Collins Rhyming Dictionary

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!

Alas, I am very sorry to say

That ninety lives have been taken away

On the last Sabbath day of 1879.

WILLIAM MCGONAGALL

7.2 today, jeté, convey, allay, Malay, agley, unlay, array, astray, affray, away, aweigh, René, assay, unsay, strathspey, Cathay, pince-nez, dragée, Shar Pei, parfait, halfway, Niamey, Marseilles, daresay, AA, waylay, gainsay, FA, LA, MA, purvey, survey, Earl Grey, per se, BA, PA, prepay, repay, replay, decay, piquet, midday, inveigh, belay, delay, relay, display, misplay, inlay, mislay, betray, distrait, defray, midway, dismay, Taipei, Bombay, Torbay, Corday, portray, outstay, outplay, foul play, downplay, outweigh, obey, okay, Tokay, au fait, au lait, olé, noway, oyez, O’Shea, José, feng shui, hooray, bouquet, UK, du Pré, Dounreay, touché, * auto-da-fé, Morgan le Fay, cabriolet, Dorian Gray, out-of-the-way, Appian Way, bioassay, YMCA, Botany Bay, Fotheringay, café au lait, ukiyo-e

7.3 frappé, latte, maté, pâté, satay, Dante, backstay, jackstay, café, Pathé, ballet, Calais, chalet, Hallé, palais, valet, barré, laptray, ashtray, tramway, gangway, hatchway, Manet, assay, chassé, glacé, passé, cachet, sachet, sashay, flambé, parquet, manqué, margay, ave, Soave, vale, Arblay, Franglais, mare, moiré, soiree, chambré, André, entrée, Yahweh, parkway, partway, pathway, archway, lamé, carnet, blasé, airplay, hairspray, airway, fairway, stairway, heyday, mayday, May Day, payday, mainstay, gameplay, Maigret, gateway, Safeway, railway, épée, reggae, levee, Pelé, melee, endplay, Nestlé, beret, X-ray, segue, headway, Medway, essay, workday, birthday, Thursday, survey, wordplay, ciré, clearway, hearsay, plié, piqué, bidet, vide, weekday, relay, replay, screenplay, respray, Tigré, freeway, leeway, seaway, speedway, lycée, plissé, Bizet, frisé, cliché, guichet, DJ, sickbay, Biscay, risqué, filet, gilet, Millais, Millet, inlay, stingray, in-tray, slipway, ridgeway, Friday, child’s play, pipeclay, byway, highway, tideway, driveway, Steinway®, washday, bobsleigh, foray, moray, Conway, Monet, Roget, sorbet, forte, forestay, foreplay, swordplay, horseplay, Fauré, doorway, Norway, walkway, Broadway, Galway, hallway, causeway, gourmet, bourrée, curé, purée, outlay, out-tray, croquet, nosegay, sauté, roadway, rosé, crochet, Loveday, someday, Monday, sundae, Sunday, gunplay, subway, runway, buffet, footway, Douai, roué, coupé, toupee, noonday, Tuesday, doomsday, cuvée, duvet, bouclé, soufflé, outré, soothsay, Suchet, * andante, Le Carré, attaché, écarté, Pasquale, cor anglais, Zimbabwe, Mallarmé, macramé, fiancé, fiancée, vivace, recherché, awayday, al dente, expressway, Desirée, appliqué, Enrique, Kol Nidrei, décolleté, consommé, Dubonnet®, cloisonné, de jure, cum laude, démodé, Obote, exposé, Le Touquet, il Duce, retroussé, * cybercafé, marron glacé, papier-mâché, Alicante, diamanté, Tio Pepe®, nota bene, action replay, Champs Elysées, bichon frise, superhighway, Don Quixote, paso doble

I’ve lived a life that’s full, I’ve travelled each and ev’ry highway

And more, much more than this. I did it my way.

