Product Description

Some sample entries:

DODDER

Dodder, fodder, plodder

FIELDER

Fielder, shielder, wielder

MAPPING

Mapping, wrapping, strapping, overlapping

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10759 in Books
• Published on: 1985-08-29
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

Andrew Motion
'One of the delights of our age... a treasure-trove for writers of every kind. As it satisfies our search for similar sounds, so it leads us into new thoughts, strange associations, unexpected territories... Everyone who loves words should own a copy'

Synopsis
The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary is an indispensable reference companion for anyone who writes verse whether lyric poet, songwriter or composer of limericks or jingles. Clearly arranged and easy to use, it offers an astonishing wide range of suggestions for rhyming words, from the common and everyday to the more difficult and obscure.

Customer Reviews

A good reference dictionary
The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary is a wonderful companion when attempting to write poetry.
Even the best of us struggle when looking for rhymes.
With such an easy layout and a wide range of words, this dictionary is most helpful.
I would recommended !

From limericks to lyrics...
There was a young man from Salisbury, who once bought a rhyming dictionary,
Whilst sucking on a lozenge, he found a rhyme for orange, and the rest as they say, is history! - from limericks to lyrics an invaluable guide for poets and songwriters, very easy to use with rhymes listed in groups with true rhymes then close rhymes, even gives descriptions for obscure words as well as names & place names, an extremely useful guide for inspiration and finding that illusive rhyme.

Helpful And Handy
The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary is a compelling opus, which generally meets all the linguistic needs of today's true versifiers. It is very extensive covering words from common to exceptionally rare yet remaining absolutely pragmatic.

The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary is also very easy to use unlike some rhyming dictionaries such as, for instance, The Complete Rhyming Dictionary, which I found very arduous as the rhymes were to be searched by their phonetic order. In The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary the desired word can be looked up from the back of the book, and it gives you the page number from where all the words that rhyme with this particular word can be found.

Basically, the only thing that stops me from giving 5 stars to this book is that there are a few word sections that are just jumbled up and which do not really rhyme, such as dribble and babble, or something similar to this example.
However, this is only a tiny flaw in a book that has definitely become an incontestable necessity for me. It has earned its recommendations.