Dictionary of English Phonesthemes Part 5

Final-Cluster Phonesthemes (Rimes) Part 1

/A:p/ (1/2) Action That Strikes Then Glides Off: clap, tap, heel-tap, chap, flap, flip-flap, rap, snap, swap* {originally onomatopoeic for the sound of hands coming together}, slap, yap, plap, flap, lap, clap, afterclap, knap (to rap; to break with a quick blow; to shape be breaking pieces; snap; crop; chatter; crest of a hill; summit; small hill),
/A:p/ (2/2) Unclassified: trap, entrap, rattletrap, claptrap, sap, pap, Jap (ethnic slur), wrap, enwrap, unwrap, hap (to happen; something that serves as a covering or wrap), lagniappe (small gift given to a customer), scrap, agape, cap, foolscap (jester's or dunce's cap), forage cap, chap, dap, frap (to draw tight as with ropes or cables), gap, stopgap, gape, genapp, genappe, handicap, Lapp, map, mayhap, mishap, nap, nightcap (alcoholic drink taken at bedtime), overlap, strap, bestrap, unlap, wapp, nappe {Frech = tablecloth}(a large mass thrust over other rocks; one of the two sheets that lie on opposite sides of the vertex that together make up a cone),
/A:pId/ Quality: rapid, sapid (flavorful; aggreeable to the mind), vapid,
/A:pi/ (1/1) Unclassified: chappy, gappy, gapy, happy, knappy, nappy (a rimless shallow open serving dish; liquor; ale; diaper; kinky), sappy, scrappy, snappy,
/A:pR/ (1/1) Unclassified: dapper (neat and trim in appearance; excessively spruce and stylish; alert and lively in movement and manners), capper, clapper, entrapper, enwrapper, flapper, flyflapper, gapper, handicapper, lapper, mapper, napper (one that naps; one that naps cloth), overlapper, rapper, sapper, slapper, snapper, snippersnapper, strapper, tapper, trapper, understrapper, unwrapper, whippersnapper, wrapper, yapper,
/A:t/ (1/1) Unclassified: bat (stick, strike), pat, chat, swat*, rat-tat, spat (start up sharply), splat (pat, slap, spat),
/A:C/ (1/1) Unclassified: attach, latch, unlatch, hatch, crosshatch, patch, crosspatch, thatch, bach (to live as a bachelor), batch, brach, catch, coffee klatsch, cratch, kaffee klatsch, detach, dispatch, match, mismatch, overmatch, rematch, natch, nuthatch, potlatch, rach, ratch, Satch, scatch, scratch, slatch, smatch, tache,
/A:tL/ (1/1) Noise: rattle {from rattle-wort}, tattle, prattle, twattle*, cattle, chattel, battle, brattle (noise), Seattle (grunge),
/A:tR/ (1/1) Clatter, Chatter, and Batter: clatter, chatter, batter (beat), patter (the quick talk or chatter of a comedian or entertainer, salesman, etc; the slang or private language used by a particular group or class; mechanically repeated words; to repeat mechanically without considering the meaning; to talk volubly but without much sense), {influenced by paternoster, recite prayers}, hatter (bruise with blows), smatter (prate, chatter; dabble), splatter, yatter (chatter), blatter (talk noisily and fast), natter (gossip, chat), flatter, scatter, shatter, platter, attar (a fragrant essential oil; perfume),
/A:k/ (1/1) Sound With Abrupt Decay: crack, brack (noise, outcry), clack (chatter, prate, cluck, cackle), snack, smack (kiss noisily), thwack (beat soundly), quack (said of ducks), whack (thwack), flack (slap, blow),
/A:kL/ (1/1) Unclassified: cackle, crackle, debacle, grackle, hackle, hibernacle, jackal, mackle, macle, piacle, quackle, ramshackle, tackle, retackle, untackle, shackle, unshackle, spackle, tabernacle,
/A:b/ (1/2) Striking That Stops In or On Something: dab, bedab, stab, jab (strike or thrust), grab, nab,
/A:b/ (2/2) Unclassified: gab, baffle-gab, blab, bab, baobab, cab, Cantab, confab, crab, drab, fab, frab, Joab, knab, lab, mab, Moab, pedicab, prefab, rab, scab, shab, slab, tab, taxicab,
/A:bL/ (1/1) Unclassified: babble, rabble (spek in a rapid, confused manner), gabble (talk volubly),
/A:d/ (1/3) Condition Or Emotion: bad, rad, sad, mad, glad,
/A:d/ (2/3) Person: lad, tad, cad, grad, dad,
