rhymer
2
7.8
- noun
- /ˈraɪmər/
- Offensive
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poetastro
- I'm just a rhymer, an old five and dimer, doing something I enjoy doing, even though there are times I'm not so sure anyone is reading it.
Examples
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True Thomas, the Rhymer, was kidnapped by the Queen of Elfland and held there for years uncounted, never aging.
Fiction book (1993) -
I'm a rhymer on time.
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Oh, smart guy's a rhymer
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Mr. No Good Hood is ever an acid rhymer.
Blog text (11) -
I'm Skald the Rhymer, your account manager for Habiliments Inc.
Blog text (21) -
You're the Rhymer.
Fiction book (1993) -
Too often, this means memorization and rote recitation rather than active concept-based learning (Cates & Rhymer, 2003).
Academic text (2010) -
Individuals with high mathematics anxiety tend to perform poorly when presented with mathematics stimuli (Cates & Rhymer, 2003) with a common population correlation estimated at -0.27 (Ma, 1999).
Academic text (2009) -
The festival featured a competition for young rhymers to showcase their talent.
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He was known as a playful rhymer who enjoyed crafting silly verses for children.
Synonyms
567
2.2
A person who writes words in a musical way that creates images to show feelings
2
8.1
A woman who writes poems
1
9.7
A person who writes poems and is often not highly respected as a poet
A person who writes rhymes that are not very good
A person who writes bad rhymes to get attention
A person who writes poor-quality poems
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rhymer is simply someone who makes rhyme + -er ('one who'). The base word rhyme comes from an old word for 'rhythm', so rhyming is about matching sound and beat, and a rhymer writes lines that fit together in sound and rhythm.