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Baking Puns

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Whether you’re after witty Instagram captions or some business name ideas, everything you knead is right here in our list of baking puns. We’ve included puns on baking utensils, general baking terms and some popular types of baked goods. Get bready to have a laugh and enjoy this entry!

If you’re interested in related lists, we also have cocoa puns, bread puns, pie puns, cookie puns and cake puns.

Baking Puns List

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

Buck → Bake: As in, “Bigger bang for your bake” and “Big bakes” and “Bake the system.”
Brake → Bake: As in, “Hit the bakes.”
Break → Bake: As in, “Bake a leg” and “Bake and enter” and “Bake cover” and “Bake new ground.”
Fake → Bake: As in, “Bake it till you make it” and “Bake smile.”
Make → Bake: As in, “A good beginning bakes a good ending” and “Bakes the heart grow fonder” and “Can’t bake head or tail of it.”
Rake → Bake: As in, “Bake in the money” and “Bake it in” and “Bake over the coals.”
Sake → Bake: As in, “For Christ’s bake!” and “For old times’ bake.”
Shake → Bake: As in, “A fair bake” and “In two bakes” and “More than you can bake a stick at” and “Movers and bakers.”
Stake → Bake: As in, “Burned at the bake” and “Bake your claim” and “Raise the bakes.”
Take → Bake: As in, “Don’t bake it lying down” and “Double bake” and “Give and bake” and “Got what it bakes” and “Bakes one to know one.”
Back → Bake: As in, “Answer bake” and “Soon as my bake is turned” and “Bake to the future” and “Bake at it.”
Pack → Bake: As in, “Bake it in” and “A bake of lies” and “Send baking.”
Pick → Bake: As in, “A bone to bake” and “Cherry bake” and “Easy bakings” and “Bake and choose.”
*back* → *bake*: Replace the “back” in words with “bake” to make some sneaky baking puns: “In the bakeground” and “Face the bakelash” and “Going through the bakelog” and “Going bakewards” and “Accepting feedbake” and “Won’t accept any setbakes.”
Bec* → Bake*: As in, “What have you bake-ome?” and “Bake-ause I said so” and “Mortality bake-ons.”
*bic → *bake: As in, “An acerbake tone” and “Aerobake exercise” and “Office cubake-le.”
Breaking → Baking: As in, “Baking and entering” and “Baking news” and “Don’t go baking my heart.”
Making → Baking: As in, “A legend in the baking” and “History in the baking” and “Baking a scene.”
Shaking → Baking: As in, “Baking like a leaf” and “Baking in your boots.”
Taking → Baking: As in, “Easy as baking candy from a baby” and “Baking care of business.”
Breaker → Baker: As in, “Deal baker.”
Maker → Baker: As in, “Face your baker” and “Meet your baker.”
Even → Oven: As in, “Break oven” and “Don’t get mad, get oven” and “An oven chance.”
Do → Dough: As in, “What dough you mean?” and “Dough away with” and “Dough it justice” and “Dough me a favour” and “Dough right by.”
Though → Dough: As in, “Dough this be madness” and “You look as dough you’ve seen a ghost” and “Seriously dough.”
Day → Dough: As in, “A dough in the life of” and “A hard dough’s night.”
Toe → Dough: As in, “Dip your dough in the water” and “From top to dough” and “Get your dough in the door” and “One dough over the line.”
Blow → Dough: As in, “Any way the wind doughs” and “Dough a kiss” and “Dough hot and cold.”
Does → Doughs: As in, “Doughs what it says on the tin” and “Doughs not compute” and “Doughs the trick” and “Easy doughs it.”
Flow → Dough: As in, “Ebb and dough” and “Get the creative juices doughing” and “Go with the dough” and “In full dough.”
Go → Dough: As in, “All dressed up and nowhere to dough” and “Easy come, easy dough.”
Grow → Dough: As in, “Makes the heart dough fonder” and “Dough on you” and “Exciting as watching grass dough.”
Know → Dough: As in, “And don’t I dough it” and “Be the first to dough” and “Want to dough a secret?” and “Doesn’t dough beans.”
Low → Dough: As in, “An all-time dough” and “Get the dough down” and “Keep a dough profile” and “A dough blow.”
No → Dough: As in, “Yes or dough?” and “All bark and dough bite.”
Owe → Dough: As in, “Dough a favour” and “Dough it to yourself.”
Pro → Dough: As in, “Dough bono” and “Quid dough quo.”
Quo → Dough: As in, “Status dough” and “Quid pro dough.”
Show → Dough: As in, “All over the dough” and “Best in dough” and “Enjoy the dough.”
Slow → Dough: As in, “Can’t dough down” and “A dough burn” and “Dough on the uptake” and “Doughly but surely.”
Snow → Dough: As in, “Pure as the driven dough” and “Let it dough” and “Doughed under.”
So → Dough: As in, “And dough forth.”
Throw → Dough: As in, “A stone’s dough away” and “Dough a wobbly” and “Dough cold water on” and “Dough caution to the wind.”
Woe → Dough: As in, “Dough is me” and “Dough betide you.”
Done → Dough’n: As in, “After all is said and dough’n” and “All dough’n and dusted” and “Do as you would be dough’n by” and “A dough’n deal.”
Better → Batter: As in, “A batter idea” and “Anything you can do, I can do batter” and “Appeal to your batter judgement” and “Batter late than never.”
Bitter → Batter: As in, “A batter pill to swallow” and “Till the batter end.”
Matter → Batter: As in, “As a batter of fact” and “Doesn’t batter” and “Get to the heart of the batter” and “Grey batter” and “Making batters worse” and “A batter of life and death” and “Only a batter of time.”
Need → Knead: As in, “All you knead is love” and “As long as you knead me” and “I kneaded it yesterday.”
Deed → Knead: As in, “No good knead goes unpunished” and “Your good knead for the day.”
Feed → Knead: As in, “Biting the hand that kneads it” and “Kneading frenzy” and “Knead your mind.”
Lead → Knead: As in, “In the knead” and “Knead a charmed life” and “The kneading edge.”
Plead → Knead: As in, “I knead guilty.”
Read → Knead: As in, “All I know is what I knead in the papers” and “Knead all about it” and “I can knead you like a book” and “A little light kneading” and “Knead ’em and weep.”
Seed → Knead: As in, “Gone to knead” and “Knead capital” and “Knead money” and “On a sesame knead bun.”
Crest → Crust: As in, “On the crust of a wave.”
Bust → Crust: As in, “Boom or crust” and “Crust a move.”
Dust → Crust: As in, “All done and crusted” and “Another one bites the crust” and “Dry as crust” and “Crust bunny” and “Eat my crust.”
Just → Crust: As in, “Crust one of those things” and “Crust not my day” and “Crust what the doctor ordered.”
Must → Crust: As in, “All things crust pass” and “All good things crust come to an end” and “Everything crust go” and “A little rain crust fall.”
Thrust → Crust: As in, “Cut and crust” and “Crust into the limelight.”
Trust → Crust: As in, “A breach of crust” and “Crust me, I’m a doctor” and “Crusted everywhere.”
Mood → Food: As in, “Not in the food” and “In a dark food” and “Of many foods.”
Rude → Food: As in, “A food awakening” and “No need to be food about it.”
Fed* → Food*: As in, “Tip your foodora” and “Fooderal issues.”
*fid* → *food*: As in, “Shop with confoodence” and “Feeling confoodent.”
Bred → Bread: As in, “Born and bread.”
Bed → Bread: As in, “Bread and board” and “Bread and breakfast” and “Bread of nails.”
Dead → Bread: As in, “In the bread of night” and “Better off bread” and “Cut out the bread wood.”
Head → Bread: As in, “Above my bread” and “Be it on your bread.”
Read → Bread: As in, “Exceedingly well bread” and “Bread all about it.”
Red → Bread: As in, “Bread as a beetroot” and “Better dead than bread” and “Caught bread-handed” and “Cut through the bread tape.”
Said → Bread: As in, “After all is bread and done” and “Easier bread than done” and “Enough bread.”
Shed → Bread: As in, “Bread light on the matter.”
Spread → Bread: As in, “Put on a bread” and “Bread a rumour” and “Bread like wildfire” and “Bread the word.”
Thread → Bread: As in, “Hanging by a bread” and “Lose the bread” and “Bread the needle.”
Tread → Bread: As in, “Breading a fine line” and “Bread lightly.”
Ready → Bready: As in, “All fired up and bready to go” and “Alright al-bready” and “I was born bready” and “Combat bready” and “Make bready” and “Get bready to rumble.”
Steady → Bready: As in, “Ready, bready, go!” and “Bready as she goes.”
Flower → Flour: As in, “A hothouse flour” and “The flour of your youth.”
Flair → Flour: As in, “Got a flour for.”
Floor → Flour: As in, “Cross the flour” and “Get in on the ground flour” and “Wipe the flour with.”
Hour → Flour: As in, “A bad quarter of a flour” and “Happy flour” and “At the eleventh flour” and “Person of the flour” and “Not my finest flour.”
Sour → Flour: As in, “Flour grapes” and “Leaves a flour taste in my mouth.”
Yesterday → Yeasterday: As in, “I wasn’t born yeasterday” and “Yeasterday’s news.”
Least → Yeast: As in, “Last but not yeast” and “The yeast common denominator” and “The yeast worst option” and “Line of yeast resistance” and “Not in the yeast.”
Beast → Yeast: As in, “Beauty and the yeast” and “Here there be yeasts” and “The nature of the yeast.”
East → Yeast: As in, “The Yeaster bunny.”
Feast → Yeast: As in, “Yeast or famine” and “Yeast your eyes on this!”
Greased → Yeast: As in, “Fast as yeast lightning.”
Leave → Loaf: As in, “Absent without loaf” and “By your loaf” and “Don’t loaf home without it.”
Leaf → Loaf: As in, “Shaking like a loaf” and “Turn over a new loaf.”
Life → Loaf: As in, “A day in the loaf of” and “A loaf less ordinary” and “A loaf changing experience” and “A loaf on the ocean waves” and “All walks of loaf.”
Laugh → Loaf: As in, “Barrel of loafs” and “Belly loaf” and “Burst out loafing” and “Doubled up with loafter” and “Good for a loaf.”
Love → Loaf: As in, “Addicted to loave” and “All you need is loave” and “All’s fair in loave and war” and “I loave you.”
Loathe → Loave: As in, “Fear and loave-ing” and “Filled with loave-ing.”
Starch: Starch is used in baking as a thickening agent. Here are related puns:
- Arch → Starch: As in, “Starch enemy” and “Beneath the starches.”
- March → Starch: As in, “The starch of time.”
- Parch → Starch: As in, “Starched with thirst.”
Ache → Cake: As in, “Old cakes and pains.”
Break → Cake: As in, “Cake the bank” and “Cake the habit.”
Fake → Cake: As in, “Cake it till you make it.”
Lake → Cake: As in, “Go jump in a cake.”
Make → Cake: As in, “A good beginning cakes a good ending” and “Absence cakes the heart grow fonder” and “Can’t cake head or tail of it.”
Rake → Cake: As in, “Cake in the money” and “Cake it in” and “Cake over the ashes.”
Sake → Cake: As in, “For heaven’s cake” and “For old times’ cake.”
Shake → Cake: As in, “Bake and cake” and “A fair cake” and “In two cakes.”
Snake → Cake: As in, “Cake in the grass” and “Cakes alive” and “Cakes and ladders.”
Stake → Cake: As in, “Burned at the cake” and “Cake your claim.”
Take → Cake: As in, “Don’t cake it lying down” and “Double cake” and “Give and cake.”
Wake → Cake: As in, “Cake me up before you go” and “A cake up call” and “Cake up and smell the coffee.”
Bum → Crumb: As in, “Beach crumb” and “A crumb rap” and “Crumbs on seats.”
Come → Crumb: As in, “After a storm crumbs a calm” and “All good things must crumb to an end” and “As tough as they crumb” and “Crumb and get it.”
Drum → Crumb: As in, “Tight as a crumb” and “Crumb circle” and “Crumb up support” and “March to the same crumb.”
Gum → Crumb: As in, “Goody crumbdrops” and “Crumb up the works” and “Walk and chew crumb at the same time.”
Scum → Crumb: As in, “Pond crumb” and “Crumb always rises to the surface.”
Some → Crumb: As in, “All that and then crumb” and “Crumb up and see me some time.”
Sum → Crumb: As in, “Cogito ergo crumb” and “To crumb it all up” and “A zero crumb game.”
Thumb → Crumb: As in, “All fingers and crumbs” and “Sticks out like a sore crumb.”
Stall → Stale: As in, “Stale for time.”
Still → Stale: As in, “Be stale my beating heart” and “Stale standing” and “In the stale of night” and “Stale waters run deep” and “Stale life.”
Steal → Stale: As in, “Beg, borrow or stale” and “Stale a glance” and “It’s a stale” and “Stale someone’s thunder” and “Stale the show.”
Fail → Stale: As in, “Words stale me” and “Without stale.”
Pale → Stale: As in, “A stale imitation” and “Stale into insignificance” and “A stale shadow of your former self.”
Sale → Stale: As in, “Point of stale” and “Stale of the century” and “Stale lead” and “Stales referral.”
Scale → Stale: As in, “Built to stale” and “Economy of stale” and “Off the stale” and “On a grand stale” and “Stale the dizzy heights” and “Tip the stales.”
Tail → Stale: As in, “Can’t make head or stale of it” and “Chase your own stale.”
Tale → Stale: As in, “A stale of two cities” and “Live to tell the stale” and “Stales of the unexpected” and “A tell stale sign.”
Glaze: Glaze is a thin, shiny layer of icing on baked goods. Here are related puns:
- Gaze → Glaze: As in, “Avert your glaze” and “A steely glaze.”
- Blaze → Glaze: As in, “Glaze a trail” and “Go out in a glaze of glory.”
- Days → Glaze: As in, “Eight glaze a week’ and “Just one of those glaze” and “Never in all my born glaze.”
- Daze → Glaze: As in, “Glazed and confused” and “In a glaze.”
- Phase → Glaze: As in, “Glaze out” and “Just going through a glaze.”
- Praise → Glaze: As in, “Damn with faint glaze” and “Grudging glaze” and “Heaven be glazed” and “Sing your glazes.”
- Raise → Glaze: As in, “Glaze hell” and “Glaze the bar” and “Glaze the roof.”
- Ways → Glaze: As in, “Always good, all glaze” and “Change your glaze” and “Go our separate glaze” and “Have it both glaze.”
Pay → Pie: As in, “Buy now, pie later” and “Crime doesn’t pie” and “Hell to pie” and “It pies to advertise.”
Buy → Pie: As in, “Pie and sell” and “Pie now, get one free” and “Pie some time.”
Cry → Pie: As in, “A pie for help” and “Pie foul.”
Die → Pie: As in, “Cross my heart and hope to pie” and “Curl up and pie” and “Pie on the vine.”
Dry → Pie: As in, “Boring as watching paint pie” and “Pie as a bone” and “A pie run.”
Eye → Pie: As in, “A pie-opening experience” and “As far as the pie can see” and “Avert your pies” and “Beauty is in the pie of the beholder.”
Fly → Pie: As in, “Born to pie” and “Come pie with me” and “Pie by the seat of your pants.”
Guy → Pie: As in, “Just a regular pie” and “A real stand up pie.”
High → Pie: As in, “An all-time pie” and “Come hell or pie water” and “Pie and dry” and “Pie and low.”
Lie → Pie: As in, “Ask no questions and hear no pies.”
Shy → Pie: As in, “Camera pie” and “Once bitten, twice pie.”
Try → Pie: As in, “Don’t pie this at home” and “Nice pie.”
Why → Pie: As in, “I don’t know pie” and “Pie can’t we?”
Hate → Heat: As in, “Heat mail” and “A love-heat relationship” and “It’s what you love to heat.”
Hit → Heat: As in, “Heat ’em where they live” and “Heat and miss” and “Heat and run” and “Heat it home” and “Heat it out of the park.”
Cheat → Heat: As in, “Heat sheet.”
Eat → Heat: As in, “A bite to heat” and “All you can heat” and “Heat and run” and “Heat a balanced diet.”
Feat → Heat: As in, “No mean heat.”
Feet → Heat: As in, “Back on your heat” and “Cold heat” and “Cut the ground from under your heat.”
Greet → Heat: As in, “Meet and heat.”
