Rosalind Fergusson - Collins Rhyming Dictionary

Of all the girls that are so smart

There’s none like pretty Sally,

She is the darling of my heart,

And she lives in our alley.

HENRY CAREY

2.6chamois, clammy, gammy, Grammy, hammy, jammy, mammy, ramie, Sammy, shammy, tammy, Tammy, whammy, acme, Lakshmi, Annie, can he, canny, cranny, Danny, fanny, Fanny, granny, nanny, trannie, acne, Hackney, Cagney, Daphne, slangy, tangy, * Miami, uncanny, Giovanni, Evadne, * double whammy, hootenanny, Ariadne, * damn me, sack me, etc.

2.7Bassey, brassie, Cassie, chassis, gassy, lassie, Lassie, Massey, Plassey, massy, sassy, jacksie, Laxey, maxi, taxi, waxy, Patsy, antsy, Yangtze, Clancy, fancy, Nancy, has he, jazzy, snazzy, Ramsay, Ramsey, pansy, tansy, ashy, flashy, mashie, splashy, trashy, catchy, patchy, scratchy, snatchy, hajji, algae, Algy, Angie, * Manasseh, Apache, Hitachi, Comanche, * Malagasy, Tallahassee, paparazzi, cartomancy, necromancy, * Haile Selassie

2.8Abba, blabber, crabber, dabber, drabber, grabber, jabber, amber, camber, clamber, mamba, samba, timbre, clapper, crapper, dapper, flapper, grappa, kappa, mapper, nappa, napper, rapper, sapper, scrapper, slapper, snapper, strapper, tapper, trapper, wrapper, yapper, Zappa, zapper, scalper, camper, clamper, damper, hamper, pamper, scamper, stamper, Tampa, tamper, Caspar, jasper, Jasper, * kidnapper, * liquidambar, handicapper, whippersnapper, * viola da gamba, * grab her, trap her, etc.

2.9backer, blacker, clacker, cracker, Dakar, Dhaka, hacker, knacker, lacker, lacquer, nutcracker, Nutcracker , packer, sacker, slacker, smacker, stacker, tacker, tracker, wacker, Kafka, anchor, banker, canker, chancre, danker, flanker, franker, hanker, rancour, ranker, spanker, tanker, wanker, blagger, bragger, dagger, flagger, gagger, Jagger, lagger, nagger, quagga, ragga, stagger, swagger, alga, anger, Bangor, clangour, kanga, Kanga, languor, manga, * unpacker, attacker, Malacca, maraca, alpaca, Kamchatka, Bianca, Sri Lanka, Alaska, Nebraska, Trafalgar, realgar, Kananga, Northanger, * backpacker, safecracker, shelf-stacker, firecracker, hijacker, skyjacker, wisecracker, bushwhacker, Schumacher, * illywhacker, Casablanca, lingua franca, supertanker, Madagascar, Athabaska, carpetbagger, cloak-and-dagger, * thank her, nag her, etc.

This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter

Isn’t generally heard, and if it is it doesn’t matter.

W. S. GILBERT

2.10adder, bladder, Claddagh, ladder, madder, sadder, lambda, LAMDA, Banda, blander, candour, dander, gander, grander, panda, pander, sander, stander, Asda, Mazda, attar, batter, chatter, clatter, fatter, flatter, hatter, latter, matter, natter, patter, platter, ratter, satyr, scatter, shatter, spatter, splatter, tatter, ABTA, captor, chapter, raptor, actor, factor, tractor, BAFTA, Yalta, banter, canter, Fanta®, Granta, manta, plantar, ranter, Santa, aster, Astor, pasta, Rasta, raster, Baxter, hamster, gangsta, gangster, * veranda, Amanda, germander, pomander, Menander, backhander, left-hander, Leander, meander, expander, philander, Miranda, right-hander, Lysander, Luanda, Rwanda, Uganda, Buganda, Luganda, two-hander, goosander, ciabatta, Al Fatah, Mad Hatter, Kenyatta, bespatter, regatta, adaptor, protractor, contractor, reactor, detractor, retractor, extractor, refractor, Atlanta, decanter, Vedanta, infanta, levanter, trochanter, cadaster, piastre, pilaster, canasta, Jocasta, * Tadcaster, Lancaster, Doncaster, * stepladder, Laplander, Queenslander, bystander, Icelander, * Esmeralda, jacaranda, salamander, Afrikander, Netherlander, memoranda, chest-expander, gerrymander, propaganda, oleander, coriander, Parramatta, antimatter, pitter-patter, overmatter, malefactor, benefactor, chiropractor, subcontractor, Atalanta, tam-o’-shanter, alabaster, poetaster, Zoroaster, * Anaximander, velociraptor, cotoneaster, * virgo intacta, * forbade her, sacked her, etc.

2.11chaffer, gaffer, Jaffa, Shaffer, Staffa, Agfa, alpha, Balfour, camphor, chamfer, slaver, salver, salvor, naphtha, anther, panther, blather, gather, lather, Mather, * alfalfa, cadaver, Samantha, ingather, foregather, * Luftwaffe, quacksalver, * pyracantha, * chaff her, have her, etc.

