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Turtle Puns

This entry is all about turtle puns! There are also a sprinkle of tortoise puns too, so be careful if you’re looking for specifically turtle-based puns (tortoise are completely land-based, turtles mostly live in or around water). As you’ll see, there are a lot of “shell”-based puns to be made, and also a few puns using the names of different turtle species/families.

You might also like to check out the Punpedia entries on on otter puns, frog puns, fish puns, shark puns, beach puns and squid puns for some more water-based word play.

As with all entries on Punpedia, if you’ve got a great turtle pun, you can post it in the comments and one of our curators will add it to this entry.

Turtle Puns List

Each item in this list of turtle puns is either a simple word-swap (e.g. total → turtle) or it may be a general rule from which multiple puns can be made. In the case of general rules, the asterisks sign (*) represents one or more letters.

Total→ Turtle: “I am in turtle awe of her skills.”
Totally→ Turtley: “Turtley!” and “This is turtley amazing!”
Totalitarian→ Turtleitarian: “It’s a cruel turtle-itarian regime.”
Celebration→ Shellebration: As in “After finishing we should have a shellebration.”
Startle → Sturtle: “Oh! You sturtled me!” and “That was sturtling news.”
Turtle-neck: A “turtle-neck” is a high, close-fitting neck on a shirt. Can be used as a turtle pun with the right context.
Sel* → Shell*: If a word starts with “sel” a shell pun can be made by switching it with “shell”. For example: shellection (selection), shellect (select), shelldom (seldom), shellfless (selfless), shellfish (selfish).
*sel → *shell: Words ending in “sel” can often be punned upon with “shell”: vesshell (vessel), tasshell (tassel), weashell (weasel), musshell (mussel), etc.
*sel* → *shell*: Words containing “sel” can yeild nice puns on “shell”: Hershellf, himshellf, themshellves, itshellf, myshellf, yourshelf, yourshelves, convershelly, counshelling, preshellected, overshelling, undershelling, ushellessely, weashelling.
Shall→ Shell: As in “Shell I compare thee to a summer’s day?” and “He who lives by the sword shell die by the sword.”
*cial → *shell: When a word has “cial” as a suffix, this suffix can usually be swapped out for “shell” to create a shell pun: soshell (social), speshell (special), offishell (official), finanshell, commershell, crushell, judishell, artifishell, provinshell, rashell, benefishell, superfishell, fashell, glashell, sacrifishel, antisoshell.
Sell → Shell: “How many do we have left to shell?”
Hell → Shell: “The party last night was a shell of a time.”
Flip her → Flipper: As in “Don’t you dare flip her off! That’s rude!” and “We’re going to need to flip her on her belly before the surgery.”
Flip out → Flipper-t: “Woah! No need to flipper-t about my bad turtle puns.”
Taught us → Tortoise: “Our parents tortoise to be kind to animals.”
Tore this → Tortoise: “Turtle puns tortoise family apart.”
Bleak → Beak: Many turtles have beak-like mouths – “The outlook is beak.”
Riddle → Ridley: Refers to a type of small turtle that lives in tropical seas – “Ridley me this!” and “She speaks in ridleys.”
A → Loggerhead: Refers to a species of large marine turtle. Also used as an insult for someone who speaks or behaves unintelligently: “That news anchor is a bit of a loggerhead.”
Snapping: A “snapping turtle” is a type of turtle known for its aggression and powerful jaw. The term “snapping” is also used for quick and irritable speech: “The teacher was intermittently snapping at her.”
Snap in → Snapping: Refers to a type of turtle. “To snap in quarters.”
Napping → Snapping: “Did I wake you up? Na, I was jus’ snapping.”
A → Leatherback: Refers to a very large black turtle with a thick leathery shell.
Stinkpot: Refers to a species of turtle which can defensively produce a foul smell. Can also refer to a contemptible or foul smelling person or thing: “Jason, you stinkpot! Stop making turtle puns.”
Plaster on → Plastron: Refers to the underside part of a turtle’s (or tortoise’s, or snake’s) shell: “You may need to put some plastron after I beat you in this pun battle.”
S’cute → Scute: A “scute” refers to large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle: “Aww, scute how he walks all wobbly like that.”
Slow: Although many turtles are quite fast (The pacific leatherback turtle can swim as fast as 34 km/h), the “turtles are slow” stereotype may allow you to use the word “slow” as a turtle pun in the right context.
Mutant: The series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles may be well-known enough for the word “mutant” to constitute a turtle pun in the right context.
Mossback: A “mossback” can refer to a very old turtle that, because of its age, has grown moss on its back. It can also refer to a very conservative person; one with old-fashioned views.
Hair → Hare: Because of the fame of the Tortoise and the Hare story, one might be able to make a subtle turtle/tortoise pun (with the right context) by switching “hair” for “hare“.