PAUL ANKA

7.4 St Tropez, canapé, latter-day, Saturday, Faraday, Santa Fe, Rabelais, Mandalay, Charolais, cabaret, Thackeray, Ballantrae, Hathaway, Galloway, caraway, Massenet, Fabergé, Chabrier, alleyway, Haringey, carriageway, passageway, Poitiers, matinée, San Jose, cassoulet, Castlereagh, faraway, Chardonnay, castaway, Cartier, tearaway, day-to-day, breakaway, takeaway, straightaway, take-home pay, yesterday, present-day, Wednesday, Chevrolet, getaway, well away, Nescafé®, métier, Perrier®, denier, vérité, Eriskay, everyday, émigré, anyway, Hemingway, negligee, crème brûlée, résumé, workaday, steerageway, seize the day, Greenaway, Pinochet, DNA, ETA, PTA, CIA, disobey, interlay, interplay, disarray, giveaway, fricassee, inter se, ricochet, virelay, Milky Way, light of day, flyaway, hideaway, bridleway, IRA, Monterey, Holloway, Hogmanay, fromage frais, dossier, holiday, Doris Day, protégé, protégée, popinjay, Stornoway, waterway, Fourier, tourniquet, roundelay, overpay, overstay, overlay, overplay, go away, stowaway, throwaway, soakaway, foldaway, motorway, Beaujolais, Beaumarchais, sobriquet, Hudson Bay, underpay, Muscadet, underlay, underclay, underplay, cutaway, colourway, runaway, sommelier, USA, crudités, * alackaday, companionway, Sabatier, espalier, Chevalier, Lavoisier, Courvoisier®, boulevardier, Grand Marnier®, Prince Rainier, red-letter day, atelier, Montpellier, Tortelier, hotelier, Olivier, habitué, Escoffier, Montgolfier, Du Maurier, couturier, communiqué, * Le Corbusier

7.5 Abe, babe, * McCabe, * astrolabe

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves

And the mome raths outgrabe.

LEWIS CARROLL

7.6 ache, bake, Blake, brake, break, cake, crake, drake, Drake, fake, flake, hake, Jake, lake, make, quake, rake, sake, shake, sheikh, slake, snake, spake, stake, steak, strake, take, wake, * opaque, awake, unmake, forsake, partake, retake, remake, betake, mistake, * clambake, backache, pancake, handbrake, mandrake, handshake, heartache, heartbreak, daybreak, jailbreak, namesake, headache, sheldrake, wordbreak, earthquake, earache, teacake, seedcake, beefcake, cream cake, cheesecake, beefsteak, sweepstake, remake, keepsake, fish cake, intake, windbreak, firebreak, rock cake, hot cake, stocktake, shortcake, cornflake, corncrake, outtake, outbreak, Hoylake, oatcake, snowflake, sunbake, cupcake, uptake, grubstake, muckrake, fruitcake, toothache, moonquake, * rattlesnake, bellyache, griddlecake, give-and-take, kittiwake, wide awake, overtake, stomachache, undertake

7.7 baked, braked, caked, faked, flaked, quaked, raked, slaked, staked, * unbaked, unslaked, half-baked, * sunbaked

7.8 aid, aide, bade, bayed, blade, braid, brayed, clade, fade, flayed, frayed, glade, grade, jade, Jade, lade, laid, made, maid, neighed, paid, played, prayed, preyed, raid, shade, Slade, spade, spayed, splayed, staid, stayed, strayed, suede, swayed, they’d, trade, wade, Wade, weighed, * forbade, unpaid, brocade, pervade, surveyed, conveyed, arrayed, parade, abrade, upbraid, upgrade, afraid, unweighed, persuade, pomade, unmade, cascade, handmade, man-made, arcade, waylaid, well-paid, Belgrade, self-made, well-made, first aid, prepaid, repaid, relaid, replayed, remade, decayed, brigade, evade, invade, delayed, displayed, inlaid, mislaid, degrade, betrayed, dismayed, grenade, Sinead, dissuade, tirade, blockade, cockade, stockade, portrayed, downgrade, obeyed, home-made, new-laid, crusade, * Band Aid, ram raid, lampshade, barmaid, decade, mermaid, nursemaid, Teasmade®, switchblade, milkmaid, Whipsnade, Live Aid, limeade, bridesmaid, eyeshade, nightshade, comrade, Noraid, housemaid, sunshade, * cavalcade, accolade, Adelaide, masquerade, balustrade, cannonade, barricade, marinade, palisade, marmalade, parlourmaid, carbonade, dairymaid, razor blade, make the grade, chambermaid, tailor-made, escapade, escalade, esplanade, serenade, lemonade, Medicaid, renegade, centigrade, ready-made, retrograde, Biggleswade, colonnade, stock-in-trade, orangeade, overpaid, motorcade, overlaid, Rollerblade®, overplayed, underpaid, underlaid, underplayed, unafraid, custom-made, undismayed, Lucozade®, fusillade, * nurserymaid, harlequinade, etc.

