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  2. List of closed pairs of English rhyming words - Wikipedia

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    In an amphibrachic pair, each word is an amphibrach and has the second syllable stressed and the first and third syllables unstressed. attainder, remainder; autumnal, columnal; concoction, decoction (In GA, these rhyme with auction; there is also the YouTube slang word obnoxion, meaning something that is obnoxious.) distinguish, extinguish

  3. Rhyming slang - Wikipedia

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    In some examples the meaning is further obscured by adding a second iteration of rhyme and truncation to the original rhymed phrase. For example, the word "Aris" is often used to indicate the buttocks. This is the result of a double rhyme, starting with the original rough synonym "arse", which is rhymed with "bottle and glass", leading to "bottle".

  4. Burma-Shave - Wikipedia

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    The puns include a play on the Maxwell House Coffee slogan, standard puns, and yet another reference to the "H" joke: Good to the last strop; Covers a multitude of chins; Takes the "H" out of shaving; The war years found the company recycling a lot of their old signs, with new ones mostly focusing on World War II propaganda:

  5. List of English words without rhymes - Wikipedia

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    pint / ˈ-aɪ n t / rhymes with rynt, a word milkmaids use to get a cow to move. [15] plagued / ˈ-eɪ ɡ d / rhymes with vagued, meaning "wandered/roamed" or "became vague/acted vaguely". plankton / ˈ-æ ŋ k t ən / rhymes with Yankton, a member of a western branch of the Dakota people and several American place names named after the people.

  6. List of labor slogans - Wikipedia

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    The boss needs you, you don't need him is an expression from the Industrial Workers of the World, who envisioned "a world without bosses." Bosses beware — when we're screwed, we multiply Bread and Roses is an expression, the name of a poem, a song title, and a movie, derived from a picket sign carried by a woman striker in 1911 in Lawrence ...

  7. Rhyming dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Dicionário de Rimas, Portuguese-language dictionary of rhymes.. A rhyming dictionary is a specialized dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics.In a rhyming dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words that rhyme with one another.

  8. Category:Rhyme - Wikipedia

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  9. List of city nicknames and slogans in Canada - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of nicknames and slogans of cities in Canada. Many Canadian cities and communities are known by various aliases , slogans , sobriquets , and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national, or international scales, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.