I always believed that there were none, but on a rewatch of QI, I learned there are actually two:
- Hurple / hirple: To limp (verb) or a limping gait (noun)
- Curple: A strap under the girth of a horse’s saddle to stop the saddle from kicking forward.
YouTube: QI | What Rhymes With Purple?
Nurple
Please use nurple in a sentence.
She gave me a purple nurple.
🤣
Good morning, that’s a nurple tnetennba.
Please use nurple in a sentence.
You mean to tell me you’ve never slurpled a nurple?
I love burple nurples
I like blurple: a mix of blue and purple.
Unfortunately, it’s not a real word although it absolutely should be. There are car paint colors that I can only accurately describe as “blurple” lol.
“Real” words aren’t a thing.
Dictionaries describe natural language, they don’t define it.
Yes I knew it’s not real. But I like to think it is. I would like a car with blurple racing stripes!
I can finally finish my limerick!
A horse that was wearing a curple,
Found the sting of a wasp made him hirple,
Said the horse, “I don’t mind”
“But I’m starting to find,”
“That the spot of the sting has turned purple!”Take my upvote
I regret that I have but one upvote to give.
I’ll treasure it always :-)
I’ve been at it so long that my head’s thick,
Unfortunately some of these words don’t quite click.
I can *fin’ly fin-ish my *lim’rick
I’ve been at it so long *
thatmy head’s thickMy lines rhyme with no hirple
But unlike links that are purple
*Sadly some of these words don’t quite click.
What is light urple?
If you’re interested in words, Something Rhymes with Purple is a podcast with Susie Dent and Gyles Brandreth.
Whenever Gyles is on Qi, about half the episode is him going off on an anecdote.
Edit: Fixed spelling
Maple surple
Nope. But I think I might have had that on my pancakes yesterday
Nurple. As in
“C’mere twerp! I’m about to give you the worst purple nurple of yer life!”