Katie, matey, slaty, weighty, safety, frailty, dainty, hasty, pasty, tasty, cave, cavy, Davy, gravy, navy, wavy, bailey, Bailey, ceilidh, daily, Daley, gaily, Haley, Hayley, Kayleigh, Rayleigh, scaly, shaly, ably, shapely, vaguely, Madeley, lately, stately, faintly, saintly, bravely, gravely, gamely, lamely, namely, tamely, mainly, plainly, vainly, paisley, Paisley, Ainsley, strangely, debris, Aintree, Braintree, pastry, clayey, Amy, gamey, Jamie, Mamie, pay me, samey, brainy, Cheney, grainy, Janie, rainy, veiny, zany, ha’penny, Basie, Casey, Gracie, lacy, pace, pacey, precis, racy, spacey, Spacey, Stacy, Tracy, crazy, daisy, hazy, lazy, Maisie, mazy, Strachey, cagey, stagey, mangy, rangy, * Carnegie, milady, O’Grady, Kuwaiti, agave, shillelagh, Disraeli, Israeli, sedately, innately, ungainly, inanely, insanely, humanely, Pompeii, Bahraini, Delaney, Khomeini, Eugénie, shove-ha’penny, O’Casey, Scorsese, * crybaby, bushbaby, headachy, landlady, * wakey-wakey, capercaillie, ukulele, Agnus Dei, cockamamie, Allegheny, Museveni, Sulawesi, calabrese, Bel Paese, upsy-daisy, Buthelezi, prima facie, * Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, etc.
Our honeymoon started so blithely and gaily
But dreams I was dreaming were suddenly wrecked
For she broke my front tooth with her father’s shillelagh
Which wasn’t what I had been led to expect.
NOËL COWARD
8.2 Bayer, Freya, gayer, Heyer, Mayer, kea, layer, payer, player, prayer, sayer, sprayer, stayer, weigher, * obeyer, conveyor, Malaya, assayer, Marbella, mens rea, purveyor, surveyor, delayer, betrayer, * taxpayer, ratepayer, bricklayer, minelayer, soothsayer, * Eritrea, tennis player, record player, Himalaya, * pay her, betray her, etc.
8.3 caber, labour, neighbour, sabre, tabor, Weber, chamber, caper, draper, Draper, gaper, paper, scraper, shaper, taper, tapir, vapour, * belabour, repaper, escaper, * gas chamber, bedchamber, sandpaper, glasspaper, wastepaper, endpaper, flypaper, skyscraper, wallpaper, notepaper, touchpaper, newspaper, * antechamber, * rape her, shape her, etc.
8.4 acre, baker, Baker, breaker, Dacre, faker, fakir, Laker, maker, nacre, Quaker, raker, shaker, staker, taker, waker, agar, Hagar, Jaeger, Vega, * Jamaica, partaker, cloaca, Zuleika, bodega, Ortega, * backbreaker, matchmaker, heartbreaker, caretaker, safe-breaker, haymaker, rainmaker, pacemaker, dressmaker, peacemaker, piss-taker, film-maker, kingmaker, tiebreaker, strikebreaker, icebreaker, wiseacre, clockmaker, lossmaker, watchmaker, jawbreaker, lawbreaker, housebreaker, toymaker, homemaker, boneshaker, muckraker, bookmaker, moonraker, shoemaker, toolmaker, * Chandrasekhar, bellyacher, merrymaker, circuit breaker, mischief-maker, wicket-taker, widow-maker, Wanamaker, boilermaker, undertaker, troublemaker, moneymaker, Studebaker, Noriega, rutabaga, * cabinet-maker, holiday-maker, * take her, wake her, etc.