/A:d/ (3/3) Unclassified: clad, plaid, pad, nad, brad (a thin, flat, slight-headed, short nail of uniform thickness, tapering in width) gad (a goad; to rove), scad (any of several carangid fishes; large number or quantity),
/A:dL/ (1/1) Unclassified: straddle (stride about), paddle (walk in shallow water) {variant of puddle}, waddle*
/A:g/ (1/4) Irregular Movement: jag, zag, shag (pursue),
/A:g/ (2/4) Falling Behind: lag, drag, flag, sag,
/A:g/ (3/4) Epithet: nag, wag, hag, fag, bag, drag,
/A:g/ (4/4) Unclassified: brag, gag, mag (magazine), blague (joking; trickery), crag (a steep, rugged, rock or cliff; a piece of rock projecting from a surface; rock) kag (the stump of a broken tooth; a tooth standing alone; the stump of a severed tree branch; an angular tear or rent in cloth)
/A:gL/ (1/1) Unclassified: draggle, bedraggle, daggle {from draggle}, paggle (to hang loosely; to bag), haggle, quaggle (a quivering, as of jelly), scraggle, straggle (rove, stray), waggle (wag) {frequentative of wag}, gaggle (flock of geese when not in flight), raggle-taggle {variant of ragtag} (motley; shabby), eggtaggle (to waste time in bad company), maggle, naggle, wraggle, higglehaggle,
/A:f/ (1/2) Dregs: chaff (something comparitively light or worthless; to joke or engage in banter; banter; deride; tease; ridicule), draff (dregs, refuse), raff (riffraff), gaffe (social blunder, faux pas), naph (unfashionable, altogether unsuitable), scaff (to beg or sponge for food),
/A:f/ (2/2) Unclassified: staff, calf, half, graph, quaff (drink deeply), raphe (dice game), gaff (spur; a spear or spearhead for taking fish or turtle; a handled hook for holding or lifting heavy fish; a metal spur for a gamecock; a butcher's hook; a climbing iron or its steel point used by a telephone lineman; the spar on which the head of a fore-and-aft sail is extended; gaffe; something painful or difficult to bear; ordeal; persistent raillery or criticism; rough treatment; abuse; hoax, fraud; gimmick; trick; a cheap theatre or music hall),
/A:fL/ Unclassified: baffle, gaffle, haffle, raffle, scraffle, snaffle, yaffle,
/A:c/ (1/2) Region of land: swath (a row of cut grain or grass left by a scythe or mowing machine; the sweep of a scythe or a machine in mowing or the path cut in one course; a long broad strip or belt; a stroke of or as if of a scythe; a space devastated as if by a scythe), strath (a flat wide river valley or the low-lying grassland along it), tath (cattle dung; grass growing near cattle dung; to fertilize by pasturing cattle), lath (a thin narrow strip of wood nailed to rafters, joists, or studding as a groundwork for slates, tiles, or plaster; a building material in sheets used as a base for plaster; a quantity of laths), path,
/A:c/ (2/2) Unclassified: math, bath, bloodbath, wrath (strong vengeful anger or indignation; retributory punishment for an offense or a crime; divine chastisement), warpath,
/A:s/ (1/2) Taboo: sass, crass (gross), gas, ass, frass (the excrement of insect larvae; the refuse left behind by boring insects),
/A:s/ (2/2) Unclassified: brass, class, pass, mass, lass, grass,
/A:sL/ (1/1) Unclassified: castle, vassal, wrastle, facile, gracile, hassle, tassel,
/A:S/ (1/4) Impact, Violence: dash, lash, flash {originally said of water}, pash (dash, smash), crash (gnash, dash, smash), slash, rash (dash), gnash, clash, plash, swash* (fall of a heavy body), squash*, gash (deep long cut in flesh; deep narrow depression or cut; vagina; knowing; witty; well- dressed; trim), quash*, bash (strike with a heavy blow, originally used of a hen), splash, smash (have sex), hash, lash, mash, trash, thrash, rash, pash (smash), squabash (to defeat with cutting criticism; to crush a person's spirit by pointing out eir faults; to crush by criticism; a crushing blow to crush by criticism; a crushing blow), slash (urination),
/A:S/ (2/4) Abuse, contempt: trash, snash (abuse; insolence; to talk insolently or abusively), rash, blash (weak or watered-down liquor or beer), brash (brittle; heedless; audacious; bumptious; tactless; impudent; harsh; bold; a mass of fragments),