As you can see our turtle puns list is still short! Below is a list of turtle-related words that we still need puns for. If you’d like to help us out, please post suggestions in the comments! Also, this source of turtle-related words may be handy (as might this source).

? → Hawksbill: Refers to a small, endangered tropical sea turtle.
? → Reptile: All turtles and tortoises are reptiles.
? → Carapace: Refers to the hard upper shell of a turtle, crustacean, or arachnid.
? → Raphael: A fictional turtle from TMNT.
? → Michaelangelo: A fictional turtle from TMNT.
? → Donatello: A fictional turtle from TMNT.
? → Leonardo: A fictional turtle from TMNT.
? → Genbu: Refers to a mythical turtle in Japanese Mythology.
? → Kurma: Means “turtle” in Sanskrit and refers to the Hindu Turtle God.
? → Great A’Tuin: Refers to the “World Turtle” that helps carry the world in the Discworld series of novels by Terry Pratchet.
? → Mock turtle: Refers to a fictional turtle in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll (wiki).
? → Galapagos: Galapagos tortoises are a species of giant tortoise found on the Galapagos islands.
? → Anapsid: Refers to “a primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles”
? → Sea turtle
? → Tortoiseshell

If you’re after more aquatic-ish animal word play, check out our entries on otter puns, frog puns and crab puns. And we’ve got a more general water puns entry too!

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Eel Puns

This entry is all about eel puns! Eels are (primarily) predatory fish which have characteristically elongated bodies, such that they look a bit like underwater snakes. The most famous eels are perhaps the moray eel, the conger eel and electric eels (which technically aren’t eels, but rather knifefish).

As you’ll see, eel puns are mostly a play on words containing the “eel” sound, or similar, but there are some more sneaky puns to be made too.

You might also like to check out the Punpedia entries on fish puns, shark puns, beach puns and squid puns for related wordplay.

As with all entries on Punpedia, if you’ve got a great eel pun, you can post it in the comments and one of our curators will add it to this entry.

Eel Puns List

Each item in this list of eel puns is either a simple word-swap (e.g. ill → eel) or it may be a general rule from which multiple puns can be made. In the case of general rules, the asterisks sign (*) represents one or more letters.

