The rhymes in this section have the ‘oe’ sound of boat and grocer as their main or final vowel sound.
35.1 beau, blow, bow, bro, Co., Coe, crow, Crowe, doe, doh, dough, Flo, floe, flow, foe, fro, glow, go, grow, ho, hoe, Jo, Joe, know, lo, low, Mo, mo’, mow, no, O, oh, owe, po, Po, Poe, pro, roe, row, Rowe, sew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, soh, sow, stow, Stowe, though, throe, throw, toe, tow, woe, yo
Let your little verses flow
Gently, sweetly, row by row.
HENRY CAREY
35.2 ago, gung-ho, hullo, aglow, Moreau, Thoreau, de trop, Monroe, Munro, dunno, just so, Lascaux, Margaux, Bardot, bravo, heigh-ho, Glencoe, hello, per pro, BO, CO, regrow, bestow, Defoe, below, skid row, righto, John Doe, forego, forgo, Bordeaux, although, foreknow, foreshow, go-slow, outgrow, good-oh
35.3 Abo, jabot, sabot, flambeau, mambo, Rambo, Rimbaud, Tambo, ASBO, capo, cachepot, Franco, NALGO, Django, mango, quango, tango, Tango®, saddo, shadow, bandeau, Brando, chateau, gateau, plateau, alto, canto, panto, Padstow, salvo, aloe, Boileau, callow, fallow, hallow, mallow, sallow, shallow, tallow, Pablo, tableau, cash flow, arrow, barrow, farrow, harrow, Harrow, Jarrow, marrow, narrow, sparrow, tarot, yarrow, macro, aggro, Afro, ammo, piano, fatso, matzo, chat show, macho, banjo, * wheelbarrow, * foreshadow, glissando, Orlando, annatto, mulatto, de facto, contralto, Rialto, Taranto, bel canto, portmanteau, impasto, tobacco, Tabasco, fiasco, hidalgo, fandango, marshmallow, piano, sargasso, El Paso, Picasso, gazpacho, * overshadow, rallentando, San Fernando, Palo Alto, Esperanto, antipasto, paparazzo
I, said the Sparrow,
With my bow and arrow,
I killed Cock Robin.
NURSERY RHYME
35.4 Garbo, Marco, taco, Argo, argot, cargo, Fargo, largo, Margot, Glasgow, Prado, arvo, bravo, Barlow, Carlo, Carlow, Harlow, Marlow, Marlowe, Arnaud, Arno, Carnot, guano, Kano, * Gestapo, farrago, embargo, Chicago, Zhivago, virago, bravado, Barnardo, Bernardo, Mikado, Ricardo, commando, staccato, tomato, castrato, legato, vibrato, St Malo, Pissarro, soprano, Meccano®, Cinzano®, Locarno, * Santiago, Pago Pago, avocado, muscovado, desperado, El Dorado, Colorado, Leonardo, bastinado, moderato, pizzicato, obbligato, Monte Carlo, Marciano, oregano, * aficionado, amontillado, inamorato, Kilimanjaro, * incommunicado
35.5 scarecrow, airflow, Aero®, faro, Pharaoh, airshow, * caballero
35.6 Mayo, rainbow, sago, credo, dado, Cato, NATO, Plato, halo, Day-Glo®, peso, * Tobago, lumbago, Diego, Toledo, Laredo, tornado, potato, Soweto, Delano, volcano, * Bulawayo, Galileo, San Diego, Winnebago, Valparaiso, * Alfa Romeo, Montevideo, * Tierra del Fuego
35.7 elbow, depot, tempo, dekko, echo, Eco, gecko, fresco, Tesco, Lego®, meadow, kendo, ghetto, Steptoe, recto, lento, pesto, presto, Chepstow, bellow, cello, fellow, Jell-o®, mellow, yellow, Pueblo, deathblow, Velcro®, escrow, metro, retro, Jethro, hedgerow, demo, memo, Renault, Esso, gesso, Enzo, * bedfellow, Oddfellow, Longfellow, schoolfellow, * Aleppo, Art Deco, El Greco, re-echo, flamenco, Lysenko, alfresco, UNESCO, Marengo, Nintendo®, crescendo, Soweto, stiletto, libretto, falsetto, Sorrento, trecento, memento, pimento, Novello, Othello, morello, Martello, Marcello, Costello, bordello, Uccello, allegro, espresso, Lorenzo, Vincenzo, * Timoshenko, Yevtushenko, Ionesco, innuendo, Canaletto, vaporetto, amaretto, amoretto, Tintoretto, allegretto, Sacramento, quattrocento, pentimento, cinquecento, manifesto, Portobello, Pirandello, Donatello, Punchinello, intermezzo, * diminuendo, divertimento, Risorgimento, violoncello
35.8 turbo, ergo, Virgo, Merlot, furlough, Pernod®, verso, Peugeot, * Umberto, concerto, Alberto, Palermo, Salerno, inferno, bolero, sombrero
35.9 weirdo, hero, Nero, Pierrot, Spiro, zero, * Shapiro, subzero, De Niro, Pinero, * antihero, superhero, * Rio de Janeiro
35.10 brio, Cleo, Clio, Leo, Rio, trio, cheapo, repo, Biko, Chico, pekoe, picot, ego, credo, lido, speedo, Tito, veto, filo, kilo, Negro, bistro, chemo, beano, Beano, chino, fino, Gino, Reno, vino, peepshow, * con brio, Trujillo, placebo, gazebo, Enrico, amigo, Rodrigo, tuxedo, libido, torpedo, graffito, Benito, magneto, mosquito, yo-heave-ho, El Niño, supremo, Aquino, Latino, Trevino, merino, amino, casino, Pacino, albino, bambino, neutrino, * Puerto Rico, alter ego, superego, Hirohito, incognito, Borodino, Tarantino, Valentino, Bardolino, San Marino, palomino, maraschino, Filipino, cappuccino
