misrhyme
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈmɪsɹaɪm/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (verb) IPA(key): /mɪsˈɹaɪm/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun[edit]
misrhyme (plural misrhymes)
- A false rhyme.
- 2014, James Booth, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, page 190:
- In this poem his 'vernacular' bluster and garish misrhymes build to a pitch of rowdy anarchy; 'lanes' rhymes with 'sardines', 'bucket' with 'like it', 'toad-like' with 'hard luck' and 'blarney' with 'money' […]
Verb[edit]
misrhyme (third-person singular simple present misrhymes, present participle misrhyming, simple past and past participle misrhymed)
- To rhyme incorrectly.
- 1965, Alicia Ostriker, Vision and Verse in William Blake:
- It is an open question whether or not Blake misrhymed deliberately.