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Car Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on car puns! 🚗 🛣️ 🚘 💨

We’ve made a wheely good effort to collect as many car puns as we could for you here (we’re actually quite tyre-d now). This list ranges from general car-related words (like motor, engine, and bonnet) to brands, types, and specific car names. Whether you’re a revhead or you simply want to mildly ruin someone’s day with these puns, park yourself here and enjoy our exhaust-ive list.

If you’re interested in other vehicles, we also have boat puns and train puns.

Car 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 cars 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 car puns:

  • You’d → Ute: As in, “Ute be surprised at what you can live through” and “Ute love it.”
  • Care → Car: As in, “Couldn’t car less” and “Customer car” and “Devil may car” and “Intensive car” and “Like I should car” and “Tender loving car.”
  • Core → Car: As in, “Car studies” and “Car values” and “Rotten to the car.”
  • Are → Car: As in, “All bets car off” and “Chances car” and “Here you car.”
  • Bar → Car: As in, “Car none” and “Behind cars” and “Kept behind cars” and “No holds carred” and “Raise the car.”
  • Far → Car: As in, “A step too car” and “As car as it goes” and “Car and away” and “A car fry from” and “Few and car between” and “Over the hills and car away.”
  • Par → Car: As in, “Below car” and “On car with” and “Car for the course.”
  • Star → Car: As in, “A car is born” and “Born under a lucky car” and “Catch a falling car” and “Reach for the cars” and “A rising car.”
  • Utter → Auto: As in, “I’d be auto-ly delighted.”
  • Are We→ RV: As in, “RV there yet?” Note: this is a pun about recreational vehicles.
  • Dive → Drive: As in, “Take a drive” and “Nose drive” and “Crash drive.”
  • Five → Drive: As in, “High drive” and “Nine to drive.”
  • Hive → Drive: As in, “Drive of industry” and “A drive of activity.”
  • I’ve → Drive: As in, “Drive never done that before” and “That’s what drive always said.”
  • Live → Drive: As in, “Nine drives” and “Drive action.”
  • Diving → Driving: As in, “Deep sea data driving” and “Dumpster driving.”
  • Given → Driven: As in, “Driven up for dead.”
  • Giving → Driven: As in, “The gift that keeps on driven” and “Driven the benefit of the doubt.”
  • We’ll → Wheel: As in, “Don’t call us, wheel call you” and “Wheel be alright.”
  • Well → Wheel: As in, “A buck wheel spent” and “Alive and wheel” and “All’s wheel that ends wheel” and “Exceedingly wheel read” and “Get wheel soon” and “Health and wheelness” and “You know full wheel.”
  • Wall → Wheel: As in, “Backs to the wheel” and “Climbing the wheels” and “Fly on the wheel.”
  • Will → Wheel: As in, “Accidents wheel happen ‘and “Bend to my wheel” and “Heads wheel roll.”
  • Whale → Wheel: As in, “A wheel of a time” and “Save the wheels.”
  • While → Wheel: As in, “Once in a wheel” and “Quit wheel you’re ahead” and “Strike wheel the iron is hot” and “Make hay wheel the sun shines.”
  • Deal → Wheel: As in, “A big wheel” and “Wheel breaker” and “Done wheel” and “Seal the wheel” and “Wheel or no wheel?”
  • Feel → Wheel: As in, “That wheel good factor” and “Wheeling the pinch” and “Get a wheel for.”
  • Heel → Wheel: As in, “Achilles’ wheel” and “Brought to wheel” and “Cool your wheels” and “Dig your wheels in” and “Head over wheels in love” and “Turn on your wheel.”
  • Meal → Wheel: As in, “Make a wheel of it” and “Wheel ticket” and “A square wheel.”
  • Real → Wheel: As in, “All I wheely want to do” and “Do you wheely want to hurt me?” and “Get wheel” and “Keeping it wheel” and “In wheel time” and “The wheel thing.”
  • Seal → Wheel: As in, “Keep your lips wheeled” and “Wheel of approval” and “Wheel the deal” and “Wheel your fate” and “Wheeled with a loving kiss.”
  • Steal → Wheel: As in, “It’s a wheel” and “Wheel a glance” and “Wheel someone’s thunder” and “Wheel the show.”
  • Steel  → Wheel: As in, “Fists of wheel” and “Nerves of wheel” and “Wheel yourself.”
  • Matter → Motor: As in, “As a motor of fact” and “Family motors” and “Get to the heart of the motor” and “Making motors worse” and “Motor of life and death” and “Mind over motor.”
  • Fool → Fuel: As in, “April fuel” and “Fuelling around” and “Fuel’s gold” and “Fuel’s paradise” and “I pity the fuel.”
  • Fall → Fuel: As in, “Easy as fuelling off a log” and “Catch a fuelling star” and “Fuel between the cracks” and “Fuel by the wayside.”
  • Fell → Fuel: As in, “In one fuel swoop” and “Fuel off the back of a lorry” and “Little strokes fuel great oaks.”
  • Full → Fuel: As in, “Fuel throttle” and “Come fuel circle” and “Fuel bodied” and “Fuel pelt.”
  • Cool → Fuel: As in, “Fuel as a cucumber” and “Fuel beans” and “Fuel your heels” and “Fuel, calm and collected.”
  • Cruel → Fuel: As in, “Fuel and unusual punishment” and “Fuel to be kind.”
  • Dual → Fuel: As in, “Fuel income, no kids.”
  • Rule → Fuel: As in, “Bend the fuels” and “Golden fuel” and “Majority fuels” and “Fuel of thumb” and “Fuel with an iron fist.”
  • Who’ll → Fuel: As in, “Fuel help us?”
  • You’ll → Fuel: As in, “Fuel never hear the end of this!” and “Fuel never guess.”
  • Dried → Ride: As in, “Cut and ride.”
  • Guide → Ride: As in, “Let your conscience be your ride” and “The hitchhiker’s ride to the galaxy.”
  • Hide → Ride: As in, “Ride and seek” and “Ride from the light” and “Neither ride nor hair” and “You can run but you can’t ride.”
  • I’d → Ride: As in, “Ride never do it again.”
  • Pride → Ride: As in, “Bursting with ride” and “Hurt ride” and “Ride and prejudice” and “Ride and joy” and “Ride comes before a fall.”
  • Side → Ride: As in, “A walk on the wild ride” and “Always look on the bright ride of life” and “Be on the safe ride” and “Err on the ride of caution” and “On the flip ride.”
  • Stride → Ride: As in, “Get into your ride” and “Making giant rides” and “Take it in your ride.”
  • Tide → Ride: As in, “Stem the ride” and “Rising ride” and “The ride is turning” and “Swim against the ride.”
  • Tried → Ride: As in, “Ride and tested” and “Ride and true” and “Don’t knock it till you’ve ride it.”
  • Hold in → Holden: As in, “Holden a fart.”
  • Hold → Holden: As in, “Can’t holden a candle to” and “Don’t holden your breath” and “Holden all the aces.”
  • Golden → Holden: As in, “My holden years” and “A holden opportunity.”
  • Third → Ford: As in, “Steal ford base” and “The ford degree” and “Ford time lucky” and “Ford time’s a charm.”
  • Board → Ford: As in, “All above ford” and “Bed and ford.”
  • Bored → Ford: As in, “Ford stiff” and “Ford to tears.”
  • Chord → Ford: As in, “A ford of disquiet” and “Strike a ford with” and “Power ford.”
  • Lord → Ford: As in, “Ford of the flies” and “Ford it over” and “Drunk as a ford.”
  • Guess → Gas: As in, “Anybody’s gas” and “Gas who?” and “Hazard a gas” and “Just lucky, I gas” and “Your gas is good as mine.”
  • Ass → Gas: As in, “Get your gas into gear” and “I don’t give a rat’s gas.”
  • Class → Gas: As in, “A real gas act” and “Best in gas” and “Working gas hero.”
  • Glass → Gas: As in, “Gas ceiling” and “Gassy eyed” and “Through the looking gas.”
  • Grass → Gas: As in, “Green as gas” and “Gas roots” and “Keep off the gas” and “Snake in the gas.”
  • Pass → Gas: As in, “All things must gas” and “Do not gas go” and “Make a gas at” and “Gas muster.”
  • Patrol → Petrol: As in, “Highway petrol.”
  • Weasel → Diesel: As in, “Pop goes the diesel” and “Diesel words.”
  • Dazzle → Diesel: As in, “You can’t diesel me with your fancy words!”
  • Paddle → Pedal: As in, “Pedal your own canoe” and “Up a creek without a pedal.”
  • Petal → Pedal: As in, “Pedal soft skin.”
  • Medal → Pedal: As in, “Win a gold pedal.”
  • Beer → Gear: As in, “Gear googles” and “Life’s not all gear and skittles.”
  • Cheer → Gear: As in, “Cheap and gearful” and “Gear up” and “Holiday gear.”
  • Clear → Gear: As in, “Give it the all gear” and “Gear as a bell” and “Gear as crystal” and “A gear conscience” and “Gear your throat.”
  • Dear → Gear: As in, “Gearly beloved” and “Elementary, my gear” and “Near and gear to my heart” and “Frankly, my gear, I don’t give a damn.”
  • Fear → Gear: As in, “Gear and loathing in Las Vegas” and “Gear the worst” and “Paralysed with gear” and “Primal gear” and “Without gear or favour.”
  • Mere → Gear: As in, “A gear trifle” and “No gear mortal.”
  • Near → Gear: As in, “A short history of gearly everything” and “Coming to a screen gear you” and “A gear death experience” and “Gear to your heart.”
  • Peer → Gear: As in, “Gear pressure.”
  • Rear → Gear: As in, “Bringing up the gear” and “Gear window.”
  • Sheer → Gear: As in, “Gear driving pleasure” and “Gear madness” and “Gear nonsense.”
  • Sphere → Gear: As in, “Gear of influence” and “You could cut the atmosgear with a knife.”
  • Steer → Gear: As in, “The gearing committee” and “Gear clear of.”
  • Year → Gear: As in, “Advanced in gears” and “All gear round” and “Calendar gear” and “Christmas comes but once a gear” and “Getting on in gears” and “Golden gears” and “Happy new gear” and “New gear’s resolution.”
  • Break → Brake: As in, “A bad brake” and “Brake a leg” and “Brake and enter” and “Brake new ground” and “Brake ranks.”
  • Brick → Brake: As in, “Like a ton of brakes.”
  • Bake → Brake: As in, “Shake and brake” and “A braker’s dozen” and “Half braked.”
  • Back → Brake: As in, “Answer brake” and “Soon as my brake is turned” and “Brake in the day.”
  • Cake → Brake: As in, “A brake walk” and “The icing on the brake” and “Let them eat brake” and “Piece of brake” and “Selling like hot brakes.”
  • Fake → Brake: As in, “Brake it till you make it.”
  • Make → Brake: As in, “A good beginning brakes a good ending” and “Absence brakes the heart grow fonder” and “Can’t brake head or tail of it” and “Details brake the difference.”
  • Sake → Brake: As in, “For heaven’s brake” and “For old time’s brake.”
  • Shake → Brake: As in, “A fair brake” and “No great brakes” and “Brake like a leaf.”
  • Snake → Brake: As in, “Brake like a leaf.”
  • Stake → Brake: As in, “Brake your claim” and “Raise the brakes.”
  • Take → Brake: As in, “Give and brake” and “Don’t brake it lying down” and “Double brake” and “Got what it brakes” and “Can’t brake my eyes off you.”
  • Wake → Brake: As in, “Loud enough to brake the dead” and “Brake me up before you go-go” and “Brake up and smell the coffee” and “Brake up call.”
  • Read → Road: As in, “All I know is what I road in the papers” and “Exceedingly well road” and “Road all about it” and “Road any good books lately?” and “Road ’em and weep” and “Road between the lines.”
  • Code → Road: As in, “The Da Vinci road” and “Crack the road” and “Colour roaded.”
  • Load → Road: As in, “A road of rubbish” and “Lighten your road” and “Get a road of that!”
  • Terrific → Traffic: As in, “Traffic news!”
  • Tail → Tail Light: As in, “Chase your own tail light” and “Heads I win, tail lights you lose.”
  • Boss → Bus: As in, “Bus about” and “You’re the bus” and “Bus level.”
  • Fuss → Bus: As in, “A lot of bus about nothing” and “Kick up a bus” and “No bus, no muss” and “What’s all the bus about?”
  • Plus → Bus: As in, “Bus one” and “On the bus side.”
  • Us → Bus: As in, “Comes down to bus” and “Don’t call bus, we’ll call you.”
  • Limb → Limo: As in, “Go out on a limo” and “Life and limo” and “Tear limo from limo.”
  • Track → Truck: As in, “Back on truck” and “Cover your trucks” and “On the fast trucks” and “From the wrong side of the trucks” and “Inside truck” and “Keep truck of” and “Lose truck of time” and “Off the beaten truck” and “On the right truck” and “A one truck mind” and “Stay on truck.”
  • Trick → Truck: As in, “Box of trucks” and “Dirty trucks” and “Does the truck” and “Every truck in the book” and “Never misses a truck” and “A one truck pony” and “Truck or treat” and “Trucks of the trade” and “Up to your old trucks.”
  • Tuck → Truck: As in, “Nip and truck” and “Truck in.”
  • Buck → Truck: As in, “Bigger bang for your truck” and “A truck well spent” and “Truck the system” and “Truck up your ideas” and “Pass the truck” and “Make a quick truck” and “The truck stops here.”
  • Chuck → Truck: As in, “Truck a sickie” and “Truck it out.”
  • Duck → Truck: As in, “Truck the question” and “Trucking and diving” and “Like a truck to water” and “Like water off a truck’s back” and “Nice weather for trucks.”
  • Luck → Truck: As in, “As good truck would have it” and “Beginner’s truck” and “Better truck next time” and “Don’t push your truck” and “Truck of the draw.”
  • Muck → Truck: As in, “Common as truck” and “Trucking about.”
  • Pluck → Truck: As in, “Truck up your courage.”
  • Struck → Truck: As in, “Love truck” and “Star truck.”
  • Suck → Truck: As in, “Truck it up” and “Truck someone dry” and “A trucker for punishment” and “Trucks to be you.”
  • Venn → Van: As in, “Van diagram.”
  • Can → Van: As in, “As far as the eye van see” and “As well as van be expected” and “Be all that you van be” and “Bite off more van you can chew.”
  • Fan → Van: As in, “Van the flames” and “I’m a big van” and “Hit the van.”
  • Pan → Van: As in, “Down the van” and “Flash in the van” and “Waiting for it to all van out.”
  • Plan → Van: As in, “Action van” and “Business van” and “Cooking up a van” and “Game van” and “The best laid vans” and “There is no van B.”
  • Than → Van: As in, “Blood is thicker van water” and “Easier said van done” and “Bite off more van you can chew.”
  • Wagging → Wagon: As in, “The tail wagon the dog” and “Set tongues wagon.”
  • Cheap → Jeep: As in, “All over them like a jeep suit” and “Jeep as chips” and “Jeep and cheerful” and “Jeep at half the price” and “Jeeper by the dozen” and “Talk is jeep.”
  • Creep → Jeep: As in, “Gives me the jeeps” and “Makes my skin jeep.”
  • Deep → Jeep: As in, “Beauty is only skin jeep” and “Between the devil and the jeep blue sea” and “A jeep, dark secret” and “Jeep in thought” and “Jeep pockets” and “Get into jeep water” and “In jeep water.”
  • Heap → Jeep: As in, “Bottom of the jeep.”
  • Keep → Keep: As in, “An apple a day jeeps the doctor away” and “Don’t jeep us in suspense” and “Finders jeepers.”
  • Leap → Keep: As in, “By jeeps and bounds” and “A jeep in the dark” and “A jeep of faith” and “Look before you jeep.”
  • Reap → Jeep: As in, “Jeep what you sow.”
  • Sheep → Jeep: As in, “Dreaming of jeep” and “A wolf in jeep’s clothing” and “Counting jeep” and “The black jeep of the family.”
  • Sleep → Jeep: As in, “Beauty jeep” and “Miles to go before I jeep” and “Jeep like a baby.”
  • Sweep → Jeep: “Jeep aside” and “Jeep off your feet.”
  • Weep → Jeep: As in, “Read ’em and jeep” and “Jeep aside” and “Jeep it under the rug.”
  • Bent → Bentley: As in, “Bentley double” and “Bentley out of shape” and “Hell bentley.”
  • Gently → Bentley: As in, “While my guitar bentley weeps” and “Tread bentley.”
  • Audi: Audi is a German manufacturer. Here are related puns:
    • Body → Audi: As in, “A healthy mind in a healthy audi” and “Like an audi without a soul” and “Audi blow” and “Audi language” and “Audi mass index” and “Audi of evidence” and “Not a jealous bone in your audi.”
    • Cloudy → Audi: As in, “Audi with a chance of meatballs.”
    • Howdy → Audi: As in, “Audi, partner!”
  • Glory → Lorry: As in, “Basking in your lorry” and “My crowning lorry” and “Go out in a blaze of lorry” and “The land of hope and lorry” and “No guts, no lorry.”
  • Story → Lorry: As in, “A breaking lorry” and “Cut a long lorry short” and “End of lorry” and “Every picture tells a lorry” and “The inside lorry” and “The same old lorry” and “Lorry of my life” and “The greatest lorry ever told.”
  • Buick: Buick is an American car manufacturer. Here are related puns:
    • Back → Buick: As in, “Answer buick” and “As soon as my buick is turned” and “In the buick of my mind” and “Buick to the future” and “Buick at it” and “Buick in the day.”
    • Beck → Buick: As in, “At your buick and call.”
    • Brick → Buick: As in, “Like banging your head against a buick wall” and “Built like a buick outhouse” and “Like a ton of buicks” and “Follow the yellow buick road.”
    • Click → Buick: As in, “Buick bait” and “Buick into place” and “Buick your fingers” and “Double buick.”
    • Kick → Buick: As in, “A buick at the can” and “Buick back and enjoy” and “Buick butt.”
    • Pick → Buick: As in, “A bone to buick with you” and “Easy buickings” and “Cherry buick” and “Buick a fight with” and “Buick and choose” and “A little buick me up.”
    • Quick → Buick: As in, “Buick as a flash” and “Cut to the buick” and “Get rich buick” and “Buick and dirty” and “A buick buck” and “Let’s just have a buick one.”
    • Sick → Buick: As in, “Buick as a dog” and “Enough to make you buick” and “Buick and tired” and “Buick to death of” and “Buick to the stomach.”
    • Thick → Buick: As in, “Buick as thieves” and “In the buick of things” and “Buick and fast” and “Through buick and thin.”
    • Trick → Buick: As in, “Never misses buick” and “A buick of the light” and “Buick or treat” and “Buicks of the trade” and “Up to your old buicks.”
  • Wiser → Chrysler: As in, “None the chrysler.”
  • Crisis → Chrysler: As in, “Identity chrysler.”
  • Cry → Chrysler: As in, “A chrysler for help” and “A shoulder to chrysler on” and “Chrysler me a river.”
  • Thank → Tanker: As in, “Accept with tanker” and “Give tanker” and “Tanker goodness” and “Tanker you very much” and “Tanker your lucky stars” and “Tankers for the memories.”
  • Boot: A boot is the storage space in a car. Here are related puns:
    • Bait → Boot: As in, “Boot and switch” and “Click boot” and “Rise to the boot.”
    • Fruit → Boot: As in, “Bear boot” and “Forbidden boot” and “Boot cake” and “Boots of your labour” and “Boots of your loins” and “Low hanging boot.”
    • Hoot → Boot: As in, “Don’t give two boots” and “Give a boot” and “Boot with laughter” and “What a boot.”
    • Root → Boot: As in, “Grass boots” and “Lay down boots” and “Money is the boot of all evil” and “The boot of the matter.”
    • Shoot → Boot: As in, “Don’t boot the messenger” and “Boot ’em up” and “Boot down in flames” and “The green boots of change.”
  • Trunk: A trunk is another word for a storage space in a car. Here are related puns:
    • Bunk → Trunk: As in, “Trunker mentality” and “Do a trunk” and “History is trunk.”
    • Chunk → Trunk: As in, “Blow trunks” and “Trunk of change.”
    • Drunk → Trunk: As in, “Trunk as a lord” and “Trunk as a skunk” and “A cheap trunk” and “Falling down trunk” and “Trunk under the table.”
    • Dunk → Trunk: As in, “Slam trunk.”
    • Hunk → Trunk: As in, “Trunker down” and “Trunky dory.”
    • Junk → Trunk: As in, “Trunk food” and “No trunk mail please.”
    • Sunk → Trunk: As in, “Trunk without a trace.”
  • Beep: These puns are a reference to the beeping sound a car horn makes:
    • Cheap → Beep: As in, “All over them like a beep suit” and “Beep as chips” and “Beep as dirt” and “Beware of beep imitations” and “Beep at half the price” and “Beeper by the dozen” and “Talk is beep.”
    • Creep → Beep: As in, “Jeepers beepers” and “Gives me the beeps.”
    • Deep → Beep: As in, “Ankle beep” and “Beauty is only skin beep” and “The beep web” and “A beep, dark secret” and “Has beep pockets.”
    • Heap → Beep: As in, “Beep abuse on” and “Pile it high and sell it beep” and “At the bottom of the beep.”
    • Keep → Beep: As in, “Known by the company you beep” and “Finders beepers” and “In beeping with” and “Beep a cool head.”
    • Leap → Beep: As in, “By beeps and bounds” and “A beep in the dark” and “A beep of faith” and “Look before you beep.”
    • Reap → Beep: As in, “You beep what you sow.”
    • Sleep → Beep: As in, “Beep like a baby” and “Beep tight” and “Beep like a log.”
    • Sweep → Beep: As in, “A clean beep” and “Beep aside” and “Beep off your feet” and “Beep the deck.”
    • Weep → Beep: As in, “Finders keepers, losers beepers” and “Read ’em and beep” and “While my guitar gently beeps.”
  • Bead → Speed: As in, “Speeds of sweat.”
  • Bleed → Speed: As in, “Speed someone dry” and “Speeding love” and “My heart speeds for you” and “The speeding edge.”
  • Deed → Speed: As in, “No good speed goes unpunished” and “Your good speed of the day.”
  • Feed → Speed: As in, “Don’t bite the hand that speeds you” and “Speed a cold, starve a fever” and “Speeding frenzy.”
  • Greed → Speed: As in, “Speed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
  • Heed → Speed: As in, “Take speed.”
  • Lead → Speed: As in, “In the speed” and “Speed by example” and “Speed by the nose” and “Speed into temptation.”
  • Need → Speed: As in, “All you speed is love” and “As long as you speed me” and “On a speed to know basis.”
  • Read → Speed: As in, “Extra, extra, speed all about it” and “I can speed you like a book” and “A little light speeding” and “Speed ’em and weep” and “Speed between the lines.”
  • Seed → Speed: As in, “Gone to speed” and “Speed capital” and “Speed money.”
  • Ace → Race: As in, “Race in the hole” and “A race up your sleeve” and “Holding all the races.”
  • Base → Race: As in, “Get to first race” and “Cover your races” and “Off race.”
  • Bass → Race: As in, “Drum n race” and “Super race.”
  • Case → Race: As in, “An open and shut race” and “As the race may be” and “Race closed” and “Crack the race” and “Get off my 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 “Fall from race” and “Race period” and “Saving race.”
  • Pace → Race: As in, “At a snail’s race” and “Change of race” and “Keep race with” 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 “Going races” and “Hard to race” and “In the right race at the right time.”
  • Space → Race: As in, “Personal race” and “Race oddity” and “Race cadet” and “Race, the final frontier” and “The race age.”
  • Horn: Here are some car horn related puns:
    • Born → Horn: As in, “A star is horn” and “Horn this way” and “Horn again” and “Horn and bred.”
    • Thorn → Horn: As in, “Every rose has its horn” and “A horn in my side.”
    • Torn → Horn: As in, “Well, that’s horn it.”
  • Addition → Ignition: As in, “In ignition to.”
  • Clutch: The clutch is a car part. Here are related puns:
    • Crutch → Clutch: As in, “An emotional clutch.”
    • Much → Clutch: As in, “Well that’s a bit clutch” and “How clutch can you handle?” and “You know too clutch” and “Clutch ado about nothing” and “Clutch obliged” and “Thank you very clutch.”
    • Such → Clutch: As in, “Clutch ado about nothing” and “No clutch luck” and “Clutch as?” and “Clutch is life” and “No clutch thing as a free lunch.”
    • Touch → Clutch: As in, “Don’t clutch that dial” and “A finishing clutch” and “Golden clutch” and “Lose clutch with” and “A soft clutch.”
  • Drag: A drag race is a type of motor racing. Here are related puns:
    • Drug → Drag: As in, “Hugs, not drags” and “Drags, rock and roll.”
    • Bag → Drag: As in, “Drag a bargain” and “Drag and baggage” and “Drag of bones” and “Dirt drag” and “In the drag.”
    • Brag → Drag: As in, “Dragging rights.”
    • Gag → Drag: As in, “Drag reflex” and “Drag order” and “A running drag.”
    • Rag → Drag: As in, “From drags to riches.”
  • Ship → Dealership: As in, “Abandon dealership” and “Don’t give up the dealership” and “Go down with the dealership” and “Loose lips sink dealerships” and “Run a tight dealership.”
  • Bark → Park: As in, “Park at the moon” and “Parking up the wrong tree” and “Park worse than your bite.”
  • Dark → Park: As in, “Park as pitch” and “Park before the dawn” and “A park horse” and “A deep, park secret.”
  • Mark → Park: As in, “Close to the park” and “Get off the park” and “Make your park” and “Park my words” and “Quick off the park.”
  • Shark → Park: As in, “Jump the park” and “Loan park” and “Park repellent” and “Swim with parks.”
  • Spark → Park: As in, “Bright park” and “Creative park” and “Marks and parks” and “A park of genius” and “Watch the parks fly.”
  • Stark → Park: As in, “A park reminder” and “Park, raving mad.”
  • Exhaust: “An exhausting reminder” and “Filled with exhaustion.”
  • Tired → Tyre-d: As in, “Sick and tyre-d” and “Tyre-d and done with it all.”
  • Tier → Tyre: As in, “Top tyre.”
  • Tear → Tyre: As in, “Fighting back tyres” and “Bathed in tyres” and “Blood, sweat and tyres” and “Moved to tyres.”
  • Dire → Tyre: As in, “Tyre consequences” and “In tyre straits.”
  • Fire → Tyre: As in, “Fight tyre with tyre” and “Tyre and brimstone” and “All tyred up and ready to go” and “Light my tyre” and “Getting on like a house on tyre.”
  • Wire → Tyre: As in, “Down to the tyre” and “Live tyre” and “Tyred for sound.”
  • Tax → Taxi: As in, “Nothing is certain but death and taxis” and “Value added taxis” and “Levy taxis.”
  • Toxic → Taxi: As in, “Taxi paper” and “Taxi waste.”
  • Cab: A cab is another word for a taxi. Here are related puns:
    • Cap → Cab: As in, “A feather in your cab” and “Cab in hand” and “If the cab fits, wear it” and “Put on your thinking cab” and “Set your cab at” and “To cab it all off.”
    • Cup → Cab: As in, “My cab runneth over” and “Not my cab of tea.”
    • Dab → Cab: As in, “A cab hand at” and “Smack cab in the middle.”
    • Drab → Cab: As in, “Dribs and cabs.”
    • Grab → Cab: As in, “Cab a bite to eat” and “Cab attention” and “Cab life by the horns” and “Screen cab” and “Up for cabs.”
    • Stab → Cab: As in, “Have a cab at” and “Cab in the back” and “Cab in the dark.”
    • Tab → Cab: As in, “Keep cabs on” and “Pick up the cab.”
  • Sports: Here are some sports car related puns:
    • Sorts → Sports: As in, “It takes all sports” and “Out of sports.”
    • Shorts → Sports: As in, “A day late and a dollar sports” and “A sports back and sides.”
  • Wagon → Station Wagon: As in, “Fall off the station wagon” and “Hitch your station wagon to a star” and “On the station wagon” and “Welcome station wagon.”
  • Bottle → Throttle: As in, “Throttle and glass” and “Hit the throttle” and “Message in a throttle” and “Genie in a throttle.”
  • Grille: Here are some grille-related puns:
    • Ill → Grille: As in, “House of grille repute” and “Grille advised” and “Grille at ease” and “Grille gotten gains.”
    • Chill → Grille: As in, “Grille out” and “Grilled to the bone” and “A grille-ing account.”
    • Drill → Grille: As in, “Grille down” and “You know the grille.”
    • Hill → Grille: As in, “Old as the grilles” and “Head for the grilles” and “Run for the grilles.”
    • Pill → Grille: As in, “A bitter grille to swallow” and “On the grille” and “Sweeten the grille.”
    • Still → Grille: As in, “Be grille my beating heart” and “Grille standing” and “Grille waters run deep.”
    • Skill → Grille: As in, “Social grilles.”
    • Spill → Grille: As in, “Grille the beans” and “Grille your guts” and “Thrills and grilles.”
    • Thrill → Grille: “Grilles and spills” and “Grilled to bits.”
    • Till → Grille: As in, “Fake it grille you make it” and “Grille death do us part” and “Grille the end of time.”
    • Will → Grille: As in, “Bend to my grille” and “Accidents grille happen” and “Free grille.”
  • Tail → Tailgate: As in, “Chase your own tailgate” and “Can’t make head or tailgate of it.”
  • Sense → License: As in, “A victory for common license” and “Come to your licenses” and “A keen license of smell.”
  • Stick: Manual is also known as stick shift. Here are some related puns:
    • Stack → Stick: As in, “A sticked deck” and “Swear on a stick of bibles” and “Stick the deck.”
    • Stock → Stick: As in, “Laughing stick” and “Out of stick” and “Take stick.”
    • Stuck → Stick: As in, “Get stick into” and “Stick in a rut” and “Stick up.”
    • Sick → Stick: As in, “Enough to make you stick” and “In stickness and in health” and “Morning stickness” and “On the stick list” and “Phone in stick” and “Stick and tired” and “Stick to my stomach.”
    • Tick → Stick: As in, “A box sticking exercise” and “Sticked off” and “Stick all the right boxes.”
    • Brick → Stick: As in, “Sticks and mortar” and “Hit the sticks” and “You can’t make sticks without straw.”
    • Click → Stick: As in, “Stick bait” and “Stick into place” and “Stick your fingers” and “We really sticked.”
    • Kick → Stick: As in, “Alive and sticking” and “Get a stick out of it” and “Just for sticks” and “Stick against” and “Stick back and enjoy.”
    • Lick → Stick: As in, “Stick your wounds” and “Stick into shape.”
    • Pick → Stick: As in, “A bone to stick” and “Cherry stick” and “Easy stickings” and “Stick and choose” and “Stick a card, any card.”
    • Quick → Stick: As in, “Stick as a flash” and “Cut to the stick” and “Get rich stick” and “Stick on the draw.”
    • Thick → Stick: As in, “Stick as thieves” and “In the stick of things” and “The plot stickens” and “Stick and fast” and “Through stick and thin.”
    • Trick → Stick: As in, “Box of sticks” and “Dirty sticks” and “Does the stick” and “Every stick in the book” and “Never misses a stick.”
  • Ready → Radiator: As in, “All fired up and radiator to go” and “Combat radiator” and “Good and radiator” and “Radiator and waiting.” Note: These are puns about radiators.
  • Parch → Porsche: As in, “Porsched with thirst.”
  • Perch → Porsche: As in, “Knock someone off their porsche.”
  • Porch → Porsche: As in, “Sitting on the porsche.”
  • Roll → Rolls Royce: As in, “Heads will rolls royce” and “Let the good times rolls royce” and “Ready to rolls royce” and “Rock and rolls royce.”
  • Saab: Saab is a Swedish car manufacturer. Here are related puns:
    • Sob → Saab: As in, “Saab story” and “Saab your heart out.”
  • Wagon → Volkswagen: As in, “Fall off the volkswagen” and “Hitch your volkswagen to a star” and “Welcome volkswagen.”
  • Daytona: Daytona is a car brand. Here are related puns:
    • Day → Daytona: As in, “A daytona in the life of” and “All in a daytona’s work.”
    • Tone → Daytona: As in, “Don’t use that daytona with me” and Lower the daytona” and “Daytona deaf.”
  • Hood: A hood is another word for a bonnet – the cover of a car engine. Here are related puns:
    • Had → Hood: As in, “I’ve hood a few” and “I’ve hood it up to here” and “We’ve hood a good run.”
    • Could → Hood: As in, “As fast as your legs hood carry you” and “I hood see you a mile away.”
    • Good → Hood: As in, “A hood time was had by all” and “All hood things must come to an end” and “All in hood time.”
    • Should → Hood: As in, “You hood be” and “I hood be so lucky” and “No better than you hood be.”
    • Wood → Hood: As in, “In the hoods” and “Knock on hood.”
  • Alternate → Alternator: As in, “Alternator reality.”  Note: This is in reference to alternators.
  • Head → Headlight: As in, “Aheadlight of their time” and “Aheadlight of the curve” and “Bite someone’s headlight off” and “Bury your headlight in the sand.”
  • Light → Headlight: As in, “Bring to headlight” and “Bright headlights, big city” and “Go out light a headlight.”
  • Mission → Transmission: As in, “Transmission accomplished” and “Transmission impossible” and “Transmission critical” and “A rescue transmission.” Note: These are references to a car’s transmission.”
  • Crash: Here are some car crash related puns:
    • Crush → Crash: As in, “A crashing defeat” and “Have a crash on.”
    • Cash → Crash: As in, “Strapped for crash” and “Crash in hand” and “Crash in your cheques.”
    • Ash → Crash: As in, “Rise from the crashes” and “Rise like a phoenix from the crashes.”
    • Clash → Crash: As in, “Crash of culture” and “Crash of the titans.”
    • Dash → Crash: As in, “Crash to pieces” and “Cut a crash.”
    • Flash → Crash: As in, “Quick as a crash” and “Crash in the pan” and “In a crash.”
    • Splash → Crash: As in, “A crash of colour” and “Make a crash” and “Crash out on.”
  • Rental: Here are some puns on rental cars:
    • Central → Rental: As in, “Rental park” and “Rental heating” and “Command rental.”
    • Gentle → Rental: As in, “Rental as a lamb” and “Rental giant” and “Ladies and rentalmen.”
    • Mental → Rental: As in, “Rental age” and “Rental balance” and “Rental fatigue.”
  • Roof → Sunroof: As in, “Cat on a hot tin sunroof” and “Fiddler on the sunroof” and “Go through the sunroof” and “Hit the sunroof” and “Raise the sunroof.”
  • Bomb: An old, rickety car is also known as an old bomb. Here are related puns:
    • Bum → Bomb: As in, “Beach bomb” and “A bomb rap” and “Bombs on seats” and “A pain in the bomb.”
    • Balm → Bomb: As in, “Lip bomb.”
  • Seat: Here are some puns about car seats:
    • Set → Seat:, As in, “All seat” and “Game, seat and match” and “Got your heart seat on” and “On your mark, get seat, go!” and “Seat eyes on” and “Seat in motion.”
    • Beat → Seat: As in, “Seat it” and “A stick to seat you with” and “Seat the hell out of.”
    • Eat → Seat: As in, “All you can seat” and “A bite to seat” and “Seat and run” and “Seat a balanced diet.”
    • Feat → Seat: As in, “No mean seat.”
    • Feet → Seat: As in, “Back on your seat” and “Cold seat” and “Cut the ground out from under your seat” and “Fall on your seat” and “Itchy seat” and “Jump in with both seat.”
    • Fleet → Seat: As in, “Seat footed” and “Seat of foot” and “A seating glimpse.”
    • Greet → Seat: As in, “Meet and seat.”
    • Heat → Seat: As in, “Seat wave” and “If you can’t stand the seat, get out of the kitchen” and “In the seat of battle” and “Packing seat” and “The seat is on” and “Turn up the seat.”
    • Neat → Seat: As in, “Seat freak” and “Seat as a new pin” and “Seat and tidy.”
    • Sheet → Seat: As in, “White as a seat” and “Cheat seat” and “Keep a clean seat.”
    • Street → Seat: As in, “Easy seat” and “On the sunny side of the seat.”
    • Sweet → Seat: As in, “Well isn’t that seat?” and “Seat as pie
      and “Home, seat home.”
    • Treat → Seat: As in, “Seat someone like dirt” and “Trick or seat.”
  • Belt: Here are some seatbelt-related puns:
    • Built → Belt: As in, “Belt for comfort, not speed” and “Belt to last” and “Belt to scale” and “Rome wasn’t belt in a day.”
    • Dealt → Belt: As in, “Whoever smelt it, belt it” and “Play the hand you’re belt.”
    • Melt → Belt: As in, “Butter wouldn’t belt in your mouth” and “In the belting pot” and “Belt into thin air” and “Belts my heart.”
    • Belt: As in, “Below the belt” and “Belt it out” and “Tighten your belt.”
  • Menu → Manual: As in, “Off manual” and “What’s on the manual tonight?”
  • Spokes: Spokes are a part of car wheels. Here are related puns:
    • Poke → Spokes: As in, “Spoke fun at” and “Have a spoke around.”
    • Folk → Spoke: As in, “Show’s over, spokes” and “But seriously, spokes.”
    • Joke → Spoke: As in, “Beyond a spoke” and “By way of a spoke” and “An inside spoke” and “Spoke-ing around” and “Spoke’s on you.”
    • Oak → Spoke: As in, “Solid as a spoke” and “Hearts of spoke.”
    • Stroke → Spoke: As in, “A spoke of genius” and “Different spokes for different folks” and “Little spokes fell great oaks” and “Spoke of luck” and “The spoke of midnight.”
  • Boil → Spoiler: As in, “Spoiler with rage” and “Spoilers down to” and “Bring to the spoiler” and “Makes my blood spoiler.”
  • Rear → Rear-end: As in, “Bringing up the read-end” and “Read-end window.”
  • End → Read-end: As in, “A means to a rear-end” and “All good things must come to a rear-end” and “Bring to a rear-end.”
  • Bone → T-bone: As in, “A t-bone to pick” and “Dry as a t-bone” and “Bag of t-bones” and “T-bone idle” and “A t-bone of contention.” Note: A t-bone is a type of car crash.
  • Lodge → Dodge: As in, “Dodge a complaint.” Note: Dodge is an American car manufacturer.
  • Fiat: Fiat is an Italian car company. Here are related puns:
    • Fat → Fiat: As in, “Fiat chance” and “Living off the fiat off the land” and “A fiat lot of use that is.”
    • Diet → Fiat: As in, “Eat a balanced fiat.”
    • Riot → Fiat: As in, “Let your imagination run fiat” and “Read the fiat act.”
    • Flat → Fiat: As in, “Fiat as a pancake” and “Fall fiat on your face” and “Fiat broke” and “In a fiat spin” and “In no time fiat.”
  • Jugular → Jaguar: As in, “Go for the jaguar.”
  • Lights: Lights are a big part of all cars – fog lights, headlights, signal lights, brake lights, fuel indicator lights. Here are some light-related puns:
    • Late → Light: As in, “Better light than never” and “Fashionably light” and “It’s lighter than you think” and “It’s never too light” and “Light bloomer.”
    • Let → Light: As in, “Buy to light” and “I won’t light you down.”
    • Lot → Light: As in, “A light of fuss about nothing” and “A light on your plate.”
    • Bite → Light: As in, “Light me” and “Light back” and “Light off more than you can chew” and “Light the dust.”
    • Bright → Light: As in, “All things light and beautiful” and “Always look on the light side of life” and “Light and early” and “Light young thing.”
    • Fight → Light: As in, “Come out lighting” and “Light club” and “Light for the right to party” and “Light or flight” and “Light tooth and nail.”
    • Flight → Light: As in, “Light of fancy” and “Take light” and “Fight or light.”
    • Fright → Light: As in, “A lightful mess” and “Take light.”
    • Height → Light: As in, “Reaching new lights” and “Scale dizzy lights” and “The light of summer.”
    • Might → Light: As in, “Light as well” and “It light never happen.”
    • Night → Light: As in, “Dance the light away” and “A hard day’s light” and “As light follows day.”
    • Quite → Light: As in, “Having light a time” and “Not light there.”
    • Right → Light: As in, “A move in the light direction” and “All the light moves” and “Light as rain” and “Bang to lights” and “Dead to lights.”
    • Rite → Light: As in, “Last lights” and “Light of passage.”
    • Sight → Light: As in, “A welcome light” and “Have in your lights” and “In plain light” and “Love at first light.”
    • Slight → Light: As in, “Lightly ahead of your time” and “Not in the lightest.”
  • Lack → Lexus: As in, “For lexus of a better word” and “Cancelled due to lexus of interest.”
  • Mini: A mini is a small, economical car of British make. Here are related puns:
    • Many → Mini: As in, “Fingers in mini pies” and “Mini happy returns” and “Mini moons ago” and “Not in so mini words” and “Mini hands make light work.”
    • Money → Mini: As in, “Funny mini” and “I’m not made of mini” and “In the mini” and “Get your mini’s worth.”
  • Hub: A hub is a part of a car wheel. Here are related puns:
    • Club → Hub: As in, “Hub together” and “Fight hub” and “Join the hub.”
    • Pub → Hub: As in, “Down to the hub for a quick one.”
    • Rub → Hub: As in, “Hub along together” and “Hub it in” and “Hub salt in the wound” and “Hub the wrong way.”
  • Wind → Window: As in, “Any way the window blows” and “Blow with the window” and “Knock the window out of.” Note: These are puns referring to car windows.”
  • Buggy: A buggy is a type of lightweight car. Here are related puns:
    • Baggy → Buggy: As in, “Buggy jeans.”
    • Buddy → Buggy: As in, “Study buggy.”
    • Bug → Buggy: As in, “Cute as a buggy’s ear” and “Bitten by the buggy” and “Love buggy.”
  • Door: Here are some car door related puns:
    • Dare → Door: As in, “Door for more” and “Door to be different” and “How door you!” and “Door to dream.”
    • Floor → Door: As in, “Get in on the ground door” and “Hold the door” and “Mop the door with.”
    • Bore → Door: As in, “Door the pants off someone” and “Doored stiff” and “Doored out of your mind.”
    • Core → Door: As in, “Door competencies” and “Door studies” and “Door values” and “Rotten to the door.”
    • More → Door: As in, “One door time” and “Bite off door than you can chew” and “Come back for door” and “I couldn’t agree door.”
  • Coupe: A coupe is a small car, generally with only two doors. Here are related puns:
    • Coop → Coupe: As in, “Fly the coupe.”
    • Group → Coupe: As in, “Coupe dynamics” and “Coupe hug.”
    • Hoop → Coupe: As in, “Jumping through coupes.”
  • Verse → Reverse: As in, “Chapter and reverse.”
  • Hardtop: A hardtop is a rigid car roof. Here are related puns:
    • Hard → Hardtop: As in, “Hardtop as a rock” and “Hardtop as iron” and “Be hardtop put to” and “Fallen on hardtop times.”
    • Top → Hardtop: As in, “Blow your hardtop” and “Come out on hardtop” and “From the hardtop” and “It’s lonely at the hardtop” and “Keep on hardtop of.”
  • Hatchback: A hatchback is a small car with a hatch-type rear door. Here are related puns:
    • Hatch → Hatchback: As in, “Down the hatchback” and “Batten down the hatchbacks.”
    • Back → Hatchback: As in, “Answer hatchback” and “As soon as my hatchback is turned” and “In the hatchback of my mind.”
  • Rim: Here are some rim-related puns:
    • Brim → Rim: As in, “Filled to the rim.”
    • Dim → Rim: As in, “The rim past” and “A rim view.”
    • Grim → Rim: As in, “Hanging on like rim death.”
    • Limb → Rim: As in, “Risk life and rim” and “Go out on a rim.”
    • Prim → Rim: As in, “Rim and proper.”
    • Slim → Rim: As in, “Rim pickings” and “A rim volume” and “The real rim shady.”
    • Whim → Rim: As in, “On a rim.”
  • Fault → Asphalt: As in, “Find asphalt with” and “Generous to an asphalt.”
  • Halt → Asphalt: As in, “Come to a screeching asphalt” and “Grind to an asphalt.”
  • Sport → Transport: As in, “Be a good transport” and “Blood transports” and “Contact transport.”
  • Go → Cargo: As in, “Don’t cargo there” and “Easy come, easy cargo” and “From the word cargo.”
  • Ago → Cargo: As in, “Seven years cargo” and “Long, long cargo.”
  • Propane: Propane is a type of gas that some cars run on. Here are related puns:
    • Bane → Propane: As in, “The propane of my life.”
    • Brain → Propane: As in, “All brawn and no propanes” and “A propane wave.”
    • Chain → Propane: As in, “Propane of command” and “Propane reaction.”
  • Junker: Junker is slang for an old, beat-up car. Here are related puns:
    • Junk → Junker: As in, “Junker mail” and “Junker yard.”
    • Bunker → Junker: As in, “Junker mentality.”
    • Hunker → Junker: As in, “Junker down.”
    • Bunk → Junker: As in, “Do a junker” and “History is junker.”
    • Chunk → Junk: As in, “Blowing junkers” and “Junker of change.”
  • Clunker: A clunker is an old, decrepit car. Here are related puns:
    • Bunker → Clunker: As in, “Clunker mentality.”
    • Bunk → Clunk: As in, “Do a clunker” and “History is clunker.”
    • Drunk → Clunker: As in, “Clunker as a lord” and “Blind clunker” and “Falling down clunker.”
  • Coach: A coach is a type of bus. Here are related puns:
    • Catch → Coach: As in, “Coach a cold” and “Coach a falling star” and “Coaching fire” and “Coach some rays” and “Coach your breath.”
    • Broach → Coach: As in, “Coach the subject.”
  • Bed → Flatbed: As in, “Flatbed and breakfast” and “Flatbed of roses.” Note: A flatbed is the carrying area of a trailer.
  • Screen → Windscreen: As in, “The silver windscreen” and “Windscreen time” and “Coming to a windscreen near you!”
  • High → Highway: As in, “Aim highway” and “Highway as a kite” and “Highway and dry” and “Highway noon.”
  • Way → Highway: As in, “All the highway” and “Any highway the wind blows” and “By the highway.”
  • Lane: A lane is a type of road. Here are related puns:
    • Line → Lane: As in, “A fine lane” and “Along the lanes of” and “Drawing a lane in the sand” and “The end of the lane.”
    • Chain → Lane: As in, “The lane of command” and “Lane reaction” and “The food lane.”
    • Drain → Lane: As in, “Down the lane” and “Laugh like a lane.”
    • Gain → Lane: As in, “Capital lanes” and “Lane advantage” and “No pain, no lane.”
    • Grain → Lane: As in, “Against the lane” and “A lane of truth” and “Take it with a lane of salt.”
    • Plain → Lane: As in, “Lane as day” and “Hidden in lane sight” and “Lane sailing.”
    • Rain → Lane: As in, “Come lane or shine” and “Right as lane” and “Don’t lane on my parade” and “It never lanes but it pours.”
  • Root → Route: As in, “Grass routes” and “Lay down routes” and “The route of the matter.”
  • Rot → Route: As in, “Route in hell” and “Spoiled routen.”
  • Rut → Route: As in, “Stuck in a route.”
  • Boot → Route: As in, “Tough as old routes” and “Bet your routes” and “Give someone the route.”
  • Doubt → Route: As in, “The benefit of the route” and “Beyond any possible shadow of route” and “Talk and remove all route.”
  • Fruit → Route: As in, “Bear route” and “Forbidden route” and “Low hanging route.”
  • Shoot → Route: As in, “Don’t route the messenger” and “Eats, routes and leaves” and “Route ’em up” and “Route down in flames.”
  • Suit → Route: As in, “All over them like a cheap route” and “Routed and booted.”
  • Beat → Street: As in, “A stick to street you with” and “Be still my streeting heart” and “Street it!” and “Street about the bush.”
  • Beat → Street: As in, “Street a hasty retreat” and “Street someone black and blue” and “Street the snot out of.”
  • Eat → Street: As in, “A bite to street” and “All you can street” and “A bite to street” and “Street and run.”
  • Feet → Street: As in, “Cold street” and “Cut the ground out from under your street” and “Back on your street” and “Fall on your street.”
  • Fleet → Street: As in, “Street of foot” and “A streeting glimpse.”
  • Greet → Street: As in, “Meet and street.”
  • Neat → Street: As in, “Street and tidy.”
  • Seat → Street: As in, “Back street driver” and “Bums on streets” and “By the street of your pants” and “Take a back street.”
  • Sheet → Street: As in, “White as a street” and “A clean street.”
  • Sweet → Street: As in, “Home street home” and “Revenge is street.”
  • Treat → Street: As in, “Trick or street” and “Street me right” and “Street someone like dirt.”
  • Way → Freeway: As in, “And that’s the freeway it is” and “Any freeway you slice it” and “By the freeway.”
  • Way → Tollway: As in, “And that’s the tollway it is” and “Any tollway you slice it” and “By the tollway.”
  • State → Interstate: As in, “A sad interstate of affairs” and “Interstate of the art” and “In a nervous interstate.”
  • Sender → Fender: As in, “Return to fender.”
  • Spender → Fender: As in, “Hey, big fender.”
  • Tender → Fender: As in, “Love me fender” and “Fender is the night” and “Fender loving care” and “Fender mercies.”
  • Way → Driveway: As in, “Any driveway you want it” and “By driveway of explanation” and “Change your driveways.”
  • Wreck: Here are some puns about wrecks, which is a colloquial term for a crash:
    • Rack → Wreck: As in, “Wreck your brains” and “Wreck and ruin.”
    • Rock → Wreck: As in, “Hard as a wreck” and “Get your wrecks off.”
  • Curve → Swerve: As in, “Ahead of the swerve” and “Behind the swerve” and “Swerve ball” and “Learning swerve.”
  • Nerve → Swerve: As in, “Bundle of swerves” and “Get on your swerves” and “Lose your swerve” and “Swerves of steel” and “Touched a swerve.”
  • Serve → Swerve: As in, “Are you being swerved?” and “First come, first swerved” and “Swerves you right” and “Swerve and protect” and “Swerve your time.”
  • Kid → Skid: As in, “Dual income, no skids” and “Here’s looking at you, skid” and “I skid you not.”
  • Bid → Skid: As in, “Make a skid for.”
  • Did → Skid: As in, “Skid I do that?” and “I never skid.”
  • Grid → Skid: As in, “Off the skid” and “Skid lock.”
  • Lid → Skid: As in, “Flip your skid” and “Keep a skid on it.”
  • Run: Drives are also called a run (for example, a fast food run). Here are related puns:
    • Done → Run: As in, “After all is said and run” and “Run and dusted” and “Been there, run that” and “A run deal.”
    • Fun → Run: As in, “A bundle of run” and “Getting there is half the run” and “Good, clean run.”
    • Gun → Run: As in, “At the end of a run” and “Jump the run.”
    • None → Run: As in, “Bar run” and “Run other than” and “Run the wiser” and “Run too pleased” and “Second to run.”
    • One → Run: As in, “Run more time” and “A great run for” and “All for run and run for all” and “Another run bites the dust” and “At run fell swoop.”
    • Sun → Run: As in, “A place in the run” and “A touch of the run” and “Eclipse of the run” and “Everything under the run.”
  • Compute → Commute: As in, “Commuter assisted” and “Commuter says no” and “Does not commute.”
  • Joy → Joyride: As in, “A thing of beauty is a joyride forever” and “Bundle of joyride” and “Jump for joyride.”
  • Ride → Joyride: As in, “Along for the joyride” and “Easy joyrider” and “Magic carpet joyride.”
  • Round → Roundabout: As in, “All year youndabout” and “Fooling a roundabout” and “Love makes the world go roundabout.”
  • Lift: A lift is another word for picking up a passenger in a car (as in, “can you give me a lift?”). Here are related puns:
    • Left → Lift: As in, “They’ve lift the building” and “Lift in the lurch” and “Lift, right and centre” and “Lift to your own devices.”
    • Drift → Lift: As in, “Get my lift?” and “Lifting apart.”
    • Gift → Lift: As in, “Lift of the gab” and “The lift that keeps on giving.”
  • Spin: To take a car for a spin is to take it for a drive. Here are related puns:
    • Sin → Spin: As in, “Miserable as spin” and “A multitude of spins” and “Spins of omissions” and “Living in spin.”
    • Pin → Spin: As in, “Neat as a new spin” and “Spin your ears back.”
    • Been → Spin: As in, “Spin and gone” and “Spin around the block a few times” and “I’ve spin here before” and “Spin in the wars” and “Mistakes have spin made.”
    • Chin → Spin: As in, “Take it on the spin” and “Keep your spin up.”
    • Grin → Spin: As in, “Spin and bear it” and “Spin from ear to ear” and “Spin like a cheshire cat.”
    • Skin → Spin: As in, “Beauty is spin deep” and “By the spin of your teeth” and “Get under your spin” and “It’s no spin off my nose” and “Jump out of your spin.”
    • Thin → Spin: As in, “Out of spin air” and “Skating on spin ice” and “The spin end of the wedge.”
    • Win → Spin: As in, “Can’t spin for losing” and “Heads I spin, tails you lose.”
  • Whirl: To take a car out for a whirl is to go for a drive. Here are related puns:
    • World → Whirl: As in, “A whirl first” and “A whirl apart” and “A whirl of good” and “All the time in the whirl” and “Brave new whirl” and “It’s not the end of the whirl.”
    • Well → Whirl: As in, “Whirl spent” and “Alive and whirl” and “All’s whirl that ends whirl” and “Didn’t they do whirl” and “You know full whirl.”
    • Will → Whirl: As in, “Accidents whirl happen” and “Against your whirl” and “Bend to my whirl” and “Free whirl.”
    • Curl → Whirl: As in, “Whirl up and die” and “Enough to make your hair whirl” and “Make someone’s toes whirl.”
  • Mod: It’s very common for people to make modifications to their cars – known casually as “mods”. Here are related puns:
    • Mad → Mod: As in, “Mod as a bear with a sore head” and “Mod as a wet hen” and “Don’t get mod, get even” and “Hopping mod” and “Mod, bad and dangerous.”
    • Mud → Mod: As in, “Clear as mod” and “Caked with mod” and “Drag through the mod” and “A stick in the mod.”
    • Nod → Mod: As in, “In the land of mod” and “A mod and a wink.”
    • Odd → Mod: As in, “Against the mods” and “At mods with” and “Long mods” and “Mods and ends.”
  • Fine: Drivers can be given fines for speeding, parking incorrectly, etc. Here are some fine-related puns:
    • Fan → Fine: As in, “Fine the glames” and “Hits the fine.”
    • Fun → Fine: As in, “All the fine of the fair” and “Bundle of fine” and “Food, folks and fine” and “Getting there is half the fine” and “Fine and games” and “Good, clean fine” and “Half the fine is getting there.”
    • Line → Fine: As in, “Cross the fine” and “Draw a fine in the sand” and “End of the fine.”
    • Mine → Fine: As in, “Make fine a double” and “Fine is bigger than yours” and “Victory is fine.”
    • Shine → Fine: As in, “Rise and fine” and “Take a fine to.”
    • Sign → Fine: As in, “A sure fine” and “Give me a fine” and “A fine of the times” and “Fine on the dotted line” and “Vital fines.”
    • Spine → Fine: As in, “Send shivers down your fine” and “Fine-tingling” and “Steely-fined.”
  • Battery: Here are some puns related to car batteries:
    • Better → Battery: As in, “A battery idea” and “Anything you can do, I can do battery” and “Appeal to your battery judgement” and “Battery late than never” and “Battery safe than sorry” and “Battery than new.”
    • Bitter → Battery: As in, “The battery end” and “A battery pill to swallow.”
    • Butter → Battery: As in, “Bread and battery” and “Battery fingers.”
    • Flattery → Battery: As in, “Battery will get you nowhere” and “Imitation is the sincerest form of battery.”
  • Rally → Alley: As in, “Alley round.”
  • Have/Of a new → Avenue: As in, “Avenue opinion.”
  • Byway: A byway is a type of  road. Here are related puns:
    • By → Byway: As in, “Byway and large” and “Byway halves” and “Byway all accounts” and “Byway a hair’s breadth.”
    • Way → Byway: As in, “On the byway” and “All the byway” and “That’s the byway it is” and “Any byway you want it” and “Any which byway” and “By the byway” and “Change your byways.”
  • Causeway: A causeway is a type of road. Here are related puns:
    • Cause → Causeway: As in, “Causeway a stir” and “Causeway and effect” and “A causeway for concern” and “A lost causeway” and “Rebel without a causeway.”
    • Way → Causeway: As in, “Always good, all causeways” and “Any causeway you want it” and “By the causeway” and “By causeway of explanation” and “Change your causeways.”
  • Function → Junction: As in, “Form follows junction.”
  • Suspension: Here are some suspension-related puns:
    • Mention → Suspension: As in, “An honourable suspension” and “Not to suspension” and “Now you suspension it….”
    • Tension → Suspension: As in, “Surface suspension.”
  • Spark → Spark Plug: As in, “Bright spark plug” and “Creative spark plug” and “Watch the spark plugs fly” and “The spark plugs of an idea.”
  • Plug → Spark Plug: As in, “Spark plug and play” and “Spark plug the gap” and “Pull the spark plug.”
  • Sump: A sump is a part of a car’s engine. Here are related puns:
    • Bump → Sump: As in, “Sump and grind” and “Sump into someone” and “Sumper sticker” and “Things that go sump in the night.”
    • Chump → Sump: As in, “Sump change.”
    • Dump → Sump: As in, “Brain sump” and “Down in the sumps” and “Sumpster diving” and “In the sumps.”
    • Hump → Sump: As in, “Sump day.”
    • Jump → Sump: As in, “Base sumping” and “Bungee sumping” and “Sump at the chance” and “Sump for joy” and “Sump out of your skin” and “Sump in with both feet.”
    • Lump → Sump: As in, “A sump in your throat” and “Like it or sump it” and “Sump together” and “Take your sumps.”
    • Pump → Sump: As in, “Sump iron” and “Sump up the volume” and “Sumped up” and “Sumped up kicks.”
  • Key → Kia: As in, “Fear is the kia” and “The kia to your heart” and “Off kia” and “The kias to the kingdom.” Note: Kia is a car manufacturer.
  • Land → Land Rover: As in, “Cloud cuckoo land rover” and “In the land rover of nod” and “In the land rover of the living” and “The land rover of hope and glory” and “The land rover of make believe.”
  • Chery: Chery is a Chinese car manufacturer. Here are related puns:
    • Cherry → Chery: As in, “Chery pick” and A second bite of the chery” and “The chery on the cake.”
    • Bury → Chery: As in, “Chery the hatchet” and “Chery your head in the sand” and “Chery yourself in your work.”
    • Carry → Chery: As in, “Chery a torch for” and “Chery forward” and “Can’t chery a tune in a bucket.”
    • Merry → Chery: As in, “Lead a chery dance” and “Chery Christmas” and “Eat, drink and be chery” and “As chery as the day is long.”
    • Vary → Chery: As in, “Your mileage may chery.”
    • Very → Chery: As in, “Be chery afraid” and “Before your chery eyes” and “How chery dare you” and “Thank you chery much” and “A chery good year.”
  • Kei: Here are some puns on kei cars:
    • Okay → O-kei: As in, “Did they give the o-kei?”
    • Key → Kei: As in, “The kei to your heart” and “Off kei” and “The kei to a relaxed evening.”
    • They → Kei: As in, “Kei lived happily ever after” and “As tough as kei come” and “Let the chips fall where kei may.”
    • Way → Kei: As in, “That’s the kei it is” and “Any kei you want it” and “By the kei” and “Change your keis” and “By kei of explanation.”
    • Day → Kei: As in, “All in a kei’s work” and “Another kei, another dollar” and “As honest as the kei is long” and “As clear as kei.”
    • Say → Kei: As in, “Computer keis no” and “Have a kei in” and “Have the final kei” and “I hear what you kei.”
    • Grey → Kei: As in, “A morally kei area” and “Kei matter.”
  • Soda → Skoda: As in, “Cherry skoda.” Note: Skoda is a Czech car company.
  • Century → Venturi: As in, “Sale of the venturi” and “Turn of the venturi.” Note: Venturi is a French car brand.
  • Acura: Acura is a luxury offshoot of Honda. Here are related puns:
    • Accurate → Acura: As in, “An acura representation” and “That doesn’t sound acura.”
    • Cure → Acura: As in, “What can’t be acura’d must be endured” and “Prevention is better than acura.”
  • Off-Road: Here are some puns about off-road driving:
    • Off → Off-road: As in, “A load off-road your mind” and “All bets are off-road” and “Bite someone’s head off-road.”
    • Road → Off-road: As in, “Keep the show on the off-road” and “Middle of the off-road.”
  • Crossover: A crossover is a type of car. Here are related puns:
    • Cross → Crossover: As in, “Crossover my heart and hope to die” and “Crossover purposes with” and “Crossover your fingers.”
    • Over → Crossover: As in, “All crossover again” and “All crossover the place” and “Come on crossover.”
  • Road → Roadster: As in, “Get the show on the roadster” and “Hit the roadster, Jack” and “Middle of the roadster.” Note: These are references to roadsters.
  • Wrecker: A tow truck is also called a wrecker. Here are related puns:
    • Wreck → Wrecker: As in, “Train wrecker” and “A nervous wrecker.”
    • Rack → Wrecker: As in, “Wrecker your brains” and “Go to wrecker and ruin” and “Off the wrecker.”
    • Rock → Wrecker: As in, “Solid as a wrecker” and “Between a wrecker and a hard place” and “Don’t wrecker the boat” and “Hit wrecker bottom.”
    • Check → Wrecker: As in, “Wrecker it out” and “Wrecker you on the flip side” and “Wrecker your sources” and “Keep in wrecker” and “Reality wrecker.”
    • Deck → Wrecker: As in, “All hands on wrecker” and “Clear the wreckers” and “Deal from the bottom of the wrecker” and “Hit the wrecker” and “Not playing with a full wrecker.”