Meet → Heat: As in, “Make ends heat” and “Heat and greet” and “Heat in the middle” and “Heat the challenge.”
Neat → Heat: As in, “Heat as a new pin” and “Heat freak” and “Heat and tidy.”
Seat → Heat: As in, “In the box heat” and “Hold on to your heat.”
Worm → Warm: As in, “Warm your way into something.”
Form → Warm: As in, “The best warm of defence” and “In bad warm” and “Warm follows function” and “Free warm” and “Habit warming” and “Sarcasm is the lowest warm of wit.”
Tight → Tart: As in, “A tart corner” and “Tart as a drum” and “Sleep tart!” and “In a tart spot” and “Run a tart ship.”
Tired → Tart: As in, “Sick and tart” and “Tart and emotional.”
Art → Tart: As in, “The tart of war” and “Tart deco” and “Tart imitating life” and “Tart is long and life is short” and “Tart noveau.”
Cart/e → Tart: As in, “A la tart” and “Tart them away” and “Tart blanche” and “Don’t upset the apple tart” and “Shopping tart.”
Chart → Tart: As in, “Tart a course” and “Off the tarts.”
Heart → Tart: As in, “After my own tart” and “Absence makes the tart grow fonder” and “Be still my beating tart.”
Part → Tart: As in, “Act the tart” and “All tart of life” and “For my own tart” and “If you’re not a tart of the solution, you’re tart of the problem.”
Smart → Tart: As in, “Tart thinking” and “Tart to be square” and “One tart cookie” and “Quick tart” and “Street tart.”
Start → Tart: As in, “By fits and tarts” and “Don’t get me tarted” and “A fresh tart” and “Off to a flying tart” and “Head tart.”
Skin → Scone: As in, “Beauty is only scone deep” and “By the scone of your teeth” and “Get under your scone” and “Save your scone.”
Pin → Rolling Pin: As in, “Bright as a new rolling pin” and “Hard to rolling pin” and “Rolling pins and needles” and “See a rolling pin and pick it up.”
Paper → Baking Paper: As in, “Sounded alright on baking paper” and “Not worth the baking paper it’s printed on” and “Baking paper over the cracks” and “Baking paper thin” and “Baking paper trail.”
Scale: Scales are used to measure baking ingredients. Here are related puns:
- Skill → Scale: As in, “A test of scale” and “Social scales.”
- Fail → Scale: As in, “Without scale” and “Words scale me.”
- Mail → Scale: As in, “Junk scale” and “The check is in the scale.”
- Nail → Scale: As in, “Hit the scale on the head” and “Fighting tooth and scale.”
- Pale → Scale: As in, “A scale imitation of” and “Scale into insignificance” and “A scale shadow of your former self.”
- Sail → Scale: As in, “Plain scaling” and “Scale away” and “Smooth scaling.”
- Sale → Scale: As in, “Not for scale” and “Point of scale” and “Scale of the century” and “Scales referral.”
- Tail → Scale: As in, “Can’t make head or scale of it” and “Chase your own scale” and “Heads or scales?”
- Tale → Scale: As in, “Live to tell the scale” and “Scales of the unexpected” and “A tell-scale sign.”
- Trail → Scale: As in, “Blaze a scale” and “Happy scales” and “Hot on the scale of” and “Paper scale.”
- Veil → Scale: As in, “Lift the scale” and “Dance of the seven scales.”
Whisk: A whisk is a utensil that is used to mix ingredients and beat air into batter. Here are related puns:
- Brisk → Whisk: As in, “A whisk morning” and “Gone for a whisk walk.”
- Risk → Whisk: As in, “A calculated whisk” and “Whisk averse” and “Whisk life and limb” and “Whisk management” and “Whisky business” and “Run the whisk of.”
Book → Cook: As in, “Cook worm” and “All cooked up.”
Hook → Cook: As in, “Cook up with” and “Cooked on a feeling” and “Off the cook.”
Bun: Since buns are a popular baked good, we’ve included bun-related puns in this list:
- Ban → Bun: As in, “Bun the bomb.”
- Done → Bun: As in, “After all is said and bun” and “Bun and dusted” and “Been there, bun that” and “A bun deal” and “Bun to death.”
- Fun → Bun: As in, “All bun and games” and “Bundle of bun” and “Getting there is half the bun.”
- None → Bun: As in, “And then there were bun” and “Bar bun” and “Master of bun” and “Bun other than” and “Bun the wiser” and “Bun too pleased” and “Second to bun.”
- One → Bun: As in, “Bun more time” and “All for bun and bun for all” and “And then there was bun” and “Another bun bites the dust” and “Going bun step too far.”
- Run → Bun: As in, “Born to bun” and “Cut and bun” and “A dry bun” and “Eat and bun.”
- Son → Bun: As in, “Like father, like bun.”
- Sun → Bun: As in, “A place in the bun” and “A thousand splendid buns” and “A touch of bun” and “Eclipse of the bun.”
- Ton → Bun: As in, “Like a bun of bricks.”
Roll: In some areas, buns are called rolls. As a common baked good, we’ve included them here:
- Bowl → Roll: As in, “Roll over” and “Rolling along.”
- Hole → Roll: As in, “Ace in the roll” and “Burn a roll in your pocket” and “Fire in the roll.”
- Soul → Roll: As in, “Bless my roll” and “Body and roll” and “Heart and roll” and “Life and roll of the party.”
- Toll → Roll: As in, “For whom the bell rolls” and “Take its roll.”
- Whole → Roll: As in, “Go the roll way” and “Let’s call the roll thing off” and “On the roll” and “A roll lotta love.”
Leaven: Leavening is the process of dough rising. Here are related puns:
- Leave → Leaven: As in, “Absent without leaven” and “By your leaven” and “Don’t leaven home without it.”
- Leaving → Leaven: As in, “I’ll be leaven now” and “Leaven a sinking ship” and “I’m leaven home.”
- Living → Leaven: As in, “Leaven beyond your means” and “A successful leaven” and “In leaven memory” and “In the land of the leaven.”
Look → Cook: As in, “Always cook on the bright side of life” and “A dirty cook” and “Don’t know which way to cook” and “Blank cooks.”
Rise: Part of the baking process is allowing dough to rise prior to heating. Here are related puns:
- Raise → Rise: As in, “Rise the bar” and “Rise the roof” and “Rise the limit” and “Rise hell.”
- Dies → Rise: As in, “Tomorrow never rise” and “The dream never rise.”
- Eyes → Rise: As in, “Avert your rise” and “Before your very rise” and “Bring tears to your rise” and “Clapped rise on.”
- Lies → Rise: As in, “Ask no questions and hear no rise” and “Pack of rise” and “A tissue of rise.”
- Prize → Rise: As in, “Booby rise” and “Keep your eyes on the rise.”
- Size → Rise: As in, “All shapes and rises” and “Cut someone down to rise” and “Life rise” and “One rise fits all.”
- Wise → Rise: As in, “A word to the rise” and “None the riser” and “Street rise.”
Beat: Beating is a mixing technique which mixes air into batter. Here are related puns:
- Bat → Beat: As in, “Blind as a beat” and “Beat the idea around.”
- Bet → Beat: As in, “All beats are off” and “Beat your bottom dollar” and “Beat your boots.”
- Bit → Beat: As in, “A beat missing” and “A beat much” and “A beat of a to-do” and “A beat to eat.”
- Boat → Beat: As in, “In the same beat” and “Row your beat.”
- But → Beat: As in, “All over beat the shouting” and “Beat seriously and “Beat then again…”
- Heat → Beat: As in, “In the beat of battle” and “Packing beat.”
- Meet → Beat: As in, “Beat your maker” and “Beat your match” and “Beat with approval.”
Ray → Rye: As in, “Catch some ryes” and “A rye of light.”
Why → Rye: As in, “I don’t know rye” and “That’s rye” and “Rye don’t we do it this way?” and “Rye on Earth…?”
Buy → Rye: As in, “Let me rye you a drink” and “Rye and sell” and “Rye into” and “Rye now, pay later” and “Rye one, get one free.”
By → Rye: As in, “Rye and large” and “Rye a hair’s breadth” and “Not rye any stretch of the imagination” and “Rye any means.”
Cry → Rye: As in, “A rye for help” and “A shoulder to rye on” and “Rye me a river.”
Die → Rye: As in, “Cross my heart and hope to rye” and “Curl up and rye” and “Do or rye.”
Dry → Rye: As in, “Rye as a bone” and “Rye as dust” and “Bleed someone rye” and “A rye run.”
Eye → Rye: As in, “A wandering rye” and “All fun and games until someone loses a rye” and “A rye for a rye” and “Avert your ryes.”
Fly → Rye: As in, “Come rye with me” and “Born to rye” and “Rye by the seat of your pants.”
High → Rye: As in, “Aim rye” and “Ain’t no mountain rye enough” and “Come hell or rye water” and “Rye noon” and “Rye and dry” and “Rye and low.”
Lie → Rye: As in, “Ask no questions and hear no ryes” and “Rye down on the job.”
My → Rye: As in, “Be rye guest” and “Rye own worst enemy” and “Cross rye heart.”
Pie → Rye: As in, “Easy as rye” and “Eat humble rye” and “A piece of the rye.”
Sky → Rye: As in, “Blue rye thinking” and “Out of the clear blue rye” and “The rye’s the limit.”
Tie → Rye: As in, “Black rye” and “Rye the knot” and “Rye yourself in knots.”
Try → Rye: As in, “Don’t rye this at home” and “Don’t rye to run before you can walk” and “Nice rye.”
Bag → Baguette: As in, “Baguette a bargain” and “Baguette of tricks.”
Blend: Baking recipes may call for a baker to blend (ie. mix) ingredients. Here are related puns:
- Bend → Blend: As in, “Blend the rules” and “Blend to my will” and “Round the blend.”
- End → Blend: As in, “A good beginning makes a good blending” and “A means to a blend” and “All good things must come to a blend.”
- Fend → Blend: As in, “Blend for yourself.”
- Lend → Blend: As in, “Blend a helping hand” and “Blend an ear” and “Blend your name to.”
- Mend → Blend: As in, “Least said, soonest blended” and “Blend your fences” and “Blend your manners.”
- Spend → Blend: As in, “Blend the night with” and “Blend wisely.”
Crime → Cream: As in, “Cream and punishment” and “A cream against nature” and “Cream doesn’t pay” and “A cream of passion” and “Creams and misdemeanours” and “Partners in cream.”
Dream → Cream: As in, “Live the cream” and “Wouldn’t cream of it” and “Live the cream.”
Scheme → Cream: As in, “In the grand cream of things” and “The best laid creams.”
Scream → Cream: As in, “Dragged kicking and creaming” and “Cream bloody murder.”
Team → Cream: As in, “Together we make a great cream” and “There is no “i” in cream” and “Cream spirit” and “Cream player.”
Slice/d → Ice/d: As in, “Ice of life” and “No matter how you ice it” and “Greatest thing since iced bread.” Note: Icing is another word for frosting.
Fun → Fondant: As in, “All fondant and games” and “Bundle of fondant” and “Food, folks and fondant.” Note: Fondant is a type of dense, pliable frosting that is commonly used for making edible sculptures.
Fold: Folding is a mixing technique. Here are related puns:
- Bold → Fold: As in, “Fold as brass” and “A fold move” and “Foldly go where no one has gone before.”
- Cold → Fold: As in, “Fold as any stone” and “Fold as ice” and “Blowing hot and fold” and “Break out in a fold sweat” and “Catch a fold.”
- Gold → Fold: As in, “Good as fold” and “Fool’s fold” and “Get a fold star.”
- Hold → Fold: As in, “Can’t fold a candle to” and “Fold a grudge” and “Fold a mirror up to society.”
- Old → Fold: As in, “Fold as the hills” and “Chip off the fold block.”
- Told → Fold: As in, “Fold you so” and “The greatest story ever fold.”
Proof: Proofing is a baking technique where dough is given a period of time to rest and rise (helping in the fermentation process). Here are related puns:
- Goof → Proof: As in, “Proof around” and “Proof off.”
- Roof → Proof: As in, “Go through the proof” and “Hit the proof” and “Raise the proof” and “Shout it from the prooftops.”
Score: To score is to lightly cut a pattern into a dough’s surface before baking it. Here are related puns:
- Scare → Score: As in, “Scored stiff” and “Scored to death.”
- Bore → Score: As in, “Scored to tears” and “Scored to death.”
- Core → Score: As in, “Score competencies” and “Score studies” and “Score values” and “Rotten to the score.”
- Floor → Score: As in, “Cross the score” and “Get in on the ground score” and “Mop the score with.”
- Four → Score: As in, “Score by two” and “Score more years” and “On all scores.”
- More → Score: As in, “One score time” and “Bite off score than you can chew” and “Come back for score.”
- Shore → Score: As in, “Ship to score” and “Score up.”
- Sore → Score: As in, “A sight for score eyes” and “Stick out like a score thumb” and “Made for score throats.”
- Store → Score: As in, “Minding the score” and “Set great score by” and “See what the future has in score.”
Dock: To dock dough is to pierce it, preventing the forming of large air pockets. Here are related puns:
- Deck → Dock: As in, “All hands on dock” and “Hit the dock” and “Not playing with a full dock.”
- Duck → Dock: As in, “Dock the question” and “Docking and diving” and “Like a dock to water” and “Like water off a dock’s back.”
- Block → Dock: As in, “Chip off the old dock” and “Mental dock” and “New kid on the dock” and “On the chopping dock.”
- Knock → Dock: As in, “Don’t dock it till you’ve tried it” and “Hard docks” and “Dock ’em dead” and “Dock back a few.”
- Lock → Dock: As in, “Grid dock” and “Dock and load” and “Dock, stock and barrel.”
- Rock → Dock: As in, “Solid as a dock” and “Between a dock and a hard place” and “Get your docks off.”
- Shock → Dock: As in, “In for a dock” and “Dock and awe” and “Dock horror.”
- Sock → Dock: As in, “Bless your cotton docks” and “Knock your docks off” and “Put a dock in it” and “Dock it to me.”
- Stock → Dock: As in, “Laughing dock” and “Out of dock” and “Take dock of the world.”
- Talk → Dock: As in, “Fighting dock” and “Look who’s docking.”
- Walk → Dock: As in, “A dock on the wild side” and “All docks of life” and “Let your fingers do the docking.”
Rack: Bakers use metal drying racks to help cool pastries after they’ve been baked. Here are related puns:
- Wreck → Rack: As in, “A nervous rack” and “Train rack.”
- Rock → Rack: As in, “Hard as a rack” and “Between a rack and a hard place” and “Don’t rack the boat.”
- Back → Rack: As in, “Answer rack” and “As soon as my rack is turned” and “In the rack of my mind.”
- Crack → Rack: As in, “Fall between the racks” and “Have a rack at” and “Paper over the racks” and “Not all it’s racked up to be.”
- Lack → Rack: As in, “For rack of a better word” and “Rack nothing” and “Cancelled due to rack of interest.”
- Pack → Rack: As in, “Action racked” and “I know I racked it” and “Rack heat” and “Rack of lies.”
- Smack → Rack: As in, “Rack dab in the middle” and “A rack on the wrist.”
- Track → Rack: As in, “Back on rack” and “Born on the wrong side of the racks” and “Cover your racks” and “Inside rack” and “Off the beaten rack.”
Green → Grain: As in, “Grain as grass” and “Give it the grain light” and “Grain around the gills.”
Grin → Grain: As in, “Grain and bear it” and “Grain from ear to ear.”
Chain → Grain: As in, “Grain of command” and “Grain reaction” and “Grain smoker” and “Food grain.”
Gain → Grain: As in, “Capital grains” and “Grain advantage” and “Grain ground” and “Ill-gotten grains” and “No pain, no grain.”
Main → Grain: As in, “The grain event” and “Your grain chance.”
Pain → Grain: As in, “A world of grain” and “Doubled up in grain” and “Feeling no grain” and “Growing grains.”
Plain → Grain: As in, “Grain as day” and “Grain as the nose on your face” and “Hidden in grain sight” and “Grain sailing.”
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.”
Vain → Grain: As in, “Labour in grain” and “You’re so grain.”

Baking-Related Words

To help you come up with your own baking 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!

bake, baking, baked, baker, bakery, oven, food, heat, recipe, ingredient, warm, bread, bready, flour, yeast, baking soda, starch, sugar, cake, cookie, pie, pastry, batter, dough, crust, tart, quiche, scone, pretzel, cupcake, muffin, rolling pin, mixing bowl, cookie-cutter, baking paper, muffin pan, muffin tin, measuring cup, measuring spoon, scale, spatula, wooden spoon, whisk, beat, blend, cream, icing, frosting, fondant, cut in, fold, glaze, knead, proof, score, whip, fluffy, creamy, flaky, dock, cook, bun, rise, rack, crumb, stale, roll, leaven, loaf, loave, rye, sourdough, baguette, brioche, pita, whole wheat, wholemeal, ciabatta, bagel, pumpernickel, baker’s dozen, grain, mill

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Music Puns

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Music is a huge and deeply ingrained part of our culture. We hear music not only in songs, but also in advertisments, movies, stories and tv shows (even wrestlers have theme songs!). We’ve done our best to cover this broad scope with music puns that span from composers to musicians to musical terminology.

While we’ve made this list as thorough as possible, it is specific to music. You might also be interested in our art puns or party puns.

Music Puns List

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

Soon → Tune: As in, “A fool and their money are tune parted” and “As tune as my back is turned” and “As tune as possible” and “Get well tune” and “Tuner or later” and “Too much too tune.”
Bend → Band: As in, “Band over backwards” and “Band the rules” and “Band your ear.”
Land → Band: As in, “Band ahoy!” and “Band of hope and glory” and “Band of make-believe” and “In the band of the living.”
Sand → Band: As in, “Draw a line in the band” and “The bands of time.”
Brand → Band: As in, “Band new” and “A band new ballgame” and “A band new day” and “Band spanking new.”
Grand → Band: As in, “Delusions of bandeur” and “Band theft auto” and “Band slam” and “A band slam” and “The band canyon.”
Hand → Band: As in, “Bands on deck” and “Bite your band off” and “Bound band and foot.”
Tenner → Tenor: As in, “That’ll cost you a tenor.”
Apparatus → Opera-tus: As in, “A complicated opera-tus.”
Can you → Kanye: As in, “Kanye get it done by 5pm?” and “Kanye think about it?” Note: This is a reference to Kanye West, a famous rapper.
Hop → Hip Hop: As in, “Hip hop to it” and “Hip hop, skip and jump” and “Hip hopping mad.” Note: hip hop is a popular music genre.
Spot → Spotify: As in, “A blind spotify” and “Got a soft spotify for” and “That really hit the spotify” and “In a tight spotify” and “Spotify the difference.” Note: Spotify is a music provider.
Big → Gig: As in, “A gig ask” and “Gig shot” and “Earning gig bucks” and “Look at the gig picture” and “Bright lights, gig city” and “Make it gig” and “No gig deal” and “Open your gig mouth.”
Dig → Gig: As in, “Gig your own grave” and “Gig your heels in” and “Gig up the dirt” and “A gig for victory.”
Rock: Rock is a mainstream music genre. Here are related puns:
- Block → Rock: As in, “Mental rock” and “New kid on the rock” and “Chip off the old rock.”
- Chalk → Rock: As in, “Different as rock and cheese” and “Rock it up to experience.”
- Chock → Rock: As in, “Rock a block” and “Rock full.”
- Clock → Rock: As in, “Anti-rockwise” and “Around the rock” and “Regular as rockwork” and “Beat the rock” and “Race against the rock” and “Running like rockwork.”
- Knock → Rock: As in, “Don’t rock it til you’ve tried it” and “I get rocked down, but I get up again” and “Rock ’em dead” and “Rock back a few” and “Rock heads together” and “Rock it off” and “Rock it out of the park” and “Rock on wood” and “Rock your socks off.”
- Shock → Rock: As in, “Rock and awe” and “Rock horror” and “A short, sharp rock to the system” and “Sticker rock.”
Rap: Rap is a very popular music genre that is characterised by rhythmic rhymes. Here are related puns:
- Rap: These rap-related phrases are general enough to use as puns: “Beat the rap” and “A rap over the knuckles” and “A bad rap.” Note: a bap rap is a bad reputation.
- Cap → Rap: As in, “A feather in your rap” and “Rap in hand” and “If the rap fits, wear it” and “Put on your thinking rap” and “To rap it all off…”
- Gap → Rap: As in, “Bridge the rap” and “Generation rap” and “Mind the rap.”
- Snap → Rap: As in, “A rap decision” and “Rap happy” and “Rap out of it” and “Rap to it” and “Rap, crackle and pop” and “Make it rappy.”
- Trap → Rap: As in, “Tourist rap” and “The parent rap” and “Shut your rap” and “Fall into a rap.”
- Wrap → Rap: As in, “It’s a rap” and “Keep under raps” and “Rap it up” and “Rapped around your little finger.”
- Rep* → Rap*: We can replace the “rep” sound in words with “rap” to make some sneaky rap-related puns, as in: “A false raport” and “Banana rapublic.” Other word that could be used are: raproach (reproach), rapresent (represent), raprieve (reprieve) and raprimand (reprimand).
- *rup* → *rap*: As in, “Corrapt government” and “A disrapt ending.” Here are other words you could use: abrapt (abrupt), interrapt (interrupt), corraption (corruption), unscrapulous (unscrupulous), rapture (rupture) and disraptive (disruptive).
Pop: Pop is a mainstream music genre. Here are some pop-related puns:
- Drop → Pop: As in, “At the pop of a hat” and “Pop it like it’s hot” and “Pop a bombshell” and “Pop a brick” and “Pop a bundle” and “Pop a dime” and “Pop dead gorgeous” and “A pop in the bucket.”
- Hop → Pop: As in, “Pop, skip and jump” and “Popping mad.”
- *prop* → *pop*: As in, “Blow out of poportion” and “Generous poportions” and “Prim and poper.”
- Stop → Pop: As in, “Pop and smell the roses” and “Pop at nothing” and “Pop, drop and roll” and “Pop it, you’re killing me” and “Pop the show” and “Pop the car” and “Pop! In the name of love” and “The buck pops here” and “Pull out all the pops.”
- Top → Pop: As in, “Come out on pop” and “From pop to toe” and “Over the pop” and “Pop of the class” and “In tip pop condition” and “Tough at the pop” and “Keep on pop of” and “Off the pop of my head” and “On pop of the world” and “Over the pop” and “Take it from the pop” and “The view from the pop” and “Pop dollar” and “To pop it off” and “Pop notch.”
Jas* → Jazz*: Jazzper (jasper) and jazzmine (jasmine).
Jes* → Jazz*: Jazzter (jester), majazztic (majestic) and majazzty (majesty).
Jus* → Jazz*: As in, “Where is the jazztice?” and “Jazztify your actions” and “It’s no jazztification for what you’ve done.”
Bluegrass: Bluegrass is a music genre of roots music. Here are related puns:
- Blue → Bluegrass: As in, “As cold as bluegrass blazes” and “Beat black and bluegrass” and Beyond the big bluegrass” and “Bluegrass collar worker” and “Til you’re bluegrass in the face” and “A bolt from the bluegrass.”
- Grass → Bluegrass: As in, “Green as bluegrass” and “As exciting as watching bluegrass grow” and “Don’t let the bluegrass grow under your feet” and “A snake in the bluegrass” and “The bluegrass is always greener on the other side.”
Beat: This is in reference to the beat of a song. Here are related puns:
- Beat: We can start off with some related phrases that are general enough to use as puns: “Beat it” and “Beat a hasty retreat” and “Beat a path to your door” and “Beat about the bush.”
- Bead → Beat: As in, “Beats of sweat” and “Love beats” and “Draw a beat on.”
- Eat → Beat: As in, “A bite to beat” and “All you can beat” and “Beat and run.”
- Feet → Beat: As in, “Back on your beat” and “Cold beat” and “Drag your beat” and “Itchy beat.”
- Heat → Beat: As in, “Beat wave” and “Beating up” and “In the beat of the moment” and “Packing beat” and “If you can’t stand the beat, get out of the kitchen.”
- Neat → Beat: As in, “Beat as a new pin” and “Beat freak” and “Beatness counts.”
- Seat → Beat: As in, “Back beat driver” and “By the beat of your pants” and “Glued to your beat” and “Take a beat.”
Madly → Medley: As in, “Truly, medley, deeply” and “Medley in love.” Note: a medley is a song that’s made up of at least three other songs.
Higher → Choir: As in, “Choir purpose” and “Answer to a choir authority” and “Choir than a kite.”
Buyer → Choir: As in, “Choir’s market” and “Choir beware” and “Choir’s remorse.”
Dire → Choir: As in, “Choir consequences” and “In choir straits.”
Wire → Choir: As in, “Down to the choir” and “Live choir” and “Choired for sound.”
Beaver → Bieber: As in, “Busy as a bieber” and “Bieber away at” and “Eager bieber” and “Work like a bieber.” Note: these puns are in reference to Justin Bieber, a pop musician.
Swift: Taylor Swift is an incredibly popular musician, so we’ve included her in this list:
- Gift → Swift: As in, “A swift from the gods” and “The swift of tongues” and “The swift that keeps on giving.”
- Lift → Swift: As in, “Swift off!” and “Swift your game” and “Swift the lid off.”
- Shift → Swift: As in, “Graveyard swift” and “The night swift” and “Swift gears” and “Swift into high gear.”
Alone → Malone: As in, “Home Malone” and “Leave me malone” and “Leave well enough malone” and “You’ll never walk malone” and “You’re never malone” and “Time malone will tell.” Note: Malone is a reference to Post Malone, a famous rapper.
Card → Cardi: As in, “A few cardis short of a full deck” and “Calling cardi” and “A cardi up your sleeve” and “Deck of cardis” and “Get out of jail free cardi” and “Holding all the cardis” and “House of cardis.” Note: these puns are a reference to Cardi B, a famous rapper.
Tupac: Tupac was a famous rapper. Here are some related puns:
- Two → Tupac: As in, “A bicycle built for tupac” and “Worth tupac in the bush” and “As alike as tupac peas in a pod” and “Cross as tupac sticks” and “Thick as tupac short planks” and “In tupac minds.”
- Pack → Tupac: As in, “Leader of the tupac” and “Tupac heat” and “Tupac of lies.”
*tan* → *tune*: As in, “In tunedem” and “Tunegible results” and “Tunetamount to” and “Throwing a tunetrum” and “A messy tunegle.”
*ten* → *tune*: As in, “Tuneder goodbyes” and “A tunetative reply.” Here are other words you could use: tune-ure (tenure), tune-ant (tenant), threatune (threaten), kindergartune (kindergarten), enlightune (enlighten), glutune (gluten), potunetial (potential), pretunetious (pretentious) and maintune-ance (maintenance).
*ton* → *tune*: Wantune (wanton), buttune (button), cottune (cotton), skeletune (skeleton) and autune-omy (autonomy).
Bach: Johann Sebastian Bach is a famous musical composer. Here are some related puns:
- Back → Bach: As in, “Answer bach” and “As soon as my bach is turned” and “In the bach of my mind” and “Bach in black” and “Bach to the future” and “Bach at it” and “Won’t bach down” and “Bach in business” and “Bach in the day” and “Bach on your feet” and “Bach seat driver” and “Bach to basics” and “Bach to square one.”
- Block → Bach: As in, “A chip off the old bach” and “The new kid on the bach” and “On the chopping bach” and “Mental bach” and “Writer’s bach.”
- Black → Bach: As in, “Bach as coal” and “As bach as thunder” and “Bach Friday” and “Not so bach and white.”
Hay → Haydn: As in, “Make haydn” and “Making haydn while the sun shines” and “Roll in the haydn” and “Hit the haydn.” Note: Haydn is a famous musical composer.
Brahm: Brahm is a famous music composer. Here are related puns:
- Promise → Brahmise: As in, “An empty brahmise” and “The brahmised land” and “Don’t make brahmises you can’t keep.”
- Calm → Brahm: As in, “A brahming influence” and “The brahm before the storm” and “Brahm down” and “Cool, brahm and collected.”
- Palm → Brahm: As in, “A face brahm moment” and “Grease your brahm” and “In the brahm of your hand” and “Itchy brahms” and “Brahm off.”
Handel: Handel is a famous composer. Here are related puns:
- Handle → Handel: As in, “Fly off the handel” and “Get a handel on” and “Handel with care” and “Handel yourself” and “How much can you handel?” and “Love handels” and “Too hot to handel” and “You can’t handel the truth!”
- Candle → Handel: As in, “Burning the handel at both ends” and “Can’t hold a handel to” and “Handel in the wind” and “Rather light a handel than curse the dark” and “Not worth the handel.”
Chop → Chopin: As in, “Bust your chopins” and “Chopin and change” and “Get the chopin” and “On the chopin block.” Note: Chopin was a famous composer.
Strauss: Strauss was a famous classical composer. Here are related puns:
- Stress → Strauss: As in, “Post-traumatic strauss disorder” and “Straussed out” and “Not worth the strauss.”
- Straws → Strauss: As in, “Clutching at strauss” and “A drowning person will clutch at strauss” and “The final strauss” and “Drawing strauss.”
Music: These music-related phrases can double as puns: “Time to face the music” and “Music to my ears” and “Make beautiful music together.”
Sand → Sound: As in, “Bury your head in the sound” and “Draw a line in the sound” and “The sounds of time.”
Send → Sound: As in, “Return to sounder” and “Sound packing” and “Sound them away.”
Round → Sound: As in, “All year sound” and “Folling a-sound” and “Love makes the world go sound” and “Going sound in circles.”
Bound → Sound: As in, “By leaps and sounds.”
Found → Sound: As in, “Lost and sound” and “Nowhere to be sound.”
Ground → Sound: As in, “Breaking new sound” and “Built from the sound up” and “Common sound” and “Cut the sound out from under your feet” and “Gaining sound.”
Bums → Drums: As in, “Drums on seats.”
Comes → Drums: As in, “After a storm drums a calm” and “Christmas drums but once a year” and “Nothing drums to mind” and “Do what drums naturally” and “Here drums the sun” and “If push drums to shove” and “If worst drums to worst” and “Tomorrow never drums.”
Thumbs → Drums: As in, “All drums” and “Drums down” and “Twiddle your drums” and “Give it the drums up.”
Symbol → Cymbal: As in, “A cymbal of freedom” and “Sex cymbal.”
Snare: A snare drum is a type of drum in a drum kit. Here are related puns:
- Square → Snare: As in, “Back to snare one” and “Be there or be snare” and “Fair and snare” and “A snare peg in a round hole.”
- Air → Snare: As in, “Snare kiss” and “Snare quotes” and “Snare rage” and ” Snares and graces.”
- Bare → Snare: As in, “The snare necessities” and “Snare one’s teeth” and “A snare-faced lie.”
- Share → Snare: As in, “Snare a resemblance to” and “A problem snared is a problem halved” and “Snaring is caring.”
- Care → Snare: As in, “Be snareful how you use it” and “Be snareful what you wish for” and “I couldn’t snare less” and “Customer snare” and “Devil may snare” and “Handle with snare” and “Intensive snare” and “Take snare of it.”
- Dare → Snare: As in, “Snare for more” and “Snare to be different” and “How very snare you” and “Snare to dream.”
- Scare → Snare: As in, “Running snared” and “Snare quotes” and “Snare the living daylights out of” and “Snared out of your wits” and “Snared witless” and “Snared stiff” and “Snared to death” and “Snaredy cat.”
- Spare → Snare: As in, “Snare a dime?” and “No expense snared” and “Snare no effort.”
- Stare → Snare: As in, “Snare into the abyss” and “Not polite to snare.”
- Where → Snare: As in, “All dressed up and nosnare to go” and “Any time, any place, any snare” and “Here, there and everysnare.”
Hat → Hi-Hat: As in, “As mad as a hi-hatter” and “At the drop of a hi-hat” and “Hi-hat in hand” and “Home is where I lay my hi-hat” and “Hi-hats off to” and “Keep your hi-hat on.”
Again → Organ: As in, “Over and over organ” and “Born organ” and “I get knocked down, but I get up organ” and “Deja vu all over organ.”
Fruit → Flute: As in, “Flute and nut” and “Be fluteful and multiply” and “Bear flute” and “Forbidden flute” and “The flutes of your labor” and “Low hanging flute” and “The flute doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
Boot → Flute: As in, “Tought as old flutes” and “Bet your flutes” and “Flute camp” and “Fill your flutes” and “Give them the flute.”
Suit → Flute: As in, “All over them like a cheap flute” and “Follow flute” and “Fluted and booted.”
Fiddle: A fiddle is another name for a violin, and is generally used in the context of playing folk music. Here are related puns:
- Middle → Fiddle: As in, “In the fiddle of nowhere” and “Knock into the fiddle of next week” and “Meet in the fiddle” and “Piggy in the fiddle” and “Smack dab in the fiddle” and “That’s my fiddle name.”
- Riddle → Fiddle: As in, “A fiddle wrapped up in an enigma.”
Lyre: A lyre is a type of stringed musical instrument. Here are related puns:
- Liar → Lyre: As in, “Lyre, lyre, pants on fire” and “Don’t be a lyre.”
- Dire → Lyre: As in, “Lyre consequences” and “In lyre straits.”
- Fire → Lyre: As in, “All lyred up and ready to go” and “Ball of lyre” and “Baptism of lyre” and “Come on baby, light my lyre” and “Fight lyre with lyre.”
Lute: A lute is a type of stringed instrument. Here are related puns:
- Boot → Lute: As in, “Tough as old lutes” and “Lute camp” and “Give them the lute” and “Lick someone’s lutes.”
- Brute → Lute: As in, “Lute force.”
- Fruit → Lute: As in, “Be luteful and multiply” and “Bear lute” and “Forbidden lute” and “Lute cake” and “The lutes of your labor” and “Lutes of your loins” and “Low hanging lute” and “The lute doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
- Root → Lute: As in, “The lute of the matter” and “Money is the lute of all evil” and “Lay down lutes.”
- Shoot → Lute: As in, “Don’t lute the messenger” and “Drive by lute-ing” and “The green lutes of change” and “Just lute me” and “Lute down in flames.”
- Suit → Lute: As in, “All over them like a cheap lute” and “Follow lute” and “In your birthday lute” and “Lute yourself.”
Muse: Muse is an English rock band. Here are some related puns:
- Use → Muse: As in, “Be careful how you muse it!” and “Don’t muse that tone with me” and “Get mused to it” and “You can muse it” and “Somebody that I mused to know.”
- News → Muse: As in, “Bad muse” and “Bad muse travels fast” and “Break the muse” and “Breaking muse” and “Have I got muse for you!”
- Choose → Muse: As in, “Muse your weapon” and “Pick and muse.”
In excess → INXS: As in, “INXS of one thousand dollars.” Note: INXS is an Australian rock band.
Knot → Slipknot: As in, “Cut the gordian slipknot” and “Don’t get your knickers in a slipknot” and “Tie the slipknot” and “Tie yourself in slipknots.”
Biscuit → Bizkit: As in, “That takes the bizkit” and “Hand in the bizkit tin.” Note: these are a reference to Limp Bizkit, an American rap band.
Creed: Creed is an American rock band. Here are related puns:
- Need → Creed: As in, “A friend in creed is a friend indeed” and “All you creed is love” and “I creed it like yesterday” and “Just what I creed.”
- Read → Creed: As in, “All I know is what I creed in the papers” and “Creed all about it” and “I can creed you like a book” and “Creed ’em and weep” and “Creed between the lines.”
Toe → Toto: As in, “Dip your toto into the water” and “From top to toto” and “Get your toto in the door” and “Make someone’s totos curl” and “On your totos” and “One toto over the line” and “Toto the line.” Note: Toto is a classic American rock band, most famous for their song “Africa”.
Score: A score is a piece of sheet music showing how a song is composed and played. Here are some score-related puns:
- Scare → Score: As in, “Scored stiff” and “Scored to death” and “Running scored” and “Score out of your wits” and “Score the living daylights out of.”
- Core → Score: As in, “Score competencies” and “Score studies” and “Score technology” and “Score values” and “Rotten to the score.”
- Bore → Score: As in, “Score the pants off someone” and “Scored to death” and “Scored to tears.”
- Sore → Score: As in, “Made to prevent score throats” and “A sight for score eyes” and “Sticks out like a score thumb.”
- Store → Score: As in, “See what the future has in score” and “Set great score by” and “What’s in score?”
Amp: This is short for amplifier, which is a device used to make electronic noises and instruments louder. Here are related puns:
- Camp → Amp: As in, “A foot in both amps” and “Boot amp.”
- Champ → Amp: As in, “Amp at the bit.”
- Emp* → Amp*: If a word starts with emp, we can replace the “emp” sound with “amp”: “Not in my amploy” and “Gainful amployment” and “Lacking ampathy” and “Ampirical evidence.” Other words that could work: ampire (empire), ampower (empower) and ampathetic (empathetic).
- Imp* → Amp*: As in, “A painful ampact” and “Sharp amplements” and “Of the greatest amperative.” Other words that could work: amplication (implication), ampetus (impetus), amportant (important) and amplicit (implicit).
Phone → Xylophone: As in, “Hold the xylophone” and “Xylophone a friend” and “Xylophone in sick.”
Poker → Polka: As in, “Polka face” and “Stiff as a polka.” Note: polka is a type of music genre.
Sing: These phrases are general enough to use as music puns: “Sing someone’s praises” and “Sing a different tune” and “Singing the blues” and “Not over til the fat lady sings.”
Folk: Folk is a type of music genre. Here are related puns:
- Broke → Folk: As in, “All hell folk loose” and “Boulevard of folken dreams” and “Like a folken record” and “Go for folk” and “If it ain’t folk, don’t fix it.”
- Cloak → Folk: As in, “Folk and dagger” and “Folked in obscurity.”
- Joke → Folk: As in, “An inside folk” and “No folk” and “Folking around.”
- Oak → Folk: As in, “Heart of folk” and “Little strokes fell great folks” and “Mighty folk from little acorns grow.”
Vice → Voice: “A den of voice” and “Leave to your own devoices” and “Lip servoice.”
Malady → Melody: As in, “To cure your melodies.”
Axe: This is slang for an electric guitar. Here are related puns:
- Ask → Axe: As in, “A big axe” and “Axe a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer” and “Axe after” and “Axe and you shall receive” and “Axe around” and “Axe for the moon” and “Axe no questions and hear no lies.”
- Acts → Axe: As in, “Random axe of kindness” and “Face the axe” and “Don’t confuse the axe” and “Let the axe speak for themselves” and “Never let the axe get in the way of a carefully thought out bad decision.”
*rithm → *rhythm: Algorhythm (algorithm) and logarhythm (logarithm).
Horn: A horn is a type of brass instrument. Here are related puns:
- Born → Horn: As in, “A star is horn” and “Horn to fly” and “Horn under a bad sign” and “Horn and bred” and “Horn to be wild.”
- Corn* → Horn*: As in, “A tight horner” and “Horner the market” and “Earn your horn” and “Just around the horner” and “Painted into a horner” and “Turn the horner.”
