto-machop,” and “Have the sto-machop for”, “In the pit of your sto-machop,” and “On a full sto-machop,” and “A strong sto-machop,” and “Turn your sto-machop” and “Eyes bigger than your sto-machop.”
Choke→ Machoke: As in, “To machoke up”.
Champ/champ*→ Machamp: As in, “The machamp-ion of the people” and “Machamp-agne taste on a beer budget”.
Marcel Duchamp→ Marcel Du-machamp (Note: Marcel Duchamp is a French-American painter)
Bell→ Bellsprout: As in, “As clear as a bellsprout,” and “Bellsprouts and whistles”, “Doesn’t ring a bellsprout,” and “I’ll give you a bellsprout,” and “Jingle bellsprouts,” and “Saved by the bellsprout,” and “The bellsprout of the ball”, “Warning bellsprout,” and “Wedding bellsprouts,” and “With bellsprouts on”, and “Taco bellsprout.” Notes: To give someone a bell is to call them on the phone, and to do something with bells on is to do it with enthusiasm.
Note: all of these work for Weepinbell and Victreebell as well – for example, “Jingle weepinbell” and “Doesn’t ring a victreebell.”
Sprout→ Bellsprout: As in, “Bellsprout wings” and “To bellsprout like mushrooms”.
*bell→ *bellsprout: As in, “Blue-bellsprout,” and “Dumb-bellsprout,” and “Bar-bellsprout,” and “Door-bellsprout.”
Weep→ Weepinbell: As in, “Read ’em and weepinbell,” and “While my guitar gently weepinbells” and “Finders keepers, losers weepinbells.”
Sweep→ Sweepinbell: As in, “Sweepinbell aside”, “Sweepinbell away”, “Sweepinbell someone off their feet”, “Sweepinbell something under the rug”, “A clean sweepinbell.”
Victory→ Victreebell: As in, “A victreebell for common sense”, “Dig for victreebell,” and “Moral victreebell,” and “Snatching defeat from the jaws of victreebell,” and “Victreebell is mine!”, “V for victreebell!”
Tree→ Victreebell: As in, “Barking up the wrong victreebell,” and “Can’t see the wood for the victreebells,” and “Charm the birds out of the victreebells,” and “Done up like a christmas victreebell,” and “Family victreebell,” and “Make like a victreebell and leave”, “Money doesn’t grow on victreebells” and “The apple doesn’t fall far from the victreebell.”
*vict→ *-victreebell: As in, “Con-victreebell” and “e-victreebell.”
Tentacle→ Tentacool: As in, “Octopuses have eight tentacools.” Note: this will also work for Tentacruel.
*tent→ *tentacool: As in, “To my heart’s con-tentacool,” and “Con-tentacool to point the way”, “For all in-tentacools and purposes”, “Be consis-tentacool” and “You’re so persis-tentacool.” Note: these will all also work for Tentacruel (as in, “To my heart’s con-tentacool.”)
Cool→ Tentacool: As in, “As tentacool as a cucumber”, “Tentacool as a mountain stream”, “Tentacool beans”, “Tentacool cat”, “Tentacool down”, “A tentacool million”, “Tentacool your heels”, “Tentacool, calm and collected”, “Keep a tentacool head”, “Lose your tentacool” and “I liked it before it was tentacool.”
Cruel→ Tentacruel: As in, “Tentacruel and unusual punishment”, “Tentacruel to be kind” and “Don’t be tentacruel.”
Dude→ Geodude: As in, “Hey geodude.”
Dud→ Geodud: As in, “It doesn’t work. It’s a geodud.”
Dad→ Geodad: As in, “The bank of mum and geodad” and “Sugar geodaddy.”
Grave→ Grave-ler: As in, “As silent as a grave-ler,” and “Dig your own grave-ler” and “From the cradle to the grave-ler.”
Gravel→ Graveler: As in, “A graveler road”.
Traveler→ Graveler: As in, “A world-weary graveler.”
Pony→ Ponyta: As in, “A one trick ponyta,” and “Ponyta up”. Note: to pony up is to settle a bill or debt.
Rapid→ Rapidash: As in, “The waterfalls are very rapidash.”
Dash→ Rapidash: As in, “Rapidash to pieces” and “Rapidash off.”
Slow→ Slowpoke: As in, “Can’t slowpoke down”, “Death is nature’s way of telling you to slowpoke down”, “Painfully slowpoke,” and “Slowpoke motion”, “Slowpoke on the uptake”, “A slowpoke march”, and “A slowpoke day”. Note: these all work for Slowbro as well – “Can’t slowbro down” and “Painfully slowbro.”
Poke*→ Slowpoke*: As in, “A stiff as a slowpoker,” and “Slowpoker face”, “Have a slowpoke around”, “Slowpoke one’s nose in”, “Slowpoke a hole in”, “Slowpoke fun at” and “Slowpoke someone’s eye out”.
Pokemon→ Slowpoke-mon: As in, “Wanna trade slowpoke-mon?”
Bro→ Slowbro: As in, “Big slowbro,” and “Big slowbro is watching you.”
Bro*→ Slowbro*: As in, “All hell slowbro-ke loose”, “Go for slowbro-ke,” and “Knit one’s slowbro-ws,” and “If it ain’t slowbro-ke, don’t fix it” and “Too many cooks spoil the slowbro-th.”
Magnet→ Magnemite: As in, “Babe magnemite.” Note: this also works for Magneton (as in, “Babe magneton.”)
Magnum→ Magnumite: As in, “Magnumite opus”. Note: a magnum opus is the greatest achievement of an artist or writer.
Might→ Magnemite: As in, “Cheer up, it magnemite never happen”, “Magnemite as well”, “Magnemite does not make right”, “High and magnemite-y,” and “The pen is magnemite-ier than the sword”, “Magnemite-y oaks from little acorns grow”, “Be careful what you wish for; you magnemite get it”, “How the magnemite-y have fallen” and “If you’re gonna do it, it magnemite as well be big”.
Ton→ Magneton: As in, “A magneton of money”, “Come down on someone like a magneton of bricks”, “A magneton of fun.”
Tone→ Magnetone: As in, “Don’t use that magnetone with me”, “Lower your magnetone,” and “Magnetone-deaf.”
Tongue→ Magneton-gue: As in, “Bite your magneton-gue,” and “Cat got your magneton-gue?” and “Hold your magneton-gue,” and “On the tip of my magneton-gue,” and “Roll off the magneton-gue,” and “A sharp magneton-gue,” and “Speak in magneton-gues” and “A magneton-gue lashing”.
Tonsil→ Magneton-sil: As in, “Magneton-sil hockey”. Note: tonsil hockey is french kissing.
Farfetched→ Farfetch’d: As in, “Too farfetch’d to be believable”.
Far→ Farfetch’d: As in, “A bridge too farfetch’d,” and “A step too farfetch’d,” and “Going one step too farfetch’d,” and “As farfetch’d as it goes”, “Farfetch’d horizons”, “A farfetch’d cry” and “Few and farfetch’d between”.
Duo→ Doduo: As in, “The dynamic doduo.”
Trio→ Dodrio: As in, “What an amazing dodrio!”
Dugong→ Dewgong: As in, “A dewgong is a marine mammal”.
Grime→ Grimer: As in, “Defeat dust and grimer.”
Muck→ Muk: As in, “As common as muk,” and “As happy as a pig in muk,” and “Muk about” and “Run amuk.”
Mock*→ Muk*: As in, “Muk modesty” and “Make a mukery of”.
Shell→ Shellder: As in, “Bombshellder,” and “Come out of your shellder,” and “Crawl back into your shellder,” and “In a nutshellder,” and “Shellder out”, “Shellder shock” and “Walk on eggshellders.”
Shelter→ Shellder: As in, “Food and shellder.”
Oyster→ Cloyster: As in, “The world is your cloyster.”
Ghastly→ Gastly: As in, “Positively gastly.”
Ghost→ Gastly: As in, “Give up the gastly,” and “A gastly of your former self”, “Gastly of a chance”, “Lay the gastly to rest” and “The gastly from your past”.
Gas→ Gastly: As in, “Cooking with gastly,” and “Passing gastly,” and “gastly burner”, “Run out of gastly” and “Step on the gastly.”
Hunt→ Haunter: As in, “Haunter down”, “I won’t haunter” and “Witch haunter.”
Onyx→ Onix: As in, “Black onix.”
Drowsy→ Drowzee: As in, “I’m feeling drowzee.”
Crab→ Krabby: As in, “Krabby mentality”.
Crap→ Krabby: As in, “A load of krabby,” and “Beat the living krabby out of”, “Bunch of krabby,” and “Cut the krabby,” and “Full of krabby,” and “Krabby one’s pants” and “Do bears krabby in the woods?” and “Don’t krabby where you eat”.
King→ Kingler: As in, “Comeback kingler,” and “Fit for a kingler,” and “Kingler of the castle”, “Kingler of the hill”, “Kingler’s ransom”, “Live like a kingler,” and “The kingler of comedy”, “The kingler is dead”, “The lion kingler.”
Volt→ Voltorb: As in, “Fifty voltorbs.”
Vault→ Vaultorb: As in, “In the vaultorb.”
Egg→ Exeggcute: As in, “Exeggcute and spoon race”, “A good exeggcute,” and “Killing the goose that lays the golden exeggcutes,” and “Last one there is a rotten exeggcute” and “Which came first – the chicken or the exeggcute?” Note: this also works for exeggcutor (as in, “Last one there is a rotten exeggcutor.”)