A man must serve his time to every trade

Save censure – critics all are ready made.

LORD BYRON

7.9 aids, AIDS, blades, grades, maids, raids, shades, spades, trades, * mermaids, nursemaids, bridesmaids, comrades, * accolades, barricades, palisades, escapades, Everglades, etc.

7.10 chafe, safe, strafe, waif, * unsafe, vouchsafe

7.11 Craig, Hague, Haig, plague, vague, * The Hague, Mallaig, renege

Don’t be vague, ask for Haig.

ADVERTISING SLOGAN

7.12 age, cage, gage, gauge, mage, page, Paige, phage, rage, sage, stage, swage, wage, * front page, upstage, assuage, rampage, backstage, restage, encage, engage, enrage, presage, offstage, downstage, Osage, * rampage, rain gauge, space age, birdcage, greengage, teenage, ribcage, tyre gauge, Bronze Age, outrage, road rage, Stone Age, school-age, * macrophage, saxifrage, disengage, Iron Age, overage, underage, multistage

7.13 aged, caged, gauged, paged, raged, staged, * uncaged, unwaged, assuaged, engaged, enraged, * teenaged, school-aged, etc.

7.14 beige, greige, * manège, Liège, cortege

7.15 ail, ale, bail, bale, Braille, dale, Dale, fail, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, hail, hale, Hale, jail, kale, mail, male, nail, pail, pale, quail, Quayle, rail, sail, sale, Sale, scale, shale, snail, stale, Swale, tail, tale, they’ll, Thrale, trail, vale, veil, wail, wale, whale, Yale, * percale, McPhail, avail, unveil, assail, exhale, curtail, descale, regale, impale, entail, prevail, inhale, derail, bewail, full-scale, * wagtail, travail, fantail, rat’s-tail, handrail, taffrail, blackmail, hangnail, abseil, gaffsail, Arndale, guardrail, Airedale, airmail, Swaledale, snail mail, facemail, staysail, mainsail, telltale, checkrail, bedrail, headrail, headsail, shirt-tail, sperm whale, seakale, Bleasdale, Ruisdael, detail, e-tail, retail, e-mail, female, treenail, greenmail, resale, Windscale, pigtail, ringtail, fishtail, spritsail, timescale, Drysdale, Clydesdale, hightail, Mondale, Rochdale, Lonsdale, bobtail, cocktail, foxtail, oxtail, hobnail, topsail, horsetail, doornail, foresail, mousetail, toenail, wholesale, dovetail, junk mail, thumbnail, * tattletale, Passchendaele, Abigail, galingale, martingale, farthingale, Armidale, fairy tale, Maida Vale, Skelmersdale, Wensleydale, Ebbw Vale, Richter scale, Chippendale, ginger ale, fingernail, bristletail, disentail, nightingale, Nightingale, cottontail, nonpareil, monorail, swallowtail, Calderdale, countervail, ponytail, Holy Grail, tooth and nail, * Fort Lauderdale

7.16 ailed, bailed, failed, flailed, hailed, jailed, mailed, nailed, quailed, railed, sailed, scaled, tailed, veiled, wailed, * unveiled, assailed, curtailed, entailed, prevailed, derailed, bewailed, * draggletailed, etc.

7.17 ails, ales, Dales, fails, Gaels, Gail’s, gales, nails, rails, sails, scales, sales, tales, veils, Wales, * entrails, details, pigtails, cocktails, toenails, * telesales, fingernails, Bloomingdale’s, New South Wales, * cat-o’-nine-tails, etc.