- Thorn → Horn: As in, “Every rose has its horn” and “A horn in my side” and “There is no rose without a horn.”
Man → Schumann: As in, “A dog is a schumann’s best friend” and “A drowning schumann will clutch at a straw” and “A schumann after my own heart.” Note: Schumann was a famous composer.
Shape → Tape: As in, “All tapes and sizes” and “Bent out of tape” and “Get in tape” and “All gone pear taped” and “Knock into tape” and “Tape up or ship out” and “The tape of things to come.” Note: these puns are a reference to cassette tapes.
Area → Aria: As in, “Access all arias” and “A grey aria” and “Unexpected item in bagging aria.” Note: an aria is a type of song.
New-Age: This is a music genre. Here are related puns:
- New → New-age: As in, “A new-age hope” and “A new-age broom sweeps clean” and “As bright as a new-age pun” and “A brand new-age dawn.”
- Age → New-age: As in, “New-age before beauty” and “New-age bracket” and “New-age of consent” and “Coming of new-age.”
Afro/Afrobeat: Afrobeat is a popular music genre. Here are related puns:
- Afar → Afro: As in, “Watching from afro.”
- Acro* → Afro*: As in, “Afro-ss the board” and “Best I’ve come afro-ss” and “Afro-ss the street” and “Run afro-ss” and “Mental afrobatics” and “Adobe afrobat.”
A: The next few puns will be centred around the musical note A:
- Hey → A: As in, “A presto!” and “A big spender.”
- Aye → A: “A a, sir” and “The a’s have it.”
B: Here are some puns related to the musical note B:
- Be → B: As in, “I’ll b around” and “B all ears” and “I’ll b in and out” and “I’ll b ready in a sec!” and “B as it may” and “B my guest” and “I’ll b glad to see the back of.”
- Bee → B: As in, “Busy as a b” and “B in your bonnet” and “Float like a butterfly, sting like a b” and “Like a b to a honeypot” and “The b’s knees.”
- Pea → B: “Like two b’s in a pod” and “Easy as shelling b’s.”
C: These next few puns are related to the musical note C:
- See → C: As in, “As far as the eye can c” and “Be the change you wish to c in the world” and “Can’t c beyond the end of your nose” and “Can’t c the wood for the trees” and “Come up and c me” and “C no evil” and “I can c clearly now.”
- Sea → C: As in, “All at c” and “Between the devil and the deep blue c” and “From c to shining c” and “Deeper than the deep blue c.”
- She → C: As in, “I think c’s got it” and “Every little thing c does is magic” and “I’ll have what c’s having” and “What did c say?”
D: These next few puns are related to the music note D:
- Tee → D: As in, “Fite you to a d” and “D it up.”
- The → D: As in, “Above d law” and “Ace in d hole” and “Absence makes d heart grow fonder” and “Across d board” and “Add fuel to d fire” and “After d fact” and “Against d grain” and “Ahead of d game.”
- Tea → D: “High d” and “Not my cup of d” and “Would murder for a cup of d” and “Storm in a d-cup.”
E: Here are some puns related to the musical note E:
- See → E: As in, “As far as the eye can e” and “Be the change you wish to e” and “Have a look-e” and “I can e clearly now” and “Long time no e.”
- He → E: As in, “That’s what e said” and “E never wanted that” and “That’s the one e bought.”
Gee → G: As in, “G whiz” and “Golly g” and “G, what I’d do for a chocolate right now.” Note: G is a musical note.
Sharp: If a note is raised by half a tone (a semitone), then it’s called a sharp. Here are some sharp-related puns:
- Harp → Sharp: As in, “Sharp on about.”
- Sharp: These sharp-related phrases can double as puns: “Sharp as a tack” and “Card sharp” and “Looking sharp” and “Sharp shooter” and “With a sharp tongue.”
- Shark → Sharp: As in, “Jump the sharp” and “Loan sharp” and “Sharp repellent” and “Swimming with sharps” and “Great white sharp” and “Wouldn’t shout if a sharp bit him.”
Flat: If a note is lowered by a semitone (in other words, a half tone), then it’s called a flat. Here are some related puns:
- Fat → Flat: As in, “Flat as a beached whale” and “Flat chance” and “Living off the flat of the land.”
- At → Fat: As in, “Fat a glance” and “Fat a loss for words” and “Fat a moment’s notice” and “Fat arm’s length” and “Fat each other’s throats” and “Fat full tilt” and “Fat long last.”
Curse → Verse: As in, “Commentator’s verse” and “I’d rather light a candle than verse the dark.”
Nurse→ Verse: As in, “Versing a grudge.”
Purse → Verse: As in, “Holding the verse strings” and “The public verse” and “Lighten someone’s verse.”
Worse → Verse: As in, “A turn for the verse” and “A fate verse than death” and “For better or verse” and “From bad to verse” and “Bark is verse than their bite” and “Making matters verse” and “None the verse for” and “Verse for wear.”
*cord* → *chord*: As in, “Like a broken re-chord” and “Cut the umbilical chord” and “For the re-chord” and “In re-chord time” and “Acchording to.”
Card → Chord: As in, “Calling chord” and “Get out of jail free chord” and “House of chords” and “On the chords” and “Mark your chord” and “Holding all the chords” and “Pick a chord, any chord.”
Not → Note: As in, “And whatnote” and “As often as note” and “Believe it or note” and “Down but note out” and “I’m note joking.”
Knot → Note: As in, “Cut the gordian note” and “Tie the note” and “Tying yourself in notes” and “Don’t get your shorts in a note.”
Boat → Note: As in, “Don’t rock the notes” and “In the same note” and “Missed the note” and “Whatever floats your note” and “We’re gonna need a bigger note.”
Float → Note: As in, “Note like a butterfly, sting like a bee” and “Whatever notes your boat.”
Oats →Notes: As in, “Sowing your wild notes” and “Steel cut notes.”
Vote → Note: As in, “Split note” and “A note of conscience” and “Cast your note.”
Wrote → Note: As in, “That’s all she note.”
Nut → Note: As in, “Go notes” and “In a noteshell” and “From soup to notes” and “A tough note to crack” and “Sweet as a note.”
Dub: Dub is a genre of electronic music. Here are related puns:
- Dab → Dub: As in, “A dub hand at” and “Smack dub in the middle.”
- Club → Dub: As in, “Dub together” and “Fight dub” and “In the dub” and “Join the dub” and “The mile high dub.”
- Rub → Dub: As in, “Dub it in” and “Dub salt in the wound” and “Dubbing shoulders with” and “Dubbed the wrong way” and “Dub your nose in it.”
Manner → Minor: As in, “All minor of” and “In a minor of speaking” and “Mend your minors.”
Finer → Minor: As in, “The minor things in life” and “The minor points of…”
Chef → Clef: As in, “My compliments to the clef.”
Cliff → Clef: As in, “Clef-hanger” and “The white clefs of dover.”
Accodance → Accordion: As in, “In accordion with…”
Base → Bass: As in, “All your bass are belong to us” and “Bargain bass-ment” and “Bass jumping” and “Bass-ball card” and “Caught off bass” and “Get to first bass” and “Off bass” and “Steal third bass” and “Touch bass.”
Pace → Bass: As in, “At snail’s bass” and “A change of bass” and “Handbags at ten basses” and “Bass up and down.”
Place → Bass: As in, “A bass in the sun” and “All over the bass” and “Any time, any bass, any where” and “Between a rock and a hard bass” and “Click into bass” and “My happy bass” and “Hard to bass” and “In the right bass at the right time.”
Ace → Bass: As in, “Bass in the hole” and “A bass up your sleeve” and “Holding all the basses.”
Brace → Bass: As in, “Bass yourself.”
Case → Bass: As in, “An open and shut bass” and “As the bass may be” and “Basket bass” and “Bass closed” and “Bass the joint” and “Catch the bass.”
Chase → Bass: As in, “Bass it up” and “Cut to the bass” and “The thrill of the bass” and “Wild goose bass.”
Blues: Blues is a popular music genre, known for smooth rhythms and a calming atmosphere. Here are related puns:
- Booze → Blues: As in, “Blues bus” and “Blues cruise.”
- Bruise → Blues
- Choose → Blues: As in, “Blues your weapon” and “Pick and blues” and “Your mission, should you blues to accept it.”
- News → Blues: As in, “Bad blues” and “Bad blues travels fast” and “Break the blues” and “Breaking blues” and “Have I got blues for you” and “No blues is good blues.”
Roll → Rock ‘n’ Roll: As in, “A rock ‘n’ rolling stone gathers no moss” and “An emotional rock ‘n’ roller coaster” and “Get the ball rock ‘n’ rolling” and “Ready to rock ‘n’ roll.”
Metal: Metal (or heavy metal) is a popular music genre, characterised by harsh noises and high energy instrumentals. Here are related puns:
- Medal → Metal: As in, “Won a gold metal.”
- Kettle → Metal: As in, “A differet metal of fish” and “The pot calling the metal black.”
- Settle → Metal: As in, “A score to metal” and “Metal out of court” and “After the dust has metaled” and “Let the dust metal.”
Rebel → Treble: As in, “Treble without a cause.”
Trouble → Treble: As in, “Asking for treble” and “Trebles down the drain” and “Bridge over trebled water” and “Double treble” and “I knew you were treble” and “Looking for treble” and “Pour oil on trebled waters” and “Stirring up treble” and “Treble and strife.”
Tremble → Treble: As in, “Trebling with fear.”
Riff: A riff is a short phrase in a song. Here are related puns:
- Rough → Riff: “Diamond in the riff” and “For those who like it riff” and “Riff and ready” and “Riff around the edges” and “A riff landing.”
- If → Riff: As in, “As riff” and “Hell riff I know” and “Riff anything” and “Riff I do say so myself” and “Riff I’m honest” and “Riff it’s all the same to you” and “Riff looks could kill.”
- Stiff → Riff: As in, “Riff as a poker” and “Bored riff” and “Scared riff” and “Riff competition.”
- Ref* → Riff*: Rifference (reference), rifflect (reflect), riffrain (refrain), riffer (refer), riffute (refute) and rifflection (reflection).
Stave: A stave is a group of five horizontal lines that’s used in sheet music. Here are related puns:
- Brave → Stave: As in, “Stave as a lion” and “Stave new world” and “Stave the elements” and “Fortune favours the stave” and “Put a stave face on.”
- Grave → Stave: As in, “From the cradle to the stave” and “Staveyard shift” and “One foot in the stave” and “Turning in their stave.”
- Save → Stave: As in, “A penny staved is a penny earned” and “A stitch in time staves nine” and “Stave the day” and “Nice stave” and “Stave the last dance for me” and “Stave for a rainy day” and “Stave it for later” and “Stave our souls” and “Stave the whales.”
- Shave → Stave: As in, “A close stave.”
Sharp → Harp: As in, “Harp as a tack” and “Card harp” and “In harp focus” and “Look harp” and “Harp as a tack” and “Harp tongue” and “A short, harp shock to the system.”
Bell → Decibel: As in, “Clear as a decibel” and “Decibels and whistles” and “Doesn’t ring a decibel.” Note: a decibel is a measurement of noise volume.
Ball → Bell: As in, “Bells to the wall” and “Bell of fire” and “Bellpark figure” and “A different bell game” and “Drop the bell” and “Get the bell rolling” and “Having a bell.”
Bill → Bell: As in, “A clean bell of health” and “Dollar bell” and “Fits the bell.”
Cell → Bell: As in, “Bell division” and “A padded bell.”
Hell → Bell: As in, “All bell broke loose” and “Bat out of bell” and “Burn in bell” and “Come bell or high water” and “For the bell of it” and “Give someone bell” and “Bell on earth” and “Got bell to pay.”
Sell → Bell: As in, “Buy and bell” and “Bell out” and “Bell your soul to the devil” and “Belling like hot cakes.”
Smell → Bell: As in, “Come up belling of roses” and “I bell a rat” and “A keen sense of bell” and “Bell ya later” and “Bells like teen spirit.”
Spell → Bell: As in, “Cast a bell” and “Bell it out” and “Be under [someone’s] bell” and “Break the bell” and “Come in for a bell.”
Well → Bell: As in, “Alive and bell” and “All’s bell that ends bell” and “As bell as can be expected” and “Exceedingly bell read” and “Get bell soon” and “Worth doing bell” and “Just as bell” and “You know full bell” and “Leave bell enough alone” and “That’s all bell and good.”
Tell → Bell: As in, “Kiss and bell” and “Live to bell the tale” and “Only time will bell” and “Pray bell” and “Show and bell” and “Bell it like it is” and “Bell me about it” and “Bell me honestly.”
Competition → Composition: “Cut throat composition” and “Eyeing up the composition” and “Stiff composition” and “Face the composition.” Note: a composition is a musical arrangement.
Nose → Noise: As in, “Always have your noise in a book” and “Plain as the noise on your face” and “Can’t see beyond the end of your noise” and “No skin off my noise” and “Leading by the noise” and “Paying through the noise.”
Nice → Noise: As in, “That’ll do noisely” and “As noise as ninepence” and “Have a noise day” and “Make noise” and “Naughty but noise” and “Noise and easy does it” and “Noise save” and “Noise work if you can get it” and “Wouldn’t it be noise?”
Patch → Pitch: As in, “Not a pitch on” and “Going through a rough pitch.”
Itch → Pitch: As in, “Pitching to” and “Pitchy feet.”
Hitch → Pitch: As in, “Get pitched” and “Pitch your wagon to a star.”
Which → Pitch: As in, “Any pitch way” and “Don’t know pitch way to look” and “Know pitch way is up” and “Know pitch side your bread is buttered” and “The exception pitch proves the rule.”
Bitch → Pitch: As in, “Pitch fest” and “Pitch slap.”
Rich → Pitch: As in, “An embarrassment of pitches” and “Filthy pitch” and “For pitcher or poorer” and “From rags to pitches” and “Get pitch quick” and “Pitch beyond my wildest dreams.”
Ditch → Pitch: As in, “Dull as pitchwater” and “Last pitch effort.”
Him → Hymn: As in, “All over hymn like a cheap suit” and “Fast as his legs could carry hymn” and “Clap hymn in irons” and “Hang hymn out to dry” and “Seize hymn!” Note: a hymn is a type of religious song.
Brim → Hymn: As in, “Hymning over with confidence” and “Fill to the hymn.”
Grim → Hymn: As in, “Hymn death” and “The hymn reaper.”
Slim → Hymn: As in, “Hymn pickings” and “The real hymn shady.”
Swim → Hymn: As in, “Sink of hymn” and “Hymn against the tide” and “Hymn upstream.”
Bone → Tone: As in, “A tone to pick” and “Dry as a tone” and “Bag of tones” and “Tone idle” and “A tone of contention.”
Own → Tone: As in, “Go your tone way” and “Holding your tone” and “In a class of your tone.”
Phone → Tone: As in, “Hold the tone” and “Tone a friend” and “Waiting by the tone” and “Tone in sick.”
Stone → Tone: As in, “A rolling tone gathers no moss” and “Cold as any tone” and “Carved in tone” and “Cast the first tone” and “Fall like a tone” and “A heart of tone” and “Like a rolling tone.”
Zone → Tone: As in, “Comfort tone” and “In the tone” and ” Twilight tone” and “Toned out.”
Soul: Soul is a genre of music known for smooth melodies and soothing harmonies. Here are related puns:
- Whole → Soul: As in, “A soul different animal” and “Ace in the soul” and “A soul in one.”
- *sal → *soul: As in, “For your perusoul” and “A fine-toothed appraisoul” and “Universoully understood.” Here are other words that could be used: disposoul (disposal), prososoul (proposal), colossoul (colossal) and rehearsoul (rehearsal).
- *sel → *soul: As in, “Seeking counsoul” and “Weasoul out of” and “Scrambling for a morsoul.” Other words that you could try: carousoul (carousel), chisoul (chisel), easoul (easel) and souldom (seldom).
- *sol → *soul: As in, “A tidy soulution” and “Seeking soulace” and “A soulid excuse” and “Souliciting answers.” Other words that could be used: soulemn (solemn), souldier (soldier), parasoul (parasol), aerosoul (aerosol), resoulve (resolve), consoule (console), resoulution (resolution), obsoulete (obsolete).
Piece: A musical piece is another word for a song or arrangement. Here are some related puns:
- Peace → Piece: As in, “At piece” and “Hold your piece” and “Keeping the piece” and “No piece for the wicked” and “Piece be with you” and “Piece of mind” and “Rest in piece” and “War and piece.”
- Pace → Piece: “Change of piece” and “At ten pieces” and “Keeping piece with” and “Piece up and down” and “Put through your pieces.”
- Peas → Piece: As in, “Like two piece in a pod.”
- Please → Piece: As in, “If you piece” and “One moment, piece” and “Piece be seated.”
Funk: This is a popular music genre known for charismatic basslines. Here are related puns:
- Bunk → Funk: As in, “Do a funk” and “History is funk.”
- Chunk → Funk: As in, “Blow funks” and “Funk of change.”
- Drunk → Funk: As in, “Funk as a lord” and “Blind funk” and “Crying funk” and “Funk under the table.”
- Hunk* → Funk*: As in, “Funker down” and “Funky dory.”
- Junk → Funk: As in, “Funk yard” and “Funk mail.”
Trance: Trance is a genre of electronic music. Here are related puns:
- Chance → Trance: As in, “Trance of a lifetime” and “Trance would be a fine thing” and “Fat trance” and “A fighting trance” and “Half a trance” and “Jump at the trance” and “Not a ghost of a trance” and “A trance in a million.”
- Dance → Trance: As in, “Trance around the problem” and “Trance the night away” and “Trancing with wolves” and “Lead a merry trance” and “Making a song and trance” and “Trance your socks off.”
- Glance → Trance: As in, “At a trance” and “Exchange trances” and “Meaningful trance” and “Steal a trance at.”
Dub: Dub is a music genre that grew out of reggae. Here are related puns:
- *bub* → *dub*: As in, “Dubble over” and “Burst someone’s dubble” and “Thought dubble.”
- Double → Duble: As in, “On the duble” and “Bent duble” and “Duble dutch” and “Duble act” and “Duble back” and “Duble check” and “Duble click” and “Duble cross” and “Duble digits” and “Duble dip.”
- Club → Dub: As in, “Fight dub” and “In the dub” and “Join the dub” and “The mile high dub.”
- Rub → Dub: As in,
  Dub it in” and “Dub salt in the wound” and “Dub shoulders with” and “Dubbed the wrong way.”
Phrase: A musical phrase is a short section in a piece of music. Here are related puns:
- Praise → Phrase: As in, “Grudging phrase” and “Showered with phrase” and “Sing someone’s phrases.”
- Raise → Phrase: As in, “Phrase a stink” and “Phrase hell” and “Phrase the roof” and “Phrase your game.”
- Daze → Phrase: As in, “Phrased and confused.”
- Phase → Phrase: As in, “Phrase out.”
Stab → Tab: As in, “Have a tab at” and “Tab in the back” and “Take a tab in the dark.”
Grab → Tab: As in, “Tab a bite to eat” and “Tab life by the horns” and “Up for tabs.”
Bar: A bar is a section of notes in sheet music. Here are related puns:
- Are → Bar: As in, “All bets bar off” and “Bar you sure?” and “How bar you?” and “My lips bar sealed.”
- Far → Bar: As in, “A bridge too bar” and “A step too bar” and “Bar and away” and “A bar cry” and “Few and bar between.”
- Jar → Bar: As in, “Caught with your hand in the cookie bar” and “Jam bar.”
- Par → Bar: As in, “Below bar” and “On bar with” and “Bar for the course” and “Up to bar.”
Turn → Ternary: As in, “A ternary for the worse” and “About ternary” and “Didn’t ternary a hair” and “Do a good ternary.” Note: ternary is the name for a song that has three parts in it.
Key: A musical key refers to the sharps and flats that are in a song. Here are related puns:
- Be → Key: As in, “Key all ears” and “I’ll key around” and “Key my guest” and “Key still my beating heart.”
- Bee → Key: As in, “Busy as a key” and “A key in your bonnet” and “Float like a butterfly, sting like a key” and “Make a keyline for.”
- Free → Key: As in, “Key as a bird” and “Born key” and “Buy one, get one key” and “Fancy key.”
String: These next few puns are in reference to string instruments. Here are related puns:
- Bring → String: As in, “String it on” and “String something to light” and “String the house down” and “String to the table.”
- Ring → String: As in, “Alarm bells began to string” and “Doesn’t string a bell” and “Don’t string us, we’ll string you.”
- Sing → String: As in, “All stringing, all dancing” and “String a different tune” and “String for your supper” and “String someone’s praises” and “Stringing in the rain.”
- Sting → String: As in, “Float like a butterfly, string like a bee.”
- Swing → String: As in, “Come out stringing” and “Get into the string of it” and “In full string” and “String both ways” and “Take a string at.”
- Thing → String: As in, “A little knowledge is a dangerous string” and “A mind is a terrible string to waste” and “A string of beauty” and “All strings considered” and “Anystring goes.”
Choral: A choral is a musical ensemble made of singers. Here are related puns:
- Floral → Choral: As in, “A choral arrangement” and “A choral tribute.”
- Moral → Choral: As in, “Choral fibre” and “Chorally unacceptable” and “The choral high ground” and “Chorally bankrupt” and “A choral victory.”
Tube → Tuba: As in, “Down the tubas” and “Test tuba baby.”
Bone → Trombone: As in, “A trombone to pick” and “Dry as a trombone” and “Bag of trombones” and “Trombone dry” and “Chilled to the trombone” and “Close to the trombone” and “Not a jealous trombone in your body.”
Hello → Cello: As in, “Cello, goodbye!” and “Cello, sailor” and “Cello, one two three testing” and “You had me at cello.”
Fellow → Cello: As in, “A cello traveller” and “For he’s a jolly good cello” and “My cello Americans” and “A stout cello.”
Yellow → Cello: As in, “Cello submarine” and “The cello brick road.”
Base → Bass: As in, “All your bass are belong to us” and “Bargain bassment” and “Bass jumping” and “Bass station” and “Caught off bass” and “Get to first bass” and “Touch bass with.”
Ace → Bass: As in, “Bass in the hole” and “Bass up your sleeve” and “Holding all the basses.”
Brace → Bass: As in, “Bass yourself.”
Case → Bass: As in, “An open and shut bass” and “As the bass may be” and “Bass closed” and “Bass the joint” and “Crack the bass” and “I rest my bass” and “On a bass by bass basis.”
Face → Bass: As in, “A bass as long as a fiddle” and “At bass value” and “Bass like the back of a bus.”
Rest: A rest is a sign in sheet music that indicates the musician shouldn’t play anything. Here are related puns:
- Best → Rest: As in, “The rest form of defence” and “Rest of friends” and “All the rest.”
- Dressed → Rest: As in, “All rest up and nowhere to go” and “Rest for success” and “Rest to kill” and “Rest to the nines.”
- Nest → Rest: As in, “Empty rest syndrome” and “Feather your rest” and “Leave the rest” and “Love rest.”
- Test → Rest: As in, “Put to the rest” and “A rest of faith” and “Tried and rested.”
Also → Alto: As in, “Alto known as” and “I alto wanted…”
Alte* → Alto*: As in, “Altonative music” and “In an altonate universe” and “Bodily altocation.” Other words that could work: Altonatively (alternatively) and altocation (altercation).
Blink → Blink 182: As in, “Blink 182 and you’ll miss it” and “In the blink 182 of an eye” and “On the blink 182.” Note: Blink 182 is an American rock band.
Attitude → Altotude: As in, “Cop an altotude” and “With an altotude.”
