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A Fictional Rhyming Dictionary...    (Home)
 

A E I O U

-U (with a sound like "glue") see -UE
(You will usually find the sound you want under the usual spelling.)

A "U" can sometimes sound like "OO." You may want to check the O's, too. Once in a while, you'll find "U's" and "OO's" in the same place as in -OOT.

-UB
'FOOD AND WATER:' For himself, Bub would snub any tub. 

But he scrubs the cub "Chub," which Bub found (near a shrub), drubbed with a club.

And at his hub, the pub, he gets his Chub grub ... well, a sub.

-UBE see -OOB

-UCH and -UTCH
"You won't touch much! I've clutched my crutch."

-UCH (long sound) see -OOCH

-UCK and -UX
When I overeat, my deluxe tux is in flux. (Please, no yucks.)

-UD (see also -OOD)
In the storm's flood and mud, she yelled at Bud, "Hey, stud
- you, chewing cud - come, give some blood!"

-UDE
'COVERED DISH PREFERRED:' I guess I'm a prude about nude food; but, for the crude dude, it sets a lewd mood.

-UDGE
 'LIABLE TO LIBEL:' "I smeared - I smudged sludge! -- on the name of that judge"

"Why? Because being nudged, he had fudged?"

"Nope -- just my grudge. He commands -- while, as a court drudge, I just trudge."

-UE
'A MYSTERY'S HISTORY:' The detectives, bemused, now rue their skewed views of the clues.

They never knew who slew (drew the knife through) poor "Pilot Hugh." 

First, they blamed Lou, "a shrew" - Hugh's friend (who grew to chew glue).

Then the screws were on Sue, who flew in his crew. (And, on cue, did woo a few with true brew.)

Today (in a stew) with their case overdue, they blame you! 

-UFF
'ELIZABETHAN CHOLER:' Were the knights bluffed by Tough Stuff in a huff?
 
No. By Sir Walter's stiff neck, with his scruff in puffed fluff.   

-UG
'DOGGED:' Who slugged the thug that hugged my best mug? 

My son?  That smug lug, who just shrugged, looking snug?

No. It's my little pug, who bugged that thug.

-UGE
You huge stooge! Under her rouge, there's subterfuge.

-UGH (long sound) - see -UE

-UICE see -OOSE

-UK (see also -OOK)
I shucked the muck from my truck. Guess who clucked at the schmuck's bad luck?  (That hen better duck.)

-UKE
 'UNWELCOME APPEARANCES:' In the Great Hall, I puked - just a fluke - when I saw the spook of the duke.

An aristocratic rebuke - just for my playing a uke. 

-ULCH
Gulch mulch

-ULE (see also -OOL)
Don't ridicule that mule in the vestibule.

-ULGE
'CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION:' Once I'd indulged - my bulge was divulged.

-ULK
With all that bulk, Hulk, why sulk and skulk?

-ULL
After the storm, the dull, numskull gull mulled over the  lull.

'NOSE RING:' I try not to pull - before the bull's full.

-ULP
'ORANGE JUICED:' I gulp the pulp.

-ULSE
When repulsed, he'd convulse.

-UME (see also -OOM)
"Rheum-spume, I presume."

-UMP
'BULLIES:' He used to bump you, jump you, and lump you. 

So let's dump that chump (now in a plump slump) with a thump on his rump in a clump of stumps.

-UNE (see also -OON)
I've hewn and pruned each June while I whistled a tune.

-UNK
'EMBEDDED:' Drunk on junk, that hunk slunk. A punk, he sunk in his car trunk - that's his bunk.

-UP
My pup sups from a silver cup.

-UPE see -OOP

-UR and -URR (see also -ER)
"Then what made you spur -- and stir -- those burrs in my poor dog's
fur?" 

"That dog's a mere a cur, and his "grrr" makes your Persian cat purr.

-URB
Curb that verb, however superb - it might disturb or perturb.

-URCH
'IN THE TREE TOPS:' I was doing research on our birch.  I don't spy  from my perch to besmirch.

I said he's "in church," not "the lurch."

-URE
'DOUR DETOUR:' With a splendid coiffeur and a manicure, she lured a caricature of a boor - with a brochure and this overture:

"I assure you this tour's your sure cure." (Of course, that was pure  manure.)

-URF
That surf touched the turf.

-URGE
"Love" song?  That dirge would scourge and purge any surge in the urge to merge.

-URK see -IRK

-URN and -URNE
'BURNED STERN:' You're right -- I sound "burned."

Why not? Alongside each churn, fern, and urn - at each turn  -- I've  been spurned. (And you're wrong: it's unearned.)

-URNT
"Even burnt, you weren't learnt."

-URP
'STOLEN NECTAR:' You (who usurp my sweet slurp) may chirp, but later you'll burp.

-URSE
Terse verse can curse worse than a nurse in hearse.

-URST
About to burst - from her first thirst. 

-URT 
'INNOCENCE ACCUSED:' I tried to flirt, but he was inert, if not curt,  and occupied with dessert.

Hurt, I did blurt out dirt on that squirt.

-URVE see -ERVE

-US
'BLASPHEMOUS:' You get no A plus for coming in mussed to cuss us on the bus.

You're less ludicrous than ridiculous.

Your brain? Analogous to the platypus.

-USE (see also  -OOZE)
'SILENT FILM STARS.' Disabused (and amused, though  accused), they used to refuse to make news.

-USH
'THE PURPLE:' Just having mushed through the slush, I was hushed by her regal plush, and, yes, my face flushed.

I didn't gush, or develop a crush, but, yes, I blushed.

-USK
When you husk at dusk, any tusk can seem brusque.

-UST (see also -US)
'NOT GAINFULLY EMPLOYED:' Going bust turned my trust to disgust. I  fussed and I cussed to see my last "job" -- combust into dust.

Can I adjust to a crust?  Fellow convicts - they say I must.

-UT (see also -OOT)
'IN A RUT:' You nut! You've shut up your mutt. You may glut
his gut, but, bored, he'll cut out and strut.

-UTE (see also -OOT) Your mute newt is cute.

-UTH see -OOTH

-UV see -OVE

-UZZ
There was a buzz in your fuzz, coz.

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