The rhymes in this section have the ‘u’ sound of run and double as their main or final vowel sound. You can also rhyme some of these words with words ending in a weak ‘u’ sound (e.g. maximum, exodus), which you will find in other sections.
37.1 blub, bub, chub, Chubb®, club, cub, Cub, drub, dub, grub, hub, nub, pub, rub, scrub, shrub, slub, snub, stub, sub, tub, * bathtub, Jacob, cherub, nightclub, washtub, hubbub, * syllabub, overdub, * Beelzebub
Rub-a-dub-dub,
Three men in a tub.
NURSERY RHYME
37.2 clubs, cubs, Cubs, grubs, pubs, shrubs, stubs, Stubbs, subs, * mulligrubs, etc.
37.3 buck, Buck, chuck, Chuck, cluck, cruck, duck, fuck, guck, Huck, luck, muck, pluck, puck, Puck, ruck, schmuck, shuck, snuck, struck, stuck, suck, truck, tuck, yuck, * untuck, unstuck, amok, Canuck, lame duck, Friar Tuck, pot luck, * Kalmuck, Tarbuck, stage-struck, shelduck, sawbuck, Norfolk, awestruck, roebuck, jumbuck, mukluk, dumbstruck, bullock, Bullock, bulwark, woodchuck, nubuck, moonstruck, * liposuck, waterbuck, fork-lift truck, thunderstruck, * high-muck-a-muck
37.4 bucks, Bucks, Chuck’s, crux, ducks, dux, flux, shucks, sucks, trucks, tux, * de luxe, * reflux, influx, conflux, Dulux®, * megabucks, Benelux, forklift trucks, etc.
37.5 chucked, clucked, ducked, duct, plucked, sucked, tucked, * product, conduct, untucked, unplucked, obstruct, construct, abduct, deduct, induct, instruct, * conduct, construct, * misconduct, * aqueduct, self-destruct, deconstruct, reconstruct, viaduct, oviduct, usufruct, * autodestruct, etc.
37.6 clutch, crutch, Dutch, hutch, Kutch, much, such, touch, * retouch, declutch, * nonesuch, * forasmuch, inasmuch, insomuch, overmuch, such-and-such
37.7 clutched, touched, * untouched, retouched, declutched
37.8 blood, bud, crud, cud, dud, flood, Judd, mud, rudd, scud, spud, stud, thud, * m’lud, debud, disbud, * taste bud, lifeblood, oxblood, rosebud, * chew the cud, * stick-in-the-mud
Mud, mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
MICHAEL FLANDERS & DONALD SWANN
37.9 buds, duds, floods, spuds, studs, suds, * taste buds, rosebuds, soapsuds, etc.
37.10 bluff, Brough, buff, chough, chuff, Clough, cuff, duff, fluff, gruff, guff, huff, luff, muff, puff, rough, ruff, scruff, scuff, slough, snuff, stuff, tough, * McDuff, rebuff, enough, * handcuff, dandruff, Fairclough, seraph, earmuff, feedstuff, greenstuff, dyestuff, bumfluff, woodruff, Woodruff, foodstuff, * off-the-cuff, powder puff, overstuff
37.11 cuffs, muffs, puffs, * handcuffs, earmuffs, * fisticuffs, powder puffs, etc.
37.12 bluffed, chuffed, puffed, scuffed, stuffed, tuft, * unstuffed, rebuffed, * candytuft, overstuffed, etc.
37.13 Crufts, tufts
37.14 bug, chug, Doug, drug, dug, fug, glug, hug, jug, lug, mug, plug, pug, rug, shrug, slug, smug, snug, thug, trug, tug, * unplug, debug, * hearth rug, bedbug, earplug, firebug, Rawlplug®, humbug, * jitterbug, litterbug, superbug, doodlebug
37.15 bludge, budge, drudge, fudge, grudge, judge, nudge, pudge, Rudge, sludge, smudge, trudge, * adjudge, prejudge, begrudge, misjudge
There comes Poe with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,
Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
37.16 cull, dull, gull, hull, Hull, lull, mull, Mull, null, scull, skull, * annul, * seagull, mogul, Mogul, numbskull, * Jethro Tull, disannul, monohull, Solihull, multihull
37.17 bulb, * flashbulb
37.18 bulk, hulk, skulk, sulk
37.19 bulked, hulked, skulked, sulked, mulct
37.20 gulch, mulch
37.21 gulf, Gulf, * engulf, * Ranulph, Biddulph
37.22 bulge, * indulge, divulge, * overindulge
37.23 gulp, pulp
37.24 gulped, pulped, sculpt
37.25 dulse, Hulse, pulse, * convulse, repulse, * impulse
37.26 cult, * adult, consult, insult, result, exult, occult, * adult, insult, occult, tumult, * catapult, difficult, * jurisconsult
37.27 Brum, bum, chum, come, crumb, drum, dumb, glum, gum, hum, mum, numb, plum, plumb, Rum, rhumb, rum, scrum, scum, slum, some, strum, sum, swum, thrum, thumb, tum, um, * succumb, become, benumb, dim sum, Tom Thumb, ho-hum, yum-yum, * breadcrumb, eardrum, outcome, dumdum, humdrum, * kettledrum, wearisome, Tweedledum, overcome, bubble gum, sugarplum, chewing gum
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
W. H. AUDEN
37.28 bumf, humph, * galumph, harrumph, * triumph
37.29 bump, chump, clump, dump, frump, grump, hump, jump, lump, plump, pump, rump, scrump, slump, stump, sump, thump, trump, tump, * gazump, * ski jump, bilge pump, high jump, long jump, mugwump, * Forrest Gump, overtrump, undertrump, sugar lump
37.30 bumps, dumps, humps, lumps, mumps, pumps, trumps, * goosebumps, * sugar lumps, etc.