*eel*: Most words containing “eel” can be used as eel puns: wheel, cartwheel, feel, feelers, feelings, genteel, heel, heels, keel, kneel, kneeling, newsreel, pinwheel, peel, peelings, steel, steelworker, wheelbarrow, wheelchair, wheelie.
Field → Feeld: Words containing the “eel” sound (or similar) can be used as homophonic puns with he right emphasis: appeeling, feeld, ceeling (ceiling), automobeel, battlefeeld, ameeliorate, conceelment, deeler, eelongation, geelotine (guillotine), heeler, heelium, ideelism, memorabeelia, reveel, repeel, reelization, reely, reeligion, reelationships, reelaxation, sheeld, steeling, sheela, seel, surreelism, transeelvania, yeelding.
Ill → Eel: “I’m not feeling very well, I’m afraid I might be eel.”
I’ll → Eel’l: “Eel’l have to wait a few more days.”
*ihl* → *eel*: Words with the “ihl” sound in them somewhere can be used as eel puns with a bit of phonetic twisting: abeelities (abilities), acceptabeelity (acceptability), accountabeelity, acreelic, adaptabeelity, admissibeelity, affeeliate, affeeliation, applicabeelity, arteellery, availabeelity, barceelona, beelated, beelief, beweeldered, beweelderment, beelow, beeloved, beelies, beelongings, beelong, brazeelians, breelliant, beelding, caterpeellars, capabeelities, cheeldren, civeelian, conceeliation, credibeelity, culpabeelity, daffodeel, debeelitating, deelectable, deelay, deeliberately, deeliberation, deelightful, deelinquent, deelivered, deelusion, desirabeelity, diseellusionment, durabeelity, eelaborated, eelastic, eelation, eelections, eelectorate, eelectrical, eelectrode, eelectromagnetic, eelectronic, eelectrostatic, eeligibility, eelimination, eellipse, eelongated, eelusive, exheelaration, faceelitate, fameeliarity. This is only a small number of the possible puns that can be created using this pattern. To create more, use a tool like this one.
That’s amore → That’s a moray: “When a moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s a moray.” The word “amore”, pronounced “ah-mor-ray” means “love” in Italian and was made famous by the singer Dean Martin. A “moray eel” is a type of eel.
More ale → Moray-eel: “Drinking moray-eel is not a good idea.”
Morale → Moray-eel: “Captain, the army’s moray-eel is low.”
More → Mor-ay: A bit laboured, but still possible: “Some mor-ay people will arrive soon.”
Can’t go → Conger: “I conger to work today because I am sick.” A “congo” is a type of large, scaleless, marine eel.
Congo → Conger: “Conger is a republic in central Africa.”
Congo → Conger: “Come on! Join the conger line.” (See conga line Wikipedia entry if you’ve never heard of it.)
Electric: Electric eels are famous enough that you could probably use just the word “electric” as an eel pun, with no modification to its phonetics. If you need more emphasis, you could use “eelectric”. Same with electricity, electrostatic, etc. In the right context you may also get away with using some other electricity-related terms as eel puns: short circuit, static, current, volt, ampere, voltage, watt, kilowatt, electrify, circuit, arc, electrocute, charge, power.
Elder → Elver: “I was always told to respect my elvers according to their desert.” An elver is a young eel.
Elderly → Elverly: “An elverly couple lives in that house.” An elver is a young eel.
Hell of a → Elver: “We had an elver time on our last adventure.”
Hell → Eel: “Eel hath no fury like an anguilliform scorned.”
Foray → F-moray: Very laboured! “I wrote this during my first f-moray into poetry.”
? → Anguilliform: All eels are part of the “anguilliform” biological taxonomic order. Got a pun for this? Please share it in the comments!
? → Leptocephalus: A leptocephalus is the slender transparent larva of eels. Got a pun for this? Please share it in the comments!

As you can see our eel puns list is still short! If you’d like to help us out, this source of eel-related words may be handy (as might this source). If you come up with any puns for these words, please share them in the comments!

If you’re after more aquatic animal word play, check out our entry on crab puns and our massive fish puns entry.

Thanks for visiting Punpedia 🙂

Squid Puns

This entry is all about squid! As you’ll notice, the majority of squid puns are just seeing how many words you can fit “squid” into without completely destroying the original phonetics.

You might also like to check out the Punpedia entries on fish puns, shark puns, beach puns and crab puns for related wordplay.

As with all entries on Punpedia, if you’ve got a great squid pun, you can post it in the comments and one of our curators will add it to this entry.

Squid Puns List

Each item in this list of squid puns is either a simple word-swap (e.g. kidding → squidding) or it may be a general rule from which multiple puns can be made. In the case of general rules, the asterisks sign (*) represents one or more letters.

