Rhythm rhymes with the English place name Lytham as well as smitham, an old word for fine malt dust or powdered lead ore. Replenish rhymes with both displenish, which means “to remove furniture,” and Rhenish, meaning “relating to the river Rhine.” 19. Purple rhymes with hirple, meaning “to limp” or “walk awkwardly,” and curple, an old Scots word for a leather strap that goes beneath the tail of a horse to secure its saddle (it also more broadly means “buttocks”). So although it might all depend on your accent, on how obscure a word you’re willing to accept, and on precisely where the stress falls in the word (because sporange can either rhyme with orange or be pronounced “spuh- ranj”), it seems there actually is a rhyme for orange. But even if proper nouns like surnames and place names are excluded, that still leaves sporange, an obscure name for the sporangium, which is the part of a plant that produces its spores. And so does Blorenge, the name of a hill in south Wales. But in fact, the English surname Gorringe-as in Henry Honeychurch Gorringe, captain of the USS Gettysburg-rhymes with orange. You’ll no doubt have heard the old fact that nothing rhymes with orange.
Music rhymes with both ageusic and dysgeusic, both of which are medical words describing a total lack of or minor malfunction in a person’s sense of taste, respectively. Music rhymes with a couple of medical terms. Falseįalse rhymes with valse, which is an alternative name for a waltz, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Dunceĭunce rhymes with punce, a dialect word for flattened, pounded meat, or for a sudden hard kick, among other definitions. But there is demi-vierge, another French loanword used as an old-fashioned name for a unchaste young woman-or, as Merriam-Webster explains, “a girl … who engages in lewd or suggestive speech and usually promiscuous petting but retains her virginity.” It literally means “half-virgin.” 9. ConciergeĬoncierge is a direct borrowing from French, so the number of English words it can rhyme with is already limited. If that’s too obscure, why not try rhyming it with murcous-a 17th-century word meaning “lacking a thumb.” 8. swim ink 2 llc/GettyImagesĬircus has a homophone, cercus, which is the name of a bodily appendage found on certain insects, and so rhymes with cysticercus, another name for a tapeworm larva. Turns out, the word 'circus' does have a rhyme.
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