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2007-10-25 12:43:59 · 6 answers · asked by wickedly charming 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

6 answers

In the strictest sense, absolutely NOTHING!

Specifically, there are no "PERFECT" rhymes for "nothing" (that is, words in which ALL sounds match from the vowel of the accented syllable to the word's end).

But there are a number of "near rhymes" that may work -- which match ALL the vowel sounds, and nearly all the consonant sounds, but may slightly vary one of them and/or add an extra sound (esp. just before the "th").

Note, for example, that /f/, /t/ and /sh/ are fairly close to /th/.

Try some of these (roughly grouped from 'nearer' to more distant):

bluffing, cuffing, fluffing, huffing, muffing, puffing, roughing, scuffing, sloughing, snuffing, stuffing, toughing

something
bunting, grunting, hunting, punting, shunting, stunting

abutting, butting, cutting, glutting, gutting, hutting, jutting, nutting, putting, rebutting, rutting, shutting, smutting, strutting, tutting
clutching, crutching, hutching, touching
crushing, gushing, hushing, rushing, shushing

brunching, bunching, crunching, lunching, munching, punching

busing, cussing, fussing, mussing
adjusting, busting, crusting, disgusting, dusting, gusting, lusting, musting, rusting, thrusting, trusting

___________

In fact, in many poetic contexts, I think you'll find that almost any word with an accented "uh" in the next to last syllable and the "-ing" ending will work, no matter what sounds go between.

Here are quite a few more:

bucking, clucking, ducking, mucking, sucking, shucking, tucking, trucking
cunning, dunning, gunning, punning, running, sunning, stunning, shunning
clunking, dunking, flunking, junking
duckling, suckling

bugging, chugging, hugging, lugging, mugging, pugging, plugging, slugging, tugging

dubbing, drubbing, flubbing, rubbing, subbing, stubbing, tubbing
bubbling, doubling, troubling
loving

bumming, coming, drumming, gumming, humming, numbing, plumbing, summing, slumming, strumming
dumping, jumping, lumping, pumping, stumping, thumping
crumpling, dumpling, rumpling
crumbling, fumbling, grumbling, humbling, jumbling, rumpling, stumbling, tumbling

cupping, supping, corrupting, erupting, coupling

budging, fudging, judging, smudging

2007-10-26 03:16:48 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0 2

Fling, bring, wing, king, zing

2007-10-25 19:50:16 · answer #2 · answered by anovelidea24 3 · 0 1

bluffing

2007-10-25 19:46:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

something
haha

2007-10-25 19:47:15 · answer #4 · answered by TheMightyDrea 2 · 1 0

Good thing.

2007-10-25 19:46:52 · answer #5 · answered by cidyah 7 · 0 1

scuffing?

2007-10-25 19:51:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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