35.11 bimbo, Chrimbo, limbo, gyppo, hippo, sicko, thicko, wilco, gingko, pinko, disco, bingo, dingo, gringo, jingo, lingo, Ringo, widow, dildo, window, ditto, tiptoe, pinto, Shinto, Bisto®, Bristow, nympho, info, billow, pillow, willow, Wicklow, whitlow, inflow, limo, gizmo, minnow, winnow, dipso, schizo, * akimbo, Francisco, flamingo, Murillo, machismo, calypso, * San Francisco, Monte Cristo, armadillo, peccadillo, Amarillo, cigarillo, * Santo Domingo, * in flagrante delicto
35.12 hypo, typo, psycho, Tycho, Sligo, Dido, Fido, litho, Lilo®, Milo, Shiloh, silo, Biro®, Cairo, giro, tyro, maestro, lino, rhino, wino, sideshow, * Ohio, Hokkaido, * impetigo
35.13 yobbo, fogbow, combo, longbow, crossbow, oxbow, oppo, bronco, Moscow, doggo, bongo, Congo, drongo, Pongo, condo, rondeau, rondo, blotto, Giotto, grotto, lotto, motto, Otto, potto, Watteau, pronto, Volvo, follow, hollow, Rollo, swallow, wallow, Oslo, borrow, Corot, morrow, sorrow, cockcrow, Cointreau®, mono, tonneau, Oxo®, honcho, poncho, * Morocco, sirocco, Belmondo, risotto, Toronto, Apollo, tomorrow, Alfonso, * Mato Grosso
Eagerly I wished the morrow, – vainly had I sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
35.14 Waldo, auto, quarto, porno, torso, also, * Oporto, Livorno
35.15 bureau, Douro, euro, Truro, * Politburo, chiaroscuro
35.16 hobo, oboe, Coco, cocoa, loco, logo, Togo, dodo, Frodo, photo, Toto, Soho, polo, Polo, Rolo®, solo, yo-yo, Tokyo, Como, homo, promo, slo-mo, no-no, so-so, bozo, * Limpopo, rococo, iroko, ex voto, Kyoto, in toto, con moto, Barolo, kimono, * Orinoco, Quasimodo, telephoto, Marco Polo, major-domo, Ecce Homo, Perry Como, amoroso, doloroso, oloroso, mafioso, virtuoso
35.17 dumbo, Dumbo, gumbo, jumbo, stucco, Mungo, gusto, Ludlow, burrow, furrow, * Colombo, Columbo, * mumbo jumbo
35.18 duo, Hugo, Cluedo®, judo, ludo, pseudo, Trudeau, Bhutto, Pluto, rouleau, sumo, Bruno, Gounod, Juno, Clouseau, Crusoe, Rousseau, trousseau, whoso, ouzo, * escudo, testudo, prosciutto, Profumo
35.19 apropos, hammertoe, Navaho, Scapa Flow, Alamo, aquashow, patio, cameo, Anzio, tally-ho, calico, haricot, aristo, McEnroe, Maginot, afterglow, Martineau, Art Nouveau, status quo, Status Quo, radio, ratio, pedalo, tremolo, ebb and flow, Blériot, stereo, embryo, NCO, medico, Jellicoe, Jericho, Mexico, Bendigo, Eskimo, Herstmonceux, vertigo, furbelow, cheerio, PLO, VSO, PTO, Felixstowe, mistletoe, piccolo, gigolo, Figaro, Cicero, tick-tack-toe, Scipio, video, billyo, indigo, quid pro quo, Idaho, dynamo, tae kwon do, Monaco, Kosovo, contraflow, Prospero, comme il faut, Fontainebleau, domino, Scorpio, audio, Claudio, Borneo, Curaçao, curio, tournedos, overflow, overthrow, oversew, so-and-so, Tokyo, rodeo, folio, polio, Romeo, do-si-do, blow-by-blow, undergo, touch and go, undertow, bungalow, buffalo, bummalo, underflow, nuncio, to and fro, Huguenot, UFO, studio, Boucicault, subito, * malapropos, Arapaho, diabolo, Ajaccio, DiMaggio, simpatico, seraglio, intaglio, scenario, Lothario, mustachio, pistachio, Boccaccio, adagio, Correggio, arpeggio, solfeggio, Abednego, presidio, punctilio, capriccio, politico, magnifico, fortissimo, continuo, Geronimo, Pinocchio, imbroglio, portfolio, Antonio, * Michelangelo, impresario, archipelago, ex officio, pianissimo, oratorio, San Antonio, braggadocio, * generalissimo
35.20 daube, globe, Job, lobe, probe, robe, strobe, * enrobe, disrobe, * bathrobe, aerobe, ear lobe, microbe, wardrobe, * Francophobe, Anglophobe, xenophobe, technophobe, homophobe, claustrophobe, Europhobe, Russophobe, * agoraphobe
35.21 bloke, broke, choke, cloak, coke, Coke®, croak, folk, joke, moke, oak, poke, smoke, soak, spoke, stoke, stroke, woke, yoke, yolk, * provoke, convoke, baroque, awoke, unyoke, decoke, bespoke, evoke, revoke, invoke, * backstroke, Greystoke, menfolk, Pembroke, breaststroke, keystroke, heatstroke, kinfolk, kinsfolk, in-joke, cowpoke, townsfolk, downstroke, slowpoke, upstroke, sunstroke, * masterstroke, artichoke, Basingstoke, gentlefolk, womenfolk, counterstroke, Roanoke, Holyoake, stony-broke, okey-doke
35.22 coax, chokes, cloaks, folks, hoax, Noakes, oaks, Oakes, stokes, yolks, * artichokes, Sevenoaks, etc.
35.23 choked, cloaked, croaked, smoked, stoked, stroked, * provoked, unyoked, unsoaked, unsmoked, evoked, revoked, * unprovoked, unrevoked, etc.