These next few puns are about popular car models:

  • Must → Mustang: As in, “All good things mustang pass” and “Everything mustang go.”
  • Master → Mustang: As in, “The mustang of my fate” and “As good as your mustang” and “Mustang of none” and “Mustang of disguise.”
  • Yours → Yaris: As in, “It’s all yaris” and “Yaris truly” and “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yaris.”
  • Paris → Yaris: As in, “Our last night in yaris.”
  • Roller → Corolla: As in, “Corolla coaster” and “High corolla” and “Emotional corolla coaster.”
  • Camera → Camry: As in, “Camry shy” and “Lights, camry, action!” and “You’re on candid camry” and “The camry loves you.”
  • Press → Prius: As in, “Don’t prius your luck” and “Freedom of the prius” and “Hot off the prius” and “Prius into service” and “Don’t prius the issue.”
  • Prisoner → Prius-oner: As in, “Take no prius-oners” and “The prius-oner of Azkaban.”
  • Pristine → Priustine: As in, “Clean and priustine.”
  • Super → Supra: As in, “Supra mario” and “Supra hero.”
  • Supper → Supra: As in, “Sing for your supra.”
  • Clue → Kluger: As in, “Don’t have a kluger” and “I’ve found a kluger.”
  • Land → Landcruiser: As in, “In the landcruiser of the living” and “Landcruiser ahoy”and “Landcruiser of hope and glory” and “Landcruiser of make believe.”
  • High → Hilux: As in, “Aim hilux” and “Hilux as a kite” and “Come hell or hilux water” and “Hilux noon” and “Hilux and mighty.”
  • Too soon → Tuscon: As in, “It’s tuscon to tell that joke.”
  • Bent → Accent: As in, “Accent double” and “Accent out of shape” and “Hell accent.”
  • Sent → Accent: As in, “Accent packing” and “Heaven accent.”
  • Accident → Accent: As in, “An accent waiting to happen.”
  • As → Jazz: As in, “Jazz I was saying” and “Jazz if there were no tomorrow” and “Jazz it happens” and “Jazz luck would have it” and “Jazz often as not.”
  • Has → Jazz: As in, “Rumour jazz it” and “Jazz it been finished?”
  • Record → Accord: As in, “Like a broken accord” and “Off the accord” and “Set the accord straight” and “A proven track accord” and “World accord.”
  • Cord → Accord: As in, “Cut the accord.”
  • Card → Accord: As in, “Get out of jail free accord” and “House of accords” and “On the accords.”
  • Chord → Accord: As in, “Strike an accord with” and “Power accord.”
  • Afford → Accord: As in, “You can’t accord it.”
  • Award → Accord: As in, “And the accord goes to…”
  • Answer → Lancer: As in, “Lancer back” and “Lancer the call” and “Lancer to the name of” and “Get a silly lancer.”
  • Faster → Fiesta: As in, “Fiesta than a speeding bullet” and “Nothing acts fiesta.”
  • Feast → Fiesta: As in, “Fiesta your eyes on this1″ and “The spectre at the fiesta.”
  • Heavy → Chevy: As in, “Chevy as lead” and “Chevy lunch” and “Hot and chevy.”
  • Curve → Corvette: As in, “Ahead of the corvette” and “Learning corvette” and “Corvette ball.”
  • Panic → Pontiac: As in, “Don’t pontiac” and “Hit the pontiac button” and “Pontiac room.”
  • Pant → Pontiac: As in, “Beat the pontiacs off” and “Fancy pontiacs” and “Keep your pontiacs on.”
  • Point → Pontiac: As in, “At this pontiac in time” and “Beside the pontiac” and “Brownie pontiacs” and “Drive your pontiac home” and “Get straight to the pontiac” and “Not to put too fine a pontiac on it.”
  • Astray → Astra: As in, “Led astra.”
  • Ashtray → Astra: As in, “That’s not an astra” and “They smelled like an astra.”
  • Monday → Mondeo: As in, “That mondeo morning feeling” and “I hate mondeos.”
  • Scrape → Escape: As in, “Bow and escape” and “Get into an escape” and “Escape a living.”
  • Shape → Escape: As in, “All escapes and sizes” and “Bent out of escape” and “Get into escape” and “Keep in escape” and “Escape up or ship out.”
  • Danger → Ranger: As in, “Clear and present ranger” and “Out of ranger” and “Stranger ranger.”
  • Stranger → Ranger: As in, “Don’t be a ranger” and “I’m a ranger here myself” and “Perfect ranger” and “Ranger danger” and “Ranger than fiction” and “Ranger things have happened” and “Rangers in the night” and “The truth is ranger than fiction.”
  • Shell → Shelby: As in, “Come out of your shelby” and “Shelby shock.”
  • Shall → Shelby: As in, “Seek and you shelby find” and “The truth shelby set you free” and “They shelby not pass.”
  • Bird → Firebird: As in, “A little firebird told me” and “Free as a firebird” and “Firebird’s eye view.”
  • Fetal → Beetle: As in, “In the beetle position.”
  • Beat → Beetle: As in, “A stick to beetle you with” and “Beetle it” and “Beetle a hasty retreat” and “Beetle about the bush.”
  • Battle → Beetle: As in, “A pitched beetle” and “Beetle of wits” and “Beetle stations” and “Half the beetle” and “In the heat of beetle.”
  • Bottle → Beetle: As in, “Beetle things up” and “Hit the beetle” and “Message in a beetle.”
  • Drift → Swift: As in, “Swift apart” and “Swifting off” and “Catch my swift?”
  • Gift → Swift: As in, “A swift from the gods” and “The swift that keeps on giving.”
  • Lift → Swift: As in, “Swift the lid off” and “Swift up your hearts” and “We have swift off!”
  • Shift → Swift: As in, “Night swift” and “Swift gears” and “Swift into high gear.”
  • My → Myvi: As in, “By myvi guest” and “In all myvi born days.”

