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▪ I. rhyming, vbl. n.|ˈraɪmɪŋ|
[var. riming vbl. n.: cf. rhyme. See also rhythming.]
a. The making or writing of verses; versification.
1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. 551 Then all for Women, Painting, Rhiming, Drinking. 1775J. Walker (title) A Dictionary of the English Language, answering at once the purposes of Rhyming, Spelling, and Pronouncing. 1797Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) I. viii. 276 You see I have not altogether lost the faculty of rhyming. 1829― Anne of G. iv, Here is rare rhyming, my worthy guest. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 29 Much Rhyming thought poetry and praised as such.
b. attrib. and Comb., as rhyming mania, rhyming principle, rhyming trade, rhyming-trick, rhyming-ware; rhyming-mad adj.; rhyming dictionary, a dictionary of the words of a language arranged in groups according to the correspondence of their terminal sounds; rhyming slang, a variety of (orig. Cockney) slang in which a word is replaced by a phrase which rhymes with it (see quot. 1933); also rhyming slang(st)er.
1775J. Walker Dict. Eng. Lang. p. v, A *rhyming dictionary in a living language, for the purposes of poetry, seems no very unnatural or useless production. a1846B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1927) i. 4, I remember him with his rhyming dictionary, composing his verses and scanning with his fingers. 1852(title), Rhyming Dictionary for the Use of Young Poets. 1964‘E. McBain’ Ax x. 191 I'd like to buy a rhyming dictionary... I promised somebody I'd find a rhyme.
a1721Prior Horace Sat. vii. vii, The Man is raving sure or *rhyming mad.
1855D. Noble Psychol. Med. (ed. 2) 182 A female patient whose *rhyming mania was very amusing.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 418/1 The new style of cadgers' cant..is done all on the *rhyming principle.
1859Hotten Dict. Slang 134 The cant, which has nothing to do with that spoken by the costermongers, is known in Seven Dials and elsewhere as the *Rhyming Slang, or the substitution of words and sentences which rhyme with other words intended to be kept secret. Ibid. 135, I learn that the rhyming slang was introduced about twelve or fifteen years ago. 1911J. W. Horsley I Remember xi. 252 The more modern rhyming slang..invented and chiefly used by costermongers, to whom ‘daisy roots’ is a substitute for the word boots. 1933‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out in Paris & London xxxii. 238 Twenty-five or thirty years ago..the ‘rhyming slang’ was all the rage in London. In the ‘rhyming slang’ everything was named by something rhyming with it—a ‘hit or miss’ for a kiss, ‘plates of meat’ for feet, etc. 1973B. Aylwin Loads of Cockney Cobblers p. vi, Of course the Cockney—a born linguist—will adapt his rhyming slang specifically for the Common Market.
1977Listener 5 May 588/3 Any speaker of Anglo-American knows that ‘bread’ as a synonym for ‘money’ is the work of those dreary cockney *rhyming-slangers. ‘Bread and honey’, money.
1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 155 Before the First World War, it was in common use in the Forces, even in Scottish regiments, such was the influence of the Cockney, who is the expert *rhyming slangster.
1651Cleveland Poems ⁋4 b, Be dumb ye beggers of the *rhiming [ed. 1677 rhythming] trade.
1878Browning Poets Croisic 66 After prophecy, the *rhyming-trick Is poor employment.
1785Burns 1st Ep. to J. Lapraik 107 An' hae a swap o' *rhymin'-ware Wi' ane anither.
▪ II. ˈrhyming, ppl. a.
[var. riming ppl. a.]
1. That makes rimes or verses; versifying.
1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. ii. (1674) 3 Two Companies of Rhiming Poets from Sicily. 1729T. Cooke Tales, etc. 75 While she condemns to long Despair The flut'ring and the rhyming Thing. 1781Cowper Table-T. 720 Virtue indeed meets many a rhiming friend, And many a compliment politely penn'd.
2. a. Of verse: Composed in metrical form with rimes. b. Of a word: That makes a rime.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 326 That rhyming Supplication they put up to her in their Sea-voiages: Salve, splendor Firmamenti, Tu caliginosæ menti. 1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Rhyme, In the later Latin writers, scarce any thing is more common than rhyming periods. 1759Johnson Idler No. 60 ⁋7 The corruption of taste which could bear any thing so unnatural as rhyming tragedies. 1828–43Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 122 The Leonine, or rhyming hexameters. 1871Abbott Shakesp. Gram. §515 In a scene where there are no other rhyming lines. |