37.31 bun, done, Donne, dun, Dunn, fun, gun, Gunn, Hun, Lunn, none, nun, Nunn, one, pun, run, shun, son, spun, stun, sun, Sun, ton, tonne, tun, won, * undone, hard-won, A1, Verdun, redone, rerun, begun, forerun, outgun, outdone, outrun, close-run, * handgun, grandson, air gun, Bren gun, Sten gun, stepson, rerun, finespun, popgun, shotgun, godson, homespun, blowgun, shogun, no-one, someone, * great-grandson, machine gun, * Gatling gun, Sally Lunn, aftersun, eighty-one, megaton, Trevor Nunn, twenty-one, everyone, anyone, thirty-one, kiloton, hit-and-run, fifty-one, sixty-one, ninety-one, Tommy gun, forty-one, overdone, overrun, underdone, one-to-one, honeybun, dummy run, * seventy-one, son-of-a-gun
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won.
WALT WHITMAN
37.32 bunk, chunk, clunk, drunk, dunk, flunk, funk, gunk, hunk, junk, monk, Monk, plunk, punk, shrunk, skunk, slunk, spunk, stunk, sunk, thunk, trunk, * preshrunk, debunk, * chipmunk, quidnunc, punch-drunk, * cyberpunk, countersunk
37.33 bunks, chunks, hunks, monks, punks, trunks, * quincunx, chipmunks, etc.
37.34 clunked, dunked, flunked, * debunked, defunct, * adjunct, conjunct, disjunct
37.35 brunch, bunch, crunch, hunch, lunch, munch, punch, Punch, scrunch, * honeybunch
37.36 fund, gunned, punned, shunned, stunned, * refund, rotund, outgunned, * gerund, fecund, refund, jocund, * Sigismund, Rosamund, moribund, orotund, cummerbund, rubicund
37.37 bung, clung, dung, flung, hung, lung, rung, slung, sprung, strung, stung, sung, swung, tongue, wrung, young, Yonge, Young, * unhung, unsprung, unstrung, among, unsung, Shantung, far-flung, rehung, restrung, * hamstrung, Samsung, oxtongue, Hoffnung, * aqualung, iron lung, highly strung, overhung, overstrung, underhung, underslung
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
37.38 grunge, gunge, lunge, plunge, sponge, * expunge, * muskellunge
37.39 dunce, once, grunts, hunts, punts, shunts, * witch-hunts, Y-fronts®, etc.
37.40 blunt, brunt, Blunt, bunt, cunt, front, grunt, hunt, Hunt, Lunt, punt, runt, shunt, stunt, * affront, upfront, confront, * manhunt, head-hunt, seafront, witch-hunt, fox hunt, shop front, forefront, * exeunt, waterfront
37.41 cup, pup, sup, tup, up, yup, * made-up, fed up, het up, pent up, World Cup, built-up, mixed-up, grown-up, stuck-up, jumped-up, trumped-up, thumbs-up, souped-up, * backup, hang-up, mark-up, snarl-up, break-up, make-up, shake-up, pasteup, rave-up, lace-up, step-up, checkup, egg cup, send-up, get-up, let-up, setup, press-up, ketchup, turn-up, teacup, knees-up, slip-up, hiccup, pick-up, stick-up, Sidcup, kingcup, linkup, build-up, sit-up, split-up, pin-up, piss-up, mix-up, fry-up, eyecup, wind-up, write-up, pile-up, line-up, pop-up, top-up, cockup, lockup, mock-up, toss-up, nosh-up, call-up, warm-up, roundup, hold-up, grown-up, close-up, run-up, sunup, punch-up, * Davis Cup, FA Cup, giddy-up, pick-me-up, Ryder Cup, coffee cup, washing-up, follow-up, buttercup, cover-up, runner-up, up-and-up, summing-up
37.42 cupped, supped, tupped, * corrupt, abrupt, erupt, irrupt, disrupt, * bankrupt, hiccuped, * interrupt
37.43 bus, buss, cuss, fuss, Gus, huss, Huss, muss, plus, pus, Russ, suss, thus, truss, us, * percuss, concuss, untruss, debus, embus, discuss, nonplus, * Airbus®, walrus, postbus, * battlebus, Belarus, minibus, trolleybus, omnibus, motorbus, overplus, blunderbuss
37.44 brusque, busk, dusk, husk, musk, rusk, tusk, Usk, * mollusc, subfusc
37.45 bust, crust, dost, dust, fussed, gust, just, lust, mussed, must, rust, sussed, thrust, trussed, trust, * combust, concussed, untrussed, adjust, unjust, discussed, disgust, encrust, entrust, distrust, mistrust, nonplussed, august, robust, * stardust, piecrust, sawdust, shortcrust, bloodlust, upthrust, * antirust, angel dust, readjust, bite the dust, wanderlust, upper crust, unit trust, etc.
Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is – Love forgive us! – cinders, ashes, dust.
JOHN KEATS
37.46 blush, brush, crush, flush, gush, hush, lush, mush, plush, rush, slush, thrush, tush, * hush-hush, * airbrush, hairbrush, paintbrush, nailbrush, sagebrush, Windrush, inrush, onrush, songthrush, outrush, clothes brush, uprush, bulrush, toothbrush, * mistle thrush, bottlebrush, underbrush, scrubbing brush
37.47 but, butt, cut, glut, gut, hut, jut, mutt, nut, phut, putt, rut, scut, shut, slut, smut, strut, tut, ut, * abut, uncut, clear-cut, clean-cut, rebut, low-cut, tut-tut, * sackbut, catgut, haircut, chestnut, offcut, cobnut, peanut, beechnut, crosscut, rotgut, short cut, walnut, groundnut, doughnut, woodcut, crew cut, * horse chestnut, brazil nut, * halibut, hazelnut, Lilliput, linocut, occiput, coconut, scuttlebutt, uppercut, undercut, butternut, monkey nut
37.48 cuts, guts, huts, klutz, nuts, smuts, Smuts, struts, * chestnuts, peanuts, * hazelnuts, greedy guts, worryguts, monkey nuts, etc.
37.49 dove, glove, love, guv, shove, * above, * foxglove, ringdove, truelove, * ladylove, turtledove, cupboard love, tug-of-love
In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove;
In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
37.50 gloved, loved, shoved, * unloved, beloved, * Wellbeloved
37.51 buzz, coz, does, fuzz, muzz, * abuzz, redoes, outdoes, * overdoes
38.1 chubby, clubby, cubby, grubby, hubby, nubby, scrubby, shrubby, stubby, tubby, brumby, busby, guppy, puppy, yuppie, pulpy, bumpy, dumpy, frumpy, grumpy, humpy, jumpy, lumpy, scrumpy, stumpy, * rumpy-pumpy
38.2 clucky, ducky, lucky, mucky, plucky, truckie, yucky, bulky, sulky, chunky, clunky, flunky, funky, hunky, junkie, monkey, spunky, dusky, husky, musky, buggy, Dougie, druggie, fuggy, muggy, * unlucky, Kentucky, * happy-go-lucky
38.3 bloody, buddy, cruddy, muddy, ruddy, study, Grundy, Lundy, Monday, Sunday, butty, nutty, puttee, putty, rutty, smutty, mufti, shufty, tufty, Bunty, runty, busty, crusty, dusty, fusty, gusty, lusty, musty, rusty, trusty, * McNulty, * in the nuddy, understudy, fuddy-duddy, salmagundi, barramundi, Humpty Dumpty
38.4 Duffy, fluffy, huffy, puffy, roughie, scruffy, stuffy, toughie, comfy, covey, Dovey, lovey, luvvie, Southey, * Aberdovey, lovey-dovey
38.5 gully, Lully, Scully, sully, Sully, Tully, bubbly, doubly, stubbly, crumbly, humbly, Buckley, smugly, snuggly, UGLI®, ugly, Budleigh, cuddly, Dudley, subtly, Uttley, bluntly, Huntley, justly, snuffly, lovely, monthly, dully, Cholmondeley, comely, glumly, Lumley, Plomley, muscly, Huxley, curry, Curry, flurry, hurry, Murray, scurry, slurry, surrey, Surrey, worry, mulberry, hungry, sundry, sultry, country, comfrey, Humphrey, Guthrie, * abruptly, unjustly, robustly, unlovely, upcountry, * fait accompli, etc.
38.6 Brummie, chummy, crumby, crummy, dummy, gummy, lumme, mummy, plummy, rummy, scrummy, scummy, slummy, tummy, yummy, bunny, dunny, funny, honey, money, runny, sonny, Sunni, sunny, tunny, chutney, Putney, * unfunny, alumnae, * Ballymoney, loadsamoney, * overcome me, etc.
Isn’t it funny
How a bear likes honey?
A. A. MILNE
38.7 fussy, Hussey, hussy, mussy, pussy, gutsy, Dulcie, Runcie, does he, fuzzy, muzzy, SCSI, scuzzy, Pudsey, sudsy, clumsy, mumsy, brushy, gushy, mushy, rushy, slushy, duchy, touchy, bunchy, Crunchie, crunchy, punchy, scrunchie, budgie, pudgy, sludgy, smudgy, bungee, gungy, grungy, scungy, spongy, * unfussy, archduchy
38.8 blubber, clubber, grubber, lubber, rubber, scrubber, bulbar, clumber, cumber, Humber, lumbar, lumber, number, rumba, slumber, umber, crupper, cuppa, scupper, supper, upper, gulper, pulper, bumper, jumper, plumper, * Columba, renumber, encumber, outnumber, gazumper, * landlubber, cucumber, showjumper, queue-jumper, * disencumber, * snub her, dump her, etc.
