Music rhymes with a couple of medical terms. Falseįalse rhymes with valse, which is an alternative name for a waltz, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Dunceĭunce rhymes with punce, a dialect word for flattened, pounded meat, or for a sudden hard kick, among other definitions. But there is demi-vierge, another French loanword used as an old-fashioned name for a unchaste young woman-or, as Merriam-Webster explains, “a girl … who engages in lewd or suggestive speech and usually promiscuous petting but retains her virginity.” It literally means “half-virgin.” 9. ConciergeĬoncierge is a direct borrowing from French, so the number of English words it can rhyme with is already limited. If that’s too obscure, why not try rhyming it with murcous-a 17th-century word meaning “lacking a thumb.” 8. swim ink 2 llc/GettyImagesĬircus has a homophone, cercus, which is the name of a bodily appendage found on certain insects, and so rhymes with cysticercus, another name for a tapeworm larva. Turns out, the word 'circus' does have a rhyme.

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