/A:S/ (3/4) Fashion: cash, fash (fashionable), sash (a band worn about the waist or over one shoulder and used as a dress accessory or the emblem of an honorary or military order; the framework in which panes of glass are set in a window or door; such a framework together with its panes forming a usually movable part of a window),
/A:S/ (4/4) Unclassified: ash, stash, cache (a place for hiding or storing things, to hide or store),
/A:v/ (1/1) Unclassified: calve (to give birth to a calf; of an iceberg or glacier, to split so that a piece of ice is thrown off), halve, have,
/A:z/ (1/1) Lack of Restraint: jazz {etymology controversial}, bejazz, outjazz, spazz {clipping of spasmodic}, razzmatazz (drivel; double-talk; razzle-dazzle) {variant of razzle-dazzle}, pizazz (glamour, vitality){etymology unknown}, pizzazz {variant of pizazz},
/A:zi/ (1/1) Snazziness: jazzy, snazzy, pizazzy,
/A:zM/ (1/1) Liquid, Energy, Illusion: chasm, spasm, plasm, phasm, miasm, sarcasm, phantasm, demoniasm, iconoclasm, pleonasm, enthusiasm,
/A:m/ (1/1) Unclassified: lam, clam (clang of bells), slam, jam, flam (signal drum), ram, wham (slam, bang),
/A:mbL/ (1/1) Unsteady To and Fro Movement: amble, famble (stammer, stutter) {variant of fumble}, wamble (turn and twist the body about), scramble, scamble {variant of scramble}, shamble (walk unsteadily), ramble (wander, travel),
/A:mp/ (1/1) Forceful Collision: stamp, tramp, champ (chew),
/A:n/ (1/1) Unclassified: tan, stan, van, sedan, San-Fran, plan, pan, man, clan, fan, ban, bran (the edible broken seed coats of cereal grain separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting), flan (an open pie containing any of various sweet or savory fillings; custard baked with a caramel glaze; the metal disk of a coin, token, or medal as distinguished from the design and lettering stamped on it),
/A:G/ (1/2) Extended Sound: pang, bang, twang, tang (zest), clang, spang (spring, leap; originally used of the bow and arrow; to a complete degree; in an exact or direct manner; squarely), whang (rawhide; thong; penis), prang (bomb hard from the air, crash), gang-bang, dang-a-lang, she- bang,
/A:G/ (2/2) Unclassified: fang, mang (to lead or go astray; to be anxious or puzzled), cangue (a square wooden collar with openings for the head and hands, one used for punishment of certain crimes; a heavy square of wood that was hung around the head and usu confined the hands), hang, gang, dang, bhang (hashish), shlang (snake; penis), wing-wang (penis), whizz-bang, thang, slang, sprang, rang, stang,
/A:Gk/ (1/1) Unclassified: clank, spank, crank (jarring sound),
/A:l/ (1/1) Unclassified: pal, gal, shall,
/a:p/ (1/1) Brief sound: pop, whop (cast, strike), flop, plop, lop, crop,
/a:t/ (1/1) Unclassified: shot, pot, rot, sot, tot, wat (monastery, temple), watt, trot, taut, swat, slot, spot, squat, scot (money assessed and paid), plot, knot, lot, clot, cot, caught, yacht, hot, haute, haut {variant of haute}, fraught (filled; involving or potentially filled with; threatening), flaught (a spark; a snowflake; a handful; a flight or flutter; a roll of wool; lying with outstretched arms; eagerly), sought, faught, braught, aught, distraught, xot (a carved post in front of certain aborigal North American homes),
/a:C/ (1/1) Unclassified: watch, debauch, nautch,
/a:k/ (1/4) Sound: squawk, quawk (caw; screetch; the night heron), crawk (radio announcer who imitates animals), flock, knock,
/a:k/ (2/4) Pots: wok, crock (a thick earthenware pot or jar; soot; smut; coloring matter that rubs off from cloth or dyed leather; bunkum; one that is broken-down, disabled, or impaired; complaining medical patient whose illness is largely imaginary or psychosomatic; to soil with crock; smudge; to transfer color; to cause to become disabled; to break down),
/a:k/ (3/4) Informal Abbreviations: croc (crocodile), doc (doctor),
/a:k (4/4) Clothing: sock, smock (yoked undershirt; chemise), frock (an outer garment worn chiefly by men; a long, loose, mantle; a woman's dress; to clothe in a frock; ro make a cleric),
