Words that rhyme with "Orange" or "Silver"

[figarot]

For some pedantic reason I become annoyed when I hear a remark like there are no words that rhyme with either "orange" or "silver". I even remember Bob Dylan being asked to give a word rhyming with "orange" by a journalist during his 1965 press conference in San Francisco. He brushed the question off. I hope that doesn't happen here. I propose we give a list of words that might rhyme with both "orange" and "silver". I suppose they won't always be exact rhymes (i.e. pararhymes) but let's try. Vote for a winner if you must. Any takers?
I'll go first.

ORANGE: syringe, binge, cringe, lozenge, singe

SILVER: shiver, sliver, liver

Your turn.

[Foolmewunz]

Waiting for you to start, since none of the words you've mentioned are rhymes for orange or silver.

"Might rhyme with..." is a pretty far-reaching. I'd go with "symposium", "cupcake", and "toadstool". (Well, they might rhyme with either of the words mentioned if you mispronounce them egregiously enough.

[Hokulele]

Door hinge.

[Space_Ed]

Waiting for you to start, since none of the words you've mentioned are rhymes for orange or silver.

"Might rhyme with..." is a pretty far-reaching. I'd go with "symposium", "cupcake", and "toadstool". (Well, they might rhyme with either of the words mentioned if you mispronounce them egregiously enough.

Edited for civility

Moringe. Yeh. Thats a word.

[Aitch]

Depends on whether you want male (single syllable) or female (two-syllable) rhymes.

To an extent it also depends on local accents.

So:

Male: Orange & fringe.
Female: Orange & Blorange (a place in Wales)

[figarot]

Waiting for you to start, since none of the words you've mentioned are rhymes for orange or silver.

"Might rhyme with..." is a pretty far-reaching. I'd go with "symposium", "cupcake", and "toadstool". (Well, they might rhyme with either of the words mentioned if you mispronounce them egregiously enough.

Man, you're more pedantic than I am. Sure "might" opened up that 0.000001oz can of worms but you didn't need to eat them, we were gonna go fishing this afternoon...

[figarot]

Depends on whether you want male (single syllable) or female (two-syllable) rhymes.

To an extent it also depends on local accents.

So:

Male: Orange & fringe.
Female: Orange & Blorange (a place in Wales)

Both. Great suggestions BTW.

[Dragon]

Some people say that the only true rhyme with "orange" is the Blorenge (http://www.abergavenny.net/gallery/blorenge.php) - a mountain overlooking my home town of Abergavenny in South Wales.



eta crosspost with Aitch

[Aitch]

Both. Great suggestions BTW.

Thank you.

As for 'silver' there is an old English word chilver, which I think is a ewe-lamb. According to Stephen Fry, on the QI TV program, there is another word that rhymes with silver, but I can't remember it off hand. Sorry!

[figarot]

chilver works for silver IMO, thanks Aitch.

[Aitch]

Some people say that the only true rhyme with "orange" is the Blorenge (http://www.abergavenny.net/gallery/blorenge.php) - a mountain overlooking my home town of Abergavenny in South Wales.

There's also the English Surname Gorrange/Gorringe. My memory of that episode of QI seems to be coming back. Still can't remember the other silver rhyme though :(

[Professor Yaffle]

http://www.freewebs.com/qitranscripts/104.htm

[Aitch]

http://www.freewebs.com/qitranscripts/104.htm

Thanks, Prof. Funny, though; I could have sworn there was a second rhyme for silver. Oh well, another senior moment for the diary :o

[technoextreme]

Some people say that the only true rhyme with "orange" is the Blorenge (http://www.abergavenny.net/gallery/blorenge.php) - a mountain overlooking my home town of Abergavenny in South Wales.



eta crosspost with Aitch
Blenheim Orange. Muahahah... That technically rhymes with orange.

[Aitch]

Blenheim Orange. Muahahah... That technically rhymes with orange.

I could be wrong, but I don't think that just repeating the same word counts as a rhyme, except in the most trivial sense - it's probably the reason Lear's limericks were rather disappointing :(

[Brainache]

Poor minge? Or whinge?

Phil Burr?

[Tricky]

Don't forget "purple". There's no single word that rhymes with that either, though I remember Roger Miller wrote in the song "Dang Me":

Roses are red and violets are purple
Sugar's sweet and so's maple syruple...

[TX50]

In the dialect of N.E.Scotland there's a word "hirple" which means to stumble
or limp. Does that count as a rhyme for purple?

The Malt Scotch Whisky called "Glen Morangie" rhymes with "Orangey" :)

[Mojo]

There's also the English Surname Gorrange/Gorringe.


And a pub (http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/11/11695/Gorringe_Park/Tooting) named after them.

[bigred]

When they saw this thread did anyone else think "Witchipoo" - ?

[shadron]

See http://books.google.com/books?id=RnBUh9EQ3eUC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq=orange+silver+rhyme+limerick&source=web&ots=hDFPEG2nYp&sig=ArYq9a9NU_DS2dRUbuAdoTiIEi8&hl=en
Literary Translation: A Practical Guide, By Clifford E. Landers, page 102 for some examples. Many (famously Ogden Nash, and a fellow named Disk Ford has a collection online) have written limericks that rhyme these words, though the results are only valid in that rather gruesome (some would say enlightened) context.