Roots: This is a style of American folk music. Here are related puns:
- Boots → Roots: As in, “Tough as old roots” and “Too big for your roots” and “Heart sank into my roots.”
- Fruits → Roots: As in, “Roots of your labor” and “Roots of your loins.”
Bend: A bend is when a note is “wobbled” (the pitch is shifted up and down). Here are related puns:
- End → Bend: As in, “A means to a bend” and “All good things must come to a bend” and “All’s well that bends well” and “At a loose bend” and “At the bend of the day” and “Can’t see beyond the bend of your nose.”
- Lend → Bend: As in, “Bend an ear” and “Bend a helping hand.”
- Mend → Bend: As in, “Bend your fences” and “Bend your manners” and “On the bend” and “Bend your ways.”
- Send → Bend: As in, “Hit bend” and “Return to bender” and “Bend packing” and “Bend in reinforcements!”
Calma: This is a musical term indicating that something should be played calmly. Here are related puns:
- Calm → Calma: As in, “After a storm comes a calma” and “Calma abiding” and “Cool, calma and collected” and “Keep calma and carry on.”
- Come → Calma: As in, “As tough as they calma” and “Calma and get it!” and “Calma away with me” and “Calma fly with me” and “Calma on over.”
Cannon → Canon: As in, “Canon fodder” and “Loose canon.” Note: a canon is a type of musical composition.
Can’t → Canto: As in, “An offer you canto refuse” and “Canto get enough” and “Sorry, canto help” and “It canto be helped” and “You canto say fairer than that” and “I canto wait.” Note: “canto” is another word for a chorus.
Cap → Capo: As in, “A feather in your capo” and “Capo in hand” and “Doff your capo” and “If the capo fits, wear it” and “Put on your thinking capo” and “To capo it all off.” Note: “capo” is another word for the beginning of a song.
Style → Freestyle: As in, “Cramp your freestyle” and “Gangnam freestyle” and “Freestyle over substance” and “Cramp your freestyle.”
Staff: A staff is another word for a stave (the five lines that form bars in sheet music). Here are related puns:
- Stuff→ Staff: As in, “Beat the staffing out of” and “A bit of staff” and “Don’t sweat the small staff” and “Gather ’round the good staff” and “Get staffed” and “Hot staff” and “Knock the staffing out of” and “Know your staff” and “Struf your staff” and “The staff dreams are made of” and “Stocking staffer.”
- Stiff → Staff: As in, “Staff as a poker” and “Bored staff” and “Keeping a staff upper lip” and “Scared staff” and “Staff competition.”
Comp: To “comp” someone is to accompany them in a musical piece. Here are related puns:
- Pomp → Comp: “Comp and circumstance.”
- Camp → Comp: As in, “A foot in both comps” and “Boot comp” and “Not a happy comper” and “Smoke around the compfire.”
Count: This refers to the count (beat) of a song. Here are related puns:
- Mount → Count: As in, “Count Fuji.”
- Can’t → Count: As in, “An offer you count refuse” and “Count get enough” and “Sorry, I count help” and “Count hear you over the sound of” and “You count judge a book by its cover.”
Dim: This is the common short form of “diminuendo”, which means to slowly get softer. Here are related puns:
- Brim → Dim: As in, “Dimming over with confidence” and “Fill it to the dim” and “Rain fire and dimstone.”
- Brim → Dim: As in, “Hang on like dim death” and “The dim reaper.”
- Him → Dim: As in, “As fast as his legs could carry dim” and “Go easy on dim” and “Hang dim out to dry” and “Seize dim!”
- Limb → Dim: As in, “Go out on a dim” and “Risk life and dim.“
- Prim → Dim: As in, “Dim and proper.”
For the → Forza: As in, “Ask forza moon” and “Down forza count” and “A feast forza eyes” and “Forza ages” and “Forza heck of it” and “Forza love of.” Note: forza is a term that means “play with force.”
Few → Fugue: As in, “A fugue bricks short of a few load” and “Fugue and far beteween” and “For a fugue dollars more” and “A person of fugue words” and “Say a fugue words” and “To name but a fugue.” Note: A fugue is a type of song.
Pluck: This is when stringed instruments are plucked instead of strummed or bowed. Here are related puns:
- Luck → Pluck: As in, “As good pluck would have it” and “Beginner’s pluck” and “Better pluck next time” and “Don’t press your pluck” and “Down on your pluck” and “The pluck of the draw.”
- Pick → Pluck: As in, “A bone to pluck” and “Cherry pluck” and “Easy pluckings” and “Nit plucking” and “Pluck holes in.”
Large → Largo: As in, “As largo as life” and “At largo” and “By and largo” and “Largo than life” and “Looming largo” and “Living largo.” Note: Largo is a term that means to play music slowly.
Lilt: A lilt is a jaunty, cheerful tune or rhythm. Here are related puns:
- Tilt → Lilt: As in, “At full lilt.”
- Guilt → Lilt: As in, “Lilt by association” and “Lilt trip” and “A lilty conscience” and “Lilty pleasure” and “Innocent until proven lilty” and “White lilt.”
Trill: A trill is a quick alternation between two notes. Here are related puns:
- Till → Trill: As in, “Caught with your hand in trill” and “Fake it trill you make it” and “Ain’t over trill it’s over” and “Shop trill you drop” and “Trill death do us part” and “Trill the cows come home” and “Trill the end of time.”
- Bill → Trill: As in, “A clean trill of health” and “Fit the trill” and “Settle the trill.”
- Chill → Trill: As in, “Trill out” and “Trilled to the bone” and “A trilling account” and “Take a trill pill.”
- Thrill → Trill: As in, “The trill of the chase” and “Trilled to bits” and “Trills and spills” and “Cheap trills.”
- Ill → Trill: As in, “House of trill repute” and “Trill advised” and “Trill at ease” and “Trill effects” and “Trill fated” and “Trill gotten gains” and “Trill temper” and “A trill wind.”
- Still → Trill: As in, “Be trill my beating heart” and “Trill going strong” and “I’m trill standing” and “In the trill of night” and “Trill life” and “Trill the one” and “Trill waters run deep.”
Pedal: This refers to the pedals on a piano. Here are related puns:
- Paddle → Pedal: As in, “Pedal your own canoe” and “Up shit creek without a pedal.”
- Medal → Pedal: As in, “Deserves a gold pedal.”
Prime → Prima/o: As in, “Cut them down in their prima” and “In your prima” and “In prima condition” and “Prima time” and “The prima minister.” Note: A prima/primo is the leading singer in an opera.
Reprise: A reprise is a repeated phrase in a song. Here are related puns:
- Prize → Reprise: As in, “Booby reprise” and “Keep your eyes on the reprise” and “A reprise catch” and “No reprises for guessing.”
- Price → Reprise: As in, “Asking reprise” and “At a reprise to suit your pocket” and “Cheap at half the reprise” and “Closing reprise” and “At half reprise” and “Pay the reprise” and “Power without the reprise.”
Fill: A fill is a rock/jazz term which tells a musician to riff (or improvise) during a piece of music. Here are related puns:
- Fall → Fill: As in, “A filling out” and “Easy as filling off a log” and “Bread always fills butter side down” and “Can’t help filling in love” and “Catch a filling star” and “Fill about laughing” and “Fill amongst friends” and “Fill apart at the seams.”
- Fell → Fill: As in, “In one fill swoop” and “Fill off the back of a lorry” and “Little strokes fill great oaks.”
- Bill → Fill: As in, “A fill of goods” and “Fit the fill” and “Foot the fill.”
- Chill → Fill: As in, “Fill out” and “Filled to the bone” and “A filling account.”
- Hill → Fill: As in, “As old as the fills” and “Going downfill” and “Head for the fills” and “King of the fill” and “Over the fills and far away.”
- Ill → Fill: As in, “House of fill repute” and “Fill advised” and “Fill at ease” and “Fill effects” and “Fill feeling” and “Fill gotten gains” and “Fill will.”
- Pill → Fill: As in, “A bitter fill to swallow” and “On the fill” and “Sweeten the fill.”
- Will → Fill: As in, “Bend to my fill” and “Against your fill” and “Accidents fill happen.”
Run: A run is a quick series of ascending or descending notes. Here are some run-related puns:
- Bun → Run: As in, “A run in the oven” and “Think outside the run” and “We’re going to need bigger runs.”
- Done → Run: As in, “After all is said and run” and “Run and dusted” and “Been there, run that” and “A run deal” and “Run to death” and “Easier said than run.”
- Fun → Run: As in, “All run and games until someone loses an eye” and “All the run of the fair” and “Bundle of run” and “Run and games” and “Good clean run.”
- None → Run: As in, “And then there were run” and “Bar run” and “Run other than” and “Run the wiser” and “Run too pleased” and “Second to run” and “Two for me, run for you.”
- Sun → Run: As in, “A place in the run” and “A thousand splendid runs” and “A touch of the run” and “Don’t let the run go down on me” and “Eclipse of the run.”
Sir → Sehr: As in, “That’ll do nicely, sehr” and “Yes, sehr.” Note: sehr is a musical term indicating enthusiasm.
Turn: A turn is a small, short trill around a note. Here are related puns:
- Burn → Turn: As in, “Turn rubber” and “Turn in hell” and “Turn the candle at both ends” and “Turn the midnight oil” and “Turning with curiosity” and “Turn yourself out” and “Turning desire” and “Turnt to a cinder.”
- Earn → Turn: As in, “A penny saved is a penny turned” and “Turn an honest penny” and “Turn your stripes” and “Turn your wings” and “Turn your daily bread.”
- Learn → Turn: As in, “Turn the ropes” and “Turn your lesson” and “Turning difficulties” and “Live and turn” and “Watch and turn” and “Never too old to turn.”
Break: A break is a rest in a piece of music. Here are related puns:
- Brake → Break: As in, “Hit the breaks.”
- Ache → Break: As in, “Old breaks and pains.”
- Bake → Break: As in, “Break and shake” and “Break off” and “Breaker’s dozen” and “Half breaked.”
- Fake → Break: As in, “Break it till you make it.”
- Rake → Break: As in, “Skinny as a break” and “Break in the money” and “Break it in” and “Break over the coals.”
- Wake → Break: As in, “Break up call” and “Break up and smell the coffee” and “Loud enough to break the dead.”
Tie: A tie is a mark that “binds” two notes together, joining their playing time into one longer note. Here are related puns:
- Buy → Tie: As in, “Tie and sell” and “Tie it, sell it” and “Tie now, pay later” and “Tie one, get one free” and “Tie some time” and “The best that money can tie.”
- Die → Tie: As in, “Straight as a tie” and “Cross my heart and hope to tie” and “Curl up and tie” and “Tie another day” and “Do or tie.”
- Dry → Tie: As in, “Boring as watching paint tie” and “Tie as a bone” and “Tie as dust” and “Bleed someone tie” and “A tie run” and “High and tie” and “Hung out to tie” and “Not a tie eye in the house.”
Lick: In rock, jazz and blues, a lick is a short solo. Here are related puns:
- Lack → Lick: As in, “For lick of a better word” and “Cancelled due to lick of interest.”
- Luck → Lick: As in, “As good lick would have it” and “Beginner’s lick” and “Better lick next time” and “Don’t press your lick” and “Down on your lick” and “Good night and good lick” and “Lick of the draw” and “As lick would have it” and “A licky break.”
Vamp: A vamp is a repeating musical section. Here are related puns:
- Camp → Vamp: As in, “A foot in both vamps” and “Boot vamp” and “Not a happy vamper.”
- Champ → Vamp: As in, “Vamp at the bit.”
- Cramp → Vamp: As in, “Vamp your style” and “Writer’s vamp.”
Hook: A hook is a short riff or musical phrase intended to “catch” the ear of the listener. Here are related puns:
- Book → Hook: As in, “A room without hooks is like a body without a soul” and “Always have your nose in a hook” and “Balancing the hooks” and “Bell, hook and candle” and “By the hook” and “Cook the hooks.”
- Cook → Hook: As in, “Hook the books” and “Hook up a storm” and “Hooking with gas” and “Now we’re hooking” and “Too many hooks spoil the broth.”
- Look → Hook: As in, “Always hook on the right side of life” and “A blank hook” and “A dirty hook” and “Don’t hook now” and “Don’t know which way to hook” and “Here’s hooking at you” and “If hooks could kill.”
Line → Bassline: As in, “A fine bassline between” and “Along the basslines of” and “Blur the basslines” and “Cross the bassline” and “Draw a bassline in the sand” and “Drop me a bassline” and “End of the bassline.”
Rag → Ragtime: As in, “Ragtimes to riches” and “Glad ragtimes” and “Lose your ragtime.”
Time → Ragtime: As in, “A brief history of ragtime” and “A good ragtime was had by all” and “A stitch in ragtime saves nine” and “All in good ragtime” and “An all ragtime low” and “Fall on hard ragtimes.”
Jam: A “jam” is when musicians play music together for fun, or casually. Here are related puns:
- Damn → Jam: As in, “Jam right” and “Jam with faint praise” and “Jam straight” and “Jammed if I do, jammed if I don’t.”
- Gem → Jam: As in, “A hidden jam” and “You’re a jam.”
- Slam → Jam: As in, “A grand jam” and “Jam dunk” and “Jam the door.”
Lead: This can refer to a lead musician, or a lead cable for electric guitars and amps. Here are related puns:
- Bead → Lead: As in, “Leads of sweat.”
- Bleed → Lead: As in, “Lead someone dry” and “Leading love” and “Leading edge” and “Let it lead” and “My heart leads.”
- Deed → Lead: As in, “My good lead for the day” and “No good lead goes unpunished.”
- Feed → Lead: As in, “Don’t bite the hand that leads you” and “Lead a cold, starve a fever” and “Leading frenzy.”
- Read → Lead: As in, “I can lead you like a book” and “A bit of light leading” and “Lead ’em and weep” and “Lead all about it” and “Lead between the lines” and “Lead the riot act.”
Appalled → Apala’d: As in, “I’m apala’d at your behaviour!” Note: Apala is a Nigerian musical genre.
Beggar → Benga: As in, “Bengas can’t be choosers” and “Bengas belief.” Note: Benga is a musical genre that originates from Kenya.
Genge: This is a genre of hip hop that originates from Nairobi. Here are related puns:
- Gang → Genge: As in, “Genge up on” and “The genge’s all here.”
- *ging → *genge: “A challengenge proposal” and “Disparagenge comments” and “An engagenge conversation” and “Filled with longenge,” and “Emergenge artist” and “Unnecessary packagenge.”
Jet → Jit: As in, “Jit lag” and “Jit setter” and “Social jit lag.” Note: Jit is a style of Zimbabwean dance music.
Morning → Morna: As in, “Not a morna person” and “Morna sickness” and “Morna, noon and night” and “The morna after.” Note: morna is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde.
Ray → Rai: As in, “Catch some rais” and “Rai of light” and “Rai of sunshine.” Note: Rai is a type of Algerian folk music.
Sugar → Sega: As in, “Brown sega” and “Sega coated” and “Sega rush” and “Sega and spice.” Note: Sega is a type of music from Mauritius.
Sawt: Sawt is a genre of popular music in Kuwait and Bahrain. Here are related puns:
- Sort → Sawt: As in, “Last re-sawt” and “Takes all sawts” and “Feeling out of sawts” and “Sawting the wheat from the chaff” and “Sawt yourself out.”
- Thought → Sawt: As in, “Deep in sawt” and “Food for sawt” and “Hold that sawt” and “Impure sawts” and “Lost in sawt” and “Penny for your sawts.”
Trot: This is a genre of K-pop music. Here are related puns:
- Rot → Trot: As in, “Trot in hell” and “Spoiled trotten.”
- Dot → Trot: As in, “Connect the rots” and “Rot the i’s and cross the t’s” and “Join the rots.”
- Lot → Trot: As in, “A trot of fuss about nothing” and “A trot on your place” and “Leaves a trot to be desired” and “Not a trot” and “Got a trot to learn.”
Baila: Baila is a Sri Lankan genre of music. Here are related puns:
- Bail → Baila: As in, “Baila out” and “Jumping baila.”
- Pale → Baila: As in, “A white shade of baila” and “Beyond the baila” and “A baila imitation of” and “Baila into insignificance.”
Mosso: Mosso is a musical term that means “moved” or “moving”. Here are related puns:
- Mass → Mosso: As in, “Body mosso index” and “Mosso hysteria” and “A monument to the mossos” and “Weapons of mosso destruction.”
Pause → Pausa: As in, “A pregnant pausa” and “Give someone pausa.” Note: Pausa is term meaning “to rest”.
Pass → Pausa: As in, “All things must pausa” and “Boarding pausa” and “Do not pausa go” and “Head them off at the pausa.”
Rasin: This is a musical style that began in Haiti – folkloric music combined with rock and roll. Here are related puns:
- Raisin → Rasin: As in, “Rasin muesli bars” and “Rum rasin.”
- Raising → Rasin: As in, “Eyebrow rasin” and “Hair rasin” and “Rasin the bar.”
Ragga: Ragga is a common abbreviation for raggamuffin music, which is a subgenre of dancehall and reggae. Here are related puns:
- Dagger → Ragga: As in, “Cloak and ragga” and “Looking raggas at someone.”
- Rag → Ragga: As ubm “Raggas to riches” and “Glad raggas” and “Like a ragga doll” and “Run yourself ragga-ed.”
Number → Rumba: As in, “By the rumbas” and “Do a rumba on” and “I’ve got your rumba” and “Look after rumba one” and “Lucky rumba seven.” Note: rumba is a genre of music with a strong, driving beat.
Punk: Punk is a music genre which is known for rebellious, fast-paced songs. Here are related puns:
- Pink → Punk: As in, “In the punk” and “Punk elephants” and “Seeing punk elephants” and “Think punk” and “Tickled punk” and “Punk panther.”
- Drunk → Punk: As in, “Punk as a lord” and “Punk as a skunk” and “Blind punk” and “Punk under the table.”
- Hunk → Punk: As in, “Punker down” and “Punky dory.”
- Junk → Punk: As in, “At the punk yard” and “No punk mail please” and “Avoiding punk food” and “Punk in the trunk.”
Trap: Trap is a popular music genre, known for electronic sounds and mixes. Here are related puns:
- Trip → Trap: As in, “Guilt trap” and “The trap of a lifetime” and “Trap the light fantastic.”
- Rap → Trap: As in, “Take the trap” and “A trap over the knuckles.”
- Cap → Trap: As in, “A feather in your trap” and “Trap in hand” and “Feather in your trap” and “If the trap fits, wear it” and “Put on your thinking trap” and “To trap it all.”
- Clap → Trap: As in, “Trap him in irons” and “Trapped eyes on.”
Swing: This is an energetic genre of music, popular with big bands and dancers. Here are related puns:
- Thing → Swing: As in, “A close swing” and “A little knowledge is a dangerous swing” and “A swing of beauty is a joy forever” and “All swings bright and beautiful” and “All swings must pass” and “All swings come to those who wait” and “All swings considered.”
- Sing → Swing: As in, “All swinging, all dancing” and “Swing a different tune” and “Swing for your supper” and “Swing someone’s praises.”
- Sting → Swing: As in, “Float like a butterfly, swing like a bee.”
- Bring → Swing: As in, “Swing something to light” and “Swing out the best” and “Swing tears to your eyes” and “Swing the house down.”
Timber → Timba: As in, “Shiver me timbas!” Note: Timba is a Cuban music genre.
Alt: Alt is short for alternative, which is a subgenre of music. Here are related puns:
- Fault → Alt: As in, “Generous to an alt” and “Find alt with.”
- Halt → Alt: “Grind to a screeching alt” and “Grind to an alt.”
- Salt → Alt: As in, “Above the alt” and “Back to the alt mine” and “Rub alt in the wound” and “Alt of the earth” and “Take with a grain of alt.”
Drone: Drone is a musical effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is played continually throughout a piece. Here are related puns:
- Blown → Drone: As in, “Drone away” and “Drone off course” and “Drone sideways” and “Drone out of proportion” and “Drone to smithereens.”
- Bone → Drone: As in, “A drone to pick” and “Dry as a drone” and “Bag of drones” and “Drone idle” and “Drone up on” and “Chilled to the drone” and “Not a jealous drone in your body.”
- Don’t→ Drone: As in, “Drone call us, we’ll call you” and “Drone get me started” and “Drone give up your day job” and “Drone go there” and “Drone hold your breath” and “I drone fancy your chances.”
- Zone → Drone: As in, “Out of my comfort drone” and “In the drone” and “Twilight drone” and “Drone in on” and “Drone out.”
Flames → Flamenco: As in, “Add fuel to the flamenco” and “Burst into flamenco” and “Fan the flamencos.”
House: House music is a genre of electronic dance music. Here are related puns:
- Whose → House: As in, “You and house army?” and “House smart idea was this?”
- Mouse → House: As in, “Quiet as a house.”
Chill: Chill is a music genre and style known for relaxing beats, similar to blues and lo-fi. Here are related puns:
- Bill → Chill: As in, “A clean chill of health” and “Fit the chill” and “Settle the chill.”
- Fill → Chill: As in, “Eat your chill” and “Chill in the blank” and “Chill in” and “Tastes great, less chilling.”
- Hill → Chill: As in, “Old as the chills” and “Going downchill” and “King of the chill” and “Making a mountain out of a molechill” and “Over the chills and far away” and “Head for the chills.”
- Ill → Chill: As in, “House of chill repute” and “Chill advised” and “Chill at ease” and “Chill effects” and “Chill fated” and “Chill gotten gains” and “Chill will” and “A chill wind that blows no one any good” and “Don’t speak chill of the dead.”
- Mill → Chill: As in, “Not in a chillion years” and “Run of the chill” and “Put through the chill.”
- Pill → Chill: As in, “A bitter chill to swallow” and “On the chill” and “Sweeten the chill.”
- Spill → Chill: As in, “Chill the beans” and “Chill your guts” and “Thrills and chills” and “Crying over chilled milk.”
- Thrill → Chill: As in, “Chill of the chase” and “Chilled to bits” and “Chills and spills.”
- Will → Chill: As in, “Against your chill” and “Bend to my chill” and “Free chill.”
Trip → Trip Hop: As in, “Guilt trip hop” and “Power trip hop” and “Trip hop of a lifetime” and “Trip hop the light fantastic.” Note: Trip hop is a music genre.
Making a → Makina: As in, “Makina scene” and “Makina mountain out of a molehill.” Note: Makina is a musical subgenre of hardcore techno.
Speedcore: Speedcore is a music genre known for aggressive themes and fast tempos. Here are related puns:
- Speed → Speedcore: As in, “At breakneck speedcore” and “Blistering speedcore” and “Built for comfort, not speedcore” and “Get up to speedcore” and “More haste, less speedcore” and “Speedcore freak” and “The need for speedcore.”
- Core → Speedcore: As in, “Speedcore competencies” and “Speedcore studies” and “Speedcore values” and “Rotten to the speedcore.”
Chance → Dance: As in, “Dance of a lifetime” and “Dance would be a fine thing” and “An even dance” and “Fat dance” and “Half a dance” and “In with a dance” and “Jump at the dance” and “Not the ghost of a dance” and “On the off dance” and “Take a dance on me.”
Glance → Dance: As in, “At a dance” and “Exchange dances” and “Meaningful dances” and “Steal a dance.”