/a:b/ (1/1) Unclassified: sob {perhaps variant of sop}, throb, athrob, mob, blob, gob, rob, jawab, jelab, squab, swab, bob, cabob, cob, corncob, fob, hob, hob-and-nob, hobnob, job, kebab, knob, lob, mob, nob, quab, rob, shish kebab, slob, snob, stob,
/a:d/ (1/1) Sound: plod, prod, dod (beat), pod (prod, poke),
/a:J/ (0/1) Variant of older /u:J/
/a:J/ (1/1) Heaviness, Stuffedness: podge (walk heavily and slowly), stodge (gorge, stuff), podge (short, thick, and fat person or animal), podgy,
/a:g/ (1/2) Muddiness: frog, hog, bog, clog, slog, pinag (a temporary lake of flood water), fog, smog,
/a:g/ (2/2) Functioning: cog, log, prog (to search about; forage), agog (full of intence interest or excitement; eager),
/a:gL/ (1/1) Unclassified: toggle, boggle, goggle, boondoggle (to carry out valueless or extremely trivial work in order to convey the impression one is busy), jargogle (befuddle, mess up), hornswoggle (bamboozle, hoax), joggle (to move or shake by a series of slight pushes or jerks; to have or go with a shaking or jerking motion; to jog and juggle at the same time),
/a:f/ (1/2) Coughing, Roughness: cough, rough*, sclaff (to hit the ground before hitting the golf ball; in golf, to strike or scrape the ground with the club b efore hitting the ball; such a golf stroke), off, gnoff (churl; lout; boor), scoff, boff (to play-fight with foam weapons; to have sexual intercourse),
/a:f/ (2/2) Unclassified: trough, haaf (fishing grounds), maugh (a brother-in-law; a son-in-law; a friend), shroff (a bank expert who fixes coin values; to inspect coins), coiffe (the wire cage that holds down the cork in a bottle of champagne; agraffe; dress; set; arrange; do; coif; coiffure),
/a:c/ (1/1) Unclassified: swath, wroth, Ashtaroth, behemoth, broth, cloth, froth, Goth, moth, troth,
/a:s/ (1/1) Unclassified: kvass, en masse, springhass, volte-face, sauce, across, albatross, boss, coloss, cross, doss, dross, emboss, floss, fosse, gloss, joss, lacrosse, loss, moss, rhinoceros, Setebos, toss,
/a:S/ (1/1) Unclassified: awash, bosh, debosh, wash, frosh, galosh, gosh, goulash, hogwash, josh, kibosh, mackintosh, musquash, nosh, quash, slosh, splosh, swash, tosh,
/a:m/ (1/1) Unclassified: balm, calm, becalm, embalm, imam, palm, impalm, psalm, qualm, Guam, Islam, salaam, malm, bomb, aplomb, dom, hecatomb, intercom, om, pogrom, rhomb, sitcom, swom, Viet Nam,
/a:mp/ (0/1) Variant of /A:mp/
/a:mp/ (1/1) Unclassified: stomp (beat down forcibly), romp, clomp, comp, pomp, swamp, trompe,
/a:n/ (1/1) Unclassified: awn, bawn, brawn, cawn, dawn, drawn, faun, fawn, impawn, indrawn, lawn, pawn, prawn, sawn, spawn, undrawn, withdrawn, yawn,
/a:nC/ (1/1) Unclassified: Blanche, carte blanche, haunch, launch, manche, stanch, staunch,
/a:r/ (1/1) Unclassified: gnar (snarl), snar (snarl), jar (make a harsh, grating sound), car,
/a:rtL/ (1/1) Unclassified: startle, dartle,
/a:rkL/ (1/1) Unclassified: darkle, sparkle,
/a:rbL/ (1/1) Inconsistency: garble, jarble (to wet, dirty), marble, warble (to sing with trills and runs or with tremulous vibrations, to make a liquid, murmuring sound as of a stream),
/a:rgL/ (1/1) Unclassified: argle-bargle, gargle,
/a:rl/ (1/1) Unclassified: snarl {from snar}, gnarl (snarl), imparl (to confer with opposing counsel prior to out-of-court settlement), harl, garl,
/a:l/ (1/2) Drawn Out or Clumsy Movement: sprawl, crawl, scrawl, spawl (spit coarsely), drawl,
/a:l/ (2/2) Sound: yawl (cry of pain, grief), brawl, bawl, drawl, call,
/a:G/ (1/1) Unclassified: along, belong, daylong, dingdong, dugong, erelong, evensong, flong, gong, headlong, headstrong, lifelong, livelong, long, mah-jongg, nightlong, overlong, Ping-Pong, prolong, prong, scuppernong, singsong, song, souchong, strong, thong, throng, tong, undersong, Viet Cong, wong, wrong,
/a:Gk/ (1/1) Unclassified: honk, cronk (cry of the wild goose), conk {originally said of airplance motor} (break down, give out, fail), conch, honky-tonk,