[Rosencrantz]

"To find a rhyme for silver, or any 'rhymeless' rhyme
Requires only will, verbosity, and time."
--Stephen Sondheim

[Ateius]

Don't forget "purple". There's no single word that rhymes with that either, though I remember Roger Miller wrote in the song "Dang Me":

Roses are red and violets are purple
Sugar's sweet and so's maple syruple...

Nurple.

:D

[meg]

The poor engineer
wore an orange brassiere.

She took all the silver
but I don't think ill of 'er.

[Scazon]

It seems Wales is the cure for all problems! Silver rhymes with Wylfa (pron. "wilver"), on the north coast of Anglesey. It is the location of a picturesque nuclear power station.

Now, has anyone got a rhyme for Pontcysyllte...

[Dragon]

It seems Wales is the cure for all problems! Silver rhymes with Wylfa (pron. "wilver"), on the north coast of Anglesey. It is the location of a picturesque nuclear power station.

Now, has anyone got a rhyme for Pontcysyllte...
Ystradfellte ?

[Furi]

Hmm How about

A rampant old lass with hair of silver,
with much temptation made me a Grilfer.

I suppose it depends on Dialect (espescially if you are English) to me Fur Fare Fair Fayre are all pronounced identical, and there are those that Butter and Mother would be the same (Budda and Mudda) and those that Water and Quarter do not rhyme.

[CptColumbo]

Door hinge.

[Aitch]

Door hinge.

I think that was Rich Hall's suggestion on QI. Done in his, erm, interesting accent. :)

[latent aaaack]

Stonehenge and blither rhyme enough to be passable.

[MarkCorrigan]

As stated in the QI transcript, jillver is the only rhyme for silver.

Hirple and cirple both rhyme with purple. Not sure about orange, outside of Welsh landmarks.

[Hokulele]

Door hinge.

Door hinge.


I am invisible.

[Confuseling]

New accounts default to putting you on ignore because you're so relentlessly rude to all the other posters. ;)

[Hokulele]

New accounts default to putting you on ignore because you're so relentlessly rude to all the other posters. ;)


Well, that certainly explains the lack of rational response to 80% of my posts in Conspiracy Theories. :p

[Aitch]

I am invisible.

I have the same characteristic when I try to get served at bars :(

[CFLarsen]

The only thing that rhymes with "Kartofler" (Danish for "potatoes") is.....

Mark Knopfler.

[Aitch]

Heart of Fleur?

[CFLarsen]

Highlight the whole of my post :)

[CptColumbo]

I am invisible.I'm sorry, I didn't see it. My great-uncle told me about "door hinge" when I was a kid.

[Hokulele]

I'm sorry, I didn't see it. My great-uncle told me about "door hinge" when I was a kid.


Pooh on you for not noticing it. I am now going to avatar bet on every single Vikings game next season. :p

And my grandmother was the one to fill me in on "door hinge" many years ago.

[jimbob]

Am I the only person to think of this? http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/words_that_end_in_gry.png
"The fifth panel also applies to postmodernists."


Permanent link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/169/
Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/words_that_end_in_gry.png (hotlinkiing is encouraged from xkcd...)

[hgc]

Nurple.

:D


Well, that is a word. But it only exists so as to rhyme with purple, and it's almost always used in as part of a compound word with purple, so does it count?

[jimbob]

I suppose you know what colour wind is?

burple


It really isn't worth reading if you don't know...

[TexasJack]

Scournge is the only word on the internet that rhymes with orange

[petra10]

Silver - quiver ? maybe.

[kakariki]

When they saw this thread did anyone else think "Witchipoo" - ?

Absolutely did.

"Oranges schmoranges , who cares?
Oranges pornges, who said?
There ain't no rhyme for oranges" :D

As for purple, in the 1940's there was a popular pattern of stemware called Burple.

[shadron]

Originally Posted by CptColumbo http://forums.randi.org/helloworld2blues/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?p=3669661#post3669661)
I'm sorry, I didn't see it. My great-uncle told me about "door hinge" when I was a kid.


Pooh on you for not noticing it. I am now going to avatar bet on every single Vikings game next season. :xtongue

And my grandmother was the one to fill me in on "door hinge" many years ago.

He isn't your cousin, is he?

[I Ratant]

Orange you glad you slogged thru all of that to get to this?

[blobru]

13+ 'rhymes' for orange & silver overheard at the Blackbird Beauty Salon (corner of Wallace & Stevens)


My hair's too silver, I'm dyeing it orange

Your hair I'd kill for, better use a bit more tinge
This shade's called "'Thriller: make a nun like a whore twinge!"
Let's hope it thrills Wilmer, sends him on a score binge

I dumped him for Gilbert, got bored with his four inch

You stole him from Sylv, dear? her wasp waist's a sore cinch

She's sylph but I'm sylph-er, so hot I his core singe
(I said "but I will sir", when he asked if I wore sponge)
Now he calls me "his lil' mer--maid" he's "my boer eng-
ineer", can't sit still for a second though, poor prince.

Mine, I need a pill for, he squeaks like a door hinge
If I ask him to spill for a mop for the floor dinge
He's liable to pilfer a wig from our storage...
Sometimes that guy, he'll, grr, make me want to cry or whinge
Yet he writes with a quill pure, and says "Judy" with a foreign 'zhj'


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