38.9 chucker, chukker, ducker, fucker, mucker, plucker, pucker, pukka, succour, sucker, trucker, tucker, UCCA, yucca, skulker, sulker, bunker, clunker, hunker, punkah, busker, tusker, bugger, hugger, lugger, mugger, plugger, rugger, slugger, smugger, snugger, tugger, bulgur, vulgar, hunger, monger, younger, Younger, * debunker, spelunker, debugger, Srinagar, * sapsucker, seersucker, goatsucker, bloodsucker, scaremonger, cheesemonger, fishmonger, warmonger, whoremonger, newsmonger, * motherfucker, hugger-mugger, scandalmonger, ironmonger, costermonger, gossipmonger, * struck her, hug her, etc.
38.10 chador, judder, rudder, shudder, udder, blunder, chunder, plunder, Sunda, sunder, thunder, under, wonder, butter, clutter, cutter, flutter, gutter, mutter, nutter, putter, scutter, shutter, splutter, sputter, stutter, utter, Gupta, sculptor, blunter, Bunter, chunter, grunter, Gunter, hunter, Hunter, junta, punter, shunter, bluster, buster, cluster, Custer, duster, fluster, lustre, muster, thruster, ulster, Ulster, Munster, punster, youngster, * asunder, gazunder, thereunder, hereunder, rotunda, aflutter, Calcutta, rebutter, corrupter, disrupter, conductor, abductor, destructor, inductor, instructor, Fort Sumter, combustor, adjuster, lacklustre, Augusta, * stonecutter, woodcutter, head-hunter, pothunter, fox-hunter, Dambuster, stressbuster, blockbuster, bonkbuster, ghostbuster, * floribunda, up-and-under, interrupter, nonconductor, filibuster, loss adjuster, broncobuster, * semiconductor, * stunned her, confront her, etc.
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder
That such trivial people should muse and thunder
In such lovely language.
D. H. LAWRENCE
38.11 bluffer, buffer, duffer, gruffer, puffer, rougher, snuffer, stuffer, suffer, tougher, sulphur, cover, glover, Glover, lover, plover, Culver, vulva, brother, mother, other, smother, t’other, * uncover, re-cover, recover, discover, triumvir, another, * hardcover, slipcover, softcover, fun-lover, Anstruther, grandmother, half-brother, Fairbrother, stepbrother, stepmother, godmother, housemother, * rediscover, undercover, * rebuff her, love her, etc.
38.12 colour, culler, duller, Muller, sculler, Sulla, bubbler, troubler, bumbler, fumbler, grumbler, mumbler, tumbler, suppler, buckler, chuckler, suckler, juggler, smuggler, struggler, bungler, muddler, butler, Butler, cutler, subtler, sutler, muffler, ruffler, shuffler, hustler, rustler, guzzler, puzzler, borough, Currer, thorough, umbra, tundra, ultra, * Abdullah, discolour, medulla, demurrer, penumbra, * Weissmuller, swashbuckler, gas-guzzler, * Technicolor®, technicolour, watercolour, multicolour, Attenborough, Edinburgh, Peterborough, kookaburra, * lull her, etc.
38.13 bummer, comer, drummer, dumber, glummer, Gummer, hummer, Hummer®, mummer, number, plumber, rummer, strummer, summer, gunner, runner, stunner, Sunna, Bugner, guv’nor, ulna, Cumnor, Sumner, * midsummer, Corunna, alumna, columnar, * latecomer, incomer, newcomer, forerunner, roadrunner, frontrunner, gunrunner, * shun her, stun her, etc.
38.14 fusser, Tulsa, ulcer, oncer, buzzer, blusher, crusher, flusher, gusher, lusher, plusher, Prussia, rusher, Russia, usher, toucher, rupture, sculpture, structure, juncture, puncture, culture, vulture, cruncher, luncher, puncher, bludger, grudger, nudger, trudger, conjure, plunger, sponger, * discusser, Tecumseh, retoucher, conjuncture, * substructure, subculture, * infrastructure, superstructure, acupuncture, agriculture, viticulture, silviculture, horticulture, number-cruncher, * rush her, punch her, etc.
38.15 cultic, fustic, rustic, drumstick, public, Brunswick, Sputnik, prussic, lovesick, * republic
38.16 Ruddock, buttock, Suffolk, Southwark, Tulloch, Thurrock, hummock, stomach, dunnock, tussock, * McCullough
38.17 buttocks, flummox, lummox, hummocks, stomachs, dunnocks, tussocks, * McCullough’s, etc.
