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misrhyme

noun
/ˈmɪsɹaɪm/

Etymology

From mis- + rhyme.

  1. derived from *h₂rey-✻ — “to arrange; to count”
  2. derived from *rīm✻ — “number, order, sequence, series, row of identical things”
  3. derived from *srew-✻ — “to flow; a stream”
  4. derived from ῥῠθμός — “measured motion, rhythm; regular, repeating motion, vibration”
  5. derived from rhythmus — “rhythm”
  6. derived from rime
  7. inherited from rim
  8. prefixed as misrhyme — “mis + rhyme”

Definitions

  1. A false rhyme.

    • 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' […]

  2. To rhyme incorrectly.

    • It is an open question whether or not Blake misrhymed deliberately.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misrhyme. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA