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What Rhymes With Orange?

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
How about sporange
Orange has almost no perfect rhymes. The only word in the 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary that rhymes with orange is sporange, a very rare alternative form of sporangium (a botanical term for a part of a fern or similar plant). Silver is another word for which it is almost impossible to find a perfect rhyme: the only candidate is the rare word chilver, which the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary defines as 'a ewe-lamb' (i.e. a female lamb). Both orange and silver do have half-rhymes, though: the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary gives lozenge as a half-rhyme for orange, for example, and salver as a half-rhyme for silver.

What's the difference between a full rhyme and a half-rhyme? A full and stressed rhyme (e.g. hand / stand) or even an unstressed rhyme (such as handing / standing) contain vowels that are common to both words, while a half-rhyme like orange / lozenge or silver / salver has obvious differences between the vowels in certain syllables. The technical term for a half-rhyme is 'pararhyme'.

From a UK dictionary where they pronounce everything wrong....
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
It's My Birthday!
Orange has almost no perfect rhymes. The only word in the 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary that rhymes with orange is sporange, a very rare alternative form of sporangium (a botanical term for a part of a fern or similar plant). Silver is another word for which it is almost impossible to find a perfect rhyme: the only candidate is the rare word chilver, which the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary defines as 'a ewe-lamb' (i.e. a female lamb). Both orange and silver do have half-rhymes, though: the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary gives lozenge as a half-rhyme for orange, for example, and salver as a half-rhyme for silver.

What's the difference between a full rhyme and a half-rhyme? A full and stressed rhyme (e.g. hand / stand) or even an unstressed rhyme (such as handing / standing) contain vowels that are common to both words, while a half-rhyme like orange / lozenge or silver / salver has obvious differences between the vowels in certain syllables. The technical term for a half-rhyme is 'pararhyme'.

From a UK dictionary where they pronounce everything wrong....

If only early settlers to far off foreign lands had taken a dictionary then you would not have said that ;-)

I will add that i could only give 1 frube for your post, it deserves at least 3, perhaps 4. Funny of course, winner, informative and perhaps a like too.
 
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ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
It's My Birthday!
Borange

The colour somebody turns when they don't know when to stop applying fake tan.

I thought that was now known as "trump"

As in "that guy uses so much fake tan he's turned trump"
 

Erebus

Well-Known Member
I thought that was now known as "trump"

As in "that guy uses so much fake tan he's turned trump"

To truly become borange, you need to look at Trump and think, "The only way to fix that fake tan is with more fake tan."

I'd share some pictures but that might be seen as a little cruel. Instead I'll just mention that a google image search for "Chav Fake Tan" will provide some excellent illustrations of what true borangeness is.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
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~Ye have been stormed with an orange, rhymless and out of the norm, of which no poets are born because of ye's orange. ~
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member

Porange.

Urban Dictionary: porange


Adjective. Pinkish-orange; a skin tone that is a hue somewhere between pink and orange.

House Minority Leader John Boehner uses tan-in-a-can, giving his skin the most peculiar shade of porange.


1)
Porn using oranges.

The slow peeling of an orange in a sexual way.

2) Porn sacreation

Ted: "Hey bob!"
Bob: "Yea ted?"
Ted: "I found this awesome Porange site!"
Bob: "Are you serious?"
Ted: "Hell yea!"


A color that is right in the middle of pink and orange making it indistinguishable.

Marcel ''Dude is that jumper pink or orange?''
Roger ''Neither Dude, its porange''
Marcel ''ooooooooh''
 
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