38.18 rustics, drumsticks, suffix, Sputniks, Sussex, * republics
38.19 cuspid, rugged, bloodied, muddied, studied, Dyfed, sullied, curried, hurried, scurried, worried, honeyed, moneyed, cussed, * bicuspid, unstudied, beloved, unsullied, unhurried, unworried, etc.
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To fetch her poor dog a bone.
NURSERY RHYME
38.20 blubbered, cupboard, Hubbard, numbered, slumbered, scuppered, drunkard, buggered, sluggard, flooded, shuddered, studded, blundered, funded, plundered, thundered, wondered, buttered, fluttered, gutted, jutted, muttered, strutted, uttered, tufted, blunted, fronted, grunted, hunted, stunted, bustard, busted, custard, dusted, flustered, mustard, trusted, Knutsford, covered, mothered, smothered, coloured, dullard, hundred, upward, Rudyard, buzzard, ruptured, structured, cultured, punctured, * unnumbered, encumbered, outnumbered, red-blooded, hot-blooded, warm-blooded, cold-blooded, unfunded, abutted, tut-tutted, corrupted, erupted, disrupted, conducted, obstructed, constructed, abducted, deducted, instructed, insulted, resulted, affronted, confronted, unflustered, adjusted, disgusted, entrusted, distrusted, uncovered, recovered, discovered, self-coloured, discoloured, unstructured, uncultured, * head-hunted, * Mother Hubbard, unencumbered, underfunded, interrupted, uncorrupted, deconstructed, reconstructed, unobstructed, maladjusted, well-adjusted, unrecovered, undiscovered, multicoloured, * uninterrupted, unreconstructed, etc.
38.21 cupboards, drunkards, sluggards, upwards, etc.
38.22 luggage, frontage, roughage, lovage, Dulwich, sullage, ullage, courage, Uxbridge, umbrage, Tonbridge, suffrage, Gummidge, rummage, scrummage, tonnage, * encourage, discourage, demurrage
38.23 bubble, double, Hubble, nubble, rubble, stubble, trouble, bumble, crumble, fumble, grumble, humble, jumble, mumble, rumble, scumble, stumble, tumble, umbel, couple, supple, crumple, rumple, buccal, buckle, chuckle, knuckle, muckle, suckle, truckle, nuncle, uncle, juggle, smuggle, snuggle, struggle, bungle, fungal, jungle, cuddle, fuddle, huddle, muddle, puddle, ruddle, Blundell, bundle, trundle, cuttle, scuttle, shuttle, subtle, frontal, duffel, muffle, ruffle, scuffle, shuffle, snuffle, truffle, lustful, trustful, Lovell, shovel, vulval, Burrell, Durrell, tumbrel, umbral, guttural, Brummell, Hummel, pummel, Chunnel, funnel, Gunnell, gunwale, runnel, tunnel, bustle, hustle, muscle, mussel, Russell, rustle, tussle, guzzle, muzzle, nuzzle, puzzle, nuptial, cudgel, * redouble, uncouple, unbuckle, peduncle, befuddle, unbundle, rebuttal, unsubtle, disgruntle, kerfuffle, reshuffle, distrustful, triumphal, demurral, penumbral, sepulchral, Beau Brummell, autumnal, Jack Russell, unmuzzle, Rapunzel, prenuptial, * pinochle, turnbuckle, carbuncle, Garfunkel, Tolpuddle, corpuscle, * rough-and-tumble, thermocouple, honeysuckle, antifungal, contrapuntal, Eurotunnel, antenuptial
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
38.24 doubled, troubled, grumbled, jumbled, stumbled, crumpled, chuckled, cuckold, smuggled, struggled, bungled, muddled, gruntled, muffled, ruffled, puzzled, * untroubled, befuddled, disgruntled, unruffled, reshuffled, etc.
38.25 bubbles, doubles, troubles, grumbles, Mumbles, rumbles, cuddles, puddles, bundles, snuffles, truffles, Brussels, muscles, mussels, Russell’s, puzzles, etc.
38.26 plumbum, Duckham, bunkum, custom, frustum, Durham, buckram, Puttnam, buxom, * corundum, Saxmundham, accustom, conundrum, * Carborundum®, * stunned ’em, trust ’em, etc.
38.27 dubbin, dustbin, bumpkin, pumpkin, Ruskin, buckskin, Dustin, Justin, muffin, puffin, Dublin, drumlin, dunlin, muslin, murrain, Unwin, cumin, run-in, * Augustine, MacGuffin, * ragamuffin, * trustin’, bubblin’, etc.