35.24 broach, brooch, coach, Loach, poach, roach, Roach, * approach, reproach, encroach, * stagecoach, mailcoach, cockroach, slowcoach, * motorcoach, self-reproach
35.25 blowed, bode, bowed, code, crowed, flowed, glowed, goad, load, lode, mode, mowed, node, ode, owed, road, rode, rowed, snowed, Spode, strode, toad, towed, woad, * abode, unload, upload, corrode, commode, decode, reload, encode, bestowed, explode, implode, erode, off-load, forebode, Morse code, download, * cathode, hallowed, vanload, arrowed, narrowed, bar code, cartload, payload, railroad, echoed, mellowed, yellowed, shedload, freeload, workload, zip code, widowed, tiptoed, shipload, diode, triode, byroad, highroad, sideroad, followed, swallowed, borrowed, sorrowed, download, postcode, boatload, coachload, toll road, truckload, burrowed, furrowed, * foreshadowed, unhallowed, re-echoed, electrode, * wagonload, à la mode,, nematode, anyroad, episode, pigeon-toed, incommode, discommode, lorryload, overload, overflowed, overrode, * mustachioed, etc.
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
G. K. CHESTERTON
35.26 codes, goads, loads, Rhodes, toads, * cartloads, inroads, byroads, highroads, crossroads, truckloads, etc.
35.27 loaf, oaf
35.28 brogue, drogue, Pogue, rogue, vogue, Vogue, * Minogue, prorogue, * disembogue
35.29 doge, loge, Vosges, * Limoges
35.30 bole, boll, bowl, coal, Cole, dole, droll, foal, goal, hole, Knole, knoll, Knowle, kohl, Kohl, mole, pole, Pole, poll, prole, role, roll, Scholl, scroll, Seoul, shoal, skol, sole, soul, stole, stroll, toll, troll, vole, whole, * condole, parole, patrol, control, unroll, console, cajole, Nicole, de Gaulle, pistole, extol, Tyrol, enrol, North Pole, South Pole, * flagpole, tadpole, manhole, asshole, bankroll, bargepole, charcoal, armhole, arsehole, air hole, maypole, payroll, hellhole, bedroll, wormhole, earhole, Creole, Sheol, beanpole, keyhole, kneehole, peephole, fishbowl, Wimpole, ridgepole, pinhole, sinkhole, rissole, insole, dipole, eyehole, spyhole, foxhole, knothole, pothole, logroll, console, straw poll, Walpole, borehole, porthole, mousehole, rose bowl, blowhole, dust bowl, punchbowl, Rumpole, lughole, plughole, loophole, * Gallup poll, caracole, farandole, banderole, casserole, cabriole, dariole, Nat King Cole, camisole, vacuole, barcarole, Charles de Gaulle, self-control, Seminole, pigeonhole, rigmarole, hidy-hole, rock’n’roll, bronchiole, MORI poll, sausage roll, water hole, aureole, gloriole, oriole, glory hole, totem pole, buttonhole, cubbyhole, multirole, * arteriole, profiterole
Old King Cole was a merry old soul.
NURSERY RHYME
35.31 bold, bowled, cold, fold, gold, hold, mould, old, polled, rolled, scold, sold, soled, strolled, told, wold, * unpolled, untold, unfold, uphold, paroled, patrolled, controlled, unrolled, unsold, consoled, cajoled, retold, remould, extolled, enfold, behold, withhold, enrolled, ice-cold, foretold, stone-cold, * mangold, scaffold, handhold, bankrolled, eightfold, gatefold, Penfold, tenfold, threshold, threefold, sheepfold, freehold, leasehold, remould, sixfold, billfold, blindfold, fivefold, ninefold, Reinhold, potholed, stronghold, Cotswold, Courtauld, fourfold, household, toehold, Rumbold, foothold, twofold, * stranglehold, casseroled, marigold, manifold, centrefold, sevenfold, self-controlled, semibold, Leopold, pigeonholed, hundredfold, buttonholed, uncontrolled, multifold, * remote-controlled, * lo and behold, Stow-on-the-Wold, etc.
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold.
LORD BYRON
35.32 bolt, Bolt, Boult, colt, Colt, dolt, holt, jolt, moult, poult, smolt, volt, * unbolt, revolt, * eyebolt, ringbolt, Northolt, Humboldt, U-bolt, * megavolt, kilovolt, thunderbolt, * electronvolt
35.33 Bowles, bowls, coals, holes, Knowles, poles, rolls, Rolls, Scholes, voles, etc.
35.34 chrome, comb, dome, foam, Frome, gnome, holm, home, loam, ohm, Ohm, Om, pome, roam, Rome, tome, * Jerome, backcomb, rehome, * maelstrom, Beerbohm, genome, syndrome, biome, rhizome, cockscomb, coxcomb, Stockholm, Bornholm, prodrome, * astrodome, gastronome, palindrome, aerodrome, velodrome, metronome, hippodrome, liposome, Styrofoam®, ribosome, fine-tooth comb, monochrome, polychrome, Kodachrome®, chromosome, tumblehome, currycomb, honeycomb, Wolstenholme
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.
J. H. PAYNE
35.35 combs, gnomes, Holmes, Soames, tomes, etc.
