It's hard to think of exact rhymes for these two color words.
According to this very nifty webpage from the Oxford English Dictionary people, there is a word in English that rhymes with "orange": "sporange." "Sporange" is cited as a 19th-century word for "sporangium," a plant's spore case. This (not that funny, I'm sorry) TV clip notes as well a place called Blorenge in Wales and the surname Gorringe.
Rhyming with "purple" is a lot more productive:
According to this very nifty webpage from the Oxford English Dictionary people, there is a word in English that rhymes with "orange": "sporange." "Sporange" is cited as a 19th-century word for "sporangium," a plant's spore case. This (not that funny, I'm sorry) TV clip notes as well a place called Blorenge in Wales and the surname Gorringe.
Rhyming with "purple" is a lot more productive:
- There's "curple," which OED calls a "phonetic corruption of curper." A curper is "a leathern strap buckled to the back of the saddle and passing under the horse's tail, to prevent the saddle from slipping forwards."
- "Chirpal," a variant spelling of the Australian aborigine language Djirbal.
- "Hurple," a Scottish word meaning to limp or walk lamely.
- I suggest "Ashurnasirpal," the Anglicization of the name of at least two Assyrian kings, Aššur-nāṣir-apli (in Assyrian pronounced roughly /ashoor-natsir-aplee/)
- Finally, the OED lists a single instance of "stirpal" as the adjectival form of "stirp," or branch or scion of a family. Bryan Garner's Dictionary of American Legal Usage suggests the correct adjective is "stirpital" and cites a number of instances.
you forgot 'nurple'
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