NOUN-NOUN RHYME IV

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Each clue below can be answered with two rhyming nouns. For example, given the clue, "The ability to talk excessively," the answer would be "The capacity for loquacity."

1. A a slight quarrel in a small boat

2. A noisy quarrel in a two-masted boat

3. A flat tire at a point where two things meet

4. Words to operas and high-heeled shoes 

5. A minister charged with starting a fire

6. Merriment of the non-clergy

7. Boundless calm and composure

8. Unexpected end to something or someone

9. Pair of fingerless gloves bought for very little money

10. One who has committed a serious crime enjoying a summer fruit

Answers:

 

1. A tiff in a skiff

2. A brawl in a yawl

3. A puncture at a juncture

4. Librettos and stilettos

5. A parson charged with arson

6. Gaiety of the laity 

7. An infinity of equanimity

8. Surprise demise

9. Mittens for a pittance

10. A felon with a melon

 

NOUN-NOUN RHYME III

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Each clue below can be answered with two rhyming nouns. For example, given the clue "A desire for a funeral song," the answer would be, "An urge for a dirge."

1. A serious injury sustained in a Finnish steam bath

2. An exceedingly prejudiced man on a Navy warship

3. A lewd, prurient man being put in an ambulance

4.  A loud noise in a mansion

5. One dating a private teacher

6. A type of dance in a Swiss cottage

7. Hatred from a speaker's platform

8. Ability to talk and talk and talk

9. A small container of sheep fat

10. Birth of an inescapable enemy or problem

Answers:

 

1. Trauma in a sauna

2. Bigot on a frigate

3. Lecher on a stretcher

4. Clamor in the manor

5. Suitor of a tutor

6. Ballet in a chalet

7. Odium form the podium

8. Capacity for loquacity

9. Cruet of suet

10. Genesis of a nemesis

NOUN-NOUN RHYME II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Each clue below can be answered with two rhyming nouns. For example, given the clue "A very angry wise man," the answer would be, "A sage in a rage."

1. A male duck in a thicket

2. A desire for a funeral song

3. A narrow opening in a jail cell

4. Words of a play found in a tomb

5. An ermine in a water-filled trench

6. A saucy, flirtatious girl on the golf course

7. A dirty mark on one who does hard, menial work

8. A pain killer for someone paralyzed below the waist

Answers:

 

1. A drake in a brake

2. An urge for a dirge

3. A chink in the clink 

4. A script in a crypt

5. A stoat in a moat

6. A minx on the links

7. A smudge on a drudge

8. An analgesic for a paraplegic

NOUN-NOUN RHYME I

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Each clue below can be answered by two rhyming nouns. For example, given the clue, "An inadequacy of merriment," the answer would be, "A dearth of mirth."

1. A cemetery in a city

2. A fashionable cad 

3. A very angry wise man 

4. Frivolity for a short time

5. Lamentation of a wood nymph

6. A small group meeting in ancient Rome

7. A blacksmith who stays longer than expected

8. A quack peddles his medicine behind a speaker's stand

Answers:

 

1. A necropolis in a metropolis

2. A rogue in vogue

3. A sage in a rage

4. Levity with brevity

5. Jeremiad of a dryad 

6. A quorum in the forum

7. A tarrier farrier

8. Nostrum from a rostrum