35.36 Beaune, blown, bone, clone, cone, crone, drone, flown, groan, grown, hone, Joan, known, loan, lone, moan, mown, none, own, phone, pone, prone, Rhône, roan, scone, sewn, shown, Sloane, sown, stone, throne, thrown, tone, zone, * Capone, condone, atone, alone, cologne, Cologne, Malone, Stallone, unknown, unsewn, well-known, dethrone, intone, ingrown, enthrone, bemoan, Simone, disown, Tyrone, trombone, outgrown, postpone, home-grown, full-blown, * backbone, Rathbone, capstone, Blackstone, flagstone, sandstone, halftone, cardphone, whalebone, aitchbone, Maidstone, gravestone, hailstone, payphone, breastbone, headstone, whetstone, gemstone, cellphone, kerbstone, birthstone, turnstone, earphone, cheekbone, keystone, freephone, hipbone, shinbone, fishbone, wishbone, millstone, brimstone, clingstone, windblown, firestone, thighbone, pine cone, grindstone, milestone, limestone, rhinestone, flyblown, cyclone, jawbone, gallstone, hormone, warzone, neurone, nose cone, copestone, soapstone, lodestone, ozone, bloodstone, touchstone, two-tone, tombstone, moonstone, * anklebone, Al Capone, staddlestone, Francophone, Anglophone, gramophone, saxophone, stand-alone, chaperone, baritone, acetone, marrowbone, answerphone, barbitone, methadone, megaphone, pheromone, herringbone, semitone, stepping-stone, entryphone, telephone, Yellowstone, skin and bone, Silverstone, Dictaphone®, Linguaphone®, pick-your-own, silicone, bridging loan, ironstone, xylophone, vibraphone, microphone, collarbone, monotone, cobblestone, homophone, cornerstone, cortisone, eurozone, overtone, home-alone, overblown, Toblerone®, overgrown, overthrown, holystone, mobile phone, knucklebone, cuttlebone, undertone, undergrown, unbeknown, fully grown, sousaphone, Movietone®, * Rosetta Stone, progesterone, testosterone, * eau de Cologne, accident-prone, Marylebone, anticyclone, radiophone, videophone, * Sierra Leone, * hydrocortisone
There may be times when couples need a chaperone,
But mothers ought to learn to leave a chap alone.
DION TITHERAGE
35.37 boned, cloned, groaned, moaned, owned, phoned, stoned, * unboned, condoned, atoned, unstoned, dethroned, intoned, enthroned, bemoaned, disowned, postponed, * state-owned, rawboned, * chaperoned, telephoned, * unchaperoned, etc.
35.38 don’t, wont, won’t
35.39 bones, clones, Joan’s, Jones, nones, phones, stones, Stones, zones, * condones, atones, Simone’s, trombones, Tom Jones, postpones, Dow-Jones, * flagstones, hailstones, headphones, gemstones, fishbones, Flintstones, pine cones, rhinestones, crossbones, sawbones, hormones, * lazybones, Davy Jones, pheromones, cobblestones, Rolling Stones, knucklebones, * skull and crossbones, etc.
35.40 cope, dope, grope, hope, lope, mope, nope, pope, rope, scope, slope, soap, taupe, tope, trope, * aslope, elope, Bob Hope, soft-soap, * tightrope, towrope, * gastroscope, allotrope, antipope, antelope, endoscope, stethoscope, spectroscope, envelope, telescope, periscope, philanthrope, misanthrope, skipping rope, gyroscope, microscope, isotope, lycanthrope, horoscope, docu-soap, stroboscope, zoetrope, * ophthalmoscope, electroscope, oscilloscope, * laparoscope, stereoscope, CinemaScope®, heliotrope
35.41 hopes, mopes, ropes, Stopes, etc.
And scribbled lines like fallen hopes
On backs of tattered envelopes.
FRANCIS HOPE
35.42 close, dose, gross, * jocose, morose, verbose, engross, * lactose, dextrose, viscose, ribose, fructose, glucose, sucrose, * grandiose, adipose, varicose, lachrymose, bellicose, cellulose, overdose, comatose, otiose
35.43 boast, coast, dosed, ghost, host, most, oast, post, roast, toast, * riposte, engrossed, * lamppost, backmost, gatepost, bedpost, endmost, sternmost, rearmost, Freepost®, seacoast, midmost, inmost, guidepost, milepost, signpost, hindmost, topmost, doorpost, foremost, almost, soundpost, outpost, outmost, goalpost, upmost, utmost, * lattermost, aftermost, farthermost, nethermost, westernmost, furthermost, easternmost, innermost, middlemost, bottommost, northernmost, outermost, overdosed, lowermost, uppermost, undermost, uttermost, southernmost, newel post
35.44 gauche, Roche
35.45 bloat, boat, coat, dote, float, gloat, goat, groat, moat, mote, note, oat, quote, rote, smote, stoat, throat, tote, vote, wrote, * afloat, promote, connote, unquote, refloat, rewrote, devote, misquote, demote, emote, remote, denote, outvote, * catboat, flatboat, banknote, sailboat, whaleboat, greatcoat, waistcoat, tailcoat, raincoat, scapegoat, redcoat, endnote, turncoat, speedboat, keelboat, dreamboat, steamboat, sheepcote, keynote, swingboat, lifeboat, zygote, whitethroat, longboat, topcoat, sauce boat, houseboat, housecoat, powerboat, rowboat, showboat, tugboat, gunboat, dovecote, cut-throat, footnote, U-boat, Bluecoat, * nanny goat, antidote, anecdote, asymptote, narrow boat, table d’hôte, gravy boat, sailing boat, ferry boat, petticoat, redingote, creosote, billy goat, entrecôte, motorboat, overcoat, overwrote, rowing boat, undercoat, underwrote
The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat,
With an indolent expression and an undulating throat.
HILAIRE BELLOC
35.46 Coates, coats, floats, goats, groats, notes, Oates, oats, votes, * banknotes, redcoats, speedboats, lifeboats, footnotes, * anecdotes, ferry boats, John o’Groats, motorboats, etc.
35.47 both, growth, loath, oath, quoth, sloth, troth, * Arbroath, regrowth, ingrowth, outgrowth, * overgrowth, undergrowth
35.48 clothe, loathe, * unclothe, reclothe, betroth
35.49 clothes, loathes, * unclothes, plain clothes, reclothes, betroths, * bedclothes, nightclothes, * underclothes
35.50 clove, cove, drove, grove, hove, Hove, Jove, mauve, rove, shrove, stove, strove, throve, trove, wove, * behove, * alcove, mangrove, Bromsgrove, Musgrove, * treasure trove, interwove, Primus stove®, olive grove
35.51 cloves, droves, groves, Groves, loaves, stoves, etc.