38.28 stubborn, lumpen, Buchan, Vulcan, drunken, Duncan, shrunken, sunken, Tuscan, Duggan, sudden, Blunden, London, Lumsden, button, Dutton, glutton, Hutton, mutton, Sutton, Upton, sultan, Buxton, Dunstan, tungsten, Rushton, roughen, toughen, coven, Govan, govern, oven, sloven, southern, Cullen, Mullen, sullen, Curran, bunion, Bunyan, onion, Runyon, summon, clubman, dustman, gunman, busman, huntsman, Dutchman, Hudson, Bunsen, cousin, cozen, dozen, Prussian, Russian, gumption, fluxion, ruction, suction, function, junction, unction, scutcheon, luncheon, truncheon, bludgeon, dudgeon, gudgeon, dungeon, * Etruscan, unbutton, Augustan, McGovern, misgovern, Catullan, Lucullan, percussion, concussion, discussion, corruption, eruption, irruption, disruption, assumption, consumption, presumption, resumption, production, conduction, obstruction, construction, abduction, deduction, reduction, seduction, induction, destruction, instruction, compunction, conjunction, malfunction, dysfunction, injunction, disjunction, propulsion, compulsion, convulsion, repulsion, impulsion, expulsion, revulsion, emulsion, escutcheon, combustion, curmudgeon, high dudgeon, * Newcomen, * bellybutton, Flying Dutchman, Belarussian, repercussion, interruption, self-destruction, preproduction, reproduction, deconstruction, reconstruction, introduction, misconstruction, liposuction, postproduction, multifunction, * overconsumption, underconsumption, reintroduction, overproduction, underproduction
38.29 husband, buttoned, roughened, toughened, governed, upland, Studland, Jutland, Rutland, Drummond, summoned, functioned, * unbuttoned, ungoverned, * househusband, etc.
38.30 gubbins, dustbins, pumpkins, Buggins, muggins, muffins, puffins, Butlins, etc.
38.31 buttons, Lutyens, bunions, onions, summons, cousins, Cousins, dozens, functions, junctions, dungeons, * repercussions, interruptions, introductions, etc.
There were noblemen in coronets, and military cousins,
There were captains by the hundred, there were baronets by dozens.
W. S. GILBERT
38.32 currant, current, judgment, mustn’t, doesn’t, Ushant, fulgent, pungent, * recumbent, incumbent, abundant, redundant, reluctant, consultant, resultant, exultant, triumphant, concurrent, recurrent, abutment, adjustment, engulfment, annulment, prejudgment, misjudgment, repugnant, convulsant, demulcent, indulgent, effulgent, refulgent, * blackcurrant, redcurrant, crosscurrent, * undercurrent, maladjustment, readjustment, self-indulgent, * superabundant, anticonvulsant, overindulgent
38.33 tuppence, substance, currants, cumbrance, sufferance, * comeuppance, abundance, conductance, inductance, reluctance, consultants, occurrence, concurrence, recurrence, incurrence, encumbrance, adjustments, repugnance, indulgence, effulgence, refulgence, * reoccurrence, self-indulgence, * superabundance, overindulgence, etc.
38.34 blubbing, clubbing, drubbing, dubbing, rubbing, scrubbing, cupping, supping, gulping, pulping, jumping, thumping, clucking, ducking, fucking, plucking, sucking, trucking, bulking, hulking, skulking, sulking, clunking, dunking, trunking, busking, bugging, chugging, hugging, mugging, shrugging, budding, flooding, scudding, studding, thudding, funding, cutting, jutting, nutting, putting, shutting, strutting, bunting, grunting, hunting, punting, shunting, dusting, gusting, lusting, rusting, thrusting, trusting, bluffing, chuffing, huffing, puffing, scuffing, snuffing, stuffing, loving, shoving, nothing, something, culling, lulling, sculling, bubbling, troubling, bumbling, crumbling, grumbling, mumbling, rumbling, coupling, dumpling, buckling, duckling, suckling, Suckling, bungling, shuffling, bustling, rustling, puzzling, upspring, gull-wing, upswing, bumming, coming, Cumming, drumming, humming, mumming, plumbing, slumming, strumming, cunning, gunning, punning, running, shunning, stunning, cussing, fussing, buzzing, blushing, crushing, flushing, Flushing, gushing, rushing, clutching, touching, crunching, munching, punching, budging, grudging, judging, smudging, trudging, bulging, * debugging, debunking, abutting, corrupting, erupting, disrupting, conducting, instructing, consulting, insulting, resulting, adjusting, disgusting, distrusting, rebuffing, engulfing, unloving, annulling, becoming, benumbing, forthcoming, discussing, unblushing, retouching, ungrudging, begrudging, * swan-upping, showjumping, bloodsucking, blockbusting, fun-loving, swashbuckling, incoming, mind-numbing, oncoming, shortcoming, homecoming, upcoming, frontrunning, gunrunning, * underfunding, interrupting, self-adjusting, up-and-coming, unbecoming, unforthcoming, up and running, etc.
Bye, baby bunting,
Daddy’s gone a hunting.
NURSERY RHYME
38.35 muggings, cuttings, hustings, dumplings, ducklings, sucklings, Cummings, * shortcomings, etc.
38.36 orange, lozenge
38.37 justice, Dulles, pumice, duchess, * injustice, portcullis, accomplice
38.38 bulbous, plumbous, compass, rumpus, ruckus, fungous, fungus, cultus, troublous, luckless, Douglas, bloodless, cutlass, gutless, loveless, sonless, sunless, cumbrous, slumberous, thunderous, wondrous, buttress, sculptress, huntress, lustrous, plumpness, smugness, bluntness, roughness, toughness, numbness, luscious, bumptious, scrumptious, * Columbus, encompass, humongous, singultus, Augustus, Catullus, Lucullus, conductress, seductress, instructress, abruptness, robustness, alumnus, rambunctious, * gyrocompass, * coitus interruptus, * thump us, struck us, etc.
