ADJECTIVE - NOUN RHYME V

The Word's The Thing 

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Can you think of an adjective-noun phrase to answer each clue in which the two words rhyme? For example, given the clue An insulin-dependent person who travels a lot, the adjective-noun rhyming phrase could be Peripatetic diabetic.

 

1. A dull riddle

2. Terse counsel

3. A privy at sea

4. A shapeless dolphin

5. A certain bee winner 

6. An exact instrument or machine

7. A surgical stitch that remains to be given

8. One who likes to hug and kiss in the moonlight

9. A whining betrayer of his country to its conqueror

10. An excellent plant valued for its medicinal properties

 

Answers:

 

1. Humdrum conundrum 

2. Concise advice

3. Marine latrine

4. Amorphous porpoise

5. Stellar speller

6. Precise device

7. Future suture

8. Lunar spooner

9. Sniveling quisling

10. Superb herb