# Purple & Orange, any other words without rhymes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 6, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685 "2005-02-06T19:32:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/61 "2005-02-15T03:34:53Z")
Another rhyme recalled from childhood, but I don’t know who to attribute it to: Some words I’ve studied for a time Like orange, silver, sausage - But as for finding them a rhyme I’m at a total lossage. * * * I’d vote for ‘ancient’ as a tentative rhyme for ‘patient’. I think it’d stretch in a pinch. ---
**Author:** ![DrLoveGun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@DrLoveGun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrLoveGun)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/62 "2005-02-15T07:32:01Z")
> [@ashes53](#): > > We all learned back in elementary school that there are no words in the english language that rhyme with orange or purple. Although on a coloring sheet my teachers got a little creative, “Purple, Purple had to burble.” :dubious: So I’ve been wondering what other words in the english language don’t rhyme with anything? rhythm. Rhymes with nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/63 "2005-02-15T07:44:31Z")
Coprophagia. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/64 "2005-02-15T07:58:09Z")
> [@Paladud](#): > > Coprophagia. Xylophagia (which the Straightdope has the first Google hit for) I’m really stuck on ‘rhythm’, though. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/65 "2005-02-15T09:34:48Z")
> [@DrLoveGun](#): > > rhythm. Rhymes with nothing. “Jism” works if you lisp it. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/66 "2005-02-15T12:04:03Z")
I’d say it also rhymes with ‘given’. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/67 "2005-02-15T14:54:33Z")
I have a country song (with a sitar break if you can believe it) called “Sitar Pickin’ Man” by Bobby Zehm, who by the sound of it was a southern American a few decades ago, who rhymes “guitar” and “sitar” a few times without having to strain his accent the least bit. _He’s a Calcutta cowboy, a-pickin’ on his ol’ sitar…_ ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/68 "2005-02-15T15:16:48Z")
> [@DrLoveGun](#): > > rhythm. Rhymes with nothing. Tell it to the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B, who “can’t blow a note unless the bass and guitar are playing with 'im.” ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/69 "2005-06-09T21:56:49Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > “Jism” works if you lisp it. Eww, gross. Anyway… _A root, a toot, a toodlie-a-da-toot. He blows it eight to the bar…in boogie **rhythm**. He can’t blow a note unless a bass and guitar Is playin’ **with 'im**. And the company jumps when he plays reveille. He’s the boogie woogie bugle boy of company B._ ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/70 "2005-06-09T21:59:47Z")
Wow, I think that was my first simulpost ever. I really should be working anyway… ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/71 "2005-06-09T22:10:04Z")
> [@curly chick](#): > > \*Word that rhymes with month in Ireland \* > by Me. > > It’s first is in church and also in chapel > It’s second’s in rhubarb; but not in apple > It’s third’s thrice in Shannon but never in Liffey > The last letter’s t and the whole word’s quite iffy. > > I shall say no more; that’s quite enough from me today. Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![WonJohnSoup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f17d59/32.png) [@WonJohnSoup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WonJohnSoup)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/72 "2005-06-09T22:22:33Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Angry… Hungry…? > 😃 My friend made up a new word the other day. “Hangry.” Yeah, he put the two together. I told him to go get some brunch. > [@DrLoveGun](#): > > rhythm. Rhymes with nothing. With 'em 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![adirondack\_mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@adirondack\_mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adirondack_mike)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/73 "2005-06-09T23:13:21Z")
What about - The Bronx - No thonx. _by Ogden Nash._ ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/74 "2005-06-10T02:29:00Z")
Eating an orange while making love Makes for bizarre enjoyment thereof. (BTW, **curly chick** , did you come up with that yourself? It’s wonderful! But in American English, at least, cunt and month emphatically don’t rhyme.) (P.S.: I’m well aware that “cunt” is not all that bad a term over in that area. Your bashfulness was nothing but a transparent excuse to post that brilliant poem.) ---
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/76 "2011-09-13T11:43:06Z")
Maybe a lozenge of orange would cure this zombie outbreak? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/77 "2011-09-13T11:47:46Z")
What rhymes with zombie? ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/78 "2011-09-13T11:58:34Z")
Abercrombie and kombi. Dread, read, dead, and thread all rhyme nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/79 "2011-09-13T12:10:32Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > Abercrombie and kombi. Dread, read, dead, and thread all rhyme nicely. I’d shop at Aberzombie and Witch. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/80 "2011-09-13T12:17:48Z")
Everything I wear is from Crass & Snide. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/81 "2011-09-13T15:20:27Z")
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