Folk: Folk is a music genre characterised by acoustic instruments like guitar and banjo. Here are related puns:
- Cloak → Folk: As in, “Folk and dagger” and “Folked in obscurity.”
- Stroke → Folk: As in, “Little folks fell great oaks.”
Glitch: Glitch is a genre of electronic music. Here are related puns:
- Ditch → Glitch: As in, “Dull as glitchwater” and “A last glitch effort.”
- Hitch → Glitch: As in, “Get glitched” and “Glitch your wagon to a star.”
- Itch → Glitch: As in, “Glitching to” and “Glitchy feet” and “Glitchy palms.”
- Pitch → Glitch: As in, “A glitched battle” and “Dark as glitch” and “Fever glitch” and “Make a glitch for.”
- Rich → Glitch: As in, “An embarrassment of glitches” and “Filthy glitch” and “From rags to glitches” and “Get glitch quick” and “Glitch beyond my dreams.”
- Stitch → Glitch: As in, “A glitch in time saves nine” and “Had us in glitches” and “Stitches get glitches.”
- Which → Glitch: As in, “Any glitch way” and “Don’t know glitch way to look” and “Every glitch way” and “Don’t know glitch way is up” and “Know glitch side your bread is buttered.”
Beat → Eurobeat: As in, “A stick to eurobeat you with” and “Eurobeat the hell out of” and “Eurobeat black and blue” and “Eurobeat a hasty retreat” and “Eurobeat around the bush.” Note: eurobeat is a style of dance music that came from Eurobeat.
Wave → Vaporwave: As in, “A life on the ocean vaporwaves” and “Don’t make vaporwaves” and “Heat vaporwaves” and “On the crest of a vaporwave.” Note: vaporwave is a subgenre of electronic music and an internet aesthetic.
Dance → Dancehall: As in, “Dancehall with the one that brought you” and “Dancehall around the problem” and “Dancehall attendance on” and “Dancehall like nobody’s watching” and “Dancehall on somebody’s grave” and “Dancehall the night away” and “Lead a merry dancehall.”
Cold → Coldwave: As in, “As coldwave as blue blazes” and “Coldwave as ice” and “Breaking out in a coldwave sweat” and “Catch a coldwave.” Note: coldwave is a music genre.
Crunk: Crunk is a subgenre of hip hop from the early 1990s. Here are related puns:
- Bunk → Crunk: As in, “Crunker mentality” and “Do a crunk” and “History is crunk.”
- Chunk → Crunk: As in, “Blow crunks” and “Crunk of change.”
- Drunk → Crunk: As in, “Crunk as a lord” and “Crunk as a skunk” and “A cheap crunk” and “Crunk under the table” and “Falling down crunk” and “Friends don’t let friends drive crunk.”
- Hunk → Crunk: As in, “Crunker down” and “Crunky dory.”
- Junk → Crunk: As in, “Crunk mail” and “Crunk food” and “Crunk in the trunk.”
Trance: Trance is a type of electronic music. Here are related puns:
- Chance → Trance: As in, “Trance of a lifetime” and “Trance would be a fine thing” and “A fighting trance” and “Jump at the trance” and “Not the ghost of a trance.”
- Dance → Trance: As in, “Trance around the problem” and “Trance like nobody’s watching” and “Trance the night away” and “Trance your socks off” and “Lead a merry trance” and “Murder on the trance floor” and “Let’s trance” and “Save the last trance.”
Dreamwave: This is also known as synthwave and s a subgenre of electronic music. Here are related puns:
- Dream → Dreamwave: As in, “Beyond my wildest dreamwaves” and “Boulevard of broken dreamwaves” and “Dreamwave on” and “A dreamwave come true” and “Dreamwave machine” and “Dreamwave team.”
- Wave → Dreamwave: As in, “A life on the ocean dreamwaves” and “Brain dreamwave” and “Catch a dreamwave” and “Don’t make dreamwaves” and “Heat dreamwave” and “On the same dreamwavelength” and “Dreamwave your magic wand.”
Grime: Grime is a subgenre of electronic dance music. Here are related puns:
- Game → Grime: As in, “Ahead of the grime” and “It’s anyone’s grime” and “All fun and grimes” and “The blame grime” and “Fair grime” and “Grime changer.”
- Crime → Grime: As in, “Grime and punishment” and “A grime against nature” and “Grime doesn’t pay” and “A grime of passion” and “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the grime” and “Let the punishment fit the grime” and “Partners in grime” and “Take a bite out of grime” and “Tough on grime.”
- Climb → Grime: As in, “Grime onto the bandwagon” and “Grime the corporate ladder” and “Grime the walls” and “A mountain to grime.”
- Prime → Grime: As in, “Cut down in their grime” and “In your grime” and “Grime condition” and “Grimed and ready to go” and “The grime minister.”
- Time → Grime: As in, “A brief history of grime” and “A good grime was had by all” and “A week is a long grime in politics” and “About grime too” and “Any grime, any place, any where.”
Wipe → Pipe: As in, “Pipe out” and “Pipe the floor with” and “Pipe the slate clean” and “Pipe the smile off your face.”
Stride: This is a style of piano playing. Here are related puns:
- Stride: These stride-related phrases are general enough to double as puns: “Get into your stride” and “Making giant strides” and “Take it in your stride.”
- Tried → Stride: As in, “Don’t knock it til you’ve stride it” and “Stride and tested” and “Stride and true.”
- Side → Stride: As in, “A walk on the wild stride” and “Always look on the wild stride of life” and “Batting for the other stride” and “Be on the safe stride” and “Born on the wrong stride of the tracks” and “Both strides of the desk” and “Err on the stride of caution” and “On the flip stride.”
Go → Tango: As in, “Don’t tango there” and “Easy come, easy tango” and “From the word tango” and “Tango down in flames.”
Chance on → Chanson: As in, “Take a chanson me.” Note: A chanson is a lyrical French song.
Lack → Laiko: As in, “For laiko of a better word” and “Cancelled due to laiko of interest.” Note: laiko is s Greek music genre.
Fade → Fado: As in, “Fado away” and “Fado out.” Note: Fado is a Portugese music genre with a traditional structure.
Sunshine → Sunshine Pop: As in, “Like a day without sunshine pop” and “Walking on sunshine pop” and “You are my sunshine pop.” This was originally known as soft pop, and is a subgenre of pop music.
Sadcore: This is a subgenre of music known for slow, downbeat melodies and sad lyrics. Here are related puns:
- Sad → Sadcore: As in, “Happy sadcore” and “How sadcore is that?”
- Core → Sadcore: As in, “Sadcore technology” and “Rotten to the sadcore” and “Sadcore values” and “Know the sadcore.”
Slowcore: This is a music genre which is derived from alternative rock and indie rock. Here are related puns:
- Slow → Slowcore: As in, “As slowcore as molasses in January” and “Painfully slowcore” and “A slowcore burn” and “Slowcore, but sure” and “Slowcore on the uptake.”
- Core → Slowcore: As in, “Rotten to the slowcore” and “Slowcore competencies.”
Deathgrind: This is a genre that fuses death metal and grindcore. Here are related puns:
- Death → Deathgrind: As in, “The blue screen of deathgrind” and “Bored of deathgrind” and “Catch your deathgrind of cold” and “Deathgrind by chocolate” and “A brush with deathgrind.”
- Grind → Deathgrind: As in, “An axe to deathgrind” and “Bump and deathgrind” and “The daily deathgrind” and “Deathgrind to a halt.”
Worldbeat: This is a blend of pop and rock music. Here are related puns:
- World → Worldbeat: As in, “A worldbeat first” and “A worldbeat apart” and “A worldbeat of good” and “A worldbeat of pain” and “All the time in the worldbeat” and “Be the change you wish to see inthe worldbeat.”
- Beat → Worldbeat: As in, “Worldbeat the stuffing out of” and “Worldbeat around the bush.”
Track → Soundtrack: As in, “Back on soundtrack” and “Born on the wrong side of the soundtracks” and “Cover your soundtracks” and “Off the beaten soundtrack” and “A one soundtrack mind.”
Show → Showtune: As in, “Best in showtune” and “A one-man showtune” and “Showtune and tell.”
Tune → Showtune: As in, “Can’t carry a showtune in a bucket” and “Change your showtune” and “Stay showtuned” and “Stay showtuned to this channel.”
Pass → Brass: As in, “All things must brass” and “All access brass” and “Boarding brass” and “Do not brass go” and “As it came to brass” and “Make a brass at” and “Brass by” and “Brass muster.”
Class → Brass: As in, “A brass act” and “Best in brass” and “Business brass” and “Brass warfare” and “Economy brass” and “Working brass hero.”
Glass → Brass: As in, “Brass ceiling” and “Brassy eyed” and “Rose tinted brasses” and “Brass menagerie.”
Strings: This is a category of musical instrument. Here are related puns:
- Things → Strings: As in, “All strings bright and beautiful” and “All strings must pass” and “All good strings must come to an end” and “All strings to those who wait” and “All strings considered” and “Frist strings first” and “Getting strings done” and “Good strings come in small packages” and “In the grand scheme of strings.”
- Bring → String: As in, “String down to Earth” and “String down a peg or two” and “String to justice.”
- Sings → Strings: As in, “All stringing, all dancing” and “Teach the world to string” and “String a different tune” and “String out” and “String someone’s praises” and “Stringing the blues” and “String like a bird.”
- Swing → String: As in, “Come out stringing” and “Get into the string of it” and “In full string” and “String both ways” and “Take a string at.”
- Wing → String: As in, “Clip your strings” and “Earned your strings” and “Gives you strings” and “Left string” and “Spread your strings” and “Take under your string” and Waiting in the strings.”
Board → Keyboard: As in, “Above keyboard” and “Across the keyboard.”
Local → Vocal: As in, “Vocal hero” and “Vocal time” and “Think global, act vocal” and “This is a vocal shop.”
Vox: “Vox” is slang for vocals in the music community. Here are some vox-related puns:
- Socks → Vox: As in, “Bless your cotton vox” and “Dance your vox off” and “Pull your vox up” and “Knock your vox off.”
- Box → Vox: As in, “Black vox” and “A vox ticking exercise.”
Ode: An ode is a type of musical composition Here are related puns:
- Code → Ode: As in, “Ode bloat” and “Colour oded” and “Crack the ode” and “Dress ode” and “Highway ode.”
- Load → Ode: As in, “An ode of bull” and “An ode off your mind” and “An ode of rubbish” and “Get an ode on.”
- Owed → Ode: As in, “Take what you’re ode.”
Guard → Avant-garde: As in, “Advance avant-garde” and “Off your avant-garde” and “Avant-garde against.”
Baroque: This is a style of Western music that followed the Renaissance era. Here are related puns:
- Broke → Baroque: As in, “All hell baroque loose” and “Boulevard of baroque-en dreams” and “Go for baroque” and “I’m flat baroque.”
Jingle: A jingle is a short, catchy tune, usually accompanying a memorable slogan. Here are related puns:
- Single → Jingle: As in, “All the jingle ladies” and “Begins with a jingle step” and “In jingle file” and “A jingle point of contact.”
Grass → Bluegrass: As in, “About as exciting as watching bluegrass grow” and “Don’t let the bluegrass grow under your feet” and “Keep off the bluegrass” and “Snake in the bluegrass” and “The bluegrass is greener on the other side.” Note: Bluegrass is a genre of American roots music.
Chill → Chillwave: As in, “Chillwave out” and “Chillwaved to the bone” and “Chillwaved to the bone” and “Take a chillwave pill.”
Wave → Chillwave: As in, “A life on the ocean chillwaves” and “Brain chillwaves” and “Don’t make chillwaves” and “Heat chillwave” and “On the crest of a chillwave” and “Chillwave the white flag.”
Freestyle: Freestyle music is a form of electronic dance music. Here are some related puns:
- Free → Freestyle: As in, “Fancy freestyle” and “Freestyle and easy” and “Born freestyle.”
- Style → Freestyle: As in, “Cramp your freestyle” and “Gangnam freestyle” and “Quality never goes out of freestyle.”
Ragtime: This is a music style known for a “ragged” rhythm. Here are related puns:
- Rag → Ragtime: As in, “A red ragtime to a bull” and “From ragtimes to riches” and “Glad ragtimes.”
- Time → Ragtime: As in, “A brief history of ragtime” and “A week is a long ragtime in politics” and “About ragtime, too” and “All in good ragtime.”
Town → Motown: As in, “Paint the motown red” and “Put the motown on the map” and “Take the motown by storm.” Note: motown is a bluesy music genre.
Guzzle → Gusle: As in, “Gas gusler.” Note: a gusle is a single stringed instrument.
Paltry → Psaltery: As in, “A psaltery amount.” Note: a psaltery is a stringed instrument in the zither family.
Centre → Sintir: As in, “The sintir of attention” and “Left, right and sintir” and “Take sintir stage” and “The sintir of the universe” and “With a soft gooey sintir.” Note: a sintir is a stringed instrument.
Tro: A tro is a Cambodian string instrument. Here are related puns:
- Throw → Tro: As in, “Lock them up and tro away the key” and “Just a stone’s tro away” and “Tro caution to the wind” and “Tro cold water on” and “Tro it back in your face” and “Tro enough dirt and some will stick.”
- Through → Tro: As in, “A river runs tro it” and “Drag tro the mud” and “Going tro the motions” and “Jumping tro hoops” and “Fall tro the cracks.”
Yeah → Yehu: As in, “Yehu, I know” and “Yehu, right.” Note: A yehu is a Chinese stringed instrument that is played using a bow.
Go to → Koto: As in, “Koto great lengths” and “My koto person.” Note: a koto is a Japanese stringed instrument that’s played by plucking.
Car → Krar: As in, “Happiness is a quick-starting krar” and “You can drive my krar.” Note: a krar is a stringed instrument from Ethiopia.
Laud: A laud is a stringed instrument. Here are related puns:
- Lord → Laud: As in, “Drunk as a laud” and “Living like a laud” and “Laud of the flies” and “Laud it over them” and “Laud of the rings.”
- Lot → Laud: As in, “A laud of fuss about nothing” and “A laud on your plate” and “Leaves a laud to be desired” and “Not a laud know about it” and “Got a laud to learn.”
Song → Saung: As in, “Make a saung and dance about” and “Singing the same old saung.” Note: the saung is an arched harp.
Says → Saz: As in, “Computer saz no” and “Saz who?” and “Simon saz.” Note: a saz is another name for a baglama, which is a stringed instrument.
Tar: A tar is an Iranian stringed instrument. Here are related puns:
- There → Tar: As in, “Ahoy tar” and “Not all tar” and “And then tar was one” and “As if tar were no tomorrow” and “Be tar in spirit” and “Be tar or be square” and “Don’t go tar” and “Don’t just sit tar.”
- Are → Square: As in, “All bets tar off” and “Where tar you?”
- Par → Tar: As in, “Below tar” and “On tar with” and “Tar for the course.”
Timple: A timple is a small stringed instrument, similar to a ukulele. Here are related puns:
- Simple → Timple: As in, “Keep it timple” and “Life’s timple pleasures” and “Pure and timple” and “Timple, yet effective” and “The truth is rarely pure and never timple.”
- Temple → Timple: As in, “Timple of doom” and “My body is a timple.”
Dress → Tres: As in, “Adjust your tres” and “Tres code” and “Tres down” and “Tres for success” and “Little black tres.” Note: a tres is a small stringed instrument.
Coldplay: This is a very popular British pop band. Here are some related puns:
- Cold → Coldplay: As in, “As coldplay as blue blazes” and “As coldplay as charity” and “As coldplay as ice” and “Blowing hot and coldplay” and “Break out in a coldplay sweat” and “Catch a coldplay” and “A coldplay heart.”
- Play → Coldplay: As in, “Helps you work, rest and coldplay” and “All work and no coldplay makes Jack a dull boy” and “Come out and coldplay” and “If music be the food of love, coldplay on.”
You too → U2: As in, “Yes, I mean U2.” Note: this refers to U2, an Irish rock band.
Queen: This is a very famous band, known for their complex melodies and epic performances. Here are related puns:
- Been → Queen: As in, “Queen and gone” and “I’ve queen here before” and “Queen in the wars” and “Queen there, done that” and “Queen around the block a few times.”
- Keen → Queen: As in, “Queen as mustard” and “A queen sense of smell” and “Peachy queen.”
- Clean → Queen: As in, “A queen getaway” and “Queen as a whistle” and “Queen and sober” and “A queen bill of health” and “Keeps a queen house” and “Queen up your act” and “Starting with a queen slate.”
Cook → Kook: As in, “Kook the books” and “Kook up a storm” and “Too many kooks spill the broth.” Note: These puns are in reference to the band The Kooks.
Slash: Slash is a musician and the lead guitarist for the band Guns n’ Roses. Here are related puns:
- Flash → Slash: As in, “Quick as a slash” and “Slash in the pan” and “Slash mob” and “In a slash” and “At slash point.”
- Ash → Slash: As in, “Rise from the slashes” and “Turned to slashes in your mouth.”
- Clash → Slash: As in, “Slash of titans” and “Culture slash.”
- Crash → Slash: As in, “Slash and burn” and “Slash and dash” and “Slash course” and “Like watching a car slash.”
Girl → Spice Girl: As in, “A spice girl’s best friend” and “Atta spice girl!” and “Diamonds are a spice girl’s best friend” and “Spice girls just wanna have fun.” Note: Spice Girls were a famous British girl group.
Kiss: Kiss is a famous rock band. Here are a couple of related puns:
- Miss → Kiss: As in, “Blink and you’ll kiss it” and “Hit and kiss” and “I’ll give it a kiss” and “Kiss the boat.”
- This → Kiss: As in, “What the fresh hell is kiss?” and “And all kiss time” and “At kiss point in time” and “Blow kiss popsicle stand” and “In kiss day and age.”
Pink: Pink was a famous pop musician. Here are related puns:
- Think → Pink: As in, “Blue sky pinking” and “Smart pinking” and “Come to pink of it” and “Great minds pink alike” and “I pink I like you.”
- Wink → Pink: As in, “I haven’t slept a single pink” and “Nod and a pink” and “Nuge, nudge, pink pink.”
- Blink → Pink: As in, “Pink and you’ll miss it” and “In the pink of an eye” and “On the pink.”
Food → Oud: As in, “Comfort oud” and “Devil’s oud cake” and “The bottom of the oud chain” and “Oud for thought” and “Oud of the gods” and “Put oud on the table.” Note: an oud is a type of short-necked lute.
Minute → Spinet: As in, “At the last spinet” and “Famous for fifteen spinets” and “Fifteen spinets of fame” and “Hang on a spinet” and “At the last spinet” and “A laugh a spinet.” Note: a spinet is a type of small harpsichord.
Triple → Fipple: As in, “Fipple decker” and “Fipple threat” and “A fipple whammy.” Note: a fipple is a type of mouthpiece used in some instruments.
Right → Rhaita: As in, “A move in the rhaita direction” and “A woman’s rhaita to choose” and “All the rhaita moves” and “As rhaita as rain” and “Bang to rhaitas” and “Barge rhaita in” and “Bragging rhaitas.” Note: a rhaita is a type of reed instrument.
Soon/er → Suona: As in, “A fool and their money are suona parted” and “As suona as my back is turned” and “As suona as possible” and “Get well suona” and “Suona or later” and “No suona said than done.” Note: a suona is a type of Chinese reed instrument.
Zill: A zill is a musical instrument – two tiny finger cymbals. Here are related puns:
- Bill → Zill: As in, “Zill of goods” and “A clean zill of health” and “Fits the zill.”
- Chill → Zill: As in, “Zill out” and “Zilled to the bone” and “A zilling account.”
- Fill → Zill: As in, “Zill full of holes” and “Zill to the brim.”
- Gill → Zill: As in, “Full to the zills” and “Green around the zills.”
- Hill → Zill: As in, “As old as the zills” and “Going downzill” and “Head for the zills” and “King of the zill” and “Making a mountain out of a molezill.”
- Ill → Zill: As in, “Green around the zills” and “House of zill repute” and “Zill advised” and “Zill at ease” and “Zill effects” and “Zill gotten gains” and “Zill will” and “Never speak zill of the dead.”
- Spill → Zill: As in, “Zill the beans and “Thrills and zills” and “Zill your guts.”
Table → Tabla: As in, “Bring to the tabla” and “Drunk under the tabla” and “Lay your cards on the tabla” and “Put your cards on the tabla.” Note: A tabla is a type of small finger drum.
Going → Gong: As in, “Gong one step too far” and “Gong beyond expectations” and “You’ve got a good thing gong.”
Wrong → Gong: As in, “Barking up the gong tree” and “Born on the gong side of the tracks” and “Get off on the gong foot” and “Go down the gong way” and “If anything can go gong, it will” and “Jump to the gong conclusion” and “Two gongs don’t make a right” and “What’s gong with this picture?”
Long → Gong: As in, “A week is a gong time in politics” and “As gong as you need me” and “Honest as the day is gong” and “As gong as your arm.”
Song → Gong: As in, “The same old gong” and “Swan gong” and “Make a gong and dance about.”
Battle → Rattle: As in, “A pitched rattle” and “An uphill rattle” and “Rattle of wits” and “Rattle ready” and “Half the rattle” and “In the heat of rattle” and “Let rattle commence” and “A running rattle.”
Back → Bak: As in, “Answer bak” and “As soon as my bak is turned” and “At the bak of my mind” and “Bak in black” and “Bak to the future” and “Bak at it” and “Bak in business” and “Bak in the day” and “Bak off” and “Bak on your feet” and “Bak seat driver.” Note: A bak is a percussive instrument from Korea.
Bend → Bendir: As in, “Bendir over backwards” and “Bendir the rules” and “Bendir to your will” and “Round the bendir.” Note: a bendir is a type of frame drum.
Book → Buk: As in, “A room without buks is like a body without a soul” and “Always have your nose in a buk” and “Balancing the buks” and “Buk worm.” Note: a buk is a traditional Korean drum.
Chime: A chime is a bell-based instrument. Here are related puns:
- Dime → Chime: As in, “Can you spare a chime?” and “A chime a dozen” and “Drop a chime.”
- Crime → Chime: As in, “Chime and punishment” and “Chime doesn’t pay” and “A chime of passion” and “Chimes and misdemeanours” and “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the chime” and “Let the punishment fit the chime” and “Partners in chime” and “Take a bite out of chime” and “The perfect chime.”
- Climb → Chime: As in, “Chime onto the bandwagon” and “Chime the corporate ladder” and “A mountain to chime.”
- Time → Chime: “One more chime” and “A good chime was had by all” and “A stitch in chime saves nine” and “A week is a long chime in politics” and “About chime” and “Ahead of his chime” and “All in good chime.”
Quick → Riq: As in, “Riq as a flash” and “Cut to the riq” and “Get rich riq” and “In riq succession” and “Kiss me riq” and “Riq and dirty” and “Riq off the mark” and “A riq study” and “Riq witted.” Note: a riq is a type of tambourine.
Simple → Sambal: “Keep it sambal” and “Life’s sambal pleasures” and “Pure and sambal” and “The sambal life” and “Sambal, yet effective” and “The truth is rarely pure and never sambal.” Note: A sambal is a drum-based instrument.