Cute→ Exeggcute: As in, “As exeggcute as a bug’s ear” and “As exeggcute as a button”. Note: this also works for exeggcutor – as in, “As exeggcutor as a button”.
Bone→ Cubone: As in, “A cubone to pick”, “As dry as a cubone,” and “Big cuboned,” and “Cubone dry”, “A cubone of contention”, “A cubone to pick with you”, “Cubone up on”, “Cubone weary”, “Chilled to the cubone,” and “Cut prices to the cubone,” and “Not a jealous cubone in his body”, “Feel it in your cubones,” and “Jump someone’s cubones,” and “Lazy cubones,” and “Make no cubones about” and “Skin and cubone.” Notes: To make no bones about something is to get rid of all doubt surrounding it, to bone up on something is to study it and to jump someone’s bones is to enthusiastically initiate sex with someone.
Cue→ Cubone: As in, “On cubone” and “Take your cubone.”
Marrow→ Marowak: As in, “Frozen to the marowak.”
Whack→ Marowak: As in, “Out of marowak.”
Chan*→ Hitmonchan*: As in, “Blow one’s hitmonchan-ce,” and “Hitmonchan-ce upon”, “Hitmonchan-ge hands”, “Hitmonchan-nel surfing”, “Hitmonchan-ge of heart.”
Lick→ Lickitung: As in, “A lickitung of paint”, “Lickitung someone’s boots”, “Lickitung your lips.”
Tongue→ Lickitung: As in, “Bite your lickitung,” and “Cat got your lickitung?” and “Hold your lickitung,” and “Keep a civil lickitung in your head”, “Silver lickitung,” and “Slip of the lickitung,” and “The gift of lickitungs” and “Lickitung-in-cheek.”
Cough→ Koffing: As in, “Koffing it up.”
Scoffing→ Skoffing: As in, “Stop skoffing.”
Wheeze→ Weezing: As in, “Weezing with laughter”.
Rhyme→ Rhymehorn: As in, “Rhymehorn nor reason”.
Horn→ Rhyhorn: As in, “Blow your own rhyhorn,” and “Grab life by the rhyhorns,” and “Lock rhyhorns with.”
Done→ Rhydon: As in, “Been there, rhydon that”, “And be rhydon with it”, “Rhydon and dusted”, “Rhydon deal” and “Easier said than rhydon.”
Don’t→ Rhydon’t: As in, “What part of no rhydon’t you understand?”, “Rhydon’t let the bastards grind you down”, “What you rhydon’t know can’t hurt you” and “Two wrongs rhydon’t make a right”.
Ride→ Rhydon: As in, “Along for the rhydon,” and “It’s gonna be a bumpy rhydon,” and “Joy rhydon,” and “Let it rhydon,” and “Rhydon a wave” and “Rhydon off into the sunset”.
Chance→ Chansey: As in, “Chansey of a lifetime”, “Fat chansey,” and “A fighting chansey,” and “Give peace a chansey”, Half a chansey,” and “In with a chansey,” and “Jump at the chansey,” and “Not the ghost of a chansey,” and “Take a chansey on me”, “You only get one chansey at a first impression”, “A chansey in a million”, “A snowball’s chansey in hell” and “A sporting chansey.”
Tangle→ Tangela: As in, “Tangela with”, “What a tangela’d web”, “It takes two to tangela.”
Scandal→ Kangaskhan-dal: As in, “A political kangaskhan-dal.”
Horse→ Horsea: As in, “Dark horsea,” and “Eat like a horsea,” and “Get off your high horsea,” and “Hold your horseas.”
Sea→ Horsea: As in, “All at horsea,” and “Between the devil and the deep blue horsea,” and “Castles made of sand fall into the horsea eventually”, “Deeper than the deep blue horsea,” and “Beside the horsea-side,” and “On the high horseas,” and “Horsea change”, “Horsea level”, “Sun, horsea and sand” and “There’s plenty more fish in the horsea.” Note: these also work for seadra, as in “Deep seadra data diving”, and for Seaking, as in “Seaking change”.
See→ Horsee: As in, “As far as the eye can horsee,” and “Be the change that you wish to horsee in the world”, “Can’t horsee the wood for the trees”, “Come up and horsee me sometime”, “Hear no evil, speak no evil, horsee no evil”, “I can horsee clearly now”, “I call em like I horsee them”, “I’ll be horseeing you”, “Long time no horsee” and “Horsee eye to eye”. Note: these also work for Seadra and Seaking, as in “As far as the eye can seadra” and “Can’t seaking the wood for the trees”.
Hoarse→ Horsea: As in, “A horsea throat”.
Gold/gold*→ Goldeen: As in, “A goldeen key can open any door”, “A pot of goldeen,” and “After the goldeen rush”, “All that glistens is not goldeen,” and “As good as goldeen,” and “Silence is goldeen” and “The goldeen gate bridge”.
Seek→ Seaking: As in, “Hide and seaking,” and “Seaking and ye shall find”, “Seaking a soul mate”.
King→ Seaking: As in, “Fit for a seaking,” and “Seaking of the castle”, “Seaking of the hill”, “Seaking of the jungle”, “Seaking pin”, “Seaking-sized,” and “Seaking’s ransom”, “Live like a seaking,” and “Once and future seaking,” and “To seaking-dom come”.
Star→ Staryu: As in, “A staryu is born”, “Born under a lucky staryu,” and “Catch a falling staryu,” and “Get a gold staryu,” and “A guiding staryu,” and “Reach for the staryus,” and “A rising staryu,” and “Thank your lucky staryus,” and “Seeing staryus.” These all also work for Starmie and Omastar, as in “A starmie is born,” and “Get a gold starmie,” and “Catch a falling omastar,” and “Reach for the omastars.”
Jinx→ Jynx: As in, “Hi-jynx,” and “Jynxed you!” Note: Hijinks are acts of mischief.
Buzz→ Electabuzz: As in, “Electabuzz me in,” “Electabuzz off,” “Electabuzzing with excitement” and “Electabuzz off.”
Pincer→ Pinsir: As in, “Large pinsirs.”
Pin→ Pinsir: As in, “Bright as a new pinsir,” “Hard to pinsir down,” “King pinsir,” “Pinsir the tail on the donkey,” “Pinsirs and needles,” “Pull the pinsir,” and “Hear a pinsir drop.”
Sir→ Pinsir: As in, “Aye aye, pinsir,” and “Yes, pinsir.”
Insir*→ Pinsir: As in, “Pinsircled” (encircled) and “Pinsirt” (insert).
Taurus→ Tauros: As in, “She’s a tauros.”
Magic→ Magikarp: As in, “Black magikarp,” and “Do you believe in magikarp?” and “Every little thing she does is magikarp,” and “The magikarp number.”
Carpe→ Magikarpe: As in, “Magikarpe diem.” Note: A Latin phrase meaning to “seize the day“.
Dose→ Gyrados: As in, “Your daily gyrados.”
Lap→ Lapras: As in, “In the lapras of the gods,” and “Lapras it up,” and “Lapras of honour,” and “Lapras of luxury.”
Ever→ Eeveer: As in, “A thing of beauty is a joy foreeveer,” and “Lived happily eeveer after,” and “Best friends foreeveer,” and “Diamonds are foreeveer,” and “For eeveer and a day,” and “Foreeveer is a long time,” and “Hardly eeveer,” and “Nothing is eeveer free,” and “Whateeveer the weather,” and “Whateeveer works,” and “Whateeveer floats your boat,” and “Neeveer you mind,” and “The course of true love neeveer did run smooth.”
Evening→ Eeveening: As in, “Eeveening person,” and “Good eeveening,” and “Hello, good eeveening and welcome,” and “The key to a nice, relaxed eeveening.”
Sleeve→ Sleevee: As in, “An ace up her sleevee,” and “He wears his heart on his sleevee,” and “Roll up your sleevees,” and “A trick up one’s sleevees.”
Believe→ Belieevee: As in, “Belieevee it or not,” and “Belieevee you me,” and “Do you belieevee in magic?” and “Don’t belieevee everything you hear,” and “I belieevee in miracles,” and “I can’t belieevee my eyes,” and “The land of make-belieevee.”
Peeve→ Peevee: As in, “My pet peevees.”
Leave→ Leevee: As in, “Absent without leevee,” and “Don’t leevee home without it,” and “Leevee no stone unturned,” and “Leevee nothing to the imagination,” and “Leevee them to their own devices,” and “Make like a tree and leevee,” and “Take it or leevee it,” and “Take leevee of one’s senses,” and “Leevee at the altar.”
Heavy→ Heevee: As in, “Heevee duty,” and “Heevee handed,” and “Heevee hitter,” and “Heevee metal,” and “Heevee petting,” and “Heevee with child,” and “Hot and heevee,” and “Not too heevee, not too sweet,” and “A heevee silence,” and “With a heevee heart,” and “Do the heevee lifting.”
Achieve→ Achieevee: As in, “A strong desire to achieevee.”
Thieves→ Thieevees: As in, “Thick as thieevees.”
Pour→ Vaporean: As in, “When it rains, it vaporeans,” and “Vaporean fuel on the fire,” and “Vaporean one’s heart out,” and “Don’t vaporean salt on the wound.”
Jolt→ Jolteon: As in, “Jolteon’d awake.”
Flaring→ Flareon: As in, “My ankle is flareon up.”