35.52 blows, chose, close, crows, doze, flows, foes, froze, gloze, goes, hose, Joe’s, Mo’s, nose, pose, prose, rose, Rose, shows, snows, those, throes, toes, woes, * oppose, propose, suppose, compose, arose, transpose, depose, refroze, repose, impose, dispose, expose, bestows, enclose, disclose, Montrose, foreclose, outgrows, * lactose, aloes, gallows, arrows, narrows, sparrows, Ambrose, cargoes, Margot’s, Faeroes, scarecrows, rainbows, Plato’s, Waitrose, elbows, echoes, bellows, Fellowes, mellows, Melrose, windows, pillows, primrose, minnows, crossbows, bongos, follows, swallows, sorrows, rockrose, hobos, photos, bulldoze, hooknose, glucose, mucose, Hugo’s, * foreshadows, marshmallows, Allhallows, Picasso’s, * adipose, pantihose, lachrymose, granulose, guelder-rose, quelquechose, bellicose, pettitoes, cellulose, Berlioz, furbelows, presuppose, decompose, recompose, reimpose, predispose, interpose, discompose, indispose, diagnose, Comoros, bottlenose, dominoes, curios, comatose, stone the crows, otiose, juxtapose, bungalows, come to blows, shovelnose, superpose, tuberose, studios, * arpeggios, misdiagnose, portfolios, * photocompose, superimpose, overexpose, underexpose, * metamorphose, etc.
Whilst Adam slept, Eve from his side arose:
Strange his first sleep should be his last repose.
ANONYMOUS
35.53 closed, dozed, hosed, nosed, posed, * opposed, proposed, supposed, composed, unposed, deposed, imposed, disposed, exposed, enclosed, disclosed, * well-disposed, decomposed, predisposed, discomposed, ill-disposed, indisposed, snotty-nosed, toffee-nosed, unopposed, unexposed, undisclosed, superposed, * undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, * superimposed, overexposed, underexposed, etc.
36.1 Chloe, doughy, joey, Joey, showy, snowy, Zoe, dhobi, Gobi, goby, obi, Robey, Roby, Scobie, Toby, dopey, Hopi, mopy, Opie, ropey, soapy, topee, blokey, chokey, croaky, jokey, Loki, oaky, poky, smoky, trochee, bogey, Bogie, dogie, fogey, Logie, yogi, Yogi, Brodie, Cody, Jodie, roadie, toady, Goldie, mouldy, oldie, dhoti, floaty, goaty, oaty, throaty, postie, toasty, Brophy, Kofi, Sophie, strophe, trophy, Povey, Tovey, coaly, coley, Foley, goalie, holey, holy, lowly, Rowley, slowly, nobly, Oakley, Mowgli, boldly, coldly, ghostly, mostly, solely, wholly, homely, lonely, only, Stoneleigh, closely, grossly, Knowsley, Mosley, snowberry, poultry, blowy, Bowie, foamy, homey, know me, loamy, bony, coney, crony, phony, pony, stony, Toni, Tony, Josie, folksy, cosy, dozy, Losey, mosey, nosy, posy, prosy, Rosie, rosy, ogee, * adobe, Nairobi, Capote, coyote, unholy, aïoli, ignobly, remotely, jocosely, morosely, Dahomey, Salome, Naomi, Bodoni, Mahoney, baloney, Maloney, Mulroney, Marconi, Leonie, Oenone, Giorgione, * shadowy, willowy, shallowly, narrowly, sorrowfully, * kalanchoe, karaoke, hokey-cokey, okey-dokey, golden oldie, Don Quixote, guacamole, ravioli, roly-poly, Gaborone, mascarpone, panettone, abalone, cannelloni, zabaglione, macaroni, Annigoni, Castiglione, Albinoni, pepperoni, Berlusconi, cicerone, minestrone, virtuosi, * Antonioni, * Sierra Leone, * Obi-Wan Kenobi, conversazione, etc.
36.2 blower, boa, Boer, Goa, goer, grower, lower, moa, mower, Noah, o’er, rower, sewer, slower, sower, stoa, thrower, zoa, * aloha, Samoa, Balboa, jerboa, * racegoer, flamethrower, churchgoer, winegrower, Hornblower, lawn mower, snowblower, woolgrower, * Alloa, shallower, narrower, mellower, genoa, Genoa, widower, follower, borrower, * Shenandoah, Krakatoa, theatregoer, partygoer, concertgoer, protozoa, * cinemagoer, Mies van der Rohe, spermatozoa, * know her, throw her, etc.
A million million spermatozoa,
All of them alive:
Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah
Dare hope to survive.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
36.3 lobar, sober, dopa, groper, hoper, moper, Roper, Soper, toper, * October, jojoba, eloper, Europa, no-hoper, * Manitoba, interloper, * probe her, dope her, etc.
36.4 broker, choker, coca, croaker, joker, ochre, poker, smoker, stoker, Stoker, ogre, toga, yoga, * provoker, invoker, nonsmoker, * shipbroker, stockbroker, pawnbroker, * tapioca, mediocre, Saratoga, hatha yoga, * Ticonderoga, * woke her, provoke her, etc.
36.5 Clodagh, coda, coder, loader, Oder, odour, Rhoda, Skoda, soda, bolder, boulder, colder, folder, Golda, holder, moulder, older, polder, shoulder, smoulder, solder, bloater, boater, floater, gloater, motor, quota, rota, rotor, scoter, scrota, voter, moulter, Poulter, boaster, coaster, poster, roaster, toaster, Towcester, bolster, holster, pollster, * pagoda, decoder, encoder, beholder, cold-shoulder, Dakota, promoter, iota, nonvoter, Toyota, four-poster, upholster, * freeloader, gasholder, cardholder, shareholder, stakeholder, freeholder, keyholder, leaseholder, stockholder, bondholder, smallholder, stallholder, householder, fundholder, billposter, * candleholder, titleholder, record-holder, Minnesota, roller-coaster, * policyholder, * told her, promote her, etc.