What is a woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
RUDYARD KIPLING
8.5 Ada, Adur, aider, grader, Nader, raider, Seder, trader, Veda, wader, cater, Chater, crater, data, freighter, gaiter, grater, greater, hater, later, mater, Mehta, pater, plater, raita, skater, slater, Slater, straighter, tater, traitor, waiter, taster, waster, * parader, upgrader, persuader, Darth Vader, Grenada, first-aider, evader, invader, Criseyde, crusader, attainder, remainder, collator, narrator, peseta, translator, spectator, testator, Mercator, creator, debater, Decatur, dictator, equator, vibrator, curator, rotator, * tailgater, ice-skater, dumbwaiter, shirtwaister, * masquerader, serenader, travelator, alma mater, gladiator, trafficator, applicator, alligator, navigator, agitator, activator, aspirator, calibrator, animator, valuator, tabulator, calculator, arbitrator, radiator, aviator, excavator, renovator, escalator, separator, decorator, generator, demonstrator, detonator, resonator, elevator, depilator, epilator, ventilator, legislator, respirator, denigrator, estimator, educator, speculator, regulator, percolator, terminator, perpetrator, mediator, innovator, liberator, illustrator, indicator, instigator, liquidator, imitator, infiltrator, imprimatur, incubator, simulator, insulator, biodata, propagator, commentator, operator, moderator, oscillator, nominator, commutator, procurator, alternator, fornicator, orchestrator, formulator, roller-skater, Rotavator®, procreator, cultivator, numerator, lubricator, duplicator, * collaborator, eradicator, prevaricator, deactivator, procrastinator, perambulator, interrogator, accelerator, investigator, impersonator, exterminator, incinerator, refrigerator, initiator, facilitator, defibrillator, invigilator, administrator, originator, articulator, denominator, coordinator, inaugurator, negotiator, resuscitator, adjudicator, communicator, accumulator, * vasodilator, bronchodilator, totalizator, * circumnavigator, * obeyed her, hate her, etc.
8.6 chafer, safer, wafer, Ava, braver, caver, craver, favour, flavour, graver, haver, Laver, paver, quaver, raver, saver, savour, shaver, slaver, waiver, waver, bather, * UEFA, cadaver, disfavour, engraver, * cockchafer, life-saver, sunbather, * semiquaver, clishmaclaver, * demisemiquaver, * hemidemisemiquaver, * gave her, save her, etc.
Fair Atalanta, as a favour,
Took the boar’s head her hero gave her;
JOHN GAY
8.7 bailor, baler, hailer, jailer, Leila, mailer, Mailer, nailer, Naylor, paler, sailor, scalar, scaler, staler, tailor, Taylor, trailer, wailer, whaler, abler, stabler, stapler, Daimler, paviour, saviour, Saviour, dahlia, failure, * Akela, Michaela, inhaler, shillelagh, bewailer, loud-hailer, Kumbh Mela, Chichewa, behaviour, derailleur, * blackmailer, abseiler, retailer, wassailer, boardsailor, wholesaler, * Venezuela, Muzorewa, misbehaviour, * fail her, regale her, etc.
8.8 framer, gamer, Kramer, tamer, Aylmer, Cana, caner, drainer, gainer, Gaynor, plainer, planar, planer, Rayner, scena, stainer, strainer, trainer, vainer, * proclaimer, defamer, reclaimer, disclaimer, container, sustainer, complainer, campaigner, abstainer, arcana, Marlene, maintainer, detainer, retainer, explainer, restrainer, no-brainer, * cordwainer, * lion-tamer, Magdalena, entertainer, * blame her, train her, etc.
8.9 acer, baser, bracer, chaser, facer, lacer, pacer, placer, racer, spacer, tracer, Ailsa, blazer, Fraser, gazer, Glaser, glazer, grazer, laser, maser, praiser, raiser, razor, Taser®, azure, Asia, Brasher, fascia, geisha, nature, gauger, major, Major, pager, stager, wager, changer, danger, Grainger, manger, ranger, stranger, * defacer, embracer, chalaza, appraiser, eraser, erasure, embrasure, Caucasia, Laurasia, Eurasia, acacia, Galatia, Dalmatia, ex gratia, Hypatia, Croatia, rosacea, denature, Alsager, old stager, arranger, endanger, exchanger, hydrangea, * Spätlese, Auslese, stargazer, trailblazer, hell-raiser, fundraiser, teenager, bushranger, * steeplechaser, Australasia, Appalachia, candidature, legislature, sergeant major, Ursa Major, trumpet major, autochanger, moneychanger, * Maria Theresa, * trace her, enrage her, etc.
Poor World (said I) what wilt thou do
To entertain this starry stranger?
Is this the best thou canst bestow?
A cold, and not too cleanly, manger?
RICHARD CRASHAW
8.10 laic, Gaelic, Salic, hayrick, basic, brainsick, trainsick, * Altaic, archaic, Hebraic, voltaic, mosaic, prosaic, Judaic, nucleic, Arcadic, aphasic, dysphasic, * Aramaic, Ptolemaic, algebraic, Pharisaic, formulaic, * ribonucleic, * deoxyribonucleic
The emmet is an ant (archaic),
The ant is just a pest (prosaic).
OGDEN NASH
8.11 radix, spadix, calyx, matrix, basics, * mosaics, testatrix, creatrix, * generatrix, aviatrix, dominatrix
8.12 naked, tailskid, aphid, David, aged, * Camp David
8.13 laboured, capered, papered, aided, braided, faded, jaded, shaded, catered, dated, fated, gated,