38.39 druggist, smuggest, snuggest, youngest, bluntest, gruffest, roughest, toughest, supplest, subtlest, dumbest, glummest, numbest, lushest, plushest, * encompassed, etc.
38.40 dumpish, frumpish, lumpish, rubbish, monkish, sluggish, thuggish, sluttish, lumpfish, monkfish, mudfish, drumfish, sunfish, lungfish, publish, flourish, nourish, Hunnish, punish, youngish, * accomplish, * undernourish
38.41 published, flourished, nourished, punished, * unpublished, accomplished, malnourished, unpunished , * unaccomplished, undernourished
38.42 Cuthbert, Humbert, ducat, comfort, covert, lovat, culvert, * discomfort
38.43 muppet, puppet, crumpet, strumpet, trumpet, bucket, Blunkett, junket, Plunket, musket, nougat, nugget, pundit, buffet, tuffet, comfit, covet, gullet, mullet, doublet, couplet, floodlit, cutlet, sunlit, turret, worrit, culprit, plummet, summit, punnet, gusset, russet, dulcet, budget, * Nantucket, discomfit, whodunnit, * gutbucket, rust bucket, * love it, run it, etc.
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet.
NURSERY RHYME
38.44 gerundive, eruptive, disruptive, consumptive, presumptive, productive, conductive, obstructive, constructive, deductive, seductive, inductive, destructive, instructive, conjunctive, subjunctive, percussive, propulsive, compulsive, repulsive, impulsive, * reproductive, nonproductive, unproductive, antitussive, * counterproductive, * electroconvulsive
38.45 rubbers, numbers, slumbers, uppers, puckers, truckers, shudders, udders, cutters, hunters, punters, buffers, covers, lovers, brothers, colours, tumblers, smugglers, drummers, mummers, summers, Summers, gunners, runners, buses, ulcers, blushes, rushes, ushers, clutches, crutches, vultures, bunches, punches, judges, Judges, smudges, bulges, spongers, * instructors, Carruthers, McCullers, * bloodsuckers, fishmongers, head-hunters, latecomers, all-comers, newcomers, bulrushes, * ironmongers, watercolours, etc.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
38.46 puppies, monkeys, buddies, studies, undies, butties, worries, sundries, countries, Humphries, funnies, monies, munchies
38.47 Sotheby, tussocky, somebody, custody, subtlety, Muscovy, lubberly, utterly, brotherly, motherly, Coverley, southerly, thoroughly, comfortably, upwardly, currently, wonderfully, stubbornly, drunkenly, suddenly, slovenly, sullenly, blubbery, rubbery, shrubbery, mulberry, Bunbury, trumpery, succory, buggery, snuggery, thuggery, Hungary, thundery, buttery, fluttery, blustery, scullery, jugglery, butlery, cutlery, flummery, mummery, summary, summery, gunnery, nunnery, luxury, drudgery, huckleberry, Huckleberry, cuckoldry, husbandry, customary, pulmonary, functionary, tuppenny, company, Tuscany, gluttony, oniony, currency, pungency, subsidy, uppity, grubbily, luckily, pluckily, sulkily, huskily, grumpily, lustily, huffily, scruffily, hungrily, funnily, clumsily, publicly, hurriedly, worriedly, cuttingly, lovingly, puzzlingly, cunningly, stunningly, touchingly, grudgingly, sluggishly, puppetry, summitry, monetary, budgetary, culinary, rubbishy, punctually, * grandmotherly, uncomfortably, cold-bloodedly, abundantly, reluctantly, triumphantly, concurrently, skulduggery, perfunctory, adultery, effrontery, recovery, discovery, Montgomery, compulsory, uncustomary, accompany, redundancy, consultancy, profundity, fecundity, jocundity, unluckily, unhurriedly, constructively, seductively, compulsively, impulsively, disgustingly, * ironmongery, introductory, rediscovery, etc.
38.48 stomacher, colander, comforter, Mustapha, shoveller, tunneller, Loughborough, slumberer, blunderer, plunderer, thunderer, wonderer, mutterer, stutterer, sufferer, conjuror, customer, Londoner, governor, southerner, summoner, trumpeter, Gulliver, dulcimer, Dubliner, publisher, muscular, jugular, pustular, * adulterer, discoverer, discomfiture, avuncular, corpuscular, crepuscular
38.49 chubbier, grubbier, stubbier, tubbier, bumpier, frumpier, grumpier, lumpier, luckier, muckier, pluckier, bulkier, sulkier, chunkier, funkier, hunkier, spunkier, muggier, bloodier, muddier, nuttier, smuttier, crustier, dustier, lustier, rustier, fluffier, scruffier, stuffier, comfier, bubblier, crumblier, uglier, buddleia, cuddlier, lovelier, courier, currier, furrier, worrier, Cumbria, Umbria, hungrier, sultrier, crummier, yummier, funnier, runnier, sunnier, fussier, gutsier, fuzzier, clumsier, mushier, slushier, crunchier, spongier, * Colombia, Columbia, unluckier, Northumbria, etc.
