Rhyming slang

Definition

rhyme /raÇm/ n ၁။ [U] ကာရန္။ a poem/ story in rhyme. ၂။ [C] ~ (for sth) ကာရန္။ နေဘ။ Can you think of a rhyme for ‘yellow’? ၃။ [C] နေဘထပ္။ ေတးကဗ်ာ။ She made up a little rhyme to amuse the children. See also NURSERY RHYME v ၁။ ~ (with sth) နေဘထပ္သည္။ ကာရန္မိသည္။ ‘Gift’rhymes with ‘lift’. ❍ ‘Though’ and ‘through’ don't rhyme. ၂။ ~ sth (with sth) ကာရန္ယူသည္။ You can rhyme ‘girl’ and/ with ‘curl’. ❍ rhymed verse. ❏ rhyme or reason (usu in negative sentences) [ IDM ] ယုတၱိယုတၱာ။ အဓိပၸာယ္။ a decision without rhyme or reason ❍ There seems to be no rhyme or reason to English spelling. ❏ rhyming adj ကာရန္အခ်ိတ္အဆက္ပါေသာ။ နေဘထပ္။ rhyming couplets. ❏ rhyming slang n [U] နေဘထပ္ စကားထာ။ (သာဓက အားျဖင့္ cockney ေဒသိယစကားတြင္ ‘stairs’ အစား ‘apples and pears’ ဟူေသာ ဗန္းစကား)။

Examples

1. ‘Though’ and ‘through’ don't rhyme. ၂။ ~ sth (with sth) ကာရန္ယူသည္။ You can rhyme ‘girl’ and/ with ‘curl’.
2. rhymed verse. ❏ rhyme or reason (usu in negative sentences) [ IDM ] ယုတၱိယုတၱာ။ အဓိပၸာယ္။ a decision without rhyme or reason