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Jumble: a kind of word game in which the solution of a puzzle is its anagram. Chronogram: a phrase or sentence in which some letters can be interpreted as numerals and rearranged to stand for a particular date. Gramogram: a word or sentence in which the names of the letters or numerals are used to represent the word.
Girls and Boys Come Out To Play 'Boys and Girls Come Out to Play' England: 1708 Goosey Goosey Gander: England: 1784 Green Gravel: England c. 1835 Green Grow the Rushes, O: England: Happy Birthday To You 'Birthday Song', 'Happy Birthday' USA 1893 Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do Bark: England Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
concoction, decoction (In GA, these rhyme with auction; there is also the YouTube slang word obnoxion, meaning something that is obnoxious.) distinguish, extinguish; pneumatic, rheumatic; Anapestic pairs. In an anapestic pair, each word is an anapest and has the first and second syllables unstressed and the third syllable stressed.
The gang keeps trying with their difficult parts, but Tolee struggles finding what rhymes with the words he recently states, and quickly gives up until Kai-Lan and the viewer show him not to give up and observe his surroundings for the answer. Words in Mandarin Chinese: 上shàng - up, 下xià - down
Live to fight another day (This saying comes from an English proverbial rhyme, "He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day") Loose lips sink ships; Look before you leap; Love is blind – The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 1 (1591) Love of money is the root of all evil; Love makes the world go around
Look up sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. " Sticks and Stones " is an English-language children's rhyme. The rhyme is used as a defense against name-calling and verbal bullying, intended to increase resiliency, avoid physical retaliation, and/or to remain calm and indifferent.
Bouts-Rimés. Bouts-Rimés ( French, literally 'rhymed-ends') is the name given to a kind of poetic game defined by Addison in the Spectator as "lists of words that rhyme to one another, drawn up by another hand, and given to a poet, who was to make a poem to the rhymes in the same order that they were placed upon the list".
Growl, low, guttural vocalization produced by predatory animals. Hiss, sound made by a snake. Honk, call of the male Canada goose. Hoot, call of an owl. Howl, sound made by canines, especially wolves. Meow, cry of a cat. Moo, sound of a cow. Purr, a tonal, fluttering sound made by all members of the cat family.