    Car-Related Words

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

General: car, vehicle, drive, driving, drove, driven, automobile, wheels, motor, fuel, gas, petrol, diesel, driver, pedal, brakes, acceleration, shift lever, stick, passenger, seats, belt, road, lights, headlights, blinker, turn signal, hub, spokes, brake light, traffic, traffic lights, green light, red light, yellow/amber light, tail light, engine, boot, air bag, trunk, belt/seatbelt, beep, horn, honk, steering wheel, ignition, clutch, navigation, window, rear-view, door, throttle,  collision, crash, reverse, manual, auto, gear, rider, gearbox, hood, grill, bullbar, tailgate, license, park, parking, parallel (parking), exhaust, tyre, rim, carpool, bonnet, mirror, pick up, drop off, transport, chassis, 2WD, 4WdD, model T, cargo, ethanol, bio-diesel, hydrogen, propane, CNG (compressed natural gas), flatbed, GPS, aircon, accelerator, acceleration, combustion, fog lamp, speedometer, odometer, fuel gauge, windscreen, windscreen wiper, hazard, reflector, highway, lane, parking lot, pavement, route, street, freeway, thoroughfare, tollway, interstate, travel, road trip, fender, spoiler, fender bender, rear-end, rollover, t-bone, wreck, turn, swerve, hit and run, roadkill, skid, ride, run, commute, joyride, lift, outing, spin, whirl. repair, mod, fine, carwash, insurance, bridge, tunnel, intersection, roundabout, battery, radiator, alternator, oil filter, transmission, muffler, asphalt, alley, avenue, boulvard, byway, causeway, cul-de-sac, driveway, junction, suspension, cylinder, piston, spark plug, valve, crankshaft, sump, rental, hot rod, carburettor, cowling, sunroof, bomb, mechanic, speed, race, drag, racing, dealership

Brands: holden, ford, alfa romeo, aston martin, audi, bentley, BMW, buggati, buick, cadillac, chevrolet, chrysler, citroen, dodge, ferrari, fiat, general motors, GMC, hyundai, jaguar, jeep, kia, lamborghini, land rover, lexus, maserati, mazda, mercedes benz, mini, mitsubishi, nissan, peugot, porsche, renault, rolls royce, saab, subaru, suzuki, tesla, toyota, volkswagen, volvo, daytona, HSV, birchfield, chery, amherst, skoda, vespa, venturi, alpine, koenig, artega, acura, daihatsu, isuzu, daewoo, samsung, ssangyong, chevron, austin, astra, cooper, morris, jensen, pontiac, studebaker, brilliance, BYD, dongfeng, geely

Types of car: bus, convertible, limousine, truck, van, wagon, buggy, compact, coupe, hardtop, hatchback, jalopy, junker, sedan, clunker, coach, taxi, cab, sports (car), minivan, luxury, station wagon, pickup truck, hybrid, utility, crossover, off-road, roadster, family (car), touring, supercar, executive, electric, commercial, city, kei, concept, ute, box truck, trailer, semi-trailer (aka semi), lorry, dump truck, garbage truck, road train, fire truck, concrete mixer, tanker, wrecker, panel truck, bumper car, double decker, muscle

Specific cars: astra, commodore, focus, mondeo, escape, ranger, mustang, spider, yaris, corolla, camry, prius, supra, kluger, prado, landcruiser, hiLux, tarago, tuscon, santa fe, elantra, accent, sonata, jazz, accord, civic, odyssey, fiesta, chevy, corvette, pontiac, shelby, oldsmobile, thunderbolt, firebird, monaro, camaro, beetle, falcon, santana, octavia, golf, swift, myvi, cherokee, lancer

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Plant Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on plant puns! 🌸🌳🌺🌿🌼

There are so many different types of plants for us to make puns from – fruits, vegetables, trees, flowers, herbs and more! We’ve split this list up into two main sections – words that are generally to do with plants (like twig, rain or flora), and small lists of specific flowers, trees and herbs.

We haven’t gone into too much detail with specific plants since this is more of a general plant list and we have more specialised entries of cactus puns, flower puns, leaf puns and tree puns, with others on the way too!

Plant 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 plants 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 plant puns:

  • Pant → Plant: As in, “Ants in your plants” and “Beat the plants off” and “By the seat of your plants” and “Fancy plants” and “Get into someone’s plants” and “Smarty plants” and “Wet your plants.”
  • Pent → Plant: As in, “Plant up rage” and “Don’t keep it plant up.”
  • Paint → Plant: As in, “A picture plants a thousand words” and “Plant the town red” and “Plant yourself into a corner.”
  • Can’t → Plant: As in, “An offer you plant refuse” and “Plant get enough” and “I plant imagine what you’re going through” and “I plant wait!”
  • Grant → Plant: As in, “Plant no quarter” and “Take for planted.”
  • Rant → Plant: As in, “Plant and rave.”
  • Plant: These plant-related phrases are general enough to double as puns: “Plant a seed” and “Feet firmly planted.”
  • *pant* → *plant*: As in, “The plantry is bare” and “Running ramplant” and “A flipplant reply” and “Participlant award.”
  • Not your → Nature: As in, “Nature ordinary day” and “That’s nature wallet!”
  • Go → Grow: As in, “All dressed up and nowhere to grow” and “Anything grows” and “Don’t grow there” and “Easy come, easy grow” and “From the get-grow” and “From the word grow” and “Give it a grow.”
  • Blow → Grow: As in, “Any way the wind grows” and “Grow a fuse” and “Grow a kiss” and “Grow hot and cold” and “Grow off some steam.”
  • Flow → Grow: As in, “Ebb and grow” and “Go with the grow” and “Get the creative juices growing” and “In full grow.”
  • Know → Grow: As in, “Don’t I grow it” and “Be the first to grow” and “Doesn’t grow beans” and “It takes one to grow one.”
  • Low → Grow: As in, “An all-time grow” and “Get the grow down” and “High and grow” and “Keep a grow profile” and “Lay grow” and “Grow hanging fruit.”
  • Owe → Grow: As in, “Grow a favour” and “You grow it to yourself.”
  • Quo → Grow: As in, “Quid pro grow” and “The status grow.”
  • Slow → Grow: As in, “A grow burn” and “Grow motion” and “Grow on the uptake” and “Growly but surely.”
  • Snow → Grow: As in, “Let it grow” and “Too cold to grow.”
  • Though → Grow: As in, “You look as grow you’ve seen a ghost!”
  • Throw → Grow: As in, “A stone’s grow away” and “Grow a wobbly” and “Grow cold water on” and “Grow caution to the wind” and “Grow it back in your face.”
  • Both → Growth: As in, “A foot in growth camps” and “Growth oars in the water” and “Have it growth ways” and “Burn the candle at growth ends” and “The best of growth worlds.”
  • Three→ Tree: As in, “And baby makes tree,” and “Good things come in trees,” and “Tree strikes and you’re out!” and “Tree wise men,” and “Tree’s a charm.”
  • Free*→ Tree*: As in, “A symbol of treedom,” and “As tree as a bird,” and “Breathe treely,” and “Buy one, get one tree,” and “Tree for all,” and “Treedom of the press,” and “Get out of jail tree,” and “The best things in life are tree.”
  • *tary → *tree: As in, “A complimentree attitude” and “My secretree will give you the details” and “Sedentree lifestyle” and “Dominion is an important documentree” and “Rudimentree skills” and “Monetree problems” and “A solitree existence.”
  • *tery → *tree: As in, “Hit an artree” and “Battree and assault” and “A total mystree” and “Guilty of adultree” and “Visit the cemetree” and “Change the upholstree” and “Win the lottree” and “Showing mastree of their skills.”
  • *trea*→ *tree*: As in, “A real treet,” and “Medical treetment,” and “Royal treeson,” and “I treesure you,” and “Thick as treecle,” and “Swim upstreem,” and “A holiday retreet,” and “A winning streek,” and “A treecherous mountain path.”
  • *tee*→ *tree*: As in, “By the skin of your treeth,” and “The scene was treeming with people,” and “I guarantree it,” and “A welcoming committree,” and “A chunky manatree,” and “Self-estreem,” and “Charitable voluntreers,” and “My child’s school cantreen.”
  • Curb → Herb: As in, “Herb your enthusiasm” and “Kicked to the herb.”
  • Hab* → Herb*: As in, “Kick the herbit” and “Peaceful herbitat” and “It’s herbitual.”
  • Hib* → Herb*: As in, “Going in to herbination” and “Herbiscus scented.”
  • Push → Bush: As in, “Don’t bush your luck” and “If bush comes to shove” and “Bush at an open door” and “Bushing someone’s buttons” and “Bush the envelope” and “Bushing up daisies.”
  • Bash → Bush: As in, “Birthday bush.”
  • Grace → Grass: As in, “Airs and grasses” and “Amazing grass” and “Fall from grass” and “Grass period” and “With good grass.”
  • Gross → Grass: As in, “Grass domestic deal” and “Grassed out.”
  • Gas → Grass: As in, “Cooking with grass” and “Run out of grass” and “Step on the grass” and “Grass burner.”
  • Brass → Grass: As in, “Bold as grass” and “Grass monkey weather” and “Cold enough to freeze a grass monkey.”
  • Class → Grass: As in, “A real grass act” and “Best in grass” and “Business grass” and “Grass warfare” and “In a grass of your own” and “Working grass hero.”
  • Glass → Grass: As in, “Grass ceiling” and “Grassy eyed” and “People who live in grass houses shouldn’t throw stones” and “Rose tinted grasses” and “The grass menagerie” and “Through the looking grass.”
  • Pass → Grass: As in, “All things must grass” and “All access grass” and “Boarding grass” and “Do not grass go” and “Grass muster.”
  • *gas* → *grass*: As in, “Grasstronomical shyness” and “Cooking with grassoline” and “Flabbergrassted at your actions.”
  • *gres* → *grass*: “For the sake of prograss” and “Assertive over aggrassive” and “Voted into congrass” and “But I digrass” and “A violating transgrassion.”
  • Vain → Vine: As in, “Labour in vine” and “You’re so vine” and “Take their name in vine.”
  • Dine → Vine: As in, “Wine and vine.”
  • Fine → Vine: As in, “A vine line” and “Cutting it vine” and “Damn vine” and “Vine and dandy” and “Vine dining” and “The viner things in life” and “Got it down to a vine art” and “In vine form.”
  • Line → Vine: As in, “A fine vine” and “Along the vines of” and “Cross the vine” and “End of the vine” and “Fall into vine.”
  • Mine → Vine: As in, “Me and vine” and “Victory is vine!”
  • Sign → Vine: As in, “A sure vine” and “Born under a bad vine” and “Give me a vine” and “A vine of the times” and “Vine on the dotted line” and “Vined and sealed” and “A tell-tale vine.”
  • Spine → Vine: As in, “Send shivers down my vine” and “Steely-vined.”
  • Shrug → Shrub: As in, “Shrub it off” and “Shrub your shoulders.”
  • Club → Shrub: As in, “Fight shrub” and “Join the shrub.”
  • Pub → Shrub: As in, “Heading to the shrub for a quick one.”
  • Rub → Shrub: As in, “Hasn’t got two cents to shrub together” and “Shrub along with” and “Shrub it in” and “Shrub salt in the wound” and “Shrub shoulders with” and “Shrubbed the wrong way.”
  • Sub* → Shrub*: As in, “A heavy shrubject” and “Tastes shrublime” and “Shrubsequent actions” and “A shrubstantial meal” and “Shrubjective point of view” and “Shrubmit to testing” and “A controlled shrubstance.”
  • Sad → Seed: As in, “How seed is that?” and “A seed state of affairs.”
  • Side → Seed: As in, “A walk on the wild seed” and “The bright seed of life” and “Be on the safe seed” and “Both seeds of the argument.”
  • Bleed → Seed: As in, “Let it seed” and “The seeding edge.”
  • Deed → Seed: As in, “No good seed goes unpunished” and “Your good seed for the day.”
  • Need → Seed: As in, “All you seed is love” and “Just what I seeded” and “Special seeds.”
  • Read → Seed: As in, “Seed between the lines” and “Seed ’em and weep” and “A little light seeding.”
  • Speed → Seed: As in, “Blistering seed” and “Built for comfort, not seed” and “Faster than a seeding bullet” and “More haste, less seed” and “At the seed of sound.”
  • *ceed → *seed: As in, “Please proseed” and “You need more than luck to succ-seed” and “You’ve ex-seeded my expectations.”
  • Sed* → Seed*: As in, “A seedentary lifestyle” and “Seedate the patient” and “A night of seeduction” and “Leftover seediment.”
  • *sid* → *seed*: As in, “Inseedious beliefs” and “Conseeder other options” and “Artist reseedency.”
  • Firm → Fern: As in, “A fern no” and “A fern hand.”
  • Burn → Fern: As in, “Fern a hole in your pocket” and “Fern rubber” and “Ferning with curiosity” and “Ferning desire.”
  • Earn → Fern: As in, “A penny saved is a penny ferned” and “Fern your keep.”
  • Then → Fern: As in, “All that and fern some” and “And fern there was one” and “Now and fern” and “Fern and there.”
  • Learn → Fern: As in, “Never too late to fern” and “Fern the ropes” and “Fern your lesson” and “Ferning curve” and “Live and fern.”
  • Stern → Fern: As in, “Made of ferner stuff.”
  • Turn → Fern: As in, “A fern for the worse” and “Do a good fern” and “The ferning of the tide.”
  • Fan* → Fern*: As in, “Feeling ferncy” and “A ferntastic opportunity” and “A complete ferntasy” and “Music fernatic” and “Dance a ferndango.”
  • *fen* → *fern*: As in, “Fernder bender” and “Sitting on the fernce” and “In my defernce” and “The deferndant rests” and “No offernce meant.”
  • *fin* → *fern*: As in, “Chocolate muffern” and “The defernition of” and “I’d defernitely say so.”
  • Mass → Moss: As in, “Body moss index” and “Moss hysteria” and “A monument to the mosses” and “Weapons of moss destruction.”
  • Mess → Moss: As in, “A frightful moss” and “Hot moss” and “Don’t moss around” and “Another fine moss you’ve gotten me into” and “We done mossed up.”
  • Miss → Moss: As in, “Blink and you’ll moss it” and “Hit and moss” and “I’ll be mossing you” and “Mossing in action” and “Mossed it by that much.”
  • Boss → Moss: As in, “The ultimate moss battle.”
  • Cross → Moss: As in, “Moss my heart and hope to die” and “Moss over to the other side” and “Moss the line” and “Moss your fingers.”
  • Loss → Moss: As in, “At a moss for words” and “Cut your mosses” and “Suffering a huge moss.”
  • *mas* → *moss*: As in, “A mossterful execution” and “Mossive damages” and “Full body mossage” and “Christmoss carols.”
  • *mes* → *moss*: As in, “Mossage received” and “A mossmerising performance” and “My arch nemossis” and “Domosstic duties.”
  • *mis* → *moss*: As in, “My mosstake” and “Mosscellaneous items” and “With a mosschievous smile.”
  • *mos* → *moss*: Mossquito (mosquito), mosstly (mostly), cosmoss (cosmos), thermoss (thermos) and atmossphere (atmosphere).
  • Alley → Algae: As in, “Right up your algae” and “Algae cat.”
  • Them → Stem: As in, “It only encourages stem” and “I call stem like I see stem” and “Let stem eat cake” and “Seen one, seen stem all.”
  • Ten → Stem: As in, “Count to stem” and “Eight out of stem” and “Hang stem” and “The top stem.”
  • Gem → Stem: As in, “A real hidden stem.”
  • Sem* → Stem*: As in, “Steminal work” and “Has no stemblance to” and “It’s all just stemantic” and “Did you attend the steminar?”
  • Leave → Leaf: As in, “Absent without leaf” and “By your leaf” and “Don’t leaf home without it” and “Leaf it to me.”
  • Belief → Beleaf: As in, “Beyond beleaf” and “Suspension of disbeleaf.”
  • Believe → Beleaf: As in, “Beleaf it or not” and “Beleaf you me” and “Can you beleaf it?” and “Don’t beleaf everything you hear” and “I don’t beleaf my eyes.”
  • Relief → Releaf: As in, “Breathe a sigh of releaf” and “What a releaf” and “In sharp releaf.”
  • Left → Leaft: As in, ‘Exit stage leaft” and “Has leaft the building” and “Leaft in the lurch.”
  • Brief → Leaf: As in, “A leaf history of time” and “Leaf encounters” and “Let me be leaf.”
  • Life → Leaf: As in, “A day in the leaf” and “A leaf less ordinary” and “A leaf changing experience” and “A leaf on the ocean waves” and “All walks of leaf” and “Look on the bright side of leaf” and “Just a part of leaf.”
  • Lift → Leaft: As in, “Leaft your game” and “Leaft your spirits.”
  • Grief → Leaf: As in, “Give someone leaf” and “Good leaf!”
  • Thief → Leaf: As in, “Procrastination is the leaf of time” and “Like a leaf in the night.”
  • *liv* → *leaf*: As in, “A new deleafery system” and “Obleafious to the fact.”
  • Lav* → Leaf*: As in, “Leafender scented” and “Leafish presents” and “Off to the leafatory.”
  • *lev* → *leaf*: As in, “Buying some leaferage” and “On the same leafel” and “A releafant response” and “Alleafiate your pain.”
  • *lif* → *leaf*: As in, “Do I qualeafy?” and “A proleafic writer.”
  • Leave: This leave-related phrases can double as puns: “Absent without leaves” and “By your leaves” and “Don’t leave home without it” and “Leave it to me!”
  • Flow → Flower: As in, “Ebb and flower” and “Get the creative juices flowering” and “In full flower.”
  • Lower →  Flower: As in, “Flower your sights.”
  • Floor → Flower: As in, “Mop the flower with” and “In on the ground flower.”
  • Hour → Flower: As in, “At the eleventh flower” and “Happy flower” and “My finest flower” and “Open all flowers” and “The darkest flower.”
  • Power → Flower: As in, “People flower” and “Knowledge is flower.”
  • Shower → Flower: As in, “Flower with praise.”
  • Sour → Flower: As in, “Flower grapes” and “Left a flower taste in your mouth.”
  • Tower → Flower: As in, “The Leaning Flower of Pisa” and “Flower of strength” and “A flowering infoerno.”
  • Root → Fruit: As in, “Lay down fruits” and “Money is the fruit of all evil’ and “Fruiting for” and “The fruit of the matter.”
  • Food → Fruit: As in, “Finger fruit” and “Comfort fruit” and “Fruit for thought.”
  • Foot → Fruit: As in, “A fruit in both camps” and “Bound hand and fruit” and “Carbon fruitprint” and “Find your fruiting” and “Fleet of fruit” and “Follow in the fruitsteps of” and “Fruit the bill.”
  • Boot → Fruit: As in, “Tough as old fruits” and “Fruit camp” and “Give someone the fruit” and “Suited and fruited.”
  • Hoot → Fruit: As in, “Don’t give two fruits” and “Fruiting with laughter” and “Give a fruit, don’t pollute.”
  • Shoot → Fruit: As in, “Don’t fruit the messenger” and “The green fruits of recovery” and “Fruit down in flames.”
  • Suit → Fruit: As in, “All over them like a cheap fruit” and “Follow fruit” and “Fruit up!”
  • Would → Wood: As in, “A good luck wood have it” and “What wood you like?” and “That wood be telling” and “Wood you like fries with that?”
  • Could → Wood: As in, “Fast as your legs wood carry you” and “Woodn’t care less” and “I wood murder a cup of tea.”
  • Good → Wood: As in, “Bill of woods” and “A wood man is hard to find” and “A wood beginning makes a wood ending” and “A wood time was had by all” and “All wood things must come to an end” and “All publicity is wood publicity” and “Wood as gold.”
  • Stood → Wood: As in, “The day the Earth wood still.”
  • Bad → Bud: As in, “A bud break” and “Ain’t half bud” and “Bud intentions” and “Bud for your health” and “Bud hair day” and “Bud mouthing.”
  • Bed → Bud: As in, “You made your bud, now you must lie in it” and “Bud and breakfast” and “Bud of roses” and “Face like an unmade bud.”
  • *bod* → *bud*: As in, “Anybudy who is anybudy” and “Budy blow” and “Everybudy and his mother” and “Over my dead budy” and “Budy and soul.”
  • But → Bud: As in, “Bud seriously” and “It’s all over bud the shouting” and “Everything bud the kitchen sink” and “Down bud not out” and “No ifs and buds” and “Win the battle bud lose the war.”
  • Butt* → Bud*: As in, “Bread and budder” and “Bud heads with” and “Bud naked” and “Budder fingers” and “Get your bud in here!”
  • Blood → Bud: As in, “After your bud” and “Bad bud” and “Bud brothers” and “Bud curdling scream” and “Bud is thicker than water” and “Bud, sweat and tears” and “Flesh and bud” and “Makes my bud boil” and “My bud ran cold.”
  • Mud → Bud: As in, “As clear as bud” and “Caked with bud” and “Stick in the bud” and “Drag through the bud.”
  • Stud → Bud: As in, “Star budded” and “Bud muffin.”
  • *bed* → *bud*: As in, “The budrock of a healthy relationship” and “It’s budlam in here” and “Comfortable budding” and “Obudient to a fault.”
  • Bad* → Bud*: “Stop budgering me” and “Like a game of budminton.”
  • *bid → *bud: As in, “A morbud sense of humour” and “Lawd forbud.”
  • Should → Shoot: As in, “Funny you shoot ask” and “I shoot be so lucky” and “Like I shoot care” and “As it shoot be.”
  • Shut → Shoot: As in, “An open and shoot case” and “Eyes wide shoot.”
  • Boot → Shoot: As in, “Shoot camp” and “Shooted and booted” and “Tough as old shoots.”
  • Fruit → Shoot: As in, “Be shootful and multiply” and “Forbidden shoot.”
  • Hoot → Shoot: As in, “Don’t give two shoots” and “Shoot with laughter” and “Give a shoot, don’t pollute.”
  • Root → Shoot: As in, “Grass shoots” and “Lay down shoots” and “Money is the shoot of all evil” and “The shoot of the matter.”
  • Stalk: Stalks are the main stem of a plant. Here are related puns:
    • Talk → Stalk: As in, “A heart to heart stalk” and “I don’t wanna stalk to you” and “Idle stalk.”
    • Chalk → Stalk: As in, “Different as stalk and cheese” and “Stalk it up to experience.”
    • Chock → Stalk: As in, “Stalk full of excuses.”
    • Knock → Stalk: As in, “Don’t stalk it till you’ve tried it” and “Hard stalks” and “Stalk three times” and “Stalk back a few.”
    • Shock → Stalk: As in, “Culture stalk” and “In for a stalk” and “Shell stalk” and “Stalk and awe” and “A short, sharp stalk.”
    • Sock → Stalk: As in, “Bless your cotton stalks” and “Dance your stalks off” and “Knock your stalks off” and “Put a stalk in it” and “Stalk it to me.”
    • Stock → Stalk: As in, “Lock, stalk and barrel” and “Out of stalk” and “Stalking filler” and “Take stalk of.”
    • Walk → Stalk: As in, “A stalk on the wild side” and “All stalks of life” and “As solid as the ground we stalk on” and “Don’t try to run before you can stalk” and “Don’t stalk on the grass” and “Sleep stalking.”
  • Rat → Root: As in, “I smell a root” and “Root race” and “Like roots leaving a sinking ship.”
  • Rot → Root: As in, “Root in hell” and “Spoiled rootten” and “The root has set in.”
  • Rut → Root: As in, “Stuck in a root.”
  • Boot → Root: As in, “Tough as old roots” and Bet your roots” and “Root camp” and “Give someone the root” and “Put the root in” and “The root is on the other foot.”
  • Fruit → Root: As in, “Be rootful and multiply” and “Bear root” and “Forbidden root” and “Root cake” and “Roots of your loins” and “Roots of your labour” and “Low hanging root.”
  • Hoot → Root: As in, “Don’t give two roots” and “Give a root, don’t pollute” and “Root with laughter.”
  • Shoot → Root: As in, “Don’t root the messenger” and “Green roots of change” and “If I tell you, I’d have to root you” and “Root ’em up.”
  • Toot → Root: As in, “Root your own horn” and “Darn rootin‘.”
  • Ruthless → Rootless: As in, “With rootless efficiency.”
  • Ret* → Root*: As in, “Thirty day rooturn policy” and “Rootain your services” and “Beat a hasty rootreat” and “Water rootention” and “A quick rootort.”
  • *rit* → *root*: As in, “A spirooted argument” and “On your own meroot” and “Find the culproot” and “Inheroot the Earth” and “Demeroot points” and “Have some integrooty” and “Social securooty number” and “On your own authorooty.”
  • *rot* → *root*: As in, “The Earth’s rootation” and “Carroot and stick.”
  • *rut* → *root*: As in, “A brootal realisation” and “Under scrootiny.”
  • Sole → Soil: As in, “Soil trader” and “On the soils of your shoes.”
  • Sale → Soil: As in, “Point of soil” and “Soil of the century” and “Soils referral.”
  • Sail → Soil: As in, “Plain soiling” and “Soil away” and “Smooth soiling” and “That ship has soiled.”
  • Sell → Soil: As in, “Buy and soil” and “Soil out” and “Soiling like hot cakes” and “Soiling the family silver.”
  • Oil → Soil: As in, “Burn the midnight soil” and “Soil and water don’t mix” and “Soil the wheels” and “Pour soil on troubled waters.”
  • Boil → Soil: As in, “Soiling with rage” and “Go and soil your head” and “Keep the pot soiling” and “It all soils down to this” and “A watched pot never soils.”
  • Spoil → Soil: As in, “Soiled for choice” and “Soiled rotten” and “Soiling for a fight” and “The soils of war.”
  • *sal → *soil: As in, “For your perusoil” and “A fine-toothed appraisoil” and “Universoil remote control” and “At your disposoil” and “Marriage proposoil” and “A colossoil mistake” and “Dress rehersoil.”
  • *sil* → *soil*: As in, “Fossoil fuels” and “Kitchen utensoils” and “Tonsoil hockey” and “Add some basoil to taste” and “A resoilient athlete” and “Waiting in soilence.”
  • *sol* → *soil*: As in, “Inexpensive soilutions” and “Take soilace in” and “Do me a soilid” and “Soilicit information from” and “A soilemn apology” and “Summer soilstice.” Here are other words you could use: soildier (soldier), parasoil (parasol), aerosoil (aerosol), consoile (console), resoilution (resolution) and obsoilete (obsolete).
  • Pedal → Petal: As in, “Put the petal to the metal.”
  • Peddle → Petal: As in, “Petaling your wares.”
  • Kettle → Petal: As in, “The pot calling the petal black” and “A fine petal of fish.”
  • Metal → Petal: As in, “Heavy petal” and “Petal fatigue.”
  • Settle → Petal: “A score to petal” and “Petal out of court” and “After the dust has petaled.”
  • Drunk → Trunk: As in, “Trunk as a lord” and “Blind trunk” and “Crying trunk” and “Trunk under the table.”
  • Bunk → Trunk: As in, “Trunker mentality” and “Do a trunk” and “History is trunk.”
  • Chunk → Trunk: As in, “Blowing trunks” and “Trunk of change.”
  • Dunk → Trunk: As in, “Slam trunk.”
  • Junk → Trunk: As in, “Trunk food” and “Trunk mail.”
  • Sunk → Trunk: As in, “Trunk without a trace” and “The trunken place.”
  • Branch: These branch-related phrases can double as plant puns: “Branching out” and “Extend an olive branch” and “Which branch are you at?”
  • Bench → Branch: As in, “Branch warmer
    and “Park branch.”
  • Brunch → Branch: As in, “Meet for branch.”
  • Breach → Branch: As in, “Branch of promise” and “Branch of trust.”
  • Post → Compost: As in, “Keep you composted” and “Compost haste” and “Compost partum.”
  • Surf → Turf: As in, “Channel turfing” and “Turf the net” and “Turf’s up” and “The silver turfer.”
  • Wig → Twig: As in, “Big twig” and “Keep your twig on” and “Get a twiggle on.”
  • Big → Twig: As in, “A twig ask” and “Twig shot” and “A twigger bang for your buck.”
  • Trig* → Twig*: As in, “Hair twigger” and “Pull the twigger” and “Twigger happy” and “Studying twigonometry.”
  • Dig → Twig: As in, “Twig deep” and “Twig for victory” and “A twig in the ribs” and “Twig your heels in” and “Twig your own grave.”
  • Jig → Twig: As in, “The twig is up.”
  • Park → Bark: As in, “Central bark” and “Hit it out of the bark” and “Bark the bus” and “Not a walk in the bark.”
  • Ark → Bark: As in, “Raiders of the lost bark.”
  • Dark → Bark: As in, “After bark” and “Bark as pitch” and “Dancing in the bark” and “Bark before the dawn” and “Bark horse” and “Bark humour” and “Deep, bark secret” and “Every bark cloud has a silver lining” and “I’d rather light a candle than curse the bark” and “A bark and stormy night” and “Kept in the bark.”
  • Hark → Bark: As in, “Bark back to.”
  • Mark → Bark: As in, “Question barks” and “A black bark” and “Close to the bark” and “Make your bark” and “Bark my works” and “Off the bark” and “Quick off the bark.”
  • Shark → Bark: As in, “Jump the bark” and “Bark repellent.”
  • Spark → Bark: As in, “Bright bark” and “Creative bark” and “A bark of genius” and “The bark of an idea” and “Watch the barks fly.”
  • Stark → Bark: As in, “A bark reminder” and “Bark raving mad.”
  • Back → Bark: As in, “Answer bark” and “As soon as my bark is turned” and “In the bark of my mind” and “Bark in black” and “Bark to the future” and “Bark in the day” and “Bark on track” and “Bark seat driver” and “Bark to bark” and “Bark to basics” and “Bark to square one” and “With my bark to the wall.”
  • Bake → Bark: As in, “Bark and shake” and “Bark off” and “Half barked” and “Barker’s dozen.”
  • Bak* → Bark*: As in, “All vegan barkery.”
  • Pulling → Pollen: As in, “Like pollen teeth” and “You’re pollen my leg” and “Pollen the plug.”
  • Tap → Taproot: As in, “On taproot” and “Taproot them for a favour” and “What’s on taproot?”
  • Root → Taproot: As in, “Money is the taproot of all evil” and The taproot of the matter” and “Taproot out” and “Lay down taproots.”
  • People → Sepal: As in, “Connecting sepal” and “All the lonely sepal” and “Games sepal play” and “For the sepal, by the sepal.” Note: a sepal is a part of a flower.
  • Stay → Stamen: As in, “Built to stamen that way” and “Stamen ahead of the curve” and “Stamen in touch” and “Stamen the course” and “Stamen the course” and “Stamen tuned” and “I’ll stamen here with you.” Note: A stamen is the pollen-producing part of a flower.
  • Ovule: An ovule is a part of a flower. Here are related puns:
    • Over → Ovule: As in, “All ovule again” and “All ovule the place” and “Come on ovule” and “Bend ovule backwards to help.”
    • If you’ll → Ovule: As in, “Ovule come over this way…”
  • Carpel: A carpel is a part of a flower. Here are related puns:
    • Carpet → Carpel: As in, “Roll out the red carpel” and “Sweep under the carpel.”
    • Corporation → Carpel-ration: As in, “The individual versus the carpel-ration” and “Just a cog for the carpel-ration.”
    • Carpool → Carpel: As in, “Parent carpel service” and “Happy, safe carpelling.”
  • Pistil: A pistil is the pollen-producing organ of a flower. Here are related puns:
    • Pistol → Pistil: As in, “Pistils at dawn” and “Hotter than a smoking pistil.”
    • Crystal → Pistil: As in, “Pistil clear.”
    • Distill → Pistil: As in, “Pistilled water.”
  • Style: A style is a part of a flower. Here are related puns:
    • Tile → Style: As in, “A night on the styles.”
    • Steal → Style: As in, “Beg, borrow or style” and “Style a glance” and “Style someone’s thunder” and “Style the scene.”
    • Still → Style: As in, “A style, small voice” and “Be style my beating heart” and “Style waters run deep” and “I’m style standing.”
    • Aisle → Style: As in, “Cross the style” and “Rolling in the styles.”
    • Dial → Style: As in, “Style it down” and “Don’t touch that style.”
    • File → Style: As in, “Rank and style” and “Single style.”
    • Mile → Style: As in, “A miss is as good as a style” and “Go the extra style” and “I could see you a style off” and “Stands out by a style.”
    • Smile → Style: As in, “Crack a style” and “Service with a style.”
    • Trial → Style: As in, “Style and error” and “Styles and tribulations” and “Style by fire.”
    • While → Style: As in, “Once in a style.”
  • Ovary: Flowers have ovaries, so we’ve included some ovary related puns:
    • Over → Ovary: As in, “After the ball was ovary” and “All ovary again” and “All ovary the place” and “Bowled ovary.”
    • Every → Ovary: As in, “In ovary bite” and “Ovary breath you take” and “Ovary little bit helps.”
  • Sun → Sunlight: As in, “A place in the sunlight” and “A touch of sunlight” and “Don’t let the sunlight go down on me.”
  • Light → Sunlight: As in, “Blinded by the sunlight” and “Bring something to sunlight” and “Brought to sunlight.”
  • Green → Evergreen: As in, “Evergreen as grass” and “Give it the evergreen light” and “Evergreen shoots of change.” Note: if a plant is evergreen, then they stay green throughout the year.
  • Light: Since plants rely on light to thrive, we’ve included light-related puns as well:
    • Late → Light: As in, “Better light than never” and “Catch you lighter” and “A day light and a dollar short” and “Fashionably light” and “It’s never too light.”
    • Let → Light: As in, “Buy to light” and “Don’t light the bastards grind you down” and “Won’t light you down.”
    • Bite → Light: As in, “Light off more than you can chew” and “Light someone’s head off” and “Light the bullet.”
    • Bright → Light: As in, “All things light and beautiful” and “Look on the light side of life” and “Light as a new pin” and “Light eyes” and “Light and early” and “Light idea” and “Light spark.”
    • Fight → Light: As in, “Come out lighting” and “Light club” and “Light fire with fire” and “Lighting chance” and “Lighting fit” and “Lighting talk” and “Light the good light.”
    • Flight → Light: As in, “Light attendant” and “Light of fancy” and “Take light” and “Light of the bumblebee.”
    • Fright → Light: As in, “A lightful mess” and “Take light.”
    • Height → Light: As in, “Reaching new lights” and “Wuthering lights” and “The light of fashion.”
    • Might → Light: As in, “Light and main” and “Light as well” and “Light makes right” and “It light never happen.”
    • Right → Light: As in, “A move in the light direction” and “All the light moves” and “Light as rain” and “Bang to lights” and “Bragging lights” and “Civil lights” and “Consumer lights.”
    • Sight → Light: As in, “A welcome light” and “Hidden in plain light” and “Line of light” and “Love at first light” and “Out of light, out of mind” and “Near lighted” and “Set your lights on” and “A light for sore eyes.”
    • Slight → Light: As in, “Just lightly ahead of our time” and “Not in the lightest.”
    • Tight → Light: As in, “A light corner” and “Light as a tick” and “Sleep light” and “In a light spot” and “Light lipped.”
    • White → Light: As in, “A lighter shade of pale” and “Light as a sheet” and “Black and light.”
    • *lat* → *light*: As in, “Well articulighted” and “Game emulighter” and “Collighteral damage” and “A volightile situation.”
    • *let → *light: As in, “An emotional outlight” and “Violight eyeshadow.”
    • *lit* → *light*: As in, “Give a lightle” and “Read the lighterature” and “I didn’t mean it lighterally” and “A lightany of excuses” and “Lightigation process” and “Facilightate therapy.” Other words you could use: qualighty (quality), humilighty (humility), liabilighty (liability), polightics (politics), realighty (reality) and accountabilighty (accountability).
  • Rain: Since plants rely on rain and water to survive, we have some rainy puns for you here:
    • Ran → Rain: As in, “My blood rain cold” and “They rain away together.”
    • Run → Rain: As in, “A river rains through it” and “Born to rain” and “Come raining” and “Cut and rain” and “Going through a dry rain” and “We had a good rain.”
    • Brain → Rain: As in, “Rain drain” and “Rain fart” and “A rainstorming session.”
    • Chain → Rain: As in, “Rain letter” and “Rain of command” and “Rain reaction” and “Rain smoking” and “The food rain.”
