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UK
/ɹˈaɪmɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɹaɪmɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹaɪmɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)
How To Use rhymer In A Sentence
- It was made by no professing poet, but by some obscure rhymer of the streets, written immediately after the exile of John Mitchel, the greatest disciple of Emmet in the last century. Later Articles and Reviews
- The dredded singer signed rising rhymer NOTAR to his Tyrannosaurus Records after hearing some demos, and is working closely with the emerging artist. Jon Chattman: Counting Crows' Adam Duritz Serves as Rapper NOTAR's Mentor (VIDEO)
- NYPD Internal Affairs is investigating whether or not the sergeant showed the “Gimme Some More” rhymer preferential treatment. Busta…busted
- Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”
- I beheld a damsel, white as a full moon when it mooneth on its fourteenth night, with joined eyebrows twain and languorous lids of eyne, breasts like pomegranates twin and dainty, lips like double carnelian, a mouth as it were the seal-of Solomon, and teeth ranged in a line that played with the reason of proser and rhymer, even as saith the poet, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Seven albums into his career, Terfry has gained a rep as a true original: he snarls like Tom Waits (after a throat lozenge), and compared to other rhymers, proffers stories instead of a grab bag of slogans.
- He is such a beautiful, solid rhymer with an intricate interplay of sounds within the line. Times, Sunday Times
- There are plenty of guest rhymers to be found on this CD, but the vocals are often cut and sliced to such an enormous extent that the listener is left unable to discern the contents of the lyrics.
- However for the purposes of this column, I am going to focus on the extraordinary work of his brother Dara Vallely, also a painter but better known as the founder of the Armagh Rhymers, who are carrying on an ancient tradition of masked 'mumming' that is mentioned in the Táin Bó Cuailgne (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) and is even depicted in the prehistoric cave paintings of south-west France. Slugger O'Toole
- The rhymers par excellence have been the Cockneys of London, who have developed an elaborate and colourful collection of slang terms based on rhyme, such as trouble and strife for ‘wife’ and mince pies for ‘eyes’.