distributive, diminutive, provocative, evocative, derogative, prerogative, restorative, pejorative, demonstrative, remonstrative, appositive, postpositive, informative, connotative, denotative, consultative, commutative, disputative, accusative, intuitive, * argumentative, representative, noncompetitive, uncompetitive, hypersensitive, photosensitive, nonexecutive, interrogative, undemonstrative, * unrepresentative, ultraconservative
17.56 biz, fizz, frizz, his, is, Ms, Liz, phiz, ’tis, quiz, swizz, tizz, viz, whizz, wiz, zizz, * Cadiz, buck’s fizz, gee-whiz
18.1 Libby, Digby, Rigby, VitBe, Whitby, Philby, trilby, will be, NIMBY, Frisbee®, Thisbe, Rigsby, Grimsby, chippy, clippie, dippy, drippy, gippy, grippy, hippy, lippy, nippy, slippy, trippy, zippy, chickpea, impi, skimpy, Wimpey, Wimpy, crispy, wispy, * astilbe, Xanthippe, * Mr Whippy, Mississippi
18.2 bickie, brickie, cliquey, dicky, Dickie, hickey, icky, Mickey, Nicky, picky, quickie, Ricky, sickie, sticky, thickie, tricky, Vicky, milky, silky, Wilkie, dinky, inky, kinky, minke, pinkie, slinky, stinky, frisky, risky, whiskey, whisky, biggie, ciggy, piggy, twiggy, Twiggy, dinghy, * Helsinki, Stravinsky, Nijinsky, Miss Piggy, * doohickey, * take the mickey, Billericay
18.3 biddy, Biddy, diddy, did he, giddy, kiddy, midi, bhindi, Cindy, Hindi, indie, Indy, Lindy, Mindy, shindy, Sindy, windy, bitty, chitty, city, ditty, gritty, Intercity, kitty, Kitty, pity, pretty, shitty, titty, Whitty, witty, fifty, nifty, shifty, thrifty, guilty, silty, flinty, linty, minty, shinty, Christie, misty, twisty, sixty, * McVitie, committee, self-pity, McGinty, * chickabiddy, Rawalpindi, intercity, itty-bitty, pretty-pretty, nitty-gritty, Walter Mitty, Salt Lake City, subcommittee, fifty-fifty, pepperminty, Corpus Christi
In Dublin’s fair city,
Where the girls are so pretty.
ANONYMOUS
18.4 cliffy, iffy, jiffy, Liffey, miffy, sniffy, squiffy, stiffy, whiffy, chivy, divvy, Livy, privy, skivvy, Sylvie, pithy, filthy, prithee, smithy, withy, * tantivy
18.5 Billy, Chile, chilli, chilly, filly, frilly, gillie, hilly, Jilly, Lillee, lily, Lily, Lyly, Millie, Philly, Scilly, silly, stilly, Tilley, Tilly, will he, Willey, willy, Willy, Dibley, glibly, scribbly, nimbly, Ripley, Shipley, triply, dimply, limply, pimply, simply, crisply, prickly, quickly, sickly, thickly, tickly, crinkly, Hinckley, twinkly, wrinkly, briskly, giggly, niggly, squiggly, wiggly, wriggly, Wrigley, singly, tingly, Zwingli, fiddly, Ridley, Siddeley, tiddly, twiddly, Hindley, spindly, fitly, Whitley, strictly, swiftly, dimly, grimly, primly, Finlay, Linley, thinly, Bingley, kingly, gristly, princely, Bisley, drizzly, grisly, grizzly, Wisley, Tinsley, Kingsley, Critchley, richly, Finchley, Kiri, Pirie, bilberry, indri, wintry, * Chantilly, Caerphilly, Goonhilly, distinctly, McKinley, * hillbilly, * Piccadilly, piccalilli, willy-nilly, willy-willy, indistinctly, rockabilly, Hawker Siddeley, hara-kiri, etc.
But Shakespeare also says, ’tis very silly
‘To gild refinèd gold, or paint the lily.’
LORD BYRON
18.6 gimme, Jimmy, shimmy, Timmy, pygmy, Pygmy, filmy, blini, cine, Finney, finny, Ginny, guinea, Guinea, jinni, hinny, Linnhe, mini, Minnie, ninny, pinny, Pliny, skinny, spinney, tinny, Trinny, Vinny, whinny, Winnie, Sidney, Sydney, kidney, Britney, Pitney, Whitney, chimney, Disney, isnae, clingy, dinghy, springy, stringy, swingy, thingy, zingy, * borborygmi, pickaninny, supermini, * give me, kill me, etc.
18.7 Chrissie, Cissie, missy, prissy, sissy, Gypsy, tipsy, Dixie, nixie, pixie, tricksy, Trixie, ditzy, glitzy, Mitzi, ritzy, chintzy, wincey, busy, dizzy, fizzy, frizzy, is he, Izzy, Lizzie, tizzy, whizzy, flimsy, mimsy, whimsy, Kinsey, Lindsay, quinsy, dishy, fishy, squishy, swishy, Vichy, bitchy, itchy, pitchy, Richie, titchy, twitchy, Binchy, ridgy, squidgy, dingy, mingy, stingy, * Uffizi, De Quincey, tