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
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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
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answered by bruhaha 7
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