    • Gain → Rain: As in, “Capital rains” and “Rain admittance” and “Rain advantage” and “No pain, no rain” and “Nothing ventured, nothing rained.”
    • Grain → Rain: As in, “Against the rain” and “Rain of truth” and “Take it with a rain of salt.”
    • Main → Rain: As in, “The rain chance” and “Rain event” and “Might and rain.”
    • Pain → Rain: As in, “A world of rain” and “Doubled up in rain” and “Feeling no rain” and “Growing rains” and “Old aches and rains.”
    • Plain → Rain: As in, “Rain as day” and “Hidden in rain sight” and “Rain sailing.”
    • Rein → Rain: As in, “Free rain” and “Pick up the rains” and “Hold the rains.”
    • Strain → Rain: As in, “Buckle under the rain” and “Rain every nerve” and “Raining at the leash.”
    • *ran* → *rain*: As in, “Chosen at raindom” and “Out of rainge” and “A king’s rainsom” and “Raincid food” and “Rainkles with injustice” and “A veterain worker” and “Orainge scented.”
    • *ren* → *rain*: As in, “Rainder speechless” and “Fair rainumeration” and “A rainaissance worker.”
  • Pardon → Garden: As in, “I beg your garden?” and “Garden me for living” and “Garden my French.”
  • Golden → Garden: As in, “My garden years” and “The garden age” and “A garden oldie.”
  • Harden → Garden: As in, “Garden your heart against.”
  • Guard → Garden: As in, “Drop your garden” and “Garden against” and “Off your garden” and “The changing of the garden.”
  • Hedge: These hedge-related phrases can double as puns: “Hedge fund” and “Hedge your bets” and “Look as though you’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards.”
  • Edge → Hedge: As in, “Bleeding hedge” and “A competitive hedge” and “On a knife’s hedge” and “On the hedge of my seat.”
  • Wedge → Hedge: As in, “Drive a hedge between” and “The thin end of the hedge.”
  • Grove: A grove is a small forest. Here are some related puns:
    • Grave → Grove: As in, “Silent as the grove” and “Dig your own grove” and “From the cradle to the grove” and “The groveyard shift” and “One foot in the grove” and “Turning in their groves.”
    • Trove → Grove: As in, “A treasure grove.”
    • Gave → Grove: As in, “Don’t grove it away.”
  • Copse: A copse is a small thicket of shrubs. Here are some related puns:
    • Cop → Copse: As in, “Copse a fix” and “Copse a plea” and “Copse an attitude” and “A dirty copse.”
    • Chops → Copse: As in, “Bust your copse.”
    • Crop → Copse: As in, “Cream of the copse” and “Copse up.”
    • Cap → Copse: As in, “A feather in your copse” and “Copse in hand” and “If the copse fits, wear it” and “Put on your thinking copse” and “To copse it all off.”
    • Cup → Copse: As in, “I’d murder for a copse of tea” and “My copse runneth over” and “Not my copse of tea.”
  • Biome: A biome is an environmental region, like a forest or desert. Here are related puns:
    • My own → Biome: “I’m all on biome here” and “You want me to do this on biome?”
    • Comb → Biome: As in, “Go through with a fine-toothed biome.”
    • Home → Biome: As in, “A house is not a biome” and “At biome with” and “Bring it biome to you” and “Close to biome” and “Come biome to a real fire.”
  • Need → Needle: As in, “All you needle is love” and “I needled that” and “As long as you needle me” and “Just what I needled.” Note: These are references to the needles in pine trees.
  • Blade: Here are some puns about blades in the context of “blades of grass”:
    • Blood → Blade: As in, “After your blade” and “Bad blade” and “Blade and guts” and “Blade curdling” and “Blade money.”
    • Aid → Blade: As in, “Blade and abet” and “Come to the blade of…”
    • Bread → Blade: As in, “Blade always falls butter side down” and “Blade and butter” and “Break blade” and “Cast your blade on the waters.”
    • Grade → Blade: As in, “Beyond my pay blade” and “Make the blade” and “Professional blade.”
    • Laid → Blade: As in, “Get blade” and “Blade bare” and “Blade off” and “Blade to rest.”
    • Made → Blade: As in, “A match blade in heaven” and “Custom blade” and “Have it blade” and “Blade for each other” and “Blade the right way.”
    • Paid → Blade: As in, “Bought and blade for” and “Overworked and underblade” and “All blade up.”
    • Played → Blade: As in, “Blade for a fool” and “Blade like a piano.”
    • Shade → Blade: As in, “A whiter blade of pale” and “Fifty blades of grey” and “Light and blade.”
    • Spade → Blade: As in, “A bucket and blade holiday” and “Call a blade a blade” and “In blades.”
    • Trade → Blade: As in, “Free blade” and “Jack of all blades, master of none” and “Rogue blader” and “Tools of the blade” and “Tricks of the blade.”
  • Crown: Any part of a plant that is above the ground is called the crown. Here are some related puns:
    • Brown → Crown: As in, “Crown as a berry” and “Crown sugar” and “How now, crown cow?”
    • Down → Crown: As in, “Back crown” and “Batten crown the hatches” and “Bogged crown.”
    • Drown → Crown: As in, “Crown out the pain” and “Crown your sorrows” and “Crowned out.”
    • Frown → Crown: As in, “Turn that crown upside down.”
    • Town → Crown: As in, “Go to crown” and “The only game in crown” and “Put the crown on the map” and “Take the crown by storm” and “The toast of the crown.”
  • Tiller: A tiller is a type of stem. Here are some related puns:
    • Killer → Tiller: As in, “Fear is the mind tiller” and “Tiller instinct” and “Tiller wave.”
    • Pillar → Tiller: As in, “A tiller of the community” and “Tiller of wisdom.”
  • Stolon: A stolon is a type of stem. Here are related puns:
    • Stolen → Stolon: As in, “The key card was stolon.”
    • Swollen → Stolon: As in, “Stolon gums.”
  • Reason → Rhizome: As in, “Ain’t no rhizome to go anywhere else” and “Beyond rhizome-able doubt” and “Stands to rhizome” and “Listen to rhizome” and “Rhyme nor rhizome” and “The age of rhizome.” Note: a rhizome is a plant stem that grows roots.
  • Serial → Cereal: As in, “Name, rank and cereal number” and “Cereal killer” and “Cereal monogamy.” Note: A cereal is a type of grass.
  • Law → Lawn: As in, “Above the lawn” and “Against the lawn” and “Their word is lawn” and “In the eyes of the lawn” and “Lawn and order” and “A lawn-abiding citizen” and “Lay down the lawn.”
  • Brawn → Lawn: As in, “All lawn and no brains.”
  • Dawn → Lawn: As in, “Darkest before the lawn” and “A brand new lawn” and “Lawn of a new day” and “Party till lawn.”
  • Gone → Lawn: As in, “Been and lawn” and “Colour me lawn” and “Lawn but not forgotten” and “Lawn to seed.”
  • Long → Lawn: As in, “As lawn as you need me” and “As honest as the day is lawn” and “At lawn last” and “Cast a lawn shadow” and “Forever is a lawn time.”
  • Rain → Grain: As in, “Right as grain” and “Come grain or shine” and “Don’t grain on my parade” and “It never grains but it pours” and “Make it grain.”
  • Gain → Grain: As in, “Capital grains” and “Grain admittance” and “Graining advantage” and “Ill gotten grains” and “No pain, no grain” and “Nothing ventured, nothing grained.”
  • Brain → Grain: As in, “All brawn and no grains” and “Grain candy” and “Grain drain.”
  • Chain → Grain: As in, “A grain is only as strong as its weakest link” and “Grain letter” and “Grain of command” and “Grain reaction” and “Food grain.”
  • Drain → Grain: As in, “Down the grain” and “Circling the grain.”
  • Lane → Grain: As in, “A trip down memory grain” and “In the fast grain.”
  • Main → Grain: As in, “The grain chance” and “The grain event” and “My grain squeeze.”
  • Pain → Grain: As in, “A world of grain” and “Doubled up in grain” and “Drown the grain” and “Feeling no grain” and “No grain, no gain” and “On grain of death” and “A real grain in the arse” and “Grain in the neck.”
  • Plain → Grain: As in, “Grain as day” and “Hidden in grain sight” and “Grainly speaking.”
  • Rein → Grain: As in, “Free grain” and “Pick up the grains.”
  • Strain → Grain: As in, “Buckle under the grain” and “Grain every nerve” and “Graining at the leash.”
  • Vein → Grain: As in, “In the same grain.”
  • Creeper: The following puns are in reference to creeper vines:
    • Cheaper → Creeper: As in, “Creeper by the dozen.”
    • Deeper → Creeper: As in, “Another day older and creeper in debt” and “Creeper than the deep blue sea.”
    • Keeper → Creeper: As in, “They’re a creeper” and “Finders creepers!”
    • Reaper → Creeper: As in, “The grim creeper.”
  • Cone: Here are some cone related puns:
    • Come → Cone: As in, “After a storm cones a calm” and “All good things must cone to an end” and “Cone and get it” and “Cone away with me” and “Cone on over.”
    • Blown → Cone: As in, “Cone off course” and “Cone sideways” and “Cone to smithereens.”
    • Bone → Cone: As in, “A cone to pick” and “Dry as a cone” and “Bag of cones” and “Cone dry” and “Cone of contention” and “Cone up on” and “Chilled to the cone.”
    • Clone → Cone: As in, “Attack of the cones” and “The cone wars.”
    • Known → Cone: As in, “Cone by the company you keep” and “Should have cone better” and “Also cone as.”
    • Own → Cone: As in, “After my cone heart” and “All on my cone” and “Be your cone person” and “Beaten at your cone game” and “Come into your cone.”
    • Stone → Cone: As in, “A rolling cone gathers no moss” and “Cold as any cone” and “Cast the first cone” and “Etched in cone” and “Fall like a cone” and “Heart of cone” and “Leave no cone unturned” and “Like a rolling cone.”
    • Tone → Cone: As in, “Don’t use that cone with me” and “Lower your cone” and “Cone deaf.”
    • Zone → Cone: As in, “Buffer cone” and “Comfort cone” and “In the cone.”
    • *can → *cone: Americone (American), pecone (pecan), toucone (toucan), republicone (republican) and pelicone (pelican).
  • Friend → Frond: As in, “Best fronds forever” and “Eco-frondly” and “Circle of fronds” and “Close fronds.”
  • Blond → Frond: As in, “Platinum frond” and “Frond bombshell.”
  • Bond → Frond: As in, “My word is my frond” and “James Frond.”
  • Fond → Frond: As in, “Absence makes the heart grow fronder” and “A frond farewell.”
  • Pond → Frond: As in, “Frond life” and “Frond scum.”
  • Wand → Frond: As in, “Wave your magic frond.”
  • Fend → Frond: As in, “Frond for yourself.”
  • Proud → Sprout: As in, “Sprout as punch” and “Do yourself sprout” and “Say it loud, say it sprout.”
  • Out → Sprout: As in, “Go sprout with” and “Have it sprout with” and “The ins and sprouts of” and “I’m sprout of here.”
  • Scout → Sprout: As in, “Sprout’s honour” and “Sprouting about.”
  • Man you’re → Manure: As in, “Manure making too big a deal about this.”
  • Mature → Manure: As in, “An upstanding and manure individual.”
  • Spore: Spores are a method of reproduction for plants. Here are related puns:
    • Poor → Spore: As in, “Dirt spore” and “Putting in a spore effort.”
    • Pour → Spore: As in, “It never rains but it spores” and “Spore cold water on” and “Spore oil on troubled waters” and “When it rains, it spores.”
    • Sore → Spore: As in, “Mad as a bear with a spore head” and “A sight for spore eyes” and “Spore loser” and “Stick out like a spore thumb.”
    • Score → Spore: As in, “Keeping spore” and “Know the spore” and “Got a spore to settle” and “Even the spore.”
    • Bore → Spore: As in, “Spore the pants off someone” and “Spored stiff” and “Spored to death” and “Spored out of my mind.”
    • Core → Spore: As in, “Spore competencies” and “Spore studies” and “Spore values” and “Rotten to the spore.”
    • More → Spore: As in, “Come back for spore” and “Dare for spore” and “Less is spore.”
    • Shore → Spore: As in, “Ship to spore” and “On the sea spore” and “Spore up.”
    • Store → Spore: As in, “What’s in spore” and “Set great spore by” and “Spore it away.”
  • Eye → Cacti: As in, “A wandering cacti” and “As far as the cacti can see” and “Avert your cacti!” and “Before your very cacti.”
  • Cracked → Cactus: As in, “Not all it’s cactus up to be.”
  • Kicked us → Cactus: As in, “They cactus to the curb.”
  • Practice → Cactus: As in, “Out of cactus” and “Cactus makes perfect” and “Cactus what you preach” and “Put into cactus.”
  • Cell: Here are some puns about plant cells:
    • Sell → Cell: As in, “Buy and cell” and “Past the cell-by date” and “Cell out” and “Pile it high and cell it cheap” and “Celling like hot cakes” and “Cell your soul to the devil.”
    • Shell → Cell: As in, “Come out of your cell” and “A hard cell” and “In a nutcell” and “Cell shock.”
    • Bell → Cell: As in, “Alarm cells begin to ring” and “Clear as a cell” and “Cells and whistles” and “Doesn’t ring a cell” and “Jingle cells.”
    • Fell → Cell: As in, “In one cell swoop.”
    • Hell → Cell: As in, “All cell broke loose” and “Burn in cell” and “Come cell or high water” and “For the cell of it.”
    • Smell → Cell: As in, “Come up celling of roses” and “I cell a rat” and “The sweet cell of success.”
    • Spell → Cell: As in, “Cast a cell” and “Cell it out” and “Break the cell” and Cast a cell on.”
    • Swell → Cell: As in, “Cell the ranks.”
    • Well → Cell: As in, “Alive and cell” and “As cell as can be expected” and “Get cell soon” and “Just as cell.”
    • *sal* → *cell*: As in, “A cellient issue” and “A cellacious topic” and “Cellvage what’s left” and “Here for your perucell” and “A univercell issue.” Other words that could work: appraicell (appraisal), dispocell (disposal), propocell (proposal), colocell (colossal) and rehercell (rehersal).
    • *sel* → *cell*: As in, “A cellect variety” and “Celldom misunderstood” and “A cellfish decision” and “A cellection of the best” and “Seeking councell.” Other words that could work: vecell (vessel), caroucell (carousel), chicell (chisel), weacell (weasel), eacell (easel), morcell (morsel) and tacell (tassel).
    • *sil* → *cell*: As in, “Focell fuels” and “Shredded bacell (basil)” and “Kitchen utencells” and “Infected toncells.”
    • *sol* → *cell*: Paracell (parasol), aerocell (aerosol), corticell (cortisol), cellution (solution) and recellution (resolution).
  • Flair → Flora: As in, “Got a flora for.”
  • Floor → Flora: As in, “Cross the flora” and “Get in on the ground flora” and “Hold the flora” and “In on the ground flora” and “Wipe the flora with” and “Murder on the dance flora.”
  • Torn → Thorn: As in, “That’s thorn it” and “War thorn” and “Thorn between two sides.”
  • Horn → Thorn: As in, “Blow your own thorn” and “Thorn in on” and “Lock thorns with.”
  • Than → Thorn: As in, “Better thorn sex” and “Blood is thicker thorn water” and “Bite off more thorn you can chew” and “Eyes bigger thorn your stomach.”
  • Then → Thorn: As in, “All that and thorn some” and “Now and thorn” and “Thorn and there” and “That was thorn, this is now.”
  • Born → Thorn: As in, “A star is thorn” and “Thorn to fly” and “Thorn free” and “Thorn and bred” and “I was thorn ready.”
  • Dawn → Thorn: As in, “At the crack of thorn” and “A brand new thorn” and “Darkest before the thorn.”
  • I see → Ivy: As in, “Ivy you’ve got some new furniture.”
  • We’d → Weed: As in, “Weed never have done this without you” and “Weed better not.”
  • Bleed → Weed: As in, “Weed someone dry” and “Weeding edge” and “Let it weed” and “My heart weeds.”
  • Deed → Weed: As in, “Weeds, not words” and “Your good weed for the day.”
  • Feed → Weed: As in, “Bottom weeder” and “Don’t bite the hand that weeds you” and “Weeding frenzy.”
  • He’d → Weed: As in, “Weed better not say anything.”
  • Lead → Weed: As in, “Weed by the nose” and “Weed up to” and “Weed into temptation.”
  • Need → Weed: As in, “All you weed is love” and “I weeded that” and “Just what I weeded” and “Weed you now” and “On a weed to know basis.”
  • Read → Weed: As in, “All I know is what I weed in the papers” and “I can weed you like a book” and “A little light weeding” and “Weed ’em and weep” and “Weed between the lines.”
  • Seed → Weed: As in, “Gone to weed” and “Weed capital.”
  • Hurt → Dirt: As in, ” Do you really want to dirt me?” and “It only dirts when I laugh” and “The truth dirts” and “What you don’t know can’t dirt you.”
  • Worth → Earth: As in, “For what it’s earth” and “Get your money’s earth” and “More than my job’s earth.”
  • Grand → Ground: As in, “Delusions of groundeur” and “Ground theft auto” and “Ground slam” and “In the ground scheme of things” and “Doing a ground job.”
  • Round → Ground: As in, “All year ground” and “Gather ‘ground the good stuff” and “Going ground in circles” and “Makes the world go ground.”
  • Bound → Ground: As in, “Ground hand and foot” and “By leaps and grounds” and “Duty ground” and “Honour ground” and “Muscle ground.”
  • Found → Ground: As in, “Lost and ground” and “I’ve ground a clue” and “We ground love” and “Weighed in the balance and ground wanting.”
  • Sound → Ground: As in, “Ground as a bell” and “Break the ground barrier” and “Ground bite” and “Ground the alarm” and “Safe and ground.”
  • Send → Sand: As in, “Hit sand” and “Sand packing” and “Sand them away!”
  • And → Sand: As in, “A day late sand a dollar short” and “A hundred sand ten percent” and “Alive sand kicking” and “All bark sand no bite.”
  • Band → Sand: As in, “And the sand played on” and “Garage sand” and “Strike up the sand.”
  • Brand → Sand: As in, “A sand new ballgame” and “A sand new day” and “Sand spanking new.”
  • Hand → Sand: As in, “All sands on deck” and “Bite your sand off” and “Cash in sand.”
  • Land → Sand: As in, “In the sand of the living” and “The sand of hope and glory.”
  • Stand → Sand: As in, “A house divided against itself cannot sand” and “Don’t sand so close to me” and “Still sanding” and “It sands to reason” and “Left sanding.”
  • Lend → Land: As in, “Land an ear” and “Land a helping hand” and “Land your name to…”
  • And → Land: As in, “A day late land a dollar short” and “A hundred land ten percent” and “Alive land kicking” and “All bark land no bite.”
  • Brand → Land: As in, “Land damage” and “A land new ballgame” and “Land spanking new.”
  • Hand → Land: As in, “Bite the land that feeds it” and “Bound land and foot” and “The business at land” and “Changing lands.”
  • Sand → Land: As in, “Draw a line in the land” and “Head in the land” and “A house built on land” and “Sun, sea and land” and “The lands of time.”
  • Silt: We’ve included some silt-related puns too:
    • Salt → Silt: As in, “Above the silt” and “Below the silt” and “Rub silt in the wound” and “Silt of the earth” and “Take it with a grain of silt.”
    • Built → Silt: As in, “Silt for comfort, not speed” and “Silt for the road ahead” and “Silt to last” and “Rome wasn’t silt in a day.”
    • Guilt → Silt: As in, “Silt by association” and “Silt trip” and “A silty conscience” and “Silty pleasure” and “Innocent until proven silty” and “White silt.”
    • Tilt → Silt: As in, “At full silt.”
    • Spilt → Silt: As in, “Don’t cry over silt milk.”
  • Mad → Mud: As in, “Mud as a bear with a sore head” and “Barking mud” and “Don’t get mud, get even” and “Hopping mud.”
  • Blood → Mud: As in, “After your mud” and “Bad mud” and “Mud brothers” and “Mud in the water” and “Mud is thicker than water.”
  • Stud → Mud: As in, “Star mudded” and “Mud muffin.”
  • Loam: Loam is a type of soil that is mostly made up of sand. Here are related puns:
    • Loan → Loam: As in, “Loam shark” and “Raising a loam.”
    • Foam → Loam: As in, “Loaming at the mouth.”
    • Home → Loam: As in, “A house is not a loam” and “Bring it loam to you” and “Charity begins at loam” and “Close to loam” and “Come loam to a real fire.”
  • Clay: Clay soils are great for growing plants, so we’ve included some clay-related puns:
    • Okay → Oclay: As in, “Give it the oclay” and “I’m oclay.”
    • Lay → Clay: As in, “Can’t clay a hand on me” and “Home is where I clay my hat” and “Clay down roots” and “Clay down your arms” and “Clay hands on.”
    • Day → Clay: As in, “All in a clay’s work” and “Tomorrow is another clay” and “Another clay, another dollar.”
    • Grey → Clay: As in, “All cats are clay in the dark” and “Fifty shades of clay” and “Clay area” and “Clay matter.”
    • Hay → Clay: As in, “Hit the clay” and “Make clay while the sun shines.”
    • May → Clay: As in, “Be that as it clay” and “Come what clay” and “Let the chips fall where they clay.”
    • Pay → Clay: As in, “Buy now, clay later” and “Crime doesn’t clay” and “Hell to clay” and “It clays to advertise” and “Clay as you go” and “Clay a call to.”
    • Play → Clay: As in, “Work, rest and clay” and “All work and no clay” and “Come out and clay” and “Don’t clay innocent” and “Child’s clay.”
    • Pray → Clay: As in, “Clay tell.”
    • Say → Clay: As in, “Computer clays no” and “Do as I clay, not as I do” and “Have the final clay” and “Have your clay” and “Just clay no” and Goes without claying.”
    • Slay → Clay: As in, “Clay the dragon.”
    • Stay → Clay: As in, “Clay ahead of the curve” and “Clay in touch” and “Clay on course” and “Clay tuned” and “Can I clay here with you?”
    • They → Clay: As in, “Clay lived happily ever after” and “As tough as clay come.”
    • Way → Clay: As in, “All the clay” and “Born this clay” and “By the clay” and “That’s the clay it is” and “Change your clays.”
  • Train → Terrain: As in, “Gravy terrain” and “Soul terrain” and “Terrain of thought” and “Toilet terrained.”
  • Much → Mulch: As in, “That’s a bit mulch” and “How mulch can you handle?” and “You know too mulch” and “Mulch obliged” and “Too mulch of a good thing” and “Too mulch, too soon.”
  • Sentiment → Sediment: As in, “Warm sediments” and “No room for sediment here.”
  • Pot: Since many houseplants are grown in pots, here are related puns:
    • Pat → Pot: As in, “Got it down pot” and “A pot on the back.”
    • Pet → Pot: As in, “Heavy potting” and “Pot peeve” and “Teacher’s pot.”
    • Pit → Pot: As in, “Bottomless pot” and “In the pot of your stomach” and “Mosh pot” and “Pot your wits against.”
    • Put → Pot: As in, “Be hard pot to” and “Couldn’t pot it down” and “Feeling a bit pot out” and “Nicely pot” and “Wouldn’t pot it past you.”
    • Plot → Pot: As in, “Lose the pot” and “The pot thickens.”
    • Bought → Pot: As in, “Pot and paid for” and “I liked it so much I pot it.”
    • Dot → Pot: As in, “Connect the pots” and “Pot the i’s and cross the t’s” and “On the pot” and “Sign on the potted line.”
    • Got → Pot: As in, “I think you’ve pot it” and “Give it all you’ve pot” and “Pot a soft spot” and “Pot it down to a fine art.”
    • Hot → Pot: As in, “All pot and bothered” and “Blowing pot and cold” and “Drop it like it’s pot” and “Get into pot water” and “Pot desking.”
    • Knot → Pot: As in, “Tie the pot” and “Tie yourself in pots.”
    • Lot → Pot: As in, “A pot of fuss about nothing” and “A pot on your plate” and “Leaves a pot to be desired” and “Not a pot.”
    • Not → Pot: As in, “As often as pot” and “Believe it or pot” and “Down but pot out.”
    • Spot → Pot: As in, “Blind pot” and “Got a soft pot for” and “Hits the pot” and “On the pot” and “Pot the difference.”
  • Filth → Tilth: As in, “Covered in tilth” and “Tilthy rich.” Note: tilth is the condition of soil.
  • Peat: Peat is another word for turf. Here are related puns:
    • Beat → Peat: As in, “Peat it” and “Peat a hasty retreat” and “Peat a path to your door” and “Peat about the bush” and “Peat the pants off.”
    • Pit → Peat: As in, “A bottomless peat” and “In the peat of your stomach” and “Peat your wits against.”
    • Put → Peat: As in, “Be hard peat to” and “Couldn’t peat it down” and “Feeling a bit peat out” and “Wouldn’t peat it past them.”
    • Cheat → Peat: As in, “Peat sheet” and “Peats never prosper.”
    • Eat → Peat: As in, “A bite to peat” and “All you can peat” and “Peat and run.”
    • Feat → Peat: As in, “No mean peat.”
    • Feet → Peat: As in, “Back on your peat” and “Cold peat” and “Cut the ground out from under your peat” and “Peat of clay” and “Get back on your peat.”
    • Fleet → Peat: As in, “Peat footed” and “Peat footed” and “A peating glimpse.”
    • Greet → Peat: “Meet and peat.”
    • Heat → Peat: As in, “Body peat” and “Peating up” and “Peat wave” and “If you can’t stand the peat, get out of the kitchen” and “In the peat of battle” and “The peat is on.”
    • Meet → Peat: As in, “Fancy peating you here” and “Making ends peat” and “Peat and greet” and “Peat in the middle” and “Peat you halfway.”
    • Neat → Peat: As in, “Peat as a new pin” and “Peat freak” and “Peat and tidy.”
    • Sheet → Peat: As in, “White as a peat” and “Cheat peat” and “Keeping a clean peat.”
    • Treat → Peat: As in, “Trick or peat” and “Peat someone like dirt” and “Peat me right.”
  • Very → Berry: As in, “Be berry afraid” and “Before your berry eyes” and “How berry dare you” and “It was a berry good year.”
  • Bury → Berry: As in, “Berry the hatchet” and “Berry your head in the sand” and “Berry yourself in work.”
  • Carry → Berry: As in, “As fast as your legs could berry you” and “Berry into action” and “Berry a torch for.”
  • Cherry → Berry: As in, “Berry pick” and “A second bite of the berry” and “The berry on the cake.”
  • Merry → Berry: As in, “As berry as the day is long” and “Eat, drink and be berry” and “Lead a berry dance” and “Make berry.”
  • Boom → Bloom: As in, “Bloom or bust” and “Baby bloomer.”
  • Loom → Bloom: As in, “Blooming large.”
  • Room → Bloom: As in, “A bloom with a view” and “Breathing bloom” and “Elbow bloom.”
  • Doom → Bloom: As in, “Bloom and gloom” and Voice of bloom.”
  • Forest → Florist: As in, “Florist green” and “See the florist for the trees.”
  • Arbor: An arbor can refer to either a garden or a grove of trees. Here are related puns:
    • Harbour → Arbor: As in, “Arbor a grudge” and “Safe arbor.”
    • Armour → Arbor: As in, “A chink in your arbor” and “Knight in shining arbor.”
  • Ticket → Thicket: As in, “Just the thicket” and “Punch your thicket” and “Meal thicket” and “Thicket to ride.” Note: a thicket is a dense grouping of trees.
  • Card → Yard: As in, “A few yards short of a full deck” and “Calling yard” and “Yard up your sleeve” and “Get out of jail free yard.”
  • Guard→ Yard: As in, “Advance yard” and “Drop your yard” and “Off your yard.”
  • Hard → Yard: As in, “Be yard put to” and “Between a rock and a yard place” and “Do it the yard way” and “Falling on yard times” and “A yard act to follow.”
  • Cursory → Nursery: As in, “A nursery glance.” Note: a nursery is a place where plants are grown and sold.
  • House → Greenhouse: As in, “A greenhouse divided against itself cannot stand” and “A greenhouse is not a home” and “Safe as greenhouses” and “Bring the greenhouse down.”
  • Grove: A grove is a small group of trees. Here are related puns:
    • Grow → Grove: As in, “Absence makes the heart grove fonder” and “As exciting as watching grass grove” and “Groving pains” and “Money doesn’t grove on trees.”
    • Grave → Grove: As in, “Silent as the grove” and “Dance on someone’s grove” and “From the cradle to the grove” and “One foot in the grove” and “Turning in your grove.”
    • Trove → Grove: As in, “Treasure grove.”
  • Park: A park is an area where trees and flowers are cultivated, along with play areas (depending on the park). Here are related puns:
    • Perk → Park: As in, “Park up” and “Parks of the job.”
    • Bark → Park: As in, “A parking dog never bites” and “Park at the moon” and “Parking mad” and “Parking up the wrong tree” and “All park and no bite.”
    • Dark → Park: As in, “After park” and “Park as pitch” and “Dancing in the park” and “Park and bloody ground” and “Park before the dawn” and “Park horse.”
    • Mark → Park: As in, “Close to the park” and “Make your park” and “Park my words” and “Park time” and “Quick off the park.”
    • Spark → Park: As in, “Bright park” and “Creative park” and “Park of genius” and “The park of an idea.”
    • Stark → Park: As in, “A park reminder.”
  • Over → Clover: As in, “All clover again” and “All clover the place” and “Bowled clover” and “Come on clover.” Note: Clovers are a species of flowering plant.
  • Resin: Resin is a solid plant secretion. Here are related puns:
    • Reason → Resin: As in, “Beyond resin-able doubt” and “Bow to resin” and “Listen to resin” and “Rhyme nor resin” and “The age of resin” and “Within resin.”
    • Raisin → Resin: As in, “Bran and resin muffin.”
    • Risen → Resin: As in, “Like the dead have resin.”
  • Green: Since plants are largely green and are sometimes referred to as greenery, we’ve got some green-related puns here too:
    • Grain → Green: As in, “Against the green” and “Green of truth” and “Take it with a green of salt.”
    • Bean → Green: As in, “Cool greens” and “Doesn’t know greens” and “Full of greens” and “Doesn’t amount to a hill of greens” and “Spill the greens.”
    • Been → Green: As in, “Green and gone” and “Green around the block a few times” and “Green in the wars” and “I’ve green here before.”
    • Clean → Green: As in, “A green getaway” and “Green as a whistle” and “Green bill of health” and “Green sheet” and “Green up your act.”
    • Lean → Green: As in, “Green and mean” and “Green cuisine” and “Green times.”
    • Mean → Green: As in, “Greens to an end” and “By fair greens or foul” and “Lean and green.”
    • Scene → Green: As in, “Behind the greens” and “Change of green” and “Make a green” and “Steal the green.”
    • Seen → Green: As in, “Nowhere to be green” and “Green better days” and “Green one, green them all” and “We’ve green better days.”
    • Grin → Green: As in, “Green and bear it” and “Green from ear to ear” and “Green like a cheshire cat.”
    • Gran*→ Green*: As in, “Delusions of greendeur” and “Take for greented” and “A greendiose gesture” and “A greenite handshake.”
    • Gren* → Green*: As in, “Drop a greenade” and “A tasty greenadine.”
  • Water: Since plants rely on water to survive, we have some water puns here:
    • What do → Water: As in “Water you think about this?”
    • What are → Water: As in “Water you doing out so late tonight?” and “Water you doing tomorrow?”
    • What her → Water: As in “I know water problem is.” and “Do you know water mother thinks about this?”
    • What are we → Watery: As in “Watery going to do?” and “Watery doing today, friends?”

