Purple & Orange, any other words without rhymes?

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.

rhythm. Rhymes with nothing.

Coprophagia.

Xylophagia (which the Straightdope has the first Google hit for)
I’m really stuck on ‘rhythm’, though.

“Jism” works if you lisp it.

I’d say it also rhymes with ‘given’. :slight_smile:

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…

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.”

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.

Wow, I think that was my first simulpost ever. I really should be working anyway…

Brilliant!

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.

With 'em :slight_smile:

What about -

The Bronx -

No thonx.
by Ogden Nash.

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.)

Maybe a lozenge of orange would cure this zombie outbreak?

What rhymes with zombie?

Abercrombie and kombi. Dread, read, dead, and thread all rhyme nicely.

I’d shop at Aberzombie and Witch.

Everything I wear is from Crass & Snide.

There was an old man who said “bilver”
And “dilver” and “gilver” and “nilver”;
His daughter said "Dad!
“Have you suddenly gone mad?”
He said “No, but what does rhyme with ‘silver’?”