7.18 aim, blame, came, claim, dame, Dame, fame, flame, frame, game, hame, lame, maim, name, same, shame, tame, Thame, * acclaim, proclaim, aflame, reframe, rename, became, defame, declaim, reclaim, disclaim, exclaim, inflame, old flame, * mainframe, surname, first name, quitclaim, nickname, endgame, selfsame, filename, doorframe, forename, * maiden name, Christian name, window frame, what’s-her-name, what’s-his-name, counterclaim, overcame

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,

He writes – not that you won or lost – but how you played the game.

GRANTLAND RICE.

7.19 aimed, blamed, claimed, framed, maimed, named, shamed, * untamed, acclaimed, proclaimed, unclaimed, unnamed, ashamed, renamed, reclaimed, exclaimed, inflamed, * unashamed, etc.

7.20 aims, claims, flames, games, James, names, * Jesse James, Christian names, * Olympic Games, etc.

7.21 bane, brain, Braine, Cain, cane, chain, crane, Dane, deign, drain, Duane, fain, feign, Frayn, gain, grain, Jain, Jane, lain, lane, main, Maine, mane, pain, Paine, pane, Payne, plain, plane, rain, reign, rein, sane, Seine, Shane, skein, slain, Spain, sprain, stain, strain, swain, ta’en, thane, thegn, train, twain, Twain, vain, vane, vein, wain, wane, Wayne, Zane, * cocaine, McCain, again, mundane, attain, pertain, obtain, contain, sustain, profane, Dunblane, Maclean, complain, arraign, Lorraine, terrain, constrain, domain, Pomagne®, McShane, unchain, campaign, champagne, abstain, arcane, Bahrain, Mark Twain, Charmaine, Great Dane, maintain, urbane, Germaine, germane, deplane, detrain, retrain, chicane, disdain, regain, detain, retain, Sinn Fein, Elaine, Spillane, emplane, explain, Igraine, ingrain, entrain, distrain, restrain, refrain, demesne, remain, inane, insane, vicereine, Cockaigne, Fonteyn, moraine, Coltrane, John Wayne, ordain, chow mein, Coleraine, romaine, Hussein, Ukraine, humane, * ratsbane, plantain, crackbrain, Gawain, airplane, pearmain, sailplane, tailplane, lamebrain, haywain, henbane, Beltane, membrane, vervain, birdbrain, fleabane, ethane, methane, seaplane, migraine, chilblain, midbrain, biplane, triplane, hindbrain, eyestrain, dogbane, octane, warplane, forebrain, propane, grosgrain, wholegrain, ptomaine, bloodstain, wolfsbane, butane, * appertain, ascertain, halothane, chatelain, chatelaine, Tamerlane, aquaplane, scatterbrain, Alamein, Aquitaine, Charlemagne, aeroplane, entertain, Cellophane®, weather vane, featherbrain, preordain, Cleo Laine, windowpane, inhumane, Michael Caine, gyroplane, hydroplane, right as rain, monoplane, foreordain, urethane, counterpane, counterstain, down the drain, Novocaine®, overlain, underlain, hurricane, Dunsinane, sugar cane, Tubal-cain, suzerain, * Citizen Kane, legerdemain, varicose vein, * polyurethane

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.

ALAN JAY LERNER

7.22 caned, chained, deigned, drained, feigned, gained, pained, rained, reigned, sprained, stained, strained, trained, veined, * obtained, contained, sustained, unstained, complained, untrained, constrained, unstrained, unchained, detained, retained, ingrained, restrained, remained, ordained, close-grained, * crackbrained, harebrained, bird-brained, tear-stained, bloodstained, * ascertained, scatterbrained, entertained, self-contained, preordained, foreordained, unconstrained, unexplained, unrestrained, etc.

7.23 change, grange, mange, range, strange, * arrange, free-range, derange, estrange, exchange, long-range, short-range, short-change, * part exchange, prearrange, rearrange, disarrange, interchange, chop and change, stock exchange

do you think that i would change

my present freedom to range

for a castle or moated grange

DON MARQUIS

7.24 changed, ranged, * arranged, unchanged, deranged, estranged, exchanged, * prearranged, rearranged, etc.