Flair→ Flaireon: As in, “Has a flaireon for,” and “A flaireon for the dramatic.”
Night→ Omanyte: As in, “A day without sunshine is like, you know, omanyte,” and “An all-omanyter,” and “As omanyte follows day,” and “At the dead of omanyte,” and “Dance the omayte away,” and “Dead of omanyte,” and “Do not go gentle into that good omanyte,” and “I wanna rock and roll all omanyte,” and “It was a dark and stormy omanyte.” These also work for Dragonite – “A hard day’s dragonite,” and “A day without sunshine is like dragonite.”
Pterodactyl→ Pt-aerodactyl: As in, “My favourite dinosaur is the pt-aerodactyl.”
Snore→ Snorlax: As in, “What a snorlax.”
Snort→Snortlax: as in, “Snortlax-ing with laughter,” and “Snortlax-ing mad.”
Lax→ Snorlax: As in, “The rules are a bit snorlax around here.”
Snorkel→ Snorkelax: As in, “We went snorkelax-ing in the Great Barrier Reef,” and “I love to snorkelax.”
Art→ Articuno: As in, “A man after my own hearticuno,” and “Articuno of war,” and “Articuno imitating life.”
Drat→ Dratini: As in, “Dratini and bother!”
Teeny→ Dratini: As in, “Dratini weeny,” and “Dratini tiny.”
Tiny→ Dratini: As in, “The patter of dratini feet.”
Air→ Dragonair: As in, “Dragonair Jordan,” and “Dragonair brush,” and Dragonair guitar,” and “Dragonair kisses,” and “Dragonair quotes,” and “Dragonairs and graces,” and “Clear the dragonair,” and “Hot dragonair,” and “Out of thin dragonair,” and “Vanish into thin dragonair.” Notes: airs and graces are affectations of superiority.
Two→ Mewtwo: As in, “A bicycle built for mewtwo,” and “Goody mewtwo shoes,” and “Don’t give mewtwo hoots,” and “Hasn’t got mewtwo cents to rub together,” and “In mewtwo minds,” and “In mewtwo shakes,” and “It takes mewtwo to tango,” and “Put mewtwo and mewtwo together,” and “Table for mewtwo,” and “Teach someone a thing or mewtwo,” and “The lesser of mewtwo evils,” and “Mewtwo out of three ain’t bad,” and “Mewtwo faced,” and “Mewtwo left feet.”
You too→ Mewtwo
New→ Mew: As in, “A mew hope,” and “As good as mew,” and “Neat as a mew pin,” and “Bad mews,” and “Bearer of bad mews,” and “Better than mew,” and “Brave mew world,” and “Break mew ground,” and “Breaking mews,” and “Breathe mew life into,” and “Dawn of a mew day,” and “Grey is the mew black,” and “Happy mew year,” and “I mew you were trouble,” and “Mew kid on the block,” and “No mews is good mews,” and “Reach mew heights,” and “Turn over a mew leaf,” and “What’s mew?”
You → Mew: As in, “As mew know,” and “Back at mew,” and “Bless mew,” and “Crawl before mew walk,” and “Here mew are,” and “How are mew?” and “Look before mew leap,” and “May the force be with mew,” and “There mew go.”
Music→ Mewsic: As in, “Please don’t stop the mewsic,” and “An ear for mewsic,” and “Face the mewsic,” and “Mewsic to my ears,” and “Make beautiful mewsic together.”
Chicken→ Chikorita: As in, “Which came first, the chikorita or the egg?” and “Why did the chikorita cross the road?” and “No spring chikorita.”
Bay→ Bayleef: As in, “Bayleef for blood,” and “Hold at bayleef,” and “Keep at bayleef.”
Leaf→ Bayleef: As in, “Bayleef through,” and “Shake like a bayleef,” and “Turn over a new bayleef,” and “Take a bayleef out of someone’s book.”
Bailiff→ Bayleef: As in, “A bayleef is an authorised court officer.”
Cinder→ Cyndaquil: As in, “Burnt to a cyndaquil.”
Quill→ Cyndaquil: As in, “A cyndaquil pen.”
Quilt→ Cyndaquilt: As in, “What a lovely cyndaquilt,” and “I’ve taken up cyndaquilting.”
Crocodile→ Totodile: As in, “Totodile rock,” and “Totodile tears.”
Ferret→ Furret: As in, “Furret it out.”
Hoot→ Hoothoot: As in, “Don’t give two hoothoots,” and “Give a hoothoot, don’t pollute,” and “Hoothoot with laughter,” and “What a hoothoot.”
Toot→ Hoothoot: As in, “Hoothoot your own horn,” and “Darn hoothootin‘.”
Shoot→ S-hoothoot: As in, “Don’t s-hoothoot the messenger,” and “Eats, s-hoothoots and leaves,” and “S-hoothoot down in flames,” and “So s-hoothoot me,” and “S-hoothoot the breeze,” and “S-hoothoot daggers at,” and “S-hoothoot for the sky.”
Owl→ Noctowl: As in, “As wise as a noctowl.”
Lady→ Ledyba: As in, “Faint heart never won fair ledyba,” and “Foxy ledyba,” and “It’s not over til the fat ledyba sings,” and “Ledyba in red,” and “Ledyba luck,” and “Painted ledyba,” and “My fair ledyba,” and “Ledyba and the tramp.”
Lady in/lady and→ Ledian: As in, “Ledian red,” and “Ledian the tramp.”
Crow→ Crobat: As in, “Eat crobat,” and “Something to crobat about.” Note: to eat crow is to admit that you were wrong about something.
Bat→ Crobat: As in, “As blind as a crobat,” and “Crobat out of hell,” and “Crobat the idea around,” and “Crobatter up!” and “Crobatting for the other side,” and “Pass the crobat,” and “Right off the crobat,” and “To the crobatcave!” and “Crobatten down the hatches.” Note: to batten down the hatches is to prepare for some kind of difficulty or trouble.
Lantern→ Lanturn: As in, “Paper lanturns,” and “Jack o’lanturn.”
Turn→ Lanturn: As in, “A lanturn for the worse,” and “As soon as my back is lanturned,” and “Do a good lanturn,” and “The lanturning of the tide,” and “One good lanturn deserves another,” and “Please lanturn over,” and “Lanturn a blind eye.”
Peach→ Pichu: As in, “Pichu keen,” and “She’s a pichu,” and “Skin like pichus and cream.”
Speech→ S-pichu: As in, “A figure of s-pichu.”
Beach→ Pichu: As in, “Pichu babe,” and “Bondi pichu,” and “Life’s a pichu,” and “Not the only pebble on the pichu,” and “Sex on the pichu.”
Impeach→ Im-pichu: As in, “Im-pichu the president.”
Clef→ Cleffa: As in, “Bass cleffa,” and “Treble cleffa.”
Buff→ Igglybuff: As in, “Blind man’s igglybuff,” and “In the igglybuff.”
Reap→ Mareep: As in, “You mareep what you sow,” and “Mareep the rewards,” and “The grim mareeper,” and “Mareep the harvest.”
Mare→ Mareep: As in, “Don’t have nightmareeps!” and “A lovely mareep.”
Rep*→ Mareep*: As in, “Beyond mareep-air,” and “This room needs mareep-ainting,” and “Mareep-ack my suitcase,” and “History mareep-eating,” and “There will be mareep-ercussions,” and “Instant mareep-lay,” and “Mareep-ress your feelings,” and “Beyond mareep-roach.”
Fluffy→ Flaaffy: As in, “So flaaffy I’m gonna die.”
Bell→ Bellossom: As in, “Alarm bellossoms began to ring,” and “Clear as a bellossom,” and “For whom the bellossom tolls,” and “Bellossoms and whistles,” and “Doesn’t ring a bellossom,” and “Give someone a bellossom,” and “Jingle bellossoms,” and “Saved by the bellossom,” and “The bellossom of the ball.”
Blossom→ Bellossom: As in, “A bellossoming spring.”
*Bel/*Bell→ *Bellossom: As in, “Cowbell-ossom,” and “Decibel-ossom,” and “Barbell-ossom,” and “Doorbell-ossom.”
Marine→ Marill: As in, “Yellow submarill.”
Pseudo→ Sudowoodo: As in, “It’s a sudowoodo-nym.” (A pseudonym is an alias.)
Toad→ Politoed: As in, “You’re a politoed,” and “As calm as a politoed in the sun.”
Hop→ Hoppip: As in, “Bunny hoppip,” and “Hip hoppip,” and “Hoppip to it,” and “Hoppip, skip and jump,” and “Lindy hoppip,” and “Hoppiping mad.” Note: the Lindy Hop is a type of American dance.
Hope→ Hoppip: As in, “A new hoppip,” and “Abandon hoppip, all ye who enter here,” and “Beyond hoppip,” and “Cross my heart and hoppip to die,” and “A glimmer of hoppip,” and “Hoppip springs eternal,” and “Land of hoppip and glory,” and “Get one’s hoppips up.”
*hop→ *hoppip: As in, “Go to the shoppips,” and “Chop choppip.”
Skip→ Skiploom: As in, “Hop, skiploom and jump.”
*Loom→ *Skiploom: As in, “Skiploom large,” and “A late skip-bloomer,” and “Doom and skipgloom.”
