RHYME, RHYMING
ADJECTIVES
► CO-SONANT sounding alike, rhyming → 1856
► NIPPERTY-TIPPERTY of rhymes or tunes: quick and rattling in rhythm → 1817 Sc.
NOUNS
► CHIME a rhyme → 1897 Amer. dial.
► CRAMBO rhyme, rhyming → 1697
► JARGON a jingle or assonance of rhymes → 1570
► RHYMING-WARE compositions in rhyme; poetry → 1785 Sc. obs.
► RIDLESS a doggerel rhyme; an improbable story, a rigmarole → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TING-TANG a jingling repetition of sounds, rhyme → 1686
NOUNS – PERSON
► CHIMER one who composes rhymes → 1897 Amer. dial.
► TAGRHYME a rhymester → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► TINKLER a rhymester → 1840
VERBS
► BERIME to compose rhymes about; to celebrate in rhyme; often, to lampoon → 1589
► RANE to rhyme → 1899 Sc.
► SHOOT THE GIFT to talk in rhyme or rhythm; to converse; to rap → 1980s African-American sl.
► TINKLE to rhyme or jingle → 1626
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