38.50 husbanded, comforted, Hungerford, Rutherford, trumpeted, bucketed, buffeted, coveted, turreted, plummeted, budgeted, Hunniford, * uncomforted, discomfited, etc.
38.51 underbid, * accompanied, * unaccompanied
38.52 clubbable, culpable, jumpable, huggable, comfortable, Huxtable, constable, Constable, Dunstable, lovable, gullible, sufferable, vulnerable, hummable, crushable, spongeable, wonderful, colourful, guttural, sculptural, structural, cultural, functional, uncial, runcible, multiple, curricle, punctual, * refundable, corruptible, deductible, destructible, uncomfortable, combustible, adjustable, unlovable, unutterable, insufferable, recoverable, invulnerable, uncrushable, untouchable, instructional, dysfunctional, industrial, unpunctual, * tax-deductible, ineluctable, incorruptible, indestructible, incombustible, agricultural, horticultural, multicultural, multifunctional, preindustrial, postindustrial
38.53 cumbersome, troublesome, cuddlesome, Brummagem, yuppiedom, Buckingham, Cunningham, worrisome
38.54 suffragan, doubleton, subaltern, Huddleston, Ulsterman, husbandman, Cuthbertson, fustian, ruffian, mullion, scullion, Cumbrian, Umbrian, publican, hurricane, Mulligan, Huntingdon, Sullivan, countryman, Runciman, Huskisson, Hutchinson, * Colombian, Columbian, Kentuckian, Burgundian, Procrustean, Tertullian, Northumbrian, republican, Republican, O’Sullivan, * Liverpudlian, * slubberdegullion
38.55 cummerbund, Cumberland, Sunderland, Sutherland, * Northumberland
38.56 colorant, fundament, wonderment, puzzlement, government, covenant, supplicant, subsequent, worriment, nourishment, punishment, unguent, succulent, truculent, undulant, * adulterant, befuddlement, self-government, ebullient, accompaniment, accomplishment, malnourishment, encouragement, discouragement
I test my bath before I sit,
And I’m always moved to wonderment
That what chills the finger not a bit
Is so frigid upon the fundament.
OGDEN NASH
38.57 utterance, sufferance, governance, supplicants, subsidence, subsequence, punishments, sustenance, succulence, truculence, * circumference, ebullience, accomplishments, etc.
38.58 underling, blubbering, slumbering, shuddering, plundering, thundering, wondering, guttering, muttering, shuttering, stuttering, suffering, covering, mothering, smothering, wuthering, colouring, underwing, trumpeting, buffeting, publishing, flourishing, nourishing, rummaging, * scaremongering, self-governing, encouraging, discouraging
38.59 covetous, numberless, supperless, rudderless, brotherless, motherless, colourless, slumberous, thunderous, sulphurous, gluttonous, otherness, thoroughness, suppleness, stubbornness, drunkenness, suddenness, scurrilous, chubbiness, grubbiness, grumpiness, sulkiness, smuttiness, scruffiness, stuffiness, ugliness, loveliness, sultriness, fussiness, clumsiness, nothingness, sluggishness, sumptuous, unctuous, succubus, pustulous, * adulteress, adulterous, rumbustious, industrious, illustrious, destructiveness, voluptuous, presumptuous, tumultuous, homunculus, etc.
38.60 publicist, * accompanist, percussionist, obstructionist, destructionist, * agriculturist, horticulturist
38.61 chubbiest, grubbiest, stubbiest, tubbiest, bumpiest, frumpiest, grumpiest, lumpiest, luckiest, muckiest, pluckiest, bulkiest, sulkiest, chunkiest, funkiest, hunkiest, spunkiest, muggiest, bloodiest, muddiest, nuttiest, smuttiest, crustiest, dustiest, lustiest, rustiest, fluffiest, scruffiest, stuffiest, comfiest, bubbliest, crumbliest, ugliest, cuddliest, loveliest, hungriest, sultriest, crummiest, yummiest, funniest, runniest, sunniest, fussiest, gutsiest, fuzziest, clumsiest, mushiest, slushiest, crunchiest, spongiest, * unluckiest, etc.
38.62 surrogate, coverlet, sultanate, ultimate, ungulate, * triumvirate, penultimate, * antepenultimate
38.63 Sotheby’s, luxuries, companies, * discoveries, redundancies, etc.
38.64 structurally, culturally, functionally, punctually, summarily, comfortably, ultimately, subsequently, worryingly, surrogacy, * uncomfortably, encouragingly, discouragingly, voluptuary
38.65 sufferable, vulnerable, cultivable, publishable, punishable, * unutterable, insufferable, recoverable, invulnerable, ungovernable, unpublishable, unpunishable