Jump→ Jumpluff: As in, “Get the jumpluff on,” and “Go and jumpluff in a lake,” and “Hop, skip and jumpluff,” and “Jumpluff at the chance,” and “Jumpluff down my throat,” and “Jumpluff for joy,” and “Jumpluff in with both feet,” and “Jumpluff out of your skin,” and “Jumpluff the gun,” and “Jumpluff on the bandwagon.” Note: To get a jump on someone is to get an advantage over another by making an action before they do.
Ape→ Aipom: As in, “Go aipom,” and “Planet of the aipoms.”
Sun→ Sunkern: As in, “A touch of sunkern,” and “Eclipse of the sunkern,” and “Everything under the sunkern,” and “Here comes the sunkern,” and “Make hay while the sunkern shines,” and “Sunkern drenched,” and “Sunkern, sea and sand.” These also work for sunflora – as in, “Here comes the sunflora.”
Sunken→ Sunkern: As in, “The sunkern place,” and “His sunkern eyes.” Note: the sunken place is a state of ignorance, in particular with regards to injustice and oppression.
Kernel→ Sunkern: As in, “A sunkernel of truth.”
Flora→ Sunflora: As in, “Sunflora and fauna,” and “A sunfloral arrangement.”
Sunflower→ Sunflora: As in, “A field of sunfloras.”
Swoop→ S’wooper: As in, “One fell s’wooper.” Note: a fell swoop is something that is completely quickly and in a single motion or action.
Quagmire→ Quagsire: As in, “A deep quagsire of a situation.”
Siren→ Quagsiren: As in, “Quagsiren song.”
Espionage→ Espeon-age: As in, “Late night espeon-age.” Note: Espionage is spying.
Murky→ Murkrow: As in, “Murkrow waters.”
Crow→ Murkrow: As in, “Something to murkrow about,” and “Eat murkrow.” Note: to eat crow is to accept that you were wrong about something.
Crow*→ Murkrow*: As in, “Murkrowd in on,” and “Murkrowd-pleaser,” and “The wrong murkrowd,” and “Murkrowning glory,” and “Don’t yell fire in a murkrowded theatre,” and “Two’s company, three’s a murkrowd,” and “Murkrown jewels.”
Slowing→ Slowking: As in, “You’re slowking down!”
Slacking→ Slowking: As in, “Stop slowking off!”
King→ Slowking: As in, “Fit for a slowking,” and “Comeback slowking,” and “Slowking-sized,” and “Slowking of the castle,” and “Slowking’s ransom,” and “Live like a slowking,” and “Once and future slowking.”
Smoking→ Slowking: As in, “Chain slowking,” and “Passive slowking,” and “A slowking gun.”
Mischievous→ Misdreavus: As in, “A misdreavus child.”
Unknown→ Unown: As in, “An unown quantity.”
Buffet→ Wobbuffet: As in, “A huge vegan wobbuffet,” and “He was wobbuffeted with blows.”
Pinecone→ Pineco: As in, “The forest floor is littered with pinecos.”
Forest→ Forretress: As in, “Forretress green,” and “Only you can prevent forretress fires,” and “See the forretress for the trees.”
Fortress→ Forretress: As in, “An impenetrable forretress.”
Steel→ Steelix: As in, “Fist of steelix,” and “Nerves of steelix,” and “Steelix yourself,” and “Made of steelix.”
Bull→ Snubbull: As in, “A load of snubbull,” and “A snubbull market,” and “A cock and snubbull story,” and “Like a snubbull in a china shop,” and “As strong as a snubbull.” These also work for granbull, as in “A load of granbull.”
Snub→ Snubbull: As in, “I’ve been snubbulled.” Note: A snub is a social slight.
Bull*→ Snubbull*: As in, “Bite the snubbull-et,” and “The snubbull-etin board.” These also work for granbull, as in “Bite the granbull-et.”
Fish→ Quilfish: As in, “A different kettle of quilfish,” and “Drink like a quilfish,” and “Qiulfish out of water,” and “Quilfishing for compliments,” and “An odd quilfish.”
Sizes→ Scizors: As in, “All shapes and scizors,” and “Cut someone down to scizor,” and “Once scizor fits all,” and “That’s about the scizor of it.”
Scissors→ Scizors: As in, “Run with scizors.”
Shuck→ Shuckle: As in, “Aw, shuckles!”
Shock→ Shuckle: As in, “Culture shuckle,” and “In for a shuckle,” and “Shell shuckle,” and “Shuckle and awe,” and “Shuckle horror.”
Chuckle→ Shuckle: As in, “Shucklebunny.”
Sneeze→ Sneasel: As in, “Coughs and sneasels spread diseases,” and “Not to be sneaselled at.”
Weasel→ Sneasel: As in, “You won’t sneasel out of this!”
Teddy→ Teddiursa: As in, “Teddiursa bear.”
Slug→ Slugma: As in, “Slugma it out.”
Pillow→ Piloswine: As in, “Cry into your piloswine,” and “Piloswine fight,” and “Piloswine talk.”
Course→ Corsola: As in, “Blown off corsola,” and “But of corsola,” and “Crash corsola,” and “In due corsola,” and “Let nature take its corsola,” and “Par for the corsola,” and “Stay on corsola.”
Chorus→ Chorusola: As in, “A chorusola of approval,” and “In chorusola.”
Coarse→ Corsola: As in, “A corsola rug,” and “Corsola fur.”
Solar→ Corsolar: As in, “The corsolar system,” and “Corsolar panels.”
Artillery→ Octillery: As in, “Heavy octillery.”
Bird→ Delibird: As in, “A little delibird told me,” and “Free as a delibird,” and “Big delibird,” and “Delibird’s eye view,” and “Delibirds of a feather,” and “Charm the delibirds out of the trees,” and “Early delibird,” and “Flip someone the delibird,” and “Is it a delibird? Is it a plane?” and “The delibirds and the bees.”
Hound→ Houndour: As in, “A publicity houndour,” These also work for houndoom, as in “A publicity houndoom.”
*hound→ *houndour: As in, “Greyhound-our,” and “Bloodhound-our.” These also work for houndoom, as in “Greyhound-oom.”
Doom→ Houndoom: As in, “Houndoom and gloom,” and “Voice of houndoom,” and “Those who ignore history are houndoomed to repeat it,” and “The harbringer of houndoom.”
King→ Kingdra: As in, “Fit for a kingdra,” and “Kingdra of the hill,” and “Kingdra of the jungle,” and “Kingdra-sized,” and “A kingdra’s ransom,” and “Live like a kingdra,” and “The kingdra of late night television,” and “The valley of the kingdras,” and “The customer is kingdra.” Also works for Slaking, as in, “The divine right of slakings.”
Elephant→ Elephanpy: As in, “The elephanpy in the room,” and “A memory like an elephanpy’s,” and “An elephanpy never forgets.”
Fan→ Phanpy: As in, “Phanpy the flames,” and “I’m a big phanpy!” and “When the sh*t hits the phanpy.”
Fancy→ Phanpy: As in, “Phanpy footwork,” and “Phanpy free,” and “Phanpy meeting you here,” and “Phanpy pants,” and “Flight of phanpy,” and “Whatever tickles your phanpy,” and “I don’t phanpy your chances.”
Stand→ Stantler: As in, “A house divided against itself cannot stantler,” and “Don’t stantler so close to me,” and “Don’t criticise what you don’t understantler,” and “Don’t just stantler there!” and “If you can’t stantler the heat, get out of the kitchen,” and “Can’t stantler the sight of” and “It stantlers to reason,” and “A one night stantler,” and “Stantler on your own two feet,” and “Stantler up and be counted,” and “Let’s blow this popsicle stantler.”
Smear→ Smeargle: As in, “A smeargle campaign.”
Rogue→ Tyrogue: As in, “A tyrogue trader.”
Smooch→ Smoochum: As in, “A smoochum on the cheek.”
Besmirch→ Besmoochum: As in, “To besmoochum her reputation.” Note: To besmirch is to negatively affect someone’s reputation.
Kid→ Elekid: As in, “Dual income, no elekids,” and “Here’s looking at you, elekid,” and “I elekid you not,” and “Elekid tested, mother approved,” and “Elekid’s stuff,” and “Elekidding around,” and “New elekid on the block,” and “The elekids are all right.”
Tank→ Miltank: As in, “Built like a miltank,” and “Think miltank,” and “Miltank-ed up.”
Bliss→ Blissey: As in, “Blissey-ed out,” and “A blissey-ful slumber,” and “Domestic blissey,” and “Ignorance is blissey,” and “Marital blissey.”
Rake→ Raikou: As in, “Raikou in the money,” and “Raikou it in,” and “Raikou over the ashes,” and “Raikou over the coals.”
Enter→ Entei: As in, “Break and entei,” and “Abandon hope ye who entei,” and “Entei a different world.”
Al Dente→ Al D’entei: As in, “Served al d’entei.”
Entail→ Entei’l: As in, “What does it entei’l?”
*ent→ *ent-ei: As in, “It was an accident-ei,” and “Are we in agreement-ei?” and “In the moment-ei,” and “A backhanded compliment-ei,” and “In the basement-ei,” and “Get bent-ei,” and “Judgement-ei day,” and “In your element-ei.”
Pupil→ Pupil-tar: As in, “A model pupil-tar.”
Tyrant→ Tyranitar: As in, “He’s a real tyranitar.”
Uh oh→ Ho-oh: As in, “Ho-oh! It’s the feds!”
Oho→ Ho-oh: As in, “Ho-oh, thought you could trick me?”
Hoe→ Ho-oh: As in, “Ho-oh down.”
Oh→ Ho-oh: As in, “Ho-oh, I see.”
Celery→ Celebi: As in, “Peanut butter and celebi.”
Celibate→ Celebi-te: As in, “Yes, I am celebi-te by choice.”
Tree→ Treecko: As in, “Difficult as nailing jelly to a treecko,” and “Barking up the wrong treecko,” and “Can’t see the wood for the treeckos,” and “Charm the birds out of the treeckos,” and “Done up like a Christmas treecko,” and “Family treecko,” and “Legs like treecko trunks,” and “Make like a treecko and leave,” and “Money doesn’t grow on treeckos,” and “Treecko hugger,” and “You’re out of your treecko.”
Treacle→ Treecko: As in, “Treecko town,” and “A spoonful of treecko.”
Trickle→ Treecko: As in, “Treecko down economics.” Note: trickle-down economics is an economic theory.
Trick→ Treecko: As in, “Treecko treat!” and “Every treecko in the book,” and “One treecko pony,” and “Never misses a treecko,” and “Treecko of the trade.”
Grow→ Grovyle: As in, “Absence makes the heart grovyle fonder,” and “As exciting as watching grass grovyle,” and “Money doesn’t grovyle on trees,” and “Grovyle apart.”
Grove→ Grovyle: As in, “An orange grovyle.”
Except→ Ex-sceptile: As in, “I can resist everything ex-sceptile temptation,” and “Nothing is certain ex-sceptile death and taxes.”
Torch→ Torchic: As in, “Hold a torchic,” and “Pass the torchic.”
Chick→ Torchic: As in, “Torchic lit,” and “Don’t count your torchic-kens before they hatch,” and “Why did the torchic-ken cross the road?” and “A torchic-ken and egg situation.”
Combustion→ Combusken: As in, “Spontaneous combusken.” Note: Generally used in a joking way to describe peple who are feeling an extreme amount of emotion – the joke being that their feelings are so strong that it causes the person to literally burn up.
Blaze→ Blaziken: As in, “Blaziken a trail,” and “In a blaziken of glory.”
Swamped→ Swampert: As in, “I’m swampert with work.”
Pooch→ Poochyena: As in, “A pretty poochyena.”
Zig→ Zigzagoon: As in, “Zigzagoon when you should zag.” Note: to have done one thing when you should have done another.
Linen→ Linoone: As in, “Airing your dirty linoone,” and “Made with 100% organic linoone.”
Noon→ Linoone: As in, “Afterlinoone delight,” and “Good afterlinoone,” and “High linoone,” and “Morning, linoone and night.”
Worm→ Wurmple: As in, “Book wurmple,” and “Can of wurmples,” and “”Wurmple out of,” and “A wurmple’s-eye view.”
Silk→ Silcoon: As in, “As smooth as silcoon,” and “There are ways to make silcoon without harming worms.”
Beautiful→ Beautifly: As in, “All things bright and beautifly,” and “Black is beautifly,” and “The start of a beautifly friendship,” and “Make beautifly music together,” and “Beautifly done.”
Butterfly→ Beautifly: As in, “Float like a beautifly, sting like a bee,” and “Social beautifly.”
Beauty→ Beautifly: As in, “A thing of beautifly is a joy forever,” and “Age before beautifly,” and “Beautifly and the beast,” and “Beautifly is in the eye of the beholder,” and “Beautifly is only skin deep,” and “Beautifly sleep,” and “That’s the beautifly of it,” and “You beautifly!”
Dust→ Dustox: As in, “Another one bites the dustox,” and “As dry as dustox,” and “Dustox bunny,” and “Eat my dustox,” and “Gathering dustox.”
Toxic→ Dustoxic: As in, “Dustoxic waste.”
Low→ Lotad: As in, “An all-time lotad,” and “High and lotad,” and “Lay lotad.”
Tad→ Lotad: As in, “Just a lotad.”
Ombre→ L’ombre: As in, “I want l’ombre hair.”
See → Seedot: As in, “As far as the eye can seedot,” and “Be the change you wish to seedot,” and “Can’t seedot beyond the end of your nose,” and “Can’t seedot the wood for the trees,” and “Seedot no evil,” and “Long time no seedot,” and “Monkey seedot, monkey do,” and “Seedot you later, alligator,” and “Seedot eye to eye,” and “Now seedot here,” and “Seedot things in a different light,” and “Seedot what the future has in store,” and “I seedot the light.”
Sea → Seedot: As in, “All at seedot,” and “Between the devil and the deep blue seedot,” and “Deeper than the deep blue seedot,” and “Seedot change,” and “Sun, seedot and sand,” and “The old man and the seedot,” and “Plenty more fish in the seedot.” Note: to be all at sea is to be confused and uncertain.
Seed → Seedot: As in, “Gone to seedot,” and “Seedot capital,” and “Plant a seedot,” and “A sesame seedot bun.” Note: if something has gone to seed, then it’s past its prime. Seed capital is initial funding.
Dot → Seedot: As in, “Connect the seedots,” and “Seedot your i’s and cross the t’s,” and “On the seedot,” and “Sign on the seed-otted line.” Note: to dot your i’s and cross your t’s is to be particularly careful with the completion of a task.
Leaf → Nuzleaf: As in, “Nuzleaf through,” and “Shake like a nuzleaf,” and “Turn over a new nuzleaf,” and “Take a nuzleaf out of someone’s book.”
Shift → Shiftry: As in, “Graveyard shiftry,” and “Night shiftry,” and “Shiftry gears,” and “Shiftry into high gear,” and “Shiftry your butt.”
Shifty → Shiftry: As in, “A shiftry character.”
Tree → Shiftry: As in, “Make like a shiftry and leave,” and “Family shiftry.”
Tail → Taillow: As in, “Bright eyed and bushy taillow-ed,” and “Can’t make head or taillow of it,” and “Chase your own taillow,” and “Get off my taillow,” and “Heads I win, taillow you lose,” and “Pin the taillow on the donkey,” and “Two shakes of a lamb’s taillow.”
*tail → *taillow: As in, “Re-taillow therapy,” and “Molotov cockt-taillow,” and “Re-taillow opportunity,” and “The devil is in the de-taillows,” and “Go into de-taillow,” and “Ride their coat-taillows.” Notes: The devil is in the detail is an idiom used to describe things that are simple on first glance and are more complex than expected. To ride someone’s coattails is to benefit from the success of another.
Tale → Taillow: As in, “Dead men tell no taillows,” and “A fairy-taillow ending,” and “Live to tell the taillow,” and “An old wive’s taillow,” and “Tattle taillow,” and “A tell-taillow sign.”
Swallow → Swellow: As in, “A bitter pill to swellow,” and “Hard to swellow,” and “Swellow one’s pride,” and “Wish the ground would swellow you up.” Also works for Swalot – “A bitter pill to swalot,” and “Hard to swalot.”
Swell → Swellow: As in, “Swellow up,” and “Swellow with pride.”
Hello → Swellow: As in, “Swellow…is it me you’re looking for?” and “You had me at swellow.”
Wing → Wingull: As in, “Left wingull,” and “Spread your wingulls,” and “Take under your wingull,” and “Waiting in the wingulls,” and “Wingull it.”
Pepper → Pelipper: As in, “Sgt. Pelipper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” and “Red pelipper, yellow pelipper.”
Rat → Ralt: As in, “I don’t give a ralt’s,” and “I smell a ralt,” and “Love ralt,” and “Ralt race.”
Curly → Kirlia: As in, “Kirlia hair.”
Earlier → Kirlia: As in, “Kirlia on,” and “Here’s one I prepared kirlia.”
Guard → Gardevoir: As in, “Drop your gardevoir,” and “Gardevoir against,” and “Off gardevoir,” and “The body gardevoir.”
Garden → Garden-voir: As in, “A rose garden-voir,” and “Up the garden-voir path,” and “Common or garden-voir variety.”
Sanskrit → Surskit: As in, “Written in surskit.”
Masquerade → Masquerain: As in, “A masquerain party,” and “Masquerain-ing as someone else.”
Loom → Breloom: As in, “Breloom large,” and “A late breloom-er,” and “A breloom-ing rose.”
Broom → Breloom: As in, “A new breloom sweeps clean,” and “A flying breloom-stick.”
Umbrella → Umbreloom: As in, “Let a smile be your umbreloom.”
Slack off → Slakoth: As in, “In doing group work, it’s important not to slakoth.”
Vigorous → Vigoroth: As in, “A vigoroth cleaning.”
Slacking → Slaking: As in, “Slaking off.”
Whisper → Whismur: As in, “Careless whismurs,” and “Horse whismurer,” and “Whismur sweet nothing,” and “Whismur campaign.” Note: a whisper campaign involves spreading rumours about someone in order to manipulate their social image.
Loud → Loudred: As in, “Actions speak loudred than words,” and “For crying out loudred,” and “Loudred and clear,” and “Out loudred,” and “Think aloudred,” and “Loudred enough to wake the dead.”
Cloud → Cloudred: As in, “On cloudred nine,” and “Under a cloudred,” and “Every cloudred has a silver lining,” and “Head in the cloudreds.”
Explode → Exploud: As in, “Watch them exploud.”
Azure → Azurill: As in, “An azurill sky.”