36.6 chauffeur, gofer, goffer, gopher, loafer, sofa, clover, Dover, drover, Grover, nova, ova, over, rover, Rover, loather, * Pavlova, Markova, ars nova, Jehovah, Moldova, moreover, * Hanover, handover, hangover, Land Rover, flashover, Passover, makeover, takeover, changeover, Range Rover, Wendover, leftover, turnover, sleepover, slipover, tick-over, flyover, stopover, crossover, Bolsover, walkover, voice-over, rollover, once-over, pullover, pushover, * Casanova, bossa nova, supernova, going-over, * Navratilova, * drove her, loathe her, etc.
There’ll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover.
NAT BURTON
36.7 bola, bowler, coaler, cola, droller, Lola, molar, polar, roller, solar, stroller, Zola, nobler, ogler, cobra, Oprah, Bowyer, * aloha, patroller, controller, Angola, payola, premolar, viola, bipolar, tombola, Loyola, * steamroller, potholer, roadroller, * alveolar, Pepsi-Cola®, Pianola®, minneola, rock’n’roller, bronchiolar, Gorgonzola, Coca-Cola®, Motorola, Moviola®, unipolar, * Hispaniola, * stole her, console her, etc.
36.8 coma, comber, Cromer, Gomer, homer, Homer, Omagh, omer, roamer, Roma, soma, stoma, boner, donor, groaner, Jonah, krona, krone, loner, moaner, Mona, owner, Rhona, Shona, stoner, toner, Grosvenor, * Tacoma, aroma, sarcoma, diploma, lymphoma, misnomer, fibroma, glaucoma, neuroma, corona, Verona, Pomona, Ramona, Ancona, Pamplona, Daytona, persona, Fiona, cinchona, Cremona, Winona, Iona, co-owner, * beachcomber, landowner, shipowner, homeowner, * papilloma, adenoma, carcinoma, melanoma, haematoma, Oklahoma, Arizona, Barcelona, Desdemona, * phone her, disown her, etc.
36.9 closer, grocer, grosser, hoaxer, dozer, poser, Rosa, closure, brochure, kosher, poacher, loggia, soldier, * samosa, mimosa, Formosa, mucosa, opposer, proposer, composer, sub rosa, Mendoza, Spinoza, composure, exposure, disclosure, enclosure, foreclosure, * greengrocer, bulldozer, * Nova Scotia, apologia, * underexposure, overexposure, * anorexia nervosa, * knows her, reproach her, etc.
36.10 stoic, Stoic, phobic, strobic, * echoic, heroic, aerobic, * Mesozoic, Cenozoic, unheroic, acrophobic, aquaphobic, anaerobic, aquaerobic, xenophobic, technophobic, necrophobic, hydrophobic, photophobic, homophobic, claustrophobic, Europhobic, yogic, strophic, folic, bromic, chromic, gnomic, homesick, * achromic, dichromic, * polychromic, photochromic, * arachnophobic, * agoraphobic, Islamophobic
36.11 prolix, * heroics, aerobics, * aquaerobics
36.12 froward, brokered, boded, coded, goaded, loaded, folded, mouldered, smouldered, soldered, bloated, coated, dotard, doted, floated, gloated, noted, quoted, voted, wonted, posted, toasted, roasted, bolstered, chauffeured, homeward, soldiered, * uncoded, unloaded, uploaded, corroded, decoded, reloaded, exploded, encoded, spring-loaded, eroded, downloaded, outmoded, unfolded, round-shouldered, promoted, demoted, denoted, devoted, misquoted, outvoted, unwonted, * railroaded, freeloaded, steamrollered, * overloaded, colour-coded, unexploded, creosoted, sugar-coated, etc.
36.13 dotards, homewards
36.14 flowage, stowage, towage, soakage, dotage, flotage, voltage, postage, dosage, Trowbridge, tollbridge, * anecdotage, overdosage
36.15 Joel, Lowell, Noel, Powell, Froebel, global, Mobil®, noble, opal, focal, local, socle, vocal, yokel, bogle, mogul, ogle, modal, nodal, yodel, scrotal, total, coastal, postal, woeful, hopeful, boastful, slothful, doleful, soulful, oval, Oval, Yeovil, tonal, zonal, fo’c’s’le, social, * bestowal, Chernobyl, ennoble, Grenoble, ignoble, bifocal, nonlocal, subtotal, teetotal, reproachful, betrothal, coronal, atonal, hormonal, proposal, deposal, disposal, unsocial, asocial, * Adrianople, Constantinople, varifocal, sacerdotal, anecdotal, chromosomal, monoclonal, antisocial, * counterproposal
36.16 Roald, ogled, yodelled, * ennobled, etc.
36.17 Joel’s, nobles, locals, yokels, * bifocals, * varifocals, etc.
36.18 Noam, poem, phloem, hokum, locum, Oakham, oakum, Slocombe, Oldham, popedom, scrotum, totem, ovum, Botham, Bolam, Mowlem, loathsome, wholesome, lonesome, * Siloam, factotum, unwholesome, * Jeroboam, Rehoboam, * grow ’em, wrote ’em, etc.
36.19 Bowen, Cohen, Owen, throw-in, Tobin, goatskin, moleskin, Odin, bowline, Goldwyn, Cronin, phone-in, * pangolin, * haemoglobin, melatonin, serotonin, * rollin’, moanin’, etc.