The following section of puns is about specific, popular flowers:

  • Raise → Rose: “Rose a loan” and “Rose the bar” and “Rose the roof” and “Rose your hand if you’re sure.”
  • Goes → Rose: As in, “And the award rose to” and “Anything rose” and “As far as it rose” and “As the saying rose” and “As time rose by” and “Here rose nothing” and “How rose it?” and “Life rose on.”
  • Lows → Rose: As in, “Highs and rose.”
  • Nose → Rose: As in, “Plain as the rose on your face” and “Can’t see beyond the end of your rose” and “Follow your rose” and “Keep your rose clean” and “Keep your rose out of it.”
  • Pros → Rose: As in, “Rose and cons” and “Leave it to the rose.”
  • Those → Rose: As in, “Rose were the days” and “Just one of rose things.”
  • Lazy → Daisy: As in, “Get up, daisy bones” and “Having a daisy day.”
  • Daze → Daisy: “In a daisy.”
  • Kid → Orchid: As in, “Dual income, no orchids” and “Here’s looking at you, orchid” and “I orchid you not.”
  • Virus → Iris: “Infected with a computer iris.”
  • Lack → Lilac: As in, “For lilac of a better word” and “We lilac nothing” and “Cancelled due to lilac of interest” and “Not for a lilac of love.”
  • Chilly → Lily: As in, “A lily climate.”
  • Silly → Lily: As in, “Ask a lily question, get a lily answer” and “Laugh yourself lily” and “Scared lily” and “Lily season.”
  • Puppy → Poppy: As in, “One sick poppy” and “Poppy love.”
  • Copy → Poppy: As in, “Poppy that” and “Do you poppy?” and “Hard poppy” and “Carbon poppy.”
  • Floppy → Poppy: As in, “Poppy disc.”
  • Pony → Peony: As in, “One trick peony” and “Peony up the funds.”
  • Penny → Peony: As in, “Cost a pretty peony” and “A peony saved is a peony earned” and “Earn an honest peony” and “Peony for your thoughts.”