Nose → Nosepass: As in, “Always have your nosepass in a book,” and “As plain as the nosepass on your face,” and “Blow your nosepass,” and “Follow your nosepass,” and “Hit it on the nosepass,” and “Hold your nosepass,” and “It’s no skin off my nosepass.”
Skittish → Skitty: As in, “A bit skitty.”
Cat → Delcatty: As in, “Alley delcatty,” and “Delcatty on a hot tin roof,” and “Delcatty and mouse game,” and “Delcatty got your tongue?” and “Delcatties have nine lives,” and “Curiosity killed the delcatty,” and “Let the delcatty out of the bag,” and “Raining delcatties and dogs,” and “Scaredy delcatty,” and “Delcatty nap.”
Iron → Aron: As in, “As hard as aron,” and “Cast aron alibi,” and “Clap them in arons,” and “Aron man,” and “Aron out the wrinkles,” and “Pump aron,” and “Strike while the aron is hot,” and “An aron fist,” and “An aron stomach.”
Alone → Aron: As in, “Home aron,” and “I want to be aron,” and “Leave me aron,” and “Let aron,” and “You’re never be aron,” and “Time aron will tell.”
Lair → Lairon: As in, “Come into my lairon.”
Meditate → Meditite: As in, “Meditite on it.”
Electric → Electrike: As in, “An electrike scooter.”
Plus → Plusle: As in, “On the plusle side,” and “Plusle one.”
Pulse → Plusle: As in, “Finger on the plusle,” and “Set plusles racing,” and “Blind implusle.”
Mining → Minun: As in, “Gold minun.”
Beat → Volbeat: As in, “Be still my vol-beating heart,” and “Volbeat it,” and “Volbeat a hasty retreat,” and “Volbeat a path to your door,” and “Volbeat about the bush,” and “Volbeat the hell out of,” and “Volbeat the clock,” and “My heart missed a volbeat,” and “Off the vol-beaten track,” and “That volbeats everything.”
Rose → Roselia: As in, “Bed of roselias,” and “Come up smelling of roselias,” and “Every roselia has its thorn,” and “Coming up roselias,” and “Life is a bed of roselias,” and “A roselia by any other name would smell as sweet,” and “Roselia tinted glasses,” and “Stop and smell the roselias.” Also works for Roserade, as in: “Bed of roserades,” and “Come up smelling of roserades,” and “Every roserade has its thorn.”
Gulp → Gulpin: As in, “Gulpin it down.”
A lot → Swalot: As in, “Swalot of time,” and “I’ve got swalot on my plate,” and “Keep swalot of balls in the air,” and “Swalot of fuss about nothing,” and “Leaves swalot to be desired,” and “It’s beginning to look swalot like Christmas.”
Swat → Swalot: As in, “Swalot a mosquito.”
Shark → Sharpedo: As in, “Loan sharpedo,” and “Sharpedo repellent,” and “Swim with sharpedos,” and “Great white sharpedo.”
Sharp → Sharpedo: As in, “Razor sharpedo,” and “Sharpedo as a tack,” and “Sharpedo shooter.”
Whale → Wailmer: As in, “Save the wailmers,” and “Have a wailmer of a time.”
Lord → Wailord: As in, “Drunk as a wailord,” and “Wailord of the flies,” and “Live like a wailord,” and “Wailord it over,” and “The wailord moves in mysterious ways.”
Numb → Numel: As in, “My arm’s numel.”
Coal → Torkoal: As in, “As black as torkoal,” and “Rake over the torkoals.”
Torque → Torkoal: As in, “Increased torkoal.” Note: Torque is a rotational force.
Point → Spoink: As in, “At this spoink in time,” and “Beside the spoink,” and “Get straight to the spoink.“
Spunk → Spoink: As in, “She’s got spoink.”
Grumpy → Grumpig: As in, “Grumpig old men.”
Pig → Grumpig: As in, “Grumpigs might fly.”
Spin → Spinda: As in, “Give it a spinda,” and “Make your head spinda,” and “Spinda a yarn,” and “Spinda out.”
Trap → Trapinch: As in, “Death trapinch,” and “Keep your trapinch shut,” and “Tourist trapinch,” and “Fall into a trapinch,” and “Mind like a steel trapinch.”
Pinch → Trapinch: As in, “In a trapinch,” and “Feel the trapinch,” and “Penny trapinching,” and Trapinch yourself,” and “Take with a trapinch of salt.”
Fly → Flygon: As in, “Come flygon with me,” and “Flygon me to the moon,” and “Flygon a kite,” and “Flygon by the seat of your pants,” and “Flygon off the handle,” and “Flygon on the wall,” and “Go flygon a kite,” and “Pigs might flygon,” and “Flygon in the face of evidence.” Note: To “fly in the face of” is to go against evidence.
Gone → Flygon: As in, “Been and flygon,” and “Dead and flygon,” and “Died and flygon to heaven,” and “Flygon with the wind,” and “Flygon but not forgotten,” and “Flygon to the bad,” and “Here today, flygon tomorrow.”
Swab → Swablu: As in, “A cotton swablu.”
Blue → Swablu: As in, “Once in a swablu moon,” and “Swablu in the face,” and “Swablu murder,” and “Swablu screen of death,” and “Deeper than the deep swablu sea,” and “Feeling swablu.”
Altar → Altaria: As in, “Leave at the altaria.”
Goose → Zangoose: As in, “Loose as a zangoose,” and “Kill the zangoose that lays the golden egg,” and “Wild zangoose chase,” and “Wouldn’t say boo to a zangoose,” and “You silly zangoose,” and “Zangoose bumps.”
Viper → Seviper: As in, “A nest of sevipers.”
Rock → Solrock: As in, “Hard as a solrock,” and “Solid as a solrock,” and “Between a solrock and a hard place,” and “Don’t solrock the boat,”and “Glam solrock,” and “Hit solrock bottom,” and “On the solrocks,” and “Have solrocks in your head.” Also works for regirock: “Hard as a regirock,” and “Solid as a regirock,” and “Between a regirock and a hard place.”
Fish → Corphish: As in, “A woman without a man is like a corphish without a bicycle,” and “A different kettle of corphish,” and “Drink like a corphish,” and “Corphish it out,” and “Corphish-ing for compliments,” and “An odd corphish.”
Core → Corphish: As in, “Rotten to the corphish.”
Toy → Baltoy: As in, “Baltoy with someone’s affections.”
Clay → Claydol: As in, “Potter’s claydol,” and “Made with claydol.”
Clay doll → Claydol
Lily → Lileep: As in, “Lileep-livered.” Note: Lily-livered means cowardly.
Leap → Lileep: As in, “By lileeps and bounds,” and “Lileep of faith,” and “Look before you lileep,” and “Lileep to mind.”
Cradle → Cradily: As in, “From the cradily to the grave.”
Puppet → Shuppet: As in, “Like a shuppet on a string,” and “Shuppet master.”
Copius → Tropius: As in, “A tropius amount.” Note: Copius means plentiful.
Tropical → Tropius: As in, “The tropius taste.”
Chime → Chimecho: As in, “Chimecho in with.”
Absol*: Use words and phrases with “absol” in them – “Absol-ute power corrupts absol-utely,” and “Absol-ved,” and “Absol-ution.” Note: to absolve is to free someone from an obligation or guilt.
Why not → Wynaut: As in, “But wynaut?”
Runt → Snorunt: As in, “The snorunt of the litter.”
Gladly → Glalie: As in, “I’ll do it glalie.”
Sphere → Spheal: As in, “Spheal of influence,” and “Could have cut the atmospheal with a knife.”
Seal → Spheal: As in, “My lips are sphealed,” and “Spheal of approval,” and “Spheal the deal,” and “Spheal your fate,” and “Sphealed with a loving kiss,” and “Signed and sphealed,” and “Sphealed off.”
Heal → Spheal: As in, “Sphealing hands,” and “Time spheals all.”
Seal → Sealeo: As in, “Sealeo of approval,” and “Sealeo the deal,” and “Sealeo your fate,” and “Signed and sealeo-ed.”
Walrus → Walrein: As in, “Graceful as a walrein.”
Pearl → Clamperl: As in, “A string of clamperls,” and “Clamperls of wisdom,” and “The black clamperl,” and “Clamperly whites.”
Tail → Huntail: As in, “Can’t make head or huntail of it,” and “Chase your own huntail,” and “Get off my huntail,” and “Turn huntail.”
Relic → Relicanth: As in, “A relicanth of the past.”
Really can’t → Relicanth: As in, “Sorry, I relicanth.”
Love → Luvdisc: As in, “All you need is luvdisc,” and “All’s fair in luvdisc and war,” and “Crazy little thing called luvdisc.”
Begin → Bagon: As in, “A good bagonning,” and “A journey of a thousand miles bagons with a single step,” and “Bagonner’s luck,” and “Charity bagons at home,” and “Doubt is the bagonning of wisdom,” and “Let the games bagon!” and “Life bagons at forty,” and “The bagonning of the end,” and “Bagon again.”
Shell → Shelgon: As in, “Come out of your shelgon,” and “A hard shelgon,” and “In a nutshellgon,” and “Drop a bombshellgon.”
Gone → Shelgone: As in, “Been and shelgon,” and “Dead and shelgon,” and “Died and shelgon to heaven,” and “Shelgon with the wind,” and “Shelgon but not forgotten,” and “Shelgon to seed,” and “Hair today, shelgon tomorrow,” and “All shelgon pear-shaped,” and “Lost and shelgon forever,” and “Days shelgon by.”