2.12Allah, Bala, Calor®, pallor, valour, babbler, dabbler, gabbler, ambler, Ambler, gambler, rambler, scrambler, trampler, cackler, haggler, straggler, angler, strangler, wrangler, Adler, paddler, saddler, Sadler, handler, battler, prattler, rattler, Tatler , tattler, antler, dazzler, ashlar, Barra, Farrah, para, Varah, Vanbrugh, chakra, bhangra, Sandra, Tantra, mantra, Aphra, camera, CAMRA, Basra, aqua, stature, Anya, Vanya, * Valhalla, Alhambra, podagra, pellagra, Niagara, Viagra®, Cassandra, Biafra, subaqua, Managua, lasagne, Britannia, * Alexandra, Cleopatra, * Caracalla, bobby-dazzler, Nicaragua, * abracadabra, etc.

2.13clamour, crammer, gamma, glamour, grammar, hammer, jammer, mamma, rammer, scammer, shammer, slammer, stammer, yammer, drachma, agma, magma, asthma, Alma, halma, Palma, palmar, Cranmer, plasma, Anna, banner, Branagh, canner, Hanna, Hannah, manna, manner, manor, nana, planner, scanner, spanner, tanner, Abner, Wagner, Radnor, Patna, Ratner, Shatner, banger, clanger, clangour, ganger, hangar, hanger, Langer, Sanger, * enamour, syntagma, Mahatma, miasma, Havana, Kavanagh, savanna, Savannah, Alannah, Fermanagh, bandanna, Diana, Guiana, Guyana, Montana, goanna, Joanna, hosanna, Susanna, Stavanger, haranguer, * sledgehammer, windjammer, programmer, straphanger, head-banger, cliffhanger, * Alabama, yellowhammer, Santa Ana, caravanner, Indiana, Pollyanna, paperhanger, doppelgänger, * Louisiana, * ipecacuanha, * damn her, outran her, etc.

It’s awf’lly bad luck on Diana,

Her ponies have swallowed their bits;

She fished down their throats with a spanner

And frightened them all into fits.

JOHN BETJEMAN

2.14gasser, NASA, Nasser, Yasser, lapser, Saxa, taxer, waxer, Khalsa, salsa, cancer, Cancer, Hansa, Gazza, Lanza, panzer, stanza, azure, Asher, dasher, flasher, gnasher, Jascha, lasher, masher, pasha, rasher, Sacha, slasher, smasher, thrasher, Hampshire, catcher, dacha, Hatcher, patcher, scratcher, snatcher, stature, thatcher, Thatcher, capture, rapture, fracture, badger, cadger, Alger, ganja, grandeur, * amasser, madrasah, Nyasa, Mombasa, relapser, relaxer, piazza, merganser, romancer, Balthazar, Belshazzar, Braganza, bonanza, organza, Natasha, focaccia, dispatcher, recapture, enrapture, contracture, gastralgia, myalgia, nostalgia, neuralgia, phalanger, * gate-crasher, rat-catcher, backscratcher, flycatcher, spycatcher, cowcatcher, * necromancer, Salmanazar, haberdasher, cradle snatcher, oystercatcher, manufacture, * extravaganza, * antimacassar, * splash her, scratch her, etc.

2.15Arab, carob, scarab

2.16Braddock, Craddock, haddock, Madoc, paddock, shaddock, mattock, havoc, arrack, barrack, carrack, hammock, bannock, Cannock, Lanark, Rannoch, Zanuck, cassock, hassock, * Caradoc, Portmadoc

cage me and i d go frantic

my life is so romantic

capricious and corybantic

DON MARQUIS

2.17aspic, Bacchic, asdic, attic, Attic, batik, static, lactic, tactic, antic, frantic, mantic, drastic, mastic, plastic, spastic, crabstick, chapstick, slapstick, matchstick, * syllabic, iambic, stomachic, sporadic, nomadic, heraldic, Icelandic, aquatic, chromatic, dramatic, fanatic, pragmatic, asthmatic, Carnatic, phlegmatic, spermatic, schematic, thematic, hepatic, ecstatic, emphatic, lymphatic, erratic, stigmatic, prismatic, schismatic, sciatic, climatic, Socratic, quadratic, dogmatic, traumatic, somatic, pneumatic, rheumatic, galactic, syntactic, didactic, climactic, Atlantic, romantic, pedantic, Vedantic, semantic, gigantic, scholastic, monastic, shagtastic, fantastic, sarcastic, aplastic, elastic, dynastic, gymnastic, bombastic, * dissyllabic, trisyllabic, dithyrambic, acrobatic, aromatic, achromatic, pancreatic, Hanseatic, antistatic, astigmatic, charismatic, Adriatic, Asiatic, democratic, emblematic, enigmatic, enzymatic, thermostatic, symptomatic, systematic, cinematic, diplomatic, Hippocratic, hierocratic, operatic, problematic, autocratic, automatic, morganatic, bureaucratic, programmatic, subaquatic, plutocratic, chiropractic, prophylactic, transatlantic, necromantic, sycophantic, Corybantic, unromantic, periphrastic, thermoplastic, inelastic, orgiastic, hudibrastic, * polysyllabic, monosyllabic, aristocratic, meritocratic, undemocratic, semiaquatic, anagrammatic, axiomatic, asymptomatic, melodramatic, telegrammatic, idiomatic, diagrammatic, psychosomatic, undiplomatic, paradigmatic, intergalactic, anaphylactic, anticlimactic, iconoclastic, ecclesiastic, enthusiastic, * semiautomatic, idiosyncratic, unenthusiastic, * overenthusiastic