36.20 rowan, Oban, Woburn, open, broken, oaken, spoken, token, woken, brogan, Cogan, Grogan, Hogan, Logan, shogun, slogan, Wogan, loden, Snowdon, Woden, golden, Holden, olden, oaten, Stoughton, Bolton, Boulton, Doulton, molten, Poulton, Folkestone, cloven, proven, woven, colon, Nolan, Solon, stolen, stollen, swollen, bowman, foeman, omen, Roman, showman, yeoman, Goldman, boatman, postman, coalman, Coleman, Colman, coachman, Conan, Onan, Ronan, bosun, Robeson, Jolson, chosen, frozen, Rosen, plosion, lotion, motion, notion, ocean, potion, Trojan, * Samoan, Virgoan, Minoan, Iowan, reopen, unspoken, unbroken, awoken, plain-spoken, well-spoken, betoken, foretoken, outspoken, beholden, embolden, Dakotan, unproven, Moldovan, Angolan, abdomen, patrolman, unfrozen, well-chosen, refrozen, corrosion, explosion, implosion, erosion, commotion, promotion, demotion, emotion, devotion, * heartbroken, Hoboken, Beethoven, Eindhoven, * protozoan, Manitoban, Minnesotan, ibuprofen, interwoven, semicolon, Oklahoman, Arizonan, lederhosen, locomotion, Nova Scotian, theologian
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that’s broken.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
36.21 opened, jocund, lowland, Poland, Roland, Copeland, Copland, * unopened, betokened, emboldened, ill-omened, Loch Lomond, etc.
36.22 rodent, potent, Solent, moment, quotient, cogent, * elopement, cajolement, enrolment, atonement, enthronement, postponement, encroachment, opponent, proponent, component, exponent
36.23 rodents, moments, * condolence, opponents, components, etc.
36.24 Boeing, bowing, flowing, glowing, going, growing, knowing, owing, rowing, sewing, snowing, probing, robing, coping, groping, hoping, moping, sloping, choking, croaking, joking, smoking, soaking, Woking, boding, coding, goading, loading, folding, Golding, holding, moulding, scolding, boating, coating, doting, floating, gloating, quoting, voting, jolting, moulting, boasting, coasting, ghosting, hosting, posting, roasting, toasting, bowstring, loafing, coving, roving, clothing, loathing, bowling, polling, rolling, Rowling, scrolling, strolling, tolling, ogling, O-ring, nose ring, coaming, combing, foaming, gloaming, homing, roaming, boning, cloning, droning, groaning, moaning, owning, phoning, stoning, closing, dozing, hosing, posing, broaching, coaching, poaching, * unknowing, bestowing, foregoing, enrobing, disrobing, eloping, provoking, no-smoking, unloading, uploading, corroding, decoding, reloading, exploding, encoding, eroding, foreboding, downloading, unfolding, upholding, enfolding, beholding, promoting, denoting, misquoting, nonvoting, revolting, patrolling, controlling, unrolling, consoling, cajoling, extolling, enrolling, condoning, intoning, bemoaning, disowning, postponing, opposing, proposing, supposing, composing, reposing, imposing, enclosing, disclosing, foreclosing, approaching, reproaching, encroaching, * glass-blowing, ingoing, ingrowing, mind-blowing, ongoing, foregoing, outgoing, stockbroking, pawnbroking, railroading, freeloading, breech-loading, shareholding, smallholding, roadholding, fundholding, billposting, flyposting, potholing, logrolling, backcombing, Wyoming, landowning, homeowning, bulldozing, * shadowing, harrowing, echoing, bellowing, seagoing, billowing, winnowing, following, borrowing, sorrowing, burrowing, * easy-going, ocean-going, overflowing, thoroughgoing, undergoing, thought-provoking, autoloading, overloading, underclothing, casseroling, tenpin bowling, pigeonholing, buttonholing, chaperoning, telephoning, presupposing, decomposing, diagnosing, juxtaposing, etc.
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
SAYING
36.25 loess, Lois, Powys, notice, Otis, poultice, Bovis, Hovis®, Clovis, gnosis, ptosis, * Adonis, sclerosis, narcosis, necrosis, cirrhosis, stenosis, hypnosis, fibrosis, meiosis, psychosis, mitosis, thrombosis, osmosis, prognosis, lordosis, neurosis, * allantois, stephanotis, myosotis, Issigonis, anthracosis, psittacosis, cyanosis, diagnosis, asbestosis, silicosis, toxicosis, acidosis, halitosis, brucellosis, scoliosis, symbiosis, * myxomatosis, anastomosis, misdiagnosis, autohypnosis, psychoneurosis, apotheosis, tuberculosis, * osteoporosis, endometriosis, pneumoconiosis, mononucleosis, * arteriosclerosis
36.26 globus, opus, crocus, focus, hocus, locus, bogus, lotus, Scotus, bolus, solus, toeless, hopeless, smokeless, goalless, soulless, homeless, boneless, stoneless, bonus, Cronus, Jonas, lowness, slowness, onus, tonus, boldness, coldness, wholeness, closeness, * Canopus, refocus, Duns Scotus, Aeolus, remoteness, atrocious, ferocious, precocious, * shadowless, shallowness, narrowness, mellowness, yellowness, windowless, hollowness, * magnum opus, diplodocus, autofocus, hocus-pocus, ceanothus, gladiolus, * pithecanthropus, * know us, told us, etc.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough, you’ll always sound precocious.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
RICHARD & ROBERT SHERMAN
36.27 noticed, Fauvist, Gaullist, * unnoticed, trombonist
36.28 goest, knowest, slowest, focused, locust, boldest, coldest, oldest, drollest, noblest, closest, grossest, * unfocused, refocused, * narrowest, shallowest, mellowest, etc.
36.29 slowish, modish, soapdish, oldish, roguish, voguish, oafish, toadfish, goldfish, stonefish, Polish
36.30 poet, obit, Tobit, notelet, bowsprit, * inchoate, * know it, hold it, etc.
Sir, I admit your gen’ral rule
That every poet is a fool:
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.