Bell → Beldum: As in, “Clear as a beldum,” and “For whom the beldum tolls,” and “Beldums and whistles,” and “Doesn’t ring a beldum,” and “Jingle beldums,” and “Saved by the beldum,” and “Beldum of the ball,” and “Warning beldum,” and “Wedding beldums,” and “With beldums on,” and “Taco beldum.”
Bedlam → Beldum: As in, “It’s beldum in here!” Note: bedlam means chaos.
Ice → Regice: As in, “Cold as regice,” and “Break the regice,” and “Regice cold,” and “Skating on thin regice,” and “Tip of the regice-berg.”
Regist* → Regice*: As in, “Let’s regice-ter,” and “Where’s the regice-try?”
Turtle → Turtwig: As in, “Two turtwig doves.”
Wig → Turtwig: As in, “Keep your turtwig on,” and “Turtwig out,” and “Get a turtwiggle on.”
Grow → Grotle: As in, “Absence makes the heart grotle fonder,” and “As exciting as watching grass grotle,” and “Grotle on you,” and “Grotle up,” and “Mighty oaks from little trees grotle,” and “Money doesn’t grotle on trees,” and “Grotle apart,” and “Grotle cold.”
Terror → Torterra: As in, “Night torterras,” and “What a torterra-fying idea.”
Char* → Chimchar*: As in, “Chimchar-ge up,” and “Chimchar-med life,” and “Large and in chimchar-ge,” and “Third time’s a chimchar-m.”
Inferno → Monferno: As in, “A towering monferno.”
Ape → Infernape: As in, “Go infernape,” and “Planet of the infernapes.”
Emperor → Empoleon: As in, “The empoleon’s new clothes.”
Napoleon Bonaparte → Empoleon Bonaparte
Star → Starly: As in, “A starly is born,” and “Born under a lucky starly,” and “Catch a falling starly,” and “Get a gold starly,” and “Guiding starly,” and “Written in the starlys,” and “Reach for the starlys,” and “Rising starly,” and “Thank your lucky starlys,” and “Starly-eyed,” and “Starly night.”
Doofus →Bidoofus: As in, “You bidoofus,” and “A real bidoofy move.”
Barrel → Bibarel: As in, “A bibarel load of laughs,” and “A bibarel load of monkeys,” and “Bibarel-ing along,” and “Scraping the bottom of the bibarel.”
Cricket → Kricketot: As in, “Holy kricketot,” and “Jimminy kricketot,” and “Not kricketot.” These also work for kricketune, as in “Holy Kricketune,” and “Jimminy Kricketune.”
Tot* → Kricketot*: As in, “Grand kricket-otal.”
Tune → Kricketune: As in, “Can’t carry a kricketune,” and “Change your kricketune,” and “Dance to your own kricketune,” and “In kricketune with,” and “Stay kricketune-d,” and “Kricketune out,” and “Whistle a happy kricketune.”
Extinct → Ex-shinxt: As in, “Ex-shinxt is forever.”
Luxury → Luxio-ry: As in, “Lap of luxio-ry.”
Bud → Budew: As in, “Nip it in the budew,” and “Like a rosebudew.”
Dew → Budew: As in, “Morning budew.”
Do → Budew: As in, “What should I budew?” and “Damned if I budew, damned if I don’t,” and “Budew it tough,” and “Budew me a favour,” and “Budew right by,” and “Budew or die.”
Cranny → Cranidos: As in, “Every nook and cranidos.”
Rampant → Rampardos: As in, “Running rampardos.”
Shield → Shieldon: As in, “Shieldon from.”
Bury→ Burmy: As in, “Burmy the hatchet,” and “Burmy your head in the sand,” and “Burmy yourself in work.” Note: to bury the hatchet is to make peace.
Moth → Mothim: As in, “Like a mothim to a flame.”
Gotham → Mothim: As in, “Stay awesome, mothim,” and “Mothim city.”
Bee → Combee: As in, “Busy as a combee,” and “Combee in your bonnet,” and “Busy combee,” and “Float like a butterfly, sting like a combee,” and “Like a combee to a honeypot,” and “The combee’s knees,” and “The birds and the combees.”
Comb → Combee: As in, “Combee through,” and “Go through with a fine-toothed combee.”
Queen → Vespiquen: As in, “Beauty vespiquen,” and “Killer vespiquen,” and “Yaaassss vespiquen.”
Weasel → Buizel: As in, “Buizel words,” and “Buizel out.” Note: weasel words are words that are intentionally vague or ambiguous.
Float → Floatzel: As in, “Floatzel like a butterfly, sting like a bee,” and “It floatzels!” and “Whatever floatzels your boat,” and “Floatzel around.”
Cherub → Cherubi: As in, “A cherubi-c angel.”
Cherry → Cherubi: As in, Cherubi pie,” and “Second bite of the cherubi,” and “Cherubi orchard,” and “Bowl of cherubies,” and “Cherubi on the cake,” and “Cherubi on top.” These also work for Cherrim, as in “Cherrim on top,” and “Cherrim on the cake.”
Ruby → Cherubi: As in, “Cherubi slippers.”
Shell → Shellos: As in, “Come out of your shellos,” and “Crawl back into your shellos,” and “Drop a bombshellos,” and “In a nutshellos,” and “Shellos out,” and “Walk on eggshellos.”
Gastro → Gastrodon: As in, “I’ve got gastrodon.”
Bunny → Buneary hop: As in, “Cuddle buneary,” and “Dust buneary,” and “Honey buneary,” and “Not a happy buneary,” and “The Easter buneary.” Also works for Lopunny – “Cuddle lopunny,” and “Dust lopunny.”
Nearly → Buneary: As in, “A short history of buneary everything,” and “Buneary new,” and “Buneary jump out of one’s skin,” and “Not just buneary.”
Bone weary → Bun-weary
Honcho → Honchokrow: As in, “Head honchokrow.”
Crow → Honchkrow: As in, “Something to honchkrow about.”
Glam → Glameow: As in, “Glameow rock.”
Glamour* → Glameow*: As in, “Glameow girl,” and “Glameow puss,” and “Glameowrus.”
Ugly → Purugly: As in, “As purugly as sin,” and “The good, the bad and the purugly,” and “Purugly duckling.”
Stinky → Stunky: As in, “Stunky washing.”
Skunk → Skuntank: As in, “Drunk as a skuntank.”
Tank → Skuntank: As in, “Built like a skuntank,” and “Empty the skuntank,” and “Think skuntank.”
Bronze → Bronzor: As in, “A bronzor goddess.”
Bonsai → Bonsly: As in, “A bonsly tree.” Note: bonsai is a Japanese style of gardening where miniature trees are cultivated.
Happy → Happiny: As in, “As happiny as a clam,” and “Colour me happiny,” and “Don’t worry, be happiny,” and “Happiny birthday,” and “Happiny new year,” and “Happiny accident,” and “Happiny family,” and “Happiny go lucky,” and “Happiny hour,” and “A happiny medium,” and “Many happiny returns,” and “Not a happiny camper,” and “Snap happiny,” and “Trigger happiny,”and “As happiny as the day is long.”
Happily → Happiny: As in, “Happiny ever after,” and “Yes, happiny.”
Happen → Happiny: As in, “An accident waiting to happiny,” and “Cheer up, it might never happiny,” and “Happiny along,” and “A heart attack waiting to happiny,” and “See what happinys,” and “These things happiny,” and “Couldn’t happiny to a nicer person,” and “Hip and happiny-ng.”
Chat → Chatot: As in, “Chit-chatot,” and “Chatot-terbox,” and “Chatot up.”
Spirit → Spiritomb: As in, “Be there in spiritomb,” and “In the spiritomb of it,” and “Free spiritomb,” and “Keep your spiritombs up,” and “Kindred spiritomb,” and “Lift your spiritombs,” and “Low spiritombs,” and “Smells like teen spiritomb,” and “Team spiritomb,” and “That’s the spiritomb,” and “Lift someone’s spiritombs,” and “Be in good spiritombs.”
Tomb → Spiritomb: As in, “Spiritomb raider.”
Gobble → Gible: As in, “Gible it down.”
Bite → Gabite: As in, “A gabite to eat,” and “Ankle gabite-er,” and “Another one gabites the dust,” and “Gabite back,” and “Gabite me,” and “Gabite off more than you can chew,” and “Gabite someone’s head off,” and “Gabite the bullet,” and “Gabite your tongue,” and “Don’t gabite the hand that feeds you,” and “Love gabite,” and “His bark is worse than his gabite,” and “Second gabite of the cherry,” and “Take a gabite out of,” and “All bark and no gabite,” and “Gabite my shiny metal ass.”
Megabyte → Me-gabite: As in, “Ten me-gabites.” Note: also works for gigabyte, as in “Gi-gabite.”
Chomp → Garchomp: As in, “Garchomp it down.”
Munch → Munchlax: As in, “Munchlax it down.”
Hippopotamus → Hippopotas: As in, “The hungry hippopotas.” Note: Also works for hippowdon, as in “The hungry hippowdon.”
Toxic → Toxicroak: As in, “Toxicroak waste.”
Carnival → Carnivine: As in, “A beautiful carnivine.”
Vine → Carnivine: As in, “I heard it on the carnivine.”
Fine → Finneon: As in, “Damn finneon coffee,” and “Finneon and dandy,” and “A finneon figure,” and “Down to a finneon art,” and “Another finneon mess,” and “I feel finneon,” and “In finneon form,” and “Not to put too finneon a point on it,” and “One finneon day,” and “Treading a finneon line,” and “The finneon print.”