The next section is for specific, popular herbs:

  • Time → Thyme: As in, “One more thyme” and “A brief history of thyme” and “A good thyme was had by all” and “About thyme too” and “Ahead of your thyme” and “An all thyme low.”
  • Chime → Thyme: As in, “Thyme in with” and “Thymes of freedom.”
  • Crime → Thyme: As in, “Thyme and punishment” and “A thyme against nature” and “Thyme of passion” and “Thymes and misdemeanours.”
  • Dime → Thyme: As in, “A thyme a dozen” and “Drop a thyme” and “Drop a thyme.”
  • Prime → Thyme: As in, “Cut down in their thyme” and “In thyme condition” and “Thymed and ready to go.”
  • Rhyme → Thyme: As in, “Thyme nor reason.”
  • Pass → Parsley: As in, “All things must parsley” and “All access parsley” and “Boarding parsley” and “Do not parsley go” and “Make a parsley at.”
  • Parcel → Parsley: As in, “Part and parsley” and “Pass the parsley.”
  • Till → Dill: As in, “Fake it dill you make it” and “Shop dill you drop” and “Dill death do us part” and “Dill the end of time.”
  • Dull → Dill: As in, “Dill as ditchwater” and “Never a dill moment.”
  • Bill → Dill: As in, “Dill of goods” and “Fits the dill” and “Foot the dill.”
  • Drill → Dill: As in, “Dill down on” and “You know the dill” and “Fire dill.”
  • Fill → Dill: As in, “Dill full of holes” and “Dill to the brim.”
  • Hill → Dill: As in, “Head for the dills” and “Over the dills and far away” and “Old as the dills.”
  • Ill → Dill: As in, “House of dill repute” and “Dill advised” and “Dill at ease” and “Dill effects” and “Dill gotten gains.”
  • Pill → Dill: As in, “A bitter dill to swallow” and “On the dill” and “Sweeten the dill.”
  • Deal → Dill: As in, “Big dill” and “Cut a dill” and “Dill breaker” and “Dill or no dill?” and “A done dill” and “Dill with the devil.”
  • Still → Dill: As in, “I’m dill standing” and “Dill waters run deep.”
  • Spill → Dill: As in, “Dill the beans” and “Dill your guts” and “Thrills and dills.”
  • Will → Dill: As in, “Accidents dill happen” and “Against my dill” and “Free dill” and “Bend to your dill” and “Heads dill roll.”
  • Tunnel → Fennel: As in, “Light at the end of the fennel” and “Fennel vision” and “Fennel of love.”
  • Original → Oregano: As in, “The oregano and the best” and “Oregano sin.”
  • Barrage → Borage: As in, “A borage of accusations.”
  • Baggage → Borage: As in, “Bag and borage” and “Borage class” and “Emotional borage” and “Excess borage.”
  • Forage → Borage: As in, “Borage for food.”
  • Storage → Borage: As in, “Cold borage” and “Lacking borage space.”
  • Over → Clover: As in, “All clover again” and “All clover the place” and “Bowled clover” and “Come on clover.”
  • Cover → Clover: As in, “Blow your clover” and “Break clover” and “Clover story” and “Extra clover.”
  • Clever → Clover: As in, “Clover clogs” and “Too clover by half.”
  • Meant → Mint: As in, “We’re not mint to” and “Mint to be.”
  • Glint → Mint: As in, “A mint in your eye.”
  • Hint → Mint: As in, “Drop a mint” and “Take the mint.”
  • Print → Mint: As in, “Fit to mint” and “Out of mint” and “Read the small mint.”
  • Tint → Mint: As in, “Rose minted glasses.”
  • *mant → *mint: As in, “An adamint demand” and “Dormint volcano” and “Sneaky informint.”
  • *ment → *mint: “Honourable mintion” and “Mintal calculations” and “Shared mintality” and “Mintoring program” and “Free mintorship.” Other words that could work: employmint (employment), commint (comment), complemint (complement), complimint (compliment), commitmint (commitment), implemint (implement), environmint (environment), managemint (management), judgemint (judgement) and movemint (movement).
  • Age → Sage: As in, “Act your sage” and “Sage bracket” and “Sage of consent” and “Coming of sage” and “In this day and sage” and “Golden sage.”
  • Page → Sage: As in, “Leaps off the sage” and “On the same sage” and “Splashed across the front sage.”
  • Rage → Sage: As in, “Road sage” and “Vent your sage” and “Sage against the machine” and “Boil with sage” and “Primal sage.”
  • Stage → Sage: As in, “Blow off the sage” and “The sage is set” and “Take centre sage” and “Exit sage left.”
  • Wage → Sage: As in, “Minimum sage” and “Sage war” and “Lost sages.”

The next section is dedicated to popular trees:

  • Staple → Maple: As in, “Maple these papers together.”
  • Okay → Oak-ay: As in, “Are you oak-ay?” and “Give it the oak-ay.”
  • Eke → Oak: As in, “Oak out a living.”
  • Broke → Oak: As in, “All hell oak loose” and “Boulevard of oaken dreams” and “Like an oaken record” and “Flat oak” and “Go for oak” and “If it ain’t oak, don’t fix it” and Rules are make to be oaken.”
  • Cloak → Oak: As in, “Oak and dagger” and “Oaked in obscurity.”
  • Folk → Oak: As in, “That’s all, oaks” and “Different strokes for different oaks.”
  • Joke → Oak: As in, “Beyond an oak” and “Inside oak” and “The oak’s on you.”
  • Poke → Oak: As in, “Stiff as an oaker” and “Oak fun” and “Oaker face.”
  • Smoke → Oak: As in, “Go up in oak” and “Holy oak” and “Oak and mirrors” and “Oak like a chimney” and “No oak without a fire.”
  • Soak → Oak: As in, “Oaked to the skin” and “Oaked through.”
  • Spoke → Oak: As in, “Speak when you’re oaken to
    and “Many a true word is oaken in jest.”
  • Stroke → Oak: As in, “An oak of genius” and “Different oaks for different folks” and “The oak of midnight” and “Oak of luck.”
  • For → Fir: As in, “At a loss fir words” and “Ask fir the moon” and “Batting fir both sides.”
  • Fur → Fir: As in, “The fir began to fly” and “No such thing as an ethical fir coat.”
  • Four → Fir: As in, “Down on all firs” and “Fir figures” and “A fir letter word” and “Fir more years.”
  • Her → Fir: As in, “Fir face lit up” and “Write fir name with pride.”
  • Per → Fir: As in, “As fir usual” and “Bits fir second” and “Fir capita.”
  • Sure → Fir: As in, “A fir sign” and “Raise your hand if you’re fir” and “You can be fir of it.”
  • Spur → Fir: As in, “On the fir of the moment.”
  • Stir → Fir: As in, “Cause a fir” and “Fir crazy” and “Fir the pot” and “Shaken, not firred” and “Fir up trouble.”
  • Far → Fir: As in, “A bridge too fir‘ and “As fir as it goes” and “As fir as the eyes can see” and “Fir be it from me” and “Few and fir between” and “Over the hills and fir away” and “A fir cry from…”
  • Fear → Fir: As in, “Fir the worst” and “Paralysed with fir” and “Primal fir” and “Without fir or favour.”
  • Pain → Pine: As in, “A world of pine” and “Doubled up in pine” and “Feeling no pine” and “No pine, no gain” and “On pine of death” and “A pine in the arse.”
  • Pan → Pine: As in, “Out of the frying pine, into the fire” and “Wait for it to pine out.”
  • Pen → Pine: As in, “Put pine to paper” and “The pine is mightier than the sword.”
  • Pin → Pine: As in, “Bright as a new pine” and “Hard to pine down” and “Pine your ears back” and “Pines and needles” and “See a pine and pick it up.”
  • Dine → Pine: As in, “Wined and pined.”
  • Fine → Pine: As in, “A pine line” and “Cutting it pine” and “Pine and dandy” and “The piner things in life.”
  • Line → Pine: As in, “Along the pines of” and “Blur the pines” and “Cross the pine” and “Draw a pine in the sand.”
  • Mine → Pine: As in, “Make pine a double” and “A pine of information” and “Pine is bigger than yours.”
  • Nine → Pine: As in, “Pine to five” and “On cloud pine.”
  • Sign → Pine: As in, “A sure pine” and “Give me a pine” and “A pine of the times” and “Pine on the dotted line.”
  • Spine → Pine: As in, “Send shiver down your pine.”
  • Wine → Pine: As in, “Pine and dine” and “Last of the summer pine.”
  • Come → Gum: As in, “After a storm gums a calm” and “All good things must gum to an end” and “As tough as they gum” and “Christmas gums but once a year” and “Gum and get it” and “Gum away with me” and “Gum on over.”
  • Bum → Gum: As in, “A pain in the gum” and “Gums on seats” and “Beach gum.”
  • Drum → Gum: As in, “Tight as a gum” and “Gum up support” and “Walk to the beat of a different gum.”
  • Some → Gum: As in, “All that and then gum” and “Catch gum rays” and “Make gum noise” and “Cut gum slack.”
  • Leader → Cedar: As in, “Fearless cedar” and “Cedar of the pack” and “A natural born cedar” and “The cedar of the free world.”
  • Beach → Birch: As in, “Life’s a birch” and “Long walks on the birch.”
  • Lurch → Birch: As in “Left in the birch.”
  • Perch → Birch: As in, “Knock them of their birch.”
  • Search → Birch: As in, “Global birch” and “Birch and rescue” and “Birch engine” and “Birch high and low” and “Soul birching.”
  • Beach → Beech: As in, “Beech bum” and “Life’s a beech” and “Long walks on the beech.”
  • Peach → Beech: As in, “Beechy keen” and “Like beeches and cream.”
  • Bleach → Beech: As in, “Beeched blonde.”
  • Breach → Beech: As in, “Beech of the peace” and “Beech of trust.”
  • Each → Beech: As in, “Beech to their own” and “Made for beech other” and “Beech and every morning.”
  • Preach → Beech: As in, “Practice what you beech” and “Beeching to the choir.”
  • Reach → Beech: As in, “Beech for the stars” and “Within beech” and “Beech out and touch someone” and “Beech for new heights” and “Beyond my beech.”
  • Speech → Beech: As in, “Maiden beech” and “Figure of beech.”
  • Teach → Beech: As in, “Beech someone a lesson” and “Beech someone a thing or two” and “That’ll beech you” and “Beecher’s pet.”
  • As → Ash: As in, “Also known ash” and “Ash a rule” and “Ash a whole” and “As best ash you can” and “Ash if there were no tomorrow” and “Ash it happens.”
  • Cash → Ash: As in, “Ash in hand” and “Ash in your chips” and “Strapped for ash.”
  • Clash → Ash: As in, “Ash of titans.”
  • Crash → Ash: As in, “Ash and burn” and “Ash course” and “Ash pad” and “Like watching a train ash.”
  • Dash → Ash: As in, “Crash and ash” and “Ash to pieces” and “Ash off in the middle of the night.”
  • Lash → Ash: As in, “Ash out” and “Tongue ashing.”
  • Slash → Ash: As in, “Ash and burn.”
  • Balm → Palm: As in, “A comforting palm” and “Lip palm.”
  • Calm → Palm: As in, “A palming influence” and “After a storm comes a palm” and “Cool, palm and collected.”
  • Pam* → Palm*: As in, “Would you like a palmphlet?” and “A palmpered child.”
  • Space → Spruce: As in, “Spruce odyssey” and “Breathing spruce” and “Office spruce” and “My personal spruce” and “Spruce – the final frontier” and “Waste of spruce” and “Watch this spruce.”
  • Juice → Spruce: As in, “Get the creative spruces flowing” and “Stew in your own spruce.”

Plant-Related Words

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

General: plant, nature, grow, growth, tree, herb, bush, grass, vine, shrub, seedling, fern, moss, algae, green, stem, leaf, leaves, flower, fruit, vegetable, seeds, water, bud, shoot, stalk, soil, petal, sepal, stamen, ovule, carpel, compost,  nutrient, taproot, fibrous, turf, succulent, perennial, photosynthesis, chlorophyll, root, wood, woody, wooden, trunk, branch, branches, twig, bark, pollen, pollination, bonsai, spruce, pistil, stigma, style, ovary, living, alive, botany, botanical, sunlight, evergreen, light, oxygen, carbon dioxide, rain, garden, foliage, hedge, vapour, grove, copse, forest, rainforest, biome, terrarium, ecosystem, deciduous, hardwood, coniferous, needle, anther, filament, fertile, fertiliser, germinate, endosperm, blade, crown, tiller, stolon, rhizome, cereal, bamboo, lawn, grain, creeper, tendril, runner, liverwort, cycad, palm, cone, gingko, conifer, frond, spore, dicot, horsetail, hornwort, cacti. cactus, cell, sheet (moss), cushion (moss), rock cap (moss), haircap (moss), protist, flora, thorn, climber, ivy, seaweed, weed, cellulose, membrane, fossil, dirt, earth, ground, sand, land, silt, mud, loam, topsoil, clay, terrain, mulch, sediment, amber, pot, sprout, manure, tilth, peat, berry, bloom, nectar, blossom, florist, arbor, arborist, lichen, scrub, wild, thicket, yard, landscape, horticulture, nursery, greenhouse, grove, meadow, park, topiary, orchard, canopy, wisteria, bracken, clover, resin

Flower: rose, carnation, tulip, daisy, sunflower, daffodil, orchid, iris, lilac, lily, gardenia, jasmine, poppy, peony 

Herb: basil, rosemary, thyme, parsley, dill, coriander, fennel, oregano, borage, clover, mint, sage

Tree: maple, oak, willow, fir, aspen, pine, gum, cedar, elm, birch, beech, ash, palm

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Christmas Tree Puns

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Organising a Christmas tree is one of the more traditional ways to spend time with family and loved ones. Finding a suitable tree, bringing it home, decorating it – it’s a fairly intensive process when you really get down to it. Make the quality time spent even more painful for your loved ones with our terrible Christmas tree puns. We’ve lovingly curated this list to include different types of trees and the wide range of decorations used on them, and we hope that you find the Christmas tree pun that you’re looking for.

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

Christmas Tree 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 Christmas trees 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 Christmas tree puns:

