rhymy

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Adjective[edit]

rhymy (comparative rhymier, superlative rhymiest)

  1. Alternative form of rhymey
    • 1969, Stanley Dehler Mayer, Fantasy - Volumes 1-3:
      Her rhymes now and then become just a trace too "rhymy" — almost "doggerel" in a few instances.
    • 1996, Adam Piette, Remembering and the Sound of Words:
      His rhymy feeling, as Pound and Eliot suspected, is the final word back to and towards which the book is written.
    • 2011, Mark Twain, Walter Blair, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories, page 245:
      He reeled off several rods of poetry now, of his usual spiritual pattern — rhymy and jingly and all that, but not good, for his mind had decayed since he died.
    • 2012, James Still, Ted Olson, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still:
      I forget how the lines run, but they've got rhymy words on the ends.