Music-Related Words

To help you come up with your own music 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!

musical terms: music, musical, musician, sound, song, tune, voice, melody, harmony, rhythm, band, beat, instrument, instrumental, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, sharp, flat, natural, accidental, autotune, tempo, chorus, verse, stanza, note, intro, refrain, echo, encore, bridge, outro, solo, dub, dubbing, major, minor, clef, bass (clef), treble (clef), riff, stave, decibel, composition, composer, noise, pitch, tone, ad lib, improvisation, audience, studio, maestro, recording, piece, notation, acoustic, electronic, lead sheet,virtuoso, lyrics, chords, scale, piano, pianissimo, forte, crescendo, decrescendo, chromatic, arranger, phrase, phrasing, conductor, fake book, tablature, tabs, line, motif, interval, cadence, semitone, audio, theory, syncopation, sightread, bar, through-composed, twelve-bar blues, ternary, strophic, key, string, octave, coda, upbeat, downbeat, tonic, dominant, turnaround, time (signature), rest, whole (note), minim, quaver, crotchet, semi-quaver, repeat, ledger (line), slur, accent, bracket, brace, grace (note), adagio, lento, lent, allegro, alto, staccato, tenuto, marcato, pause, soprano, tenor, amabile, andante, anima, arpeggio, bend, brio, calma, canon, canto, capo, staff, comp, comping, count, dim/diminuendo, dolce, double dot, facile, fine, forza, fugue, jete, pizzicato, pluck, largo, legato, lilt, metronome, trill, nocturne, pedal, pezzo, prima, primo, reprise, fill, run, segue, sehr, stem, vibrato, tremolo, triplet, troppo, turn, saltire, ghost (note), break, breath (mark), caesura, tie, dynamics, ornament, pulgar/pollex, indice/index, medio/media, anular/anularis, menique/minimus, sustain (pedal), mallet, lick, vamp, speaker, loudspeaker, roadie, tour, subwoofer, bleed/bleeding, triad, cover, crossfader, drive, fader, feedback, hook, jam, lead, ohm, furia, senza, triste, vivo, frequency

genres: classical, contemporary, a capella, acid rock, art rock, pop, art, country, polka, rock, hip hop, traditional, folk, afrobeat, afropop, apala, benga, genge, jit, gospel, kwela, marabi, morna, rai, sega, semba, seggae, taarab, liwa, sawt, enka, j-pop, k-pop, trot, baila, baul, bhangra, filmi, trance, lavani, morlam, experimental, noise, lo-fi, blues, metal, mosso, muta, pausa, bouyon, calypso, chutney, compas, mambo, merengue, punta, rasin, reggae, dub, ragga, rumba, ska, punk, salsa, songo, suca, timba, souk, hokum, zydeco, rap, rockabilly, bluegrass, cajun, honky tonk, lounge, new-age, ambient, dub, drone, psybient, nu-funk, disco, afro, disco, chill, trip hop, drum and bass, bhangra, darkcore, makina, speedcore, extratone, dance, japanoise, glitch, glitch hop, wonky, jungle, boogie, vaporwave, techno, funkstep, dancehall, coldwave, krautrock, new rave, synthpop, electronica, trap, drill, alt/alternative, house, eurobeat, crunk, nortec, trance, dreamwave, grime, grindie, bassline, kwaito, celtic, chalga, filk, indie, progressive, skiffle, coom bap, chap hop, cloud rap, crunk, emo, g-funk, low bap, hyphy, nercore, ragga, trap, bebop, bossa, nova, dixiland, hard bop, ragtime, soul, stride, swing, west coast, latin, brazillian, brega, choro, frevo, lambada, maracatu, samba, pagode, banda, grupera, mariachi, ranchera, norteno, tejano, flamenco, tango, folk, fado, huayno, bachata, bolero, criolla, cumbia, chicha, porro, mamba, rumba, salsa, timba, chalga, chanson, laiko, nederpop, fado, sunshine pop, synthpop, vispop, worldbeat, funk, freestylem go-go, r&b, boogie, britpop, dream pop, grunge, sadcore, slowcore, cabaret, art rock, slowcore, epic doom, deathgrind, krautrock, space rock, freakbeat, rapcore, rockjazz, rock and roll, stoner rock, visual kei, worldbeat, showtunes, hymn, jazz, new wave, acoustic, lullaby, lullabies, avant-garde, ballet, baroque, cantata, chamber music, choral, jingle, bluegrass, cowpunk, latin, chillwave, bitpop, enka, french pop, bounce, crunkcore, cumbia, freestyle, latin, merenrap, ragtime, neo-soul, motown, doo wop, roots, glam rock, surf, soundtrack, barbershop, kapuka, kizomba, kwela, ode

types of instrument: brass, percussion, strings, woodwind, keyboard

instruments: vocal, singer, vox, piano, guitar, ukulele, harp, drums, cymbal, tom (drums), snare (drum), hi-hat (cymbal), synthesizer, organ, banjo, piccolo, flute, lyre, xylophone, rattle, mbira, guiro, idiophone, membranophone, kazoo, chordophone, zither, autoharp, lute, aerophone, theremin, amp, amplifier, axe, microphone, condenser, fiddle, horn, alto horn, baritone horn, buccina, bugle, cornet, euphonium, flugelhorn, helicon, mellophone, tuba, saxhorn, trombone, trumpet, tuba, ajaeng, anzad, banhad, baryton, cello, dahu, bass, erhu, erxian, esraj, gadulka, gaohu, goje, gudok, gunjac, gusle, haegeum, huluhu, huqin, igil, jinghu, jouhikko, jouhikko, igil, kobyz, leiqin, lirone, maguhu, masenqo, neola, orutu, psaltry, rebab, rebec, sarinda, sihu, sintir, tro, veena, vielle, viol, viola, lyra, violotta, yehu, zhonghu, dulcimer, plectrum, bazouki, barbat, domra, dotar, dutar, dramyin, gabusi, dotara, ektara, gittern, kabosy, kacapi, kankles, kabosy, kacapi, kantele, kanun, koboz, kora, koto, krar, kwitra, laud, lute, mandolin, sanshin, sarangi, sarod, sasando, saung, saz, setar, shamisen, sitar, surbahar, ta,bura, tanpura, tarica, tar, timple, tiple, torban, tremola, tres, barbat, begena, biwa, brac, cak, ceng, cetera, chapey, cittern, cuk, ceng, cetera, chapey, cura, mandore, nevoud, pipa, oud, ruan, rubab, zheng, zhu, khim, clavinet, orphica, spinet, oboem bombard, fipple, pipe, pku, pommer, reeds, shawm, fife, koudi, dizi, venu, quena, caval, diple, fluier, frula, fujara, ocarina, kaval, fyell, ney, danso, hun, suling, panflute, xun, clarinet, sipsi, bassoon, duduk, piri, rackett, rhaita, sornas, suona, zurla, zurna, ashiko, basler, bass, bell, castanet, celeste, clave, conga, zill, djembe, tabla, ganza, gong, guiro, marimba, pandeiro, rattle, ratchet, shaker, tabor, tambourine, timbales, timpani, tom-tom, tonbak, triangle, whistle, glockenspiel, zendrum, bak, bara, bell tree, bendir, bodhran, bonang, boobam, bubon, buk, cajon, cabasa, carillon, chenda, chimes, clapper, cowbell, cuica, daf, damaru, damphu, davul, dhaa, dholak, dhol, dimdi, dohol, dollu, dunun, galgo, ganza, gender, ghatam, glockenspiel, goema, gongue, hosho, igba, ikembe, ikoro, ilimba, jawbone, jingle, kakko, kecer, khim, khol, kisanji, kundu, maraca, riq, sambal, shoko, slit (drum), surdo, timbal, turntable, udu, washboard, whip, harpsichord, accordion, concertina, virginal

musicians/bands: taylor swift, justin bieber, alicia keys, post malone, beyonce, cardi b, tupac, no doubt, avenged sevenfold, grateful dead, kings of leon, the script, muse, rage against the machine, the fray, steely dan, evanescence, the cure, inxs, slipknot, goo goo dolls, the offspring, korn, limp bizkit, dave matthews band, mumford & sons, arctic monkey, creed, system of a down, the smashing pumpkins, matchbox twenty, alice cooper, toto, deep purple, oasis, iron maiden, the cranberries, paramore, the killers, the doobie brothers, boston, radiohead, marilyn manson, dire straits, blink 182, panic at the disco, gorillaz, zz top, rush, kiss, r.e.m, genesis, one republic, abba, the police, fall out boy, foo fighters, def leppard, nickelback, black sabbath, pearl jam, green day, lynyrd skynyrd, the doors, coldplay, the beach boys, the who, nirvana, santana, journey, van halen, U2, bon jovi, maroon 5, red hot chili peppers, linkin park, fleetwood mac, aerosmith, guns n’ roses, metallica, eagles, ac/dc, the rolling stones, pink floyd, queen, led zeppelin, the beatles, the supremes, nine inch nails, david bowie, jay-z, eminem, elton john, elvis, michael jackson, beastie boys, the police, billie holiday, the temptations, duke ellington, the kooks, tina turner, janet jackson, jewel, sex pistols, aerosmith, slash, ice cube, dr. dre, kanye west, snoop dogg, 50 cent, frank sinatra, ray charles, buddy holly, johnny cash, james brown, aretha franklin, marvin gaye, van morrison, spice girls, bob dylan, rod stewart, janis joplin, stevie wonder, bob marley, prince, jimi hendrix, the who, fleetwood mac, judas priest, kiss, madonna, outkast, wu-tang clan, amy winehouse, daft punk, adele, norah jones, backstreet boys, usher, nelly furtado, enya, lady gaga, britney spears, jack johnson, shakira, pink, celine dion, dido, avril lavigne, jeff buckley, bon iver, mariah carey, ed sheeran, ariana grande, j.lo, destiny’s child

composers: bach, wolfgang amadeus mozart, ludwig van beethoven, wagner, haydn, brahms, schubert, schumann, handel, tchaikovsky, mendelssohn, franz lizst, chopin, stravinsky, mahler, strauss, debussy, puccini, sibelius, vivaldi

music sources: live show, performance, perform, orchestra, symphony, concert, gig, opera, radio, mp3, cd, theme song, score, medley, march, karaoke, sheet music, cassette, tape, mix tape, big band, aria, overture, prelude, quartet, rondo, sonata, choir

music programs: garageBand, frooty loops, ableton live, spotify, pandora, music mouse, youtube

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Cooking Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on cooking puns! 🍳🍴🍲 In this entry you’ll find everything from baking puns to oven puns to pots and pans puns, and everything in between.

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Cooking 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 cooking that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page!