Inkling: As in “I have an inkling that he’s lying.”
Inc* → Ink*: Most words that starts with “inc” can be turned into an squid pun (because most squid can release ink). You can use this list of words starting with “inc” to invent your own. Here are some examples: inklude, inkrease, inkome, inkorporate, inklusion, inkur, inkredible, inkonvenience, inkapable, inkompetence, inkubate, inkursion, inkumbent, inkorrect, inkonsistency, inkoherence, inkarceration, inkrements, inkonspicuous, inkarnate, inkapacitated.
Think* → Ink*: As in, “By George, I ink you’ve got it,” and “Come to ink of it,” and “Great minds ink alike,” and “I ink I love you,” and “I can’t hear myself ink,” and “I ink, therefore I am,” and “It makes you ink,” and “Positive inking,” and “Put on your inking cap,” and “Ink the un-inkable!”
Kid → Squid: As in “Yeah, she is the smartest squid in her class.”
Kidding → Squidding: As in “I was just squidding!”
Kid* → Squid*: Generalising the above pun, the prefix “kid” can be replaced with “squid” as follows: squidding (kidding), squidnapped (kidnapped), squidney (kidney), squid (kid).
?id* → Squid*: If a word begins with “?id” where ‘?’ represents any letter, then this prefix can sometimes be replaced with “squid”. For example: squiddle (middle), squidlife crisis (midlife crisis), squidget (midget), squiddle (riddle), squidiculous (ridiculous), squideotape (videotape), squiddish (yiddish), squidth (width), squidow (widow), squidget (widget).
Kraken: As in, “Release the kraken!” Note: the kraken is a legendary sea monster that is popular in pirate stories and mythology.
Cracking → Kraken: As in, “Get kraken!” and “You’re kraken me up!”
Crack → Kraken: As in, “At the kraken of dawn,” and “Kraken a smile,” and “Have a kraken at it,” and “Snap, kraken, and pop.”
Bid → Squid: As in “I squid you farewell!”
Bidder → Squider: As in “The vase will go the the highest squidder.”
Did → Squid: As in “I squid not eat the cookie! He’s lying!”
Didn’t → Squidn’t: As in “I squidn’t mean to bother you.”
Ten tickles → Ten-tickles: As in “Surely ten-tickles would make anyone laugh?”
*s quit → *s squid: If the word “quit” follows a word ending in “s” it could work as a squid pun: “The main reason smokers squid is because of family pressure.” and “Quit means squid!”
Quid → Squid: As in “Mate, you still owe me 10 squid from that bet the other night.” The term “quid” is slang for “pound” or “dollar” depending on the region.
Accidentally → Acsquidentally: As in “I acsquidentally dropped my plate.”
Acidification → Asquidification: As in “This farming land has been ruined by asquidification.”
Incidentally → Insquidentally: As in “The drugs was discovered only insquidentally after their arrest.”
Assiduously → Asquiduously: As in “He assquiduously cleaned every nook and cranny.” Assiduously means with great care and attention to detail.
Coincidentally → Coinsquidentally: As in “Do you know his name, coinsquidentally?”
Subsidiary → Subsquidiary: As in “No, it’s a subsquidiary of that company.”
Reconsider → Reconsquider: As in “Please, I beg you to reconsquider.”
Insidious → Insquidious: As in “The insquidious erosion of rights and liberties.” Also works for “inksquidious.”
Suck*: As in, “Sucks to be you,” and “Sucker punch,” and “Sucker for punishment,” and “Suck someone dry,” and “A sucker for squid puns.”
Bleak → Beak: As in “The outlook is beak.”
Bake → Beak: As in, “Beak and shake,” and “Beak off,” and “Beaker’s dozen,” and “Half-beaked,” and “I’m beaking a pie.”
Stef → Ceph*: As in, “Cephano,” and “Cephanie.”

As you can see our squid puns list is still quite short! If you’d like to help us out, the following squid-related words still need puns: calamari, cephalopod, beak, dibranchate, leviathan, ink sac, tentacles, decapod, octapod. If you come up with any puns for these words, or any other squid-themed words, please share them in the comments!

If you’re after more sea-life word play, check out our entry on crab puns and our massive fish puns entry.

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