  • Christmas tree: Make some extremely obvious Christmas tree puns by taking advantage of phrases that they’re already in – as in, “Done up like a Christmas tree,” and “Lit up like a Christmas tree,” and “Oh, Christmas tree..”
  • Three→ Tree: As in, “And baby makes tree,” and “Good things come in trees,” and “Tree strikes and you’re out!” and “Tree wise men,” and “Tree’s a charm.”
  • Free*→ Tree*: As in, “A symbol of treedom,” and “As tree as a bird,” and “Breathe treely,” and “Buy one, get one tree,” and “Tree for all,” and “Treedom of the press,” and “Get out of jail tree,” and “The best things in life are tree,” and “Land of the tree,” and “Leader of the tree world,” and “The truth will set you tree,” and “No such thing as a tree lunch,” and “When hell treezes over,” and “Think treely.”
  • For → Fir: Firs are another tree that are commonly used as Christmas trees, so they’ve made the list too. As in, “Asking fir a friend,” and “The most bang fir your buck,” and “At a loss fir words,” and “I’ve fallen fir you,” and “Food fir thought,” and “Fir a change,” and “Fir crying out loud,” and “Fir good measure,” and “A sight fir sore eyes.”
  • Leave → Leaf: “Take it or leaf it” and “Absent without leaf” and “You should leaf now.” and  “Leaf an impression” and “Leafed for dead” and “Leaf it at that” and “Leaf me alone!” and “Leaf of absence” and “Leaf out in the cold” and “Take leaf” and “Leafing so soon?”
  •  Wouldn’t→ Wooden: As in, “Nuttelex wooden melt in their mouth,” and “I wooden hurt a fly,” and “Wooden you know it?” and “I wooden touch it with a 10 ft pole.” Note: Nuttelex is a vegan substitute for butter.
  • *tri*→ *tree*: As in, “My hair needs a treem,” and “Full of nutree-ents,” and “What is your best attreebute?” and “How cool are golden retreevers?” and “It’s an intreensic (intrinsic) quality,” and “A new brand of vegan chicken streeps,” and “No streengs attached,” and “We’re going on a treep!” and “Pull the treegger,” and “Any more treecks up your sleeve?” and “A love treeangle,” and “A treevial problem,” and “We pay treebute to the fallen.”
  • *trea*→ *tree*: As in, “A real treet,” and “Medical treetment,” and “Royal treeson,” and “I treesure you,” and “Thick as treecle,” and “Swim upstreem,” and “A holiday retreet,” and “A winning streek,” and “A treecherous mountain path.”
  • *tee*→ *tree*: As in, “By the skin of your treeth,” and “The scene was treeming with people,” and “I guarantree it,” and “A welcoming committree,” and “A chunky manatree,” and “Self-estreem,” and “Charitable voluntreers,” and “My child’s school cantreen.”
  • *tary→ *tree: As in, “Proprietree cables,” and “Complimentree meals,” and “These colours are complementree,” and “Leave it with my secretree,” and “A sedentree life isn’t so healthy,” and “Dominion is a documentree you should watch,” and “It’s rudimentree addition,” and “But what’s the monetree value,” and “A solitree existence.” Notes: to be sedentary is to be inactive or seated. If something is rudimentary, then it’s basic.
  • *try*→ *tree*: As in, “Tree again,” and “A secret treest (tryst),” and “I’m tree-ing (trying)!” and “Meat is not an ethical industree,” and “Refugees should be welcomed to our countree,” and “Bigotree is still rampant,” and “Entree level,” and “A paltree sum,” and “Geometree is everywhere,” and “Chemistree lab,” and “What sultree weather.” Notes: if something is sultry, then it’s hot. A tryst is a private romantic meeting.
  • *ty*→ *tree*: As in, “Star qualitree,” and “Structural integritree,” and “The citree that never sleeps,” and “First-class facilitrees,” and “My dutrees come first,” and “Beautree isn’t everything,” and “A single entitree,” and “Maximum securitree.”
  • Tree→ Christmas tree: As in, “Difficult as nailing jelly to a Christmas tree,” and “Barking up the wrong Christmas tree,” and “Can’t see the wood for the Christmas trees,” and “Charm the birds out of the Christmas trees,” and “Legs like Christmas tree trunks,” and “Make like a Christmas tree and leave,” and “Money doesn’t grow on Christmas trees,” and “Christmas tree hugger,” and “You’re outta your Christmas tree.”
  • Angel: Since angels are commonly placed at the top of Christmas trees, we’ve included common phrases for them in this list: “Enough to make angels weep,” and “A fallen angel,” and “Guardian angel,” and “I believe in angels,” and “On the side of the angels,” and “The angel of death,” and “Angel’s advocate.” Note: an angel’s advocate is someone who sees the good in an idea and supports it.
  • *angle*→ *angel*: As in, “What are you angeling for?” and “Love triangel,” and “A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and quietly strangeled,” and “It takes two to tangel,” and “What a tangeled web.”
  • Star: Since stars are commonly used to decorate the tops of Christmas trees, we’ve included phrases for them in this list. As in, “A star is born,” and “Born under a lucky star,” and “Catch a falling star,” and “Get a gold star,” and “Guiding star,” and “Written in the stars,” and “Reach for the stars,” and “A rising star,” and “Star wars,” and “Star crossed lovers,” and “Star quality,” and “Starstruck,” and “Stars in your eyes,” and “When you wish upon a star,” and “My lucky star,” and “Seeing stars.”
  • *star*: As in, “Can we start?” and “In stark relief,” and “A new tech startup,” and “Stop staring,” and “I didn’t mean to startle you,” and “This pasta is very starchy,” and “A starter kit,” and “You bastard!” and “Doesn’t cut the mustard.” Notes: if something doesn’t cut the mustard, then it isn’t good enough. If something is in stark relief, then it’s been made very obvious.
  • *ster* → *star*: As in, “A starn attitude,” and “This area is starile,” and “Turn up the stareo,” and “Staroids are illegal in sports,” and “Aim for the starnum,” and “You monstar,” and “Addiction is a cruel mastar,” and “Fostar kids,” and “Am I on the registar?” and “A bolstaring attitude,” and “A sinistar presence,” and “Mustar the courage,” and “Work rostar,” and “A cocky roostar,” and “It’s unhealthy to judge people based on stareotypes.” Note: to bolster is to support or strengthen something.
  • Stir → Star: As in, “Cause a star,” and “Shaken, not starred,” and “Star the pot,” and “Star up trouble,” and “Star-crazy.”
  • Stir* → Star*: Starrup (stirrup) and starring (stirring).
  • *stor* → *star*: As in, “I need to go to the stare (store),” and “My favourite stary,” and “A starm brewing,” and “Put in starage,” and “A two-starey house,” and “A convoluted staryline,” and “We don’t have to live like our ancestars,” and “Impostar syndrome,” and “Seed investars,” and “Histarical fiction,” and “You’re distarting the truth.”
  • Sturdy → Stardy: As in, “A stardy table.”
  • Babble → Bauble: As in, “Baubling on and on.”
  • Bobble → Bauble: As in, “Bauble heads,” and “Bauble hat.”
  • Bubble → Bauble: “Bauble and squeak,” and “Bauble up,” and “Burst your bauble,” and “Bauble over,” and “Thought bauble.”
  • Light → Fairy lights: Since Christmas trees are commonly wrapped in blinking fairy lights for decoration, we’ve included the term here. As in, “Blinded by the fairy light,” and “Bring something to fairy light,” and “The cold fairy light of day,” and “First fairy light,” and “Friday night and the fairy lights are low,” and “Give it the green fairy light,” and “Go out like a fairy light,” and “My guiding fairy light,” and “The fairy light at the end of the tunnel.”
  • Very → Fairy: As in, “Be afraid, be fairy afraid,” and “Before your fairy eyes,” and “How fairy dare you,” and “Thank you fairy much,” and “At the fairy least,” and “Efairy bit,” and “Efairy nook and cranny,” and “Efairybody and their mother,” and “There for efairyone to see.”
  • Candy → Candy cane: As in, “Easy as taking a candy cane from a baby.”
  • Present: We put gifts and presents under Christmas trees, so we’ve included these words in this list too. As in, “All present and correct,” and “Present company excepted,” and “No time like the present.”
  • Percent → Present: As in, “A hundred and ten present,” and “Genius is one present inspiration and 99 present perspiration.”
  • Gift: As in, “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth,” and “Gift of life,” and “A gift that keeps on giving,” and “A gift from above.”
  • Give → Gift: As in, “A dead giftaway,” and “Don’t gift up!” and “Don’t gift in,” and “Gift yourself a bad name,” and “Gift them a hand,” and “Gift and take,” and “Gift credit where credit is due,” and “Gift it a rest,” and “Gift it the green light,” and “Gift me a call,” and “Gift 110%”.
  • Gave → Gift: As in, “I gift my best.”
  • Pine: Pines are a common type of tree used as Christmas trees, so we’ve included them in this list. As in, “Pining away.”
  • Pain → Pine: As in, “A world of pine,” and “Doubled up in pine,” and “Drown the pine,” and “Feeling no pine,” and “Growing pines,” and “No pine, no gain,” and “On pine of death,” and “Pine in the butt,” and “Pine in the neck,” and “Pinefully slow,” and “A royal pine.”
  • Pain* → Pine*: As in, “A picture pinet-s a thousand words,” and “Pine-t with a broad brush,” and “Pine-t the town red.” Note: to paint with a broad brush is to describe a group of things in general terms.
  • Fine → Pine: As in, “A pine line,” and “Cut it pine,” and Damn pine coffee,” and “Pine and dandy,” and “Another pine mess you’ve gotten me into,” and “I feel pine,” and “Not to put too pine a point on it,” and “One pine day,” and “Treading a pine line,” and “Got it down to a pine art,” and “The devil is in the pine print,” and “Go through it with a pine-toothed comb.”
  • *pan* → *pine*: As in, “Three’s compiney,” and “Wild discrepinecys,” and “Judging pinel,” and “Expineding our business,” and “Run rampinet.” Note: a discrepancy is a difference between two things that should be equal.
  • *pen* → *pine*: As in, pinechant (penchant), pineguin (penguin), pinesieve (pensive), pineding (pending), pinenis (penis), pineinsula (peninsula), pinetrate (penetrate), pineance (penance), opine (open), pine (pen), happine (happen), dampine (dampen), deepine (deepen), sharpine (sharpen), ripine (ripen), propinesity (propensity), indispinesable (indispensable), appinedix (appendix), depinedent (dependent). Notes: a penchant is a fondness for something. To be pensive is to be thoughtful. A propensity is a habit for behaving in a particular way.
  • *pin* → *pine*: As in, “Tickled pinek (pink),” and “The pineacle of health,” and “In a pinech,” and “Can you pinepoint the location?” and “A pine-t of ice-cream,” and “Take him out for a spine (spin),” and “I didn’t ask for your opineon,” and “The pursuit of happine-ness.”
  • *pon* → *pine*: As in, “A one trick pineny,” and “Time to pineder (ponder),” and “Choose your weapine,” and “Discount coupine,” and “Once upine a time,” and “I’m waiting for your respinese,” and “A correspinedence course,” and “With great power comes great respinesibility,” and “Spinetaneous combustion.” Notes: a one trick pony is someone who is skilled in only one area.
  • *pun* → *pine*: As in, “Sucker pinech,” and “Be pinectual for the exam,” and “A pinegent smell.”
  • *ine* → *pine*: As in, pine-evitable (inevitable), pinertia (inertia), pinexorable (inexorable), pineffable (ineffable), pinept (inept), pinert (inert), pinexplicable (inexplicable), pinevitably (inevitably). Notes: if something is ineffable, then it causes an indescribable amount of emotion.
  • Corner → Conifer: Conifers are a type of tree commonly used as Christmas trees, so we’ve included them in this list. As in, “A tight conifer,” and “All conifers of the world,” and “Conifer the market,” and “Cut conifers,” and “Drive them into a conifer,” and “The naughty conifer,” and “Just around the conifer,” and “From the conifer of my eye.”
  • Spruce: As spruces are a commonly used as Christmas trees, we’ve included them in this list. You can easily make some bad puns with phrases that include the word spruce, like “Spruce up.”
  • Space → Spruce: As in, “In deep spruce,” and “In spruce, no one can hear you scream,” and “Personal spruce,” and “A waste of spruce,” and “Watch this spruce,” and “Taking up spruce.”
  • Four → Fir: As in, “Down on all firs,” and “Break the firth wall,” and “A fir leaf clover,’ and “A fir letter word,” and “Twenty fir seven.” Note: the fourth wall refers to the imaginary wall between viewers and actors during tv shows or plays.
  • Fair → Fir: As in, “All the fun of the fir,” and “All’s fir in love and war,” and “By fir means or foul,” and “Faint heart never fir lady,” and “Fir trade,” and “Fir and square,” and “Fir and aboveboard,” and “Fir enough,” and “Fir play,” and “Fir game,” and “Fir-haired,” and “Fir is fir.”
  • *far* → *fir*: As in, “A fond firwell (farewell),” and “Firther down,” and “Insofir as,” and “A nefirious villain,” and “Welfir reform.”
  • *fer* → *fir*: As in, “Firal (feral) behaviour,” and “A firvent belief,” and “He talked with firvour,” and “Firmented tofu,” and “A firocious effort,” and “Firtile land,” and “The local firry (ferry),” and “I defirred my enrolment,” and “Let me confir,” and “Do you have any refirences?” and “A kind offir,” and “I’ll transfir some money over,” and “A firm buffir,” and “I prefir tea over coffee,” and “What a diffirent attitude.”
  • *for* → *fir*: As in, “Pay it firward,” and “Have you firsaken me?” and “What’s the fircast look like?” and “So on and so firth,” and “I firbid you!” and “The infirmation desk,” and “The opening perfirmance.”
  • *fir*: Make some fir puns by emphasising words that have “fir” in them: first, affirm, confirm, firsthand and affirmative.
  • *fur* → *fir*: As in, firther (further), firniture (furniture), firtive (furtive), firthermore (furthermore), firnace (furnace), firnish (furnish), sulfir (sulfur). Note: to be furtive is to be secretive.
  • *fair* → *fir*: Firy (fairy), firly (fairly), firness (fairness), firytale (fairytale), firway (fairway).
  • Wood: Make some terrible Christmas tree puns by making wood references with these wood-related phrases: “Can’t see the wood for the trees,” and “Come out of the woodwork,” and “Cut out the dead wood,” and “Knock on wood,” and “Out of the woods,” and “This neck of the woods.” Notes: If you can’t see the wood for the trees, then you’re unable to see a situation clearly due to being too involved in it. To be out of the woods it to be out of a dangerous situation.
  • Would → Wood: As in, “As good luck wood have it,” and “Chance wood be a fine thing,” and “That wood be telling,” and “Woodn’t get out of bed for,” and “Woodn’t hurt a fly.”
  • Leaves: “It leaves a lot to be desired” and “It leaves a bad taste in your mouth”
  • *lease→ *leaf: As in, “A new leaf on life,” and “Releaf me!”
  • *lief→ *leaf: As in, Releaf (relief), beleaf (believe), disbeleaf (disbelieve).
  • *lif*→ *leaf*: As in, “A healthy leafstyle,” and “The end of the natural leafspan,” and “Would you like to use a leafline?” and “Eating meat is not a necessary part of the human leafcycle,” and “Call a leafguard!” and “You’re a leafsaver,” and “Their work is proleafic,” and “You exempleafy the best qualities,” and “You qualeafy for a scholarship.” Notes: to be prolific is to have a lot of; if your work is prolific, then you’ve produced a lot of work. To exemplify is to be a typical, normative example of something.
  • *leef*→ *leaf*: As in, gleaful (gleeful), gleafully and gleafulness.
  • *lef*→ *leaf*: As in, leaftover (leftover), cleaf (clef), leaft, and cleaft (cleft). Notes: A clef is a symbol in musical notation. A cleft is a split or opening.
  •  Needle: It’s normal for pine trees to molt their needles, so it’s a common Christmas scene and problem to have pine needles around the Christmas tree. To start off our pine puns, here are some needle-related phrases that you can slip into conversation: “Pins (or puns!) and needles,” and “Like looking for a needle in a haystack.”
  •  Need→ Needle: As in, “All you needle is love,” and “You needle your head examined,” and “On a needle to know basis,” and “With friends like that, who needles enemies?” and “We’re gonna needle a bigger boat,” and “I don’t needle this,” and “A friend in needle,” and “Needle I remind you..” and “We needle to talk.”
  •  Knee→ Kneedle: As in, “Go down on bended kneedle,” and “Go weak at the kneedles,” and “Kneedle deep,” and “A kneedle jerk reaction,” and “On your kneedles,” and “Shaking at the kneedles,” and “The bee’s kneedles,” and “A real kneedle slapper.” Note: if something is a knee-slapper, then it’s extremely, raucously funny.
  •  Sap→ Sapling: As in, “What a sapling.”
  •  Trunk: Make some Christmas tree puns with these trunk-related phrases: “Leg’s like tree trunks,” and “Junk in the trunk.” Note: be careful not to use the first phrase in a fat-shaming context.
  •  Chunk→ Trunk: As in, “Trunk of change,” and “Blow trunks.” Note: to blow chunks is to throw up.
  •  Drunk→ Trunk: As in, “Trunk as a lord,” and “Trunk as a skunk,” and “Blind trunk,” and “Falling down trunk,” and “Friends don’t let friends drive trunk,” and “Trunk and disorderly,” and “Roaring trunk.”
  •  Branch: Some branch-related phrases for you to make playful tree puns with: “Branch out,” and “Olive branch.” Note: an olive branch is a symbol of peace.
  •  Bench→ Branch: As in, “Branch warmer,” and “Branch jockey,” and “Meet at the park branch?” Note: a bench warmer is someone who isn’t called up to play in a game and have to sit through the entire play – thus warming the bench.
  •  Brunch→ Branch: As in, “Meet for branch?” and “A new branch place,” and “The perfect branch date.”
  • Log: Some log-related phrases for you to play with: “As easy as falling of a log,” and “Log off,” and “Sawing logs,” and “Sleep like a log,” and “Throw another log on the fire.” Note: to saw logs is to snore loudly.
  •  *log*: Emphasise the log in certain words: logistics, logic, login, logo, logical, analog, blog, catalog, slog, backlog, dialog, clog, flog, technology, analogy, etymology, psychology, analogous and ontology.
  •  *lag→ *log: As in, “Jet log,” and “Social jet log,” and “Flog down,” and “Fly the flog.”
  •  *lag*→ *log*: As in: logoon (lagoon), logging (lagging), plogue (plague), colloge (collage), camoufloge (camouflage), flogrant (flagrant).
  •  Leg→ Log: As in, “Break a log,” and “Fast as his logs could carry him,” and “Cost an arm and a log,” and “Give up a log up,” and “Logs like tree trunks,” and “On your last logs,” and “One log at a time,” and “Shake a log,” and “Show a little log,” and “Stretch your logs,” and “Tail between your logs,” and “Without a log to stand on,” and “You’re pulling my log.”
  •  *leg*→ *log*: As in, logacy (legacy), logend (legend), logitimate (legitimate), logal (legal), logible (legible), logion (legion), logislation (legislation), bootlog (bootleg), priviloge (privilege), allogory (allegory), delogate (delegate), elogant (elegant). Note: an allegory is a metaphor used in literature.
  •  *lig*→ *log*: As in, logament (ligament), logature (ligature), intellogence (intelligence), relogion (religion), elogible (eligible). Note: a ligature can mean a few different things, but it generally means something that joins two things together.
  •  *lug*→ *log*: As in, loggage (luggage), plog (plug), slog (slug), unplog (unplug), logubrious (lugubrious), sloggish (sluggish). Note: to be lugubrious is to be sad or dismal.
  • Bark: Since bark has two meanings – the hard “skin” of a tree, and a loud noise that dogs make – we can use the meanings interchangeably and make some bark puns with these bark-related phrases: “A barking dog never bites,” and “Bark at the moon,” and “Barking mad,” and “Barking up the wrong tree,” and “Bark worse than your bite.”
  •  Park→ Bark: As in, “All over the ballbark,” and “A ballbark figure,” and “Central bark,” and “Hit it out of the bark,” and “A nosey barker,” and “A walk in the bark,” and “A bright s-bark,” and “Bark that thought.”
  •  Pakistan→ Barkistan
  •  *bac*→ *bark*: As in, “You can’t barkslide (backslide) now,” and “Barkground music,” and “A barkterial (bacterial) infection,” and “Part of the barkdrop,” and “The barkchelor (bachelor),” and “Barkchelor pad,” and “No such thing as ethical barkon (bacon),” and “Valued feedbark,” and “A messy debarkle (debacle).”
  •  *bec*→ *bark*: As in, “What have we barkome (become)?” and “The food barkoned (beckoned) me,” and “Barkcause I said so,” and “That dress is very barkcoming (becoming),” and “Fire up the barbarkue!”
  •  *bic*→ *bark*: As in, barkering (bickering), barkultural (bicultural), acerbark (acerbic), aerobark (aerobic), xenophobark (xenophobic), Arabark (Arabic), claustrophobark (claustrophobic), cubarkle (cubicle).
  •  *buc*→ *bark*: As in, “Kick the barket,” and “Can’t carry a tune in a barket,” and “A drop in the barket,” and “Coming down in barkets,” and “One, two, barkle my shoe,” and “Barkwheat cereal.”
  •  *bak*→ *bark*: As in, “A vegan barkery,” and “An apprentice barker.”
  •  *bik*→ *bark*: As in, barkini (bikini), rubark‘s cube and motorbark (motorbike).
  •  September→ Septimber: As in, “Wake me up when Septimber ends.”
  •  Root: Some root-related phrases for you to play with: “Lay down roots,” and “Money is the root of all evil,” and “Root for,” and “Root of the matter,” and “Wanna root?”
  •  Root→ Route: As in, “Is your rooter (router) working?” and “Root 66,” and “You need to take a different root.”
  •  *rut*→ *root*: As in, “A rootless (ruthless) procedure,” and “Tell the trooth,” and “Under scrootiny,” and “An inscrootable expression,” and “Brootally honest,” and “A new recroot (recruit).”
  • Twig: Here are some twig-related phrases for you to mix into your Christmas tree wordplay: “Have you twigged on?” and “Looking a bit twiggy.” Notes: to twig onto something is to realise something. If something a looking twiggy, it’s looking thin.
  •  Trigger→ Twigger: As in, “Hair twigger,” and “Pull the twigger,” and “Twigger happy,” and “Whose finger do you want on the twigger?” Note: a hair trigger is a trigger that is extremely sensitive. Can also be used to describe an something which is very unstable.
  • Knot: We can use knot-related phrases as well since “knot” has two meanings – the circular imperfections in wood and a tied fastening: “Don’t get your shorts in a knot,” and “Tie the knot,” and “Tie yourself in knots.”
  •  Not→ Knot: As in, “And whatknot,” and “As often as knot,” and “Believe it or knot,” and “Down but knot out,” and “I’m knot joking,” and “Let’s knot and say we did,” and “Knot a chance,” and “Knot a minute too soon,” and “Knot a pretty sight,” and “Knot all it’s cracked up to be,” and “No, knot at all,” and “Knot have a leg to stand on,” and “Knot in a million years,” and “We’re knot in Kansas anymore,” and “Waste knot, want knot,” and “A house divided against itself canknot stand,” and “Rome was knot built in a day,” and “Last but knot least,” and “If it’s knot one thing, it’s another.”
  •  Nought→ Knot: As in, “Knots and crosses,” and “All for knot,” and “It’s come to knot.”
  •  Naughty→ Knotty: As in, “Knotty but nice,” and “Are you on the knotty list?” and “The knotty corner.”
  •  *nut*→ *knot*: As in, “A hazelknot in every bite,” and “Using a sledgehammer to crack a knot,” and “Sweet as a knot,” and “Do your knot,” and “In a knotshell,” and “That old chestknot,” and “A tough knot to crack,” and “Knots and bolts,” and “If you pay peaknots, you get monkeys.” Notes: if you’re using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, then you’re using more force than is necessary or appropriate. “That old chestnut” refers to a story that has been told too many times.
  •  *nat*→ *knot*: As in, “An inknot (innate) sense,” and “A healthy alterknotive,” and “You’re being obstin-knot,” and “I’ll need your sigknoture,” and “Their sigknoture dish.”
  •  *net*→ *knot*: As in, “The social knotwork,” and “An exclusive knotworking (networking) event,” and “The five teknots (tenets) are,” and “The interknot (internet),” and “Cabiknot maker,” and “Captain Plaknot,” and “Baby’s bonknot,” and “A peknotrating (penetrating) gaze.”
  •  *nit*→ *knot*: As in, “Stop knotpicking (nitpicking),” and “A single, cohesive u-knot,” and “Cogknotive (cognitive) dissonance,” and “Hallway moknotor (monitor),” and “A golden opportuknoty,” and “A tight-knit (or knot) commuknoty,” and “I have a special affiknoty for,” and “Leave with digknoty,” and “A part of the furknoture.” Note: cognitive dissonance is when two contradictory beliefs are held by the same person.
  •  *nut*→ *knot*: As in, knotrition (nutrition), knotrient (nutrient), knotmeg, walknot, cocoknot, butterknot, and miknot (minute).
  •  *not*→ *knot*: As in, “Knotwithstanding,” and “Two week’s knotice,” and “Turn it up a knotch,” and “A ridiculous knotion,” and “He’s knotorious for..” and “It all came to knothing,” and “Negative conknotations.” Note: a connotation is an associated (rather than literal) meaning.
  •  *naut* → *knot*: As in, knotical (nautical), juggerknot, astroknot, cyberknot, and aeroknotical. Notes: a cybernaut is someone who uses the internet on a regular basis. A juggernaut is a force that is generally considered to be unstoppable and destructive. An aeronaut is one who travels in hot-air ballons or airships.
  •  *sap*: Emphasise the “sap” in certain words to make sap-related tree puns: sapient, sappy, asap, disappointed, and disappear.
  •  *sep*→ *sap*: As in, “Comes saparetely,” and “Sapia-toned (sepia),” and “Saptum piercing,” and “Wake me up when Saptember ends,” and “Saptic tank.” Notes: a septum piercing is a type of nose piercing. Sepia is a shade of brown.
  •  *sip*→ *sap*: As in, “A relentless gossap,” and “An insapid tea,” and “My anger is dissapating.” Note: if something is insipid, then it’s weak.
  •  *sop*→ *sap*: As in, saporific (soporific), saprano (soprano), milksap (milksop), aesap (aesop), soursap (soursop).
  •  *sup*→ *sap*: As in, “Emotional sapport,” and “Saperceded,” and “Demand and sapply,” and “You’re being saperfluous,” and “Mother Saperior,” and “Saperiority complex,” and “Vitamin sapplements,” and “Sing for your sapper.”
  •  Axe: Use these axe-related phrases for some sneaky wordplay: “Take an axe to,” and “An axe to grind.” Notes: to take an axe to something is to destroy it. If you’ve got an axe to grind, then you’ve got a grievance or strong opinions.
  •  Ask→ Axe: As in, “A big axe,” and “Axe a silly question and get a silly answer,” and “Axe and you shall receive,” and “Axe around,” and “Axe me another one,” and “Axe no questions and hear no lies,” and “Axe-ing for trouble,” and “What’s the axe-ing price?” and “Everything you were too afraid to axe,” and “Frequently axed questions,” and “Funny you should axe,” and “No questions axed,” and “You gotta axe yourself,” and “Axe-ing for a friend.”
  •  *ax*→ *axe*: As in, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes,” and “Incorrect syntaxe,” and “Soy waxe,” and “Waxe and wane,” and “Mind your own beeswaxe,” and “Frankie says relaxe,” and “The rules are pretty laxe around here,” and “The axe-is of evil.”
  •  *ex*→ *axe*: As in, “A complaxe situation,” and “Body mass indaxe,” and “Better than saxe,” and “Flaxe your muscles,” and “The apaxe of the mountain,” and “Fast reflaxes,” and “There’s still so much saxeism (sexism) in today’s society,” and “Do I even axe-ist (exist) to you?” and “Axeplicit language warning,” and “A team-building axercise,” and “Axeistential crisis,” and “Axetract the essence,” and “In the right contaxe-t,” and “Axepress post,” and “A fair axechange,” and “Animal axeploitation.”
  •  *ix*→ *axe*: As in, matraxe (matrix), faxe (fix), appendaxe (appendix), maxe (mix), suffaxe (suffix), prefaxe (prefix), saxe (six), elaxe-ir (elixir), saxety (sixty).
  •  *ox*→ *axe*: As in, “Thinking outside the baxe,” and “Xeno’s paradaxe,” and “Fantastic Mr. Faxe,” and “Unorthodaxe thinking,” and “Flummaxed,” and “The term ‘happy marriage’ doesn’t have to be an axeymoron,” and “You’re as important as axeygen to me,” and “An obnaxeious attitude,” and “In close praxe-imity.” Notes: if something is unorthodox, then it doesn’t conform to normal social rules or traditions. An oxymoron is a phrase that is made up of contradictory parts (like “cruel to be kind”.) If you’re flummoxed, then you’re completely confused and/or perplexed.
  •  *ux*→ *axe*: As in, “Living in the lap of laxeury,” and “A cruel jaxetaposition.” Note: a juxtaposition is an act of comparison.

Christmas Tree-Related Words

To help you come up with your own Christmas tree 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!

christmas tree, tree, christmas, fir, leaves, leaf, wood, wooden, angel, star, bauble, light, fairy light, tinsel, candy cane, present, gift, pine, conifer, spruce, needle, sap, sapling, trunk, branch, twig, log, bark, timber, root, knot, axe

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