ALEXANDER POPE
36.31 poets, obits, Colditz, notelets, bowsprits
36.32 motive, votive, plosive, * emotive, corrosive, explosive, implosive, * locomotive, automotive
36.33 Toby’s, showbiz, fogeys, oldies, trophies, Chloe’s, cronies, ponies, posies, * litotes, psychoses, prognoses, neuroses, * golden oldies, diagnoses, * holy of holies, etc.
36.34 mowers, rowers, Sobers, brokers, jokers, smokers, boulders, shoulders, voters, coasters, Klosters, molars, rollers, owners, Rhona’s, doses, grocers, closes, dozes, Moses, noses, posers, roses, Joneses, coaches, poachers, soldiers, * no-hopers, nonsmokers, opposes, proposes, * churchgoers, stockbroker, shareholders, householders, leftovers, homeowners, greengrocers, cockroaches, * theatregoers, interlopers, etc.
36.35 nobody, prosody, Ogilvy, globally, Moberly, soberly, locally, vocally, totally, woefully, hopefully, boastfully, dolefully, overly, Rosalie, socially, soldierly, notably, openly, hopelessly, snowberry, Shrewsbury, popery, roguery, coterie, notary, rotary, votary, Bovary, ovary, drollery, topiary, hosiery, rosemary, Rosemary, grocery, causerie, rosary, gaucherie, soldiery, loganberry, momentary, yeomanry, Romany, potency, cogency, probity, showily, croakily, throatily, stonily, cosily, stoically, knowingly, jokingly, roguishly, poetry, poesy, * devotedly, ferociously, atrociously, upholstery, cajolery, diplomacy, improbity, heroically, supposedly, unknowingly, * uncontrollably, inconsolably, * jiggery-pokery, etc.
36.36 lowlander, yodeller, Crowborough, poulterer, opener, focuser, overture, omega, Colchester, Frobisher, * teetotaller, upholsterer, Eroica, * can-opener, tin-opener
36.37 obeah, phobia, dopier, ropier, soapier, croakier, pokier, smokier, podia, mouldier, fovea, clothier, Grolier, holier, lowlier, ghostlier, lonelier, showier, bonier, phonier, stonier, cosier, crosier, dozier, hosier, osier, nosier, rosier, * Zenobia, dystopia, myopia, Utopia, Cambodia, Segovia, Fitzrovia, synovia, Monrovia, magnolia, Mongolia, mahonia, ammonia, Antonia, Estonia, dystonia, sinfonia, dysphonia, Livonia, begonia, Ionia, Snowdonia, pneumonia, ambrosia, symposia, * acrophobia, aquaphobia, aerophobia, xenophobia, technophobia, necrophobia, neophobia, hydrophobia, zoophobia, photophobia, homophobia, nosophobia, claustrophobia, Europhobia, presbyopia, Ethiopia, cornucopia, pseudopodia, Anatolia, melancholia, Patagonia, catatonia, Catalonia, escallonia, Cephalonia, Amazonia, Caledonia, Macedonia, wellingtonia, Babylonia, Cappadocia, apologia, * arachnophobia, * agoraphobia, Islamophobia, bronchopneumonia, etc.
36.38 growable, knowable, mowable, throwable, towable, foldable, mouldable, notable, potable, quotable, sociable, notional, jovial, stoical, coital, * unknowable, revokable, controllable, opposable, disposable, unsociable, negotiable, approachable, reproachable, promotional, emotional, devotional, microbial, parochial, custodial, synovial, colloquial, binomial, colonial, baronial, * uncontrollable, inconsolable, non-negotiable, unapproachable, irreproachable, unemotional, polynomial, matrimonial, patrimonial, testimonial, ceremonial
Ev’ry corner that you turn you meet a notable
With a statement that is eminently quotable!
IRA GERSHWIN
36.39 opium, odium, podium, rhodium, sodium, chromium, Wokingham, * petroleum, linoleum, opprobrium, encomium, polonium, ammonium, harmonium, zirconium, meconium, plutonium, euphonium, * monosodium, pseudopodium, pelargonium, pandemonium
36.40 Auberon, Doberman, nobleman, Odeon, Rhodian, Jovian, Lothian, Groningen, * Fallopian, Salopian, Cyclopean, Utopian, custodian, Cambodian, melodeon, Pavlovian, Harrovian, Chekhovian, Midlothian, Napoleon, Ashmolean, aeolian, Mongolian, Draconian, Dundonian, Estonian, Devonian, Etonian, Miltonian, Livonian, Smithsonian, Ionian, Oxonian, Johnsonian, Newtonian, * Ethiopian, nickelodeon, Nabokovian, Anatolian, Patagonian, Aberdonian, Thessalonian, Ciceronian, Amazonian, Caledonian, Macedonian, Washingtonian, Babylonian, Tennysonian, Cappadocian, theologian
36.41 deodorant, ennoblement, defoliant
36.42 odourless, ownerless, motionless, odorous, onerous, hopefulness, boastfulness, openness, hopelessness, homelessness, copious, Gropius, odious, Grotius, Proteus, coitus, showiness, soapiness, holiness, Holiness, lowliness, loneliness, cosiness, doziness, nosiness, homesickness, * malodorous, precociousness, melodious, commodious, Antonius, harmonious, felonious, Polonius, Thelonious, erroneous, Petronius, euphonious, * unmelodious, incommodious, Apollonius, inharmonious, disharmonious, Suetonius, sanctimonious, acrimonious, parsimonious, ceremonious, * unceremonious, etc.
36.43 vocalist, socialist, motorist, chauvinist, coexist, oboist, soloist
36.44 dopiest, ropiest, soapiest, croakiest, pokiest, smokiest, mouldiest, holiest, lowliest, ghostliest, loneliest, showiest, boniest, phoniest, stoniest, cosiest, doziest, nosiest, rosiest, etc.
36.45 opiate, foliate, Soviet, roseate, * appropriate, associate, * inappropriate
36.46 focusable, noticeable