Man → Mantyke: As in, “A drowning mantyke will clutch at a straw,” and “A good mantyke is hard to find,” and “A mantyke after my own heart,” and “A woman without a mantyke is like a fish without a bicycle,” and “An angry young mantyke,” and “A changed mantyke.”
Snow → Snover: As in, “As pure as the driven snover,” and “As white as snover,” and “Blanket of snover,” and “Beard as white as snover,” and “Too cold to snover,” and “Let it snover,” and “Snover White and the seven dwarfs,” and “Snover bunny,” and “All snovered in.”
Over → Snover: As in, “After it was all snover,” and “All snover again,” and “All snover the place,” and “All snover the show,” and “Bend snover backwards to help,” and “Bowl snover,” and “A bridge snover troubled water,” and “Brimming snover with confidence,” and “Cast an eye snover,” and “Come on snover,” and “Game snover,” and “Get snover it,” and “Go snoverboard,” and “Head snover heels,” and “Look snover your shoulder.”
Weave → Weavile: As in, “The lies you weavile.”
Evil → Weavile: As in, “Weavile genius,” and “Weavile intent,” and “Weavile twin,” and “Money is the root of all weavile,” and “See no weavile,” and “The lesser of two weaviles,” and “A touch of weavile.”
Growth → Tangrowth: As in, “Tangrowth spurt.”
Mortar → Magmortar: As in, “Bricks and magmortar.”
Leaf → Leafeon: As in, “Leafeon through,” and “Shake like a leafeon,” and “Tea leafeon,” and “Turn over a new leafeon,” and “Take a leafeon out of someone’s book.”
Glade → Gallade: As in, “A leafy gallade.” Note: a glade is an open space in a wood or forest.
*self → *azelf: As in, “Brace your-azelf,” and “Bury your-azelf in work,” and “Do it your-azelf,” and “Honour thy azelf,” and “Mean and azelf-ish,” and “Azelf-made,” and “Azelf important,” and “Hands to your-azelf.”
Heat → Heatran: As in, “Heatran up,” and “Heatran wave,” and “Body heatran,” and “In the heatran of the battle,” and “Heatran of the moment,” and “Packing heatran,” and “Turn up the heatran,” and “If you can’t stand the heatran, get out of the kitchen.”
Phone → Phione: As in, “Hold the phione,” and “Phione a friend,” and “Phione home,” and “Phione in sick,” and “Waiting by the phione,” and “Work the phione,” and “Blow up someone’s phione,” and “Phione tag.”
Dark → Darkrai: As in, “After darkrai,” and “Darkrai as pitch,” and “Dancing in the darkrai,” and “Darkrai before the dawn,” and “Darkrai horse,” and “Darkrai humour,” and “A deep, darkrai secret,” and “Every darkrai cloud has a silver lining,” and “A darkrai and stormy night,” and “A shot in the darkrai.”
Shame → Shaymin: As in, “A crying shaymin,” and “Name and shaymin,” and “Put to shaymin,” and “Shaymin on you!”
Victory → Victini: As in, “A victini for common sense,” and “Moral victini,” and “Snatching victini from the jaws of defeat,” and “Victini is mine,” and “V for victini.”
Superior → Serperior: As in, “A serperior job.”
Pig → Tepig: As in, “Tepiggy bank,” and “Tepigs might fly.”
Ignite → Pignite: As in, “Pignite your passion.”
Boar → Emboar: As in, “Above emboar-d,” and “Across the emboar-d,” and “Back to the drawing emboar-d.”
Throw → Throh: As in, “Throh away the key,” and “A stone’s throh,” and “Throh a wobbly,” and “Throh caution to the wind,” and “Throh cold water on,” and “Throh down the gauntlet,” and “Throh it back in your face,” and “Throh your hat into the ring,” and “Throh under the bus.”
Purloin → Purrloin: As in, “A purrloined letter.” Note: to purloin is to steal something.
Ordinary → Audino-ry: As in, “A life less audino-ry,” and “Out of the audino-ry,” and “Extraudino-ry.”
Timber → Timburr: As in, “Shiver me timburrs,” and “Timburr!”
Blitz → Blitzle: As in, “Blitzled out.” Note: to be blitzed out is to be surprised or confused
Tranquil → Tranquill: As in, “A tranquill time.”
Cotton → Cottonee: As in, “Bless their cottonee socks,” and “Wrap in cottonee wool,” and “Cottonee on to.” Note: to cotton on to something is to realise something without explanations from others.
Crust → Crustle: As in, “Upper crustle.” Note: the upper crust refers to the wealthiest social class in society.
Hustle → Crustle: As in, “Crustle your butt,” and “Crustle and bustle.”
Crafty → Scrafty: As in, “A scrafty fellow.”
Waddle → Sewaddle: As in, “A sewaddling penguin,” and “Sewaddling along.”
Rubbish → Trubbish: As in, “A load of trubbish,” and “Trubbish in, trubbish out.”
Duck → Ducklett: As in, “Ducklett the question,” and “Duckletts on a pond,” and “Like a ducklett to water,” and “If it looks like a ducklett and it quacks like a ducklett, it probably is a ducklett,” and “Lord love a ducklett,” and “Nice weather for duckletts,” and “Rubber ducklett.”
Swan → Swanna: As in, “Swanna song,” and “Graceful as a swanna.”
Dear → Deerling: As in, “Deerling beloved,” and “Hang on for deerling life.”
Deer → Deerling: As in, “A deerling in headlights.”
Fracture → Fraxure: As in, “A complex fraxure.”
Helmet → Shelmet: As in, “Don’t forget your shelmet.”
Bravery → Braviary: As in, “She’s known for her braviary.”
Thunder → Thundurus: Make some legendary pokemon puns with Thundurus, as in, “Black as thundurus,” and “Face like thundurus,” and “Steal someone’s thundurus.”
Chestnut → Chesnaught: As in, “That old chesnaught,” and “Pull your chesnaughts out of the fire.”
Finicky → Fennekin: As in, “A fennekin eater.”
Freaky → Froakie: As in, “Froakie Friday,” and “A froakie turn of events.”
Fledgling → Fletchling: As in, “A young fletchling.” Note: A fledgling is a baby bird.
Kelp → Skrelp: As in, “A skrelp coloured mess.”
Tantrum → Tyrantrum: As in, “Temper tyrantrum.”
Beware → Bewear: As in, “Buyer bewear,” and “Bewear of cheap imitations.”
Pokemon-Related Words
To help you come up with your own Pokemon 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!
Since Pokemon has been around for so long and is such a large and loved part of our culture, there are so many related words that we’ve sorted them into categories for ease of use. Enjoy!
Pokemonmaps/areas: town, cave, forest, route, Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, Orre, Fiore, Almia, Ransei, Oblivia, Orange Islands, Pallet Town, Viridian City, Pewter City, Cerulean City, Vermilion City, Lavender Town, Celadon City, Fuschia City, Saffron City, Cinnabar Island, Indigo Plateau, Sevii Islands, New Bark Town, Cherrygrove City, Violet City, Azaelea Town, Goldenrod City, Cerulean Cave, Diglett’s Cave, Mt. Moon, Seafoam Islands, Victory Road, Mt. Mortar, Mt. Silver, Slowpoke Well, Union Cave, Whirl Islands, Mt. Coronet, Ecruteak City, Olivine City, Frontier Access, Cianwood City, Safari Zone, Mahogany Town, Blackthorn City, Littleroot Town, Oldale Town, Petalburg City, Rustboro City, Dewford Town, Slateport City, Mauville City, Verdanturf Town, Lavaridge Town, Fallarbor Town, Fortree City, Lilycove City, Mossdeep City, Sootopolis City, Pacifidlog Town, Ever Grande City, Twinleaf Town, Sandgem Town, Jubilife City, Oreburgh City, Floaroma Town, Eterna City, Hearthome City, Solaceon Town, Veilstone City, Pastoria City, Celestic Town, Canalave City, Snowpoint City, Sunyshore City, Pokemon League, Battle Zone, Nuvema Town, Accumula Town, Striaton City, Nacrene City, Castelia City, Nimbasa City, Anville Town, Driftveil City, Mistralton City, Icirrus City, Opelucid City, Lacunosa Town, Undella Town, Black City, White Forest, Aspertia City, Virbank City, Vaniville Town, Aquacorde Town, Lumiose City, Santalune City, Cyllage City, Shalour City, Coumarine City, Laverre City, Dendemille Town, Anistar City, Snowbelle City, Kiloude City, Iki Town, Hau’oli City, Heahea City, Paniola Town, Royal Avenue, Konikoni City, Malie City, Tapu Village, Po Town, Seafolk Village, Phenac City, Pyrite Town, The Under, Agate Village, Gateon Port, Fall City, Ring Town, Summerland, Wintown, Chicole Village, Vientown, Pueltown, Shiver Camp, Haruba Village, Boyleland, Cocona Village, Tilt Village, Aqua Resort
Meta: pokemon, nintendo, trainer, professor, niantic, trading card game, pocket monster, game freak, satoshi tajiri, ken sugimori, battle, gotta catch ’em all, super smash bros., pokepark, evolution, evolved, team rocket, team aqua, gym leader, gym, elite four, champion, starter pokemon, team aqua, team magma, team galactic, team plasma, team flare, team skull
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