Are there ANY words that rhyme with orange?

[jeanette1976]

??? x

[devilwoman]

forage
porridge
storage

[Clanad]

Actually, no. The Oxford Dictionary says:
Orange is one of those words that famously has nothing perfectly to rhyme with it. The other one is silver. However, the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary does show both these words as having half-rhymes (such as lozenge with orange and salver with silver).

The principle of a half-rhyme in these cases is quite simple. Whereas a full and stressed rhyme (e.g. hand / stand) or even an unstressed rhyme (such as handing / standing) contain vowels that are common to both words, a half-rhyme like orange / lozenge or silver / salver (technically speaking, pararhymes) has obvious differences between vowels in certain syllables.

I might add purple has no acceptable rhyming word either...

[jeanette1976]

Hmmmmmm..... very interesting.... thank you very much, i may just win a 'half'bet!' X

Now all I have to do it to get a word to rhyme with bloody SEBASTIAN!!!!!!!

[Octavius]

Well you could cheat a bit and say..

I sat and looked upon my door
Which some daft sod had painted orange
That wasn't so bad as the rest of it
a blue handle and a pink door-hinge

ok, desperate I know, or�.

[edit by ABED]

On a roll�..

I sat in my bath all covered in suds
Turning a shade of purple
If only I'd paid an extra few quid
And bought myself a whirlpool / gerbil / sat upon my curple

[warpig1]

lol octavius, particulary liked the middle one, hope its not true!!

[Quizmonster]

There's a Scottish word, 'hirple', meaning to cripple/hobble along, which virtually rhymes with 'purple'. (As A Scot, I find it totally "acceptable", C!)

[robbo82]

Another word with no rhyming word is 'pint'.

[Clanad]

Well, Q, it's Thanksgiving Day here, the turkey is almost done, the whole family is here and there's Mrs. C's southern pecan pie for desert... since all's right with the world I wouldn't argue with you for afarthing... acceptabe to me as well!

[Quizmonster]

Have a great day, C!

Again, a Scottish 'poet' wanting a rhyme with 'pint', Robbo, would have the advantage of 'jint', meaning 'joint'...'sign't', meaning 'signed'...'lin't', meaning 'lined' and various other such words.

[naz_nomad]

Borange ...

[mandimoo]

i believe (uneducatedly) that in scotland they call their young 'uns " wee uns", when said to yourself with a scottish accent could rhyme with sebasTIAN.

[Octavius]

What about Sebastian the Novocastrian ?

Or the other one, the Iraninan from Deh-e Mastian ?

[jake-the-peg]

yup

http://www.sewhgpgc.co.uk/blorenge7.php

[dzug]

There's a hill/mountain in S Wales called the Blorenge wich is near enough a rhyme

[Tha-Flash]

Akon rhymed Orange with Garbage. The clothes is orange the food is garbage!

[chilliman]

how about "syringe"

[denisdenis]

There used to be a department store in London called "Gorringes"