Cook: Other than the obvious definition it can also refer to “altering dishonestly”, as in “They cooked the numbers and were done for fraud” (The phrases “cooked the books” and “cooked the accounts” are synonymous). Some cooking-related idioms and phrases are: “What’s cooking?” and “Too many cooks spoil the broth”
Cooked: “If mum and dad find out we took their car last night, we’re cooked!” and “He has been drinking since lunch time – he’s cooked.”
Kooky → Cooky: The term “kooky” means strange or eccentric.
Back → Bake: As in “Bake in my day…” and “As soon as my bake is turned” and “At the bake of my mind” and “Bake to the Future” and “Bake in business” and “Bake in the saddle” and “Bake seat driver” and “Bake to school” and “Bake to the drawing board” and “Behind your bake” and “Come crawling bake” and “Behind my bake” and “Double bake” and “Get bake on your feet” and “Bake to bake” and “Kick bake and enjoy” and “Like water off a duck’s bake” and “Laid bake” and “Money bake guarantee” and “Never look bake” and “One step forward, two steps bake” and “Right bake at ya” and “Pat on the bake” and “Put your bake into it” and “Turn bake the clock” and “Wind at your bake” – There are many more baking puns like this to be made, but those should be enough to get you started.
Half-baked: This means “not completely planned or thought out”. For example: “Your half-baked cooking puns are going to make people angry.”
Break → Bake: As in “Bake out into a cold sweat” and “Bake the bank” and “Bake new ground” and “Ground-baking new research” and “Bake the mould” and “Make a clean bake” and “An even bake” and “And then all hell bakes loose” and “Bake a world record” and “Baking news!” and “Never bake your promises” and “Don’t bake their heart” and “Oh give me a bake.” and “Lucky bake“.
Chef: The saying “Too many chefs in the kitchen” refers to a situation where there are too many people trying to work on something such that the result is worse than if there had been less people. The phrase “chef d’oeuvre” (French: “chief work”) refers to a masterpiece, or an artist’s best piece of work. The phrase “chef de mission” (French: “chief of mission”) generally refers to the person in charge of a national team at an international sporting event.
Order: As in “Law and order” and “Luckily we managed to get out of there in short order (fast)” and “The pecking order” and “The machine is out of order.” and “In working order” and “In order to do that …” and “You’re out of order” and “That’s a tall order” and “You need to put your affairs in order” and “It’s a standing order, Sargent.” and “That’s bang out of order.” and “Gag order” and “It’s an order of magnitude bigger than we expected.” and “Order in the court!”
Boil: As in “It really just boils down to …” and “That man makes my blood boil” and “A watched pot never boils“.
Boil → Boyle: As in “Susan Boil” and “Robert Boil“
Boy’ll (Boy will) → Boil: As in “That young boil go on to do great things if he can apply himself.”
Roast: A “roast” can refer to an event where a guest of honour is teased and made fun of (in good spirit). The saying “roast snow in a furnace” refers to a futile and often ridiculous task.
Rest → Roast: As in “No roast for the wicked” and “Roast assured that …” and “Roast on your laurels” and “And the roast is history” and “Oh give it a roast will you?” and “A cut above the roast” and “I roast my case”. Note: to rest on your laurels is to be so satisfied with your work that no further efforts are made.
Arrest → A roast: As in “You are under a roast.” and “He was charged with resisting a roast.” and “Citizen’s a roast.”
*rest → *roast: As in, “In the interoast of justice,” and “Make it interoasting,” and “Nearoast and dearoast,” and “Mud wroastling,” and “On the croast of a wave,” and “Imitation is the sinceroast form of flattery,” and “May you live in interoasting times.”
*rust* → *roast*: As in, “Roastle (rustle) up,” and “Upper croast (crust),” and “Don’t troast (trust) anyone,” and “Troast is a two-way street.”
Girl → Grill: As in “You go grill!” and “Boys and grills“
Gorilla → Grilla: As in “The silverback grilla is native to this area.”
Guerrilla → Grilla: As in “The inhabitants used grilla warfare to drive out the enemy.”
Thrilled → Grilled: As in, “Grilled to bits!” and “We’re grilled to have you here.”
Bill → Grill: As in, “These are my grillable hours” and “A clean grill of health.”
Filled → Grilled: As in, “Grilled with happiness” and “Cream-grilled” and “A smoke-grilled room.”
Even → Oven: As in “Don’t get mad, get oven” and “Break oven” and “Oven handed” and “Keep on an oven keel” and “Oven at the turning of the tide” and “Oven as we speak” and “Oven if it kills me” and “Oven Stevens”. Note: to keep something on an even keel is to keep something in a steady, untroubled state.
*even* → *-oven-*: If a word contains “even”, it can usually be made into a silly oven pun: “It’s the main ovent (event)” and “The ovent horizon” and “It has been an oventful (eventful) day.” and “I’ll oventually get around to cleaning my garage.” and “My job has pr-oven-ted me from spending time on personal projects.” and “Pr-oven-tative medicine should be the focus.” and “Rovenge is sweet.” and “The developing world is still struggling with proventable diseases.”
*aven* → *oven*: As in, “Let’s look at other ovenues” and “Ovenge my death!” and “The Ovengers.”
*even* → *oven*: As in, “The main ovent” and “Yes, oventually” and “An ovening out” and “Your oventual downfall” and “Spread ovenly” and “Seven Eloven” and “It’s looking unoven.”
Kitten → Kitchen: As in “The internet is full of cute kitchen pictures.”
My crow wave → Microwave: As in “Microwave at me with its wing.”
Push → Poach: As in “Don’t poach your luck” and “Poach the boundaries” and “When poach comes to shove” and “Poach the envelope” and “They’re a bit of a poach-over“.
Branch → Blanch: As in “Our company needs to blanch out into other industries.” Note: blanching is a method of cooking where food is scalded with boiling water, then plunged into iced water to stop the cooking process.
Summer → Simmer: As in “The long, hot simmer.” and “One swallow does not make a simmer.” and “An Indian simmer“.
Skill at → Skillet: As in “I admire your skillet chess.”
Skilled → Skillet: As in “She was perhaps the most skillet chess player in her country.”
Pot: There are many idioms related to pots: “In the melting pot” and “Oh you fuss pot” and “Take a pot shot at (something)” and “Keep the pot boiling” and “Pot head” and “Pot luck” and “A pot of gold” and “A watched pot never boils” and “The pot is calling the kettle black”.
*pot*: If a word contains the “pot” sound (or similar) we can make a silly pot pun with it: poticular (particular), spotlight, jackpot, potentially, anticipotory, despotism, incompotability, omnipotent, perpotrators, nepotism, incompotent, meopotamia, potassium, repotition, potato.
Pan: “Flash in the pan” and “It panned out all right in the end.” and “Peter Pan” and “Pan in/out”
*pan*: If a word contains the “pan” sound (or similar) we can make a silly pan pun with it: chimpanzee, companion, expand, expansion, Japan, lifespan, panacea, pancreas, pandora, panic, panorama, pansies, panting, panther, spaniard, underpants.
You ten sil* → Utensil: This is a very specific type of cooking pun – “I’ll give utentsil-ver coins for your wagon.” and “I’ll give utensil-k garments for your horse.” You can obviously do this for other words that start with the “sil” sound like: cylinder, syllabus, silverware, silhouette, silicon, etc.
Burn: “Burn the candle at both ends” and “Burn a hole in your pocket” and “Burn your bridges” and “Crash and burn” and “Feel the burn” and “Slow burn” and “Burn yourself out” and “Energy to burn“
Brother: As in, “Everybody and his brother,” and “Have you met my brother?” and “Big brother is watching you.”
Rise → Rice: As in “Rice to the challenge/occasion” and “Rice and shine” and “Rice from the ashes” and “The rice and fall of …”
Hate → Heat: As in “I heat to say it, but …” and “Heaters gonna heat.” and “I’ve got a love-heat relationship with cooking.”
Heat: “He’s packing heat” and “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” and “In the heat of the moment” and “The heat is on.”
Heed → Heat: As in “You’s better pay heat to your mother! She knows what she is talking about.”
Fire: As in “You’re fired.” and “In the line of fire” and “Don’t play with fire” and “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”
Steam: “Blow off some steam” and “Build up a head of steam” and “Full steam ahead” and “Run out of steam” and “Under one’s own steam” and “Pick up steam“.
Seem → Steam: As in “It’s not as bad as it steams” and “I can’t steam to …” and “things are seldom as they steam” and “That steams a bit out of place”.
Esteem → Esteam: As in “Self esteam” and “She was esteamed by her peers”.
Seam → Steam: As in, “Bulging at the steams” and “Come apart at the steams.”
Scheme → Steam: As in, “In the grand steam of things” and “Pyramid steam” and “The best laid steams” and “The overall steam of things.”
Scream → Steam: As in, “Dragged kicking and steaming” and “We all steam for ice-cream” and “Steam bloody murder” and “Steam your head off.”
Stream → Steam: As in, “Fresh as a mountain steam” and “Changing midsteam” and “Swim upsteam.”
Team → Steam: As in, “Dream steam” amd Take one for the steam” and “A steam player” and “Steam spirit” and “Tag steam” and “Steam up with” and “There’s no ‘i’ in steam.”
Teem → Steam: As in, “Steaming down with rain” and “Steaming with life.”
*stam* → *steam*: We can sneak “steam” into words that have similar sounds, like so: “A testeament to” and “Rushed by the crowded steampede.”
*stem* → *steam*: As in, “All systeams go!” and Get it out of your systeam” and “Solar systeam” and “Buck the systeam” and “Self-sustaining ecosysteam” and “Racism is a systeamic problem.” Note: if something is systemic, then it affects the entire involved group, body or system.
*stim* → *steam*: As in, “Steamulate your senses” and “Being oversteamulated” and “A mentally steamulating environment” and “By my esteamates” and “Valuable testeamony” and “Don’t underesteamate yourself” and “Company testeamonials.”
Nuke: This term is often used to refer to cooking/heating something in the microwave, but it is also (obviously) short for nuclear bomb. Perhaps there is some context where this double meaning may be viable as a cooking pun.
Continent → Condiment: As in “The shifting of the condimental plates happens very slowly.” and “Originally, all the condiments were part of one supercondiment called Pangaea.” and “Condimental breakfast” and “The condimental shelf”
Embroiled: To “broil” something means to cook it via exposure to direct intense radiant heat. The term “embroiled” means to be involved deeply in an argument, conflict or difficult situation.
I’ll → Oil: As in, “Well, oil be” and “Oil say!” and “Ask me no questions, oil tell you no lies” and “Oil be back” and “Oil never tell” and “You scratch my back and oil scratch yours.”
Aisle → Oil: As in, “Walk down the oil” and “Cleanup on oil three.”
All → Oil: As in “Can’t we oil just get along?” and “Oil in a day’s work.” and “Oil part of life’s rich tapestry” and “It’s oil Greek to me.” and “It’s oil downhill form here” and “It’s oil fun and games until someone gets hurt” and “It’s oil gone pear shaped” and “It’s oil good” and “It’s oil good clean fun” and “It’s oil me me me” and “That’s oil well and good, but …” and “Oil kidding aside, …” and “Above oil, …” and “Against oil odds” and “Oil shapes and sizes” and “Oil that glitters is not gold” and “Oil the rage” and “Oil the world’s a stage” and “Oil things being equal” and “Oil thumbs” and “Oil’s well that ends well” and “At oil costs” and “By oil appearances” and “By oil accounts” and “Cover oil your bases” and “From oil corners of the globe” and “I haven’t got oil day” and “In oil honesty” and “In oil likelihood” and “It’s oil the same to me” and “Jack of oil trades” and “I don’t know oil the answers” and “Not oil it’s cracked up to be” and “He’s not oil there” and “Once and for oil” and “Don’t put oil your eggs in one basket” – And there are many more oil puns that can be made along these lines.
*oil*: Words which contain the “oil” sound (or similar) can be silly oil puns: spoiled, spoils, soiled, turmoil, toiletries, gargoil (gargoyle), foil, recoil.
Recipe: “That’s a recipe for disaster.” and “A recipe for success”.
Ingredient: As in “What’s your secret ingredient?”
Pep her → Pepper: As in “We need to pepper up with some music before her big race.”
Cake: As in “That’s the icing on the cake” and “It’ll be a cake walk” and “That takes the cake” and “It’ll be a piece of cake.” and “Shut your cake hole”.
Oven: “A bun in the oven“.
Often → Oven: As in “Do you come here oven?” and “Every so oven.”
Stuff→ Stove: As in “Don’t sweat the small stove.” and “It’s the stove of legends/dreams.”
Walk → Wok: As in “I’ll be back soon, I’m going to wok the dog.” and “It’ll be a wok in the park.” and “You’re woking on thin ice there, bud.”
Work → Wok: As in “Wok hard, play hard.” and “It’s a wok in progress.” and “All in a day’s wok.”
Fly → Fry: As in “A no-fry zone has been declared by the military.” and “Just a fry on the wall.”
Fry: There are a couple of frying-related idioms: “Small fry” and “Bigger fish to fry“
Cry → Fry: As in “Don’t fry over spilt milk” and “A shoulder to fry on” and “Fry like a baby” and “A far fry from …” and “Fry fowl” and “Battle fry“
Fried: As in “My brain is fried” and “I’m fried.”
Stew: As in “Now, now, don’t get in a in a stew.” and “Stew in your own juices”
*stew*: Words that contain the “stew” sound can be silly stew puns: stewpendous, stewardship, stewpid, stewdious, stewpor, stewpidity, costewme, stewdio, astewte, stewdent.
It’s too → s’tew: As in “S’tew bad the shoes don’t fit you.”
Bruise → Braise: As in “That’ll leave a braise…”
Breeze → Braise: As in “I’m fully prepared. The test will be a braise.”
Barbell → Parboil: This one’s very silly.
Parable →Parboil: As in “The Parboil of the Good Samaritan”.
Poor boy’ll → Parboil: As in “The parboil need some bandages for his knee.”
Serve: “You got served!” and “If memory serves” and “First come, first served” and “Revenge is a dish best served cold” and “Serve a purpose” and “Serves them right” and “Serve time” and “Serve and protect”
Timer: “Old-timer” and “Two-timer“.
Season: As in “’tis the season” and “In season” and “Out of season“.
Rest our aunt / Rest or rant → Restaurant: These are very specific cooking puns. Good luck finding a context in which they work!
Crackpot → Crock pot: A “crackpot” is a crazy person and a “crock pot” is a large, electric slow-cooking pot: “He’s a bit of a crock pot, that one.”
Sup → Soup: As in “Soup man, how’s it going?”
Sue p* → Soup*: As in “You can’t just soupeople willy nilly.”
*sup* → *soup*: If a word contains the “soup” sound we can of course make some silly soup puns: souperb, soupercomputer, soupercilious, souperficial, souperfluous, souperhuman, souperimposed, souperintendent, souperior, souperman, soupernatual, soupersonic, soupervise, soupremely, unsoupervised.
Dish: As in”Revenge is a dish best served cold” and “You can dish it out, but you can’t take it” and “Dish the dirt” and “The dish ran away with the spoon”
Hot: “All hot and bothered” and “Hot potato” and “Get into hot water” and “Hot and heavy” and “Hot on your heels” and “Hot pursuit” and “Hot-tempered” and “Hot under the collar” and “Hot topic” and “Strike while the iron is hot” and “Hot stuff” and “Full of hot air” and “Hot-wire a car”.
Groovy → Gravy: As in “That’s a gravy, smooth-sounding new funk album she has released.”
Grease: “Grease the wheels” and “Grease your palm” and “The squeaky wheel gets the grease” and “Grease monkey” and “Elbow grease“.
Greece → Greece: As in “The food in Grease is so good.”
Grace → Grease: As in “By the grease of god” and “A grease period” and “Saving grease” and “Fall from grease” and “Airs and greases” and “There but for the grease of god go I.” and “Amazing grease“.
Grass→ Grease: As in “You could hear the grease growing” and “Keep off the grease” and “A grease-roots movement.” Note: a grassroots movement is one that starts at a local level with the intention of affecting regional, national or international change.
Bank etiquette → Banquet-iquette: As in “Waiting patiently in line at the bank is just a part of good banquet-iquette.”
Male → Meal: As in “The meal of the species” and “Meal chauvinist pig”.
Super → Supper: As in “Supper man” and “Supper-duper”.
Buff eh? → Buffet: As in “Look at how much she’s bench pressing! Buffet?”
Down → Dine: As in “Never back dine” and “Dine the rabbit hole” and “It all boils dine to …” and “Boogie on dine” and “Bring the house dine” and “Calm dine” and “Dine for the count” and “Dine in the dumps” and “Dine the hatch” and “Dine to earth” and “Hold dine a job” and “It went dine the wrong way” and “Let your hair dine” and “The best – hands dine“.
Guessed → Guest: As in “I never would have guest.”
Chop: “On the chopping block” and “Chop and change”.
Dice: As well as the noun form (“she rolled the dice”), “dice” obviously can mean “chop into small cubes/pieces”.
Feel → Peel: As in “You can peel it in your bones.” and “I like the look and peel of the product.” and “I’m trying to get the peel for it.” and “These potato puns are making me peel unwell.” and “I peel a bit put out.” and “I’m peeling my age.” and “Peel the burn”.
Appeal → Appeel / A peel: “He’s so appeeling!” and “The court allowed one final a peel.” and “You need to a peel to their sense of honour.” and “I’m trying to appeel to your better judgement” and “They have 48 hours to appeel the decision.”
Pillar → Peeler: As in “You are a peeler of strength in our community.”
Whisk: “He was quickly whisked off stage” and “The waiter whisked the dish back into the kitchen”.
Risk → Whisk: As in “It’s too dangerous. Don’t whisk it. ” and “At your own whisk” and “Calculated whisk” and “You run the whisk of …” and “Whisk life and limb”
Curry: “Curry favour” and “Give someone a bit of curry“. Note: to curry favour is to attempt to align oneself with another.
Hurry → Curry: As in “I’m in a bit of a curry, can we talk later?” and “Curry up! We need to leave now!” and “Curry up and wait”.
Thongs → Tongs: The word “thong” may refer to bikini bottoms or to “flip-flops” depending on where you’re from. The term “tongs” refers to a kitchen tool used to grip and lift things (usually things that you’re frying).
Spoon: “We spooned to keep warm” and “She wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth” and “He spoon-feeds his students too much”.
Billion → Bouillion: As in “They justly spend bouillions of dollars on the new education reforms.” (Bouillion is a type of broth in French cuisine).
Feast: As in, “Bean-feast,” and “Feast your eyes on this,” and “Midnight feast,” and “A feast for the eyes.” Note: A bean-feast is a celebratory meal or party.
Fast* → Feast*: As in, “Feast as greased lightning,” and “As feast as his legs could go,” and “Bed and breakfeast,” and “Feast and furious,” and “In the feast lane,” and “Feaster than a speeding bullet,” and “Not so feast!” and “Pull a feast one,” and “Lightning feast.” Note: in the fast lane refers to a highly active and risky lifestyle.
Fest* → Feast*: As in, “No problem is so bad it can’t feaster awhile longer,” and “Going to the music feastival?”
Feasible → Feast-ible: As in, “I told you, that project isn’t feast-ible.” Note: if something isn’t feasible, then it isn’t possible or practical to achieve.
Fist → Feast: As in “I’ll rule with an iron feast.”
Serve: As in “Dude, you just got served.” and “My duty is to serve and protect.”
Menu: As in “That’s completely off the menu.”
Man, you → Menu: As in “Menu need to see someone about that.”
Flies → Fries: As in “Time fries when you’re having fun!”
Fork: As in “We’ve reached a fork in the road.” (There’s also an obvious swear word pun that can be made with fork.)
Season → Seasoning: As in “Seasoning’s greetings!” and “For everything, there is a seasoning.”
Take out→ Take-out: As in “I had to take-out my phone to check the time.” and “I had to take-out a loan just to pay the bill!”
Toast: As well as referring to cooked bread, this term can also refer to the raising of glasses at a gathering to honour something: “Let’s call a toast.” It also has a slang usage: “You are toast.” Meaning “I’m going to beat you” at some competition (or physically).
Coarse → Course: As in “Please don’t pun during dinner, Gerald. It’s very course humour.”
Course: As in “Is there a university course on cooking puns?” (“Course” can refers to a particular stage of a multi-stage meal.)
Thrilled → Grilled: As in “He was so grilled to see you!” and “I’m grilled to bits!”
Creep → Crepe: As in “That’s a bit crepey, man.” and “Yep, he’s a bit of a crepe.”
Source → Sauce: As in “That’s an unreliable sauce.” and “You should cite some primary sauces.”
Great → Grate: As in “Oh grate! Another food pun.” and “Grate minds think alike.”
Branch → Brunch: As in “Shall we call a truce? I’m extending an olive brunch here.” and “We’re brunching out into other industries.”
Loaf: As in “Stop loafing around! Get up and do something!” (To “loaf” is to waste time and laze about).
Come → Crumb: As in “Crumb to think of it…” and “Crumb to your senses” and “Crumb again?” and “Crumb hell or high water.” and “Crumb out of your shell” and “Crumb rain or shine” and “Do you crumb here often?” and “An idea whose time has crumb.” and “The best is yet to crumb.” and “What has crumb over you?”
Feed: As in “You’re just feeding people misinformation.”
Order: “Law and order.” and “These restaurant puns are out of order.”
In jest → Ingest: As in “Many a true word is spoken ingest.”
Done → Dine: As in “When all is said and dine” and “Dine and dusted.”
Din* → Dine*: If a word begins with the “dine” sound, we can make a dinner pun: dineosaur, dineamically, dineamite.
Sup: This term has a few traditional meaning related to food, including “to eat dinner/supper”, but it also has the obvious slang meaning “What’s up?” Thus we can make a sneaky supper pun, but it’d be very corny and heavily dependent on context: Person1: “‘Sup?” Person2: “What? Now? It’s only 3pm!”
Scoff: This term refers to eating greedily or to talking to someone in a mean and “mocking” manner. Example: “Are you scoffing at my cooking puns?”
Sue p* → Soup*: As in “You can’t just soupeople willy nilly.”
*sup* → *soup*: If a word contains the “soup” sound we can of course make some silly soup puns: souperb, soupercomputer, soupercilious, souperficial, souperfluous, souperhuman, souperimposed, souperintendent, souperior, souperman, soupernatual, soupersonic, soupervise, soupremely, unsoupervised.
Greedy ent* → ‘gredient: This one’s a bit of a stretch! Examples: “Those ‘gredient-erprising bastards!” and “The ‘gredient-titled youngers.”
Salty: Other than the obvious cooking-related definition, this term has several slang definitions including “being upset/angry”.
Assault → A salt: As in “He was charged with a salt with a deadly weapon.”
It → Eat: As in “Eat is not quite as eat seems.” and “Eat’s not the first time I’ve said this, but …”
*eat*: Any word that contains the “eat” sound (or similar) can obviously be made into a silly eating pun: cheating, beatle, athleat, aneatime (anytime), compleat, conceated, deceatful, deleat, discreat, eleat (elite), graffeati, fleat (fleet), featus, heartbeat, Eatalian (Italian), greating (greeting), Peater (Peter), preatending, repeatedly, reatirement, streat, sweatheart, preatentious.
Eat: As in, “A bite to eat,” and “All you can eat,” and “Bet you can’t just eat one,” and “Eat a balanced diet,” and “Eat and run,” and “Eat dirt,” and “Eat humble pie,” and “Eat like a bird,” and “Eat my dust,” and “Eat someone alive,” and “Eat to live, rather than live to eat,” and “Eat your words,” and “Eaten up with jealousy,” and “Eating for two,” and “Good enough to eat,” and “Let them eat cake,” and “Man eater,” and “I’ll eat my hat.” Note: to eat your words is to regret or retract a previous statement.
*eet* → *eat*: Change the “eet” in certain words to “eat” – sheat (sheet), streat (street), sweat (sweet), discreat (discreet), feat (feet), fleat (fleet), sleat (sleet), beatle (beetle), teath (teeth).
*eat*: Use words with an “eat” sound – athl-eat (athlete), burreato, compl-eat (complete), comp-eat (compete), concr-eat (concrete), el-eat (elite), eat-ernal (eternal), incogneato, margareata, mosqeato (mosquito), pet-eat (petite).
Feed: As in, “Bite the hand that feeds you,” and “Bottom feeder,” and “Feed your mind,” and “Feeding frenzy.”
Bowl: As in “I was completely bowled over.”
Stew: This term can also refer to being in a state of anxiety and agitation. As in “Stew in one’s own juices.” and “I was in a bit of a stew.”
Carry → Curry: As in “I’m going as fast as my legs can curry me!” and “Keep calm and curry on.”
Even → Oven: As in “Oven my little brother knows that!” and “That’s not oven fair.”
Piece of → Pizza: As in “You want a pizza me?” and “That’s a pizza cake.” and “They all want a pizza the action.” and “That’s a fine pizza ass.” and “That’s a pizza piss.” and “He’s a nasty pizza work.” and “How long is a pizza string?” and “I’ll give him a pizza my mind!” and “You’re a real pizza work.” and “Pizza the pie”.
How → Chow: As in “Chow could you do this to me?” and “Chow are you feeling?”
Pass the → Pasta: As in “Can you pasta sauce please?”
Past her → Pasta: As in “I walked right pasta without realising.”
Passed away → Pasta way: As in “She pasta way last night.”
Flower → Flour: As in “Remember to stop and smell the flours.”
Adore → Adough: “I adough you.”
Don’t → Doughn’t: As in “Doughn’t fall for it.”
Though → Dough: As in “You look as dough you’ve seen a ghost!”
Hour → Flour: As in “We could go on for flours.” and “The plane leaves in one flour.” and “I’m on a flourly wage.”
Make → Bake: As in “I can’t bake head or tail of it.” and “Enough to bake you sick.” and “Bake believe” and “It’ll bake a world of difference.” and “Just trying to bake ends meet.” and “Bake a name for yourself.”
Making → Baking: As in “A legend in the bakin’” and “This is history in the baking” and “You’re baking a fool of yourself.”
Floor → Flour: As in “A cooking pun battle? I’ll mop the flour with you.”
Heard → Herb: As in “I herb it on the grape vine.” and “You herb it here first.” and “You could have herb a pin drop.”
Curb → Herb: As in “Herb your enthusiasm.” and “Drive up onto the herb.”
Spies → Spice: As in “I think I’m being followed by Indian spice.”
A prawn → Apron
Nice → Knife: As in “Have you met the chef? She’s a knife person.”
Least→ Yeast: As in “Last, but not yeast.” and “Yeast common denominator.” and “It’s the yeast I could do.”
East→ Yeast: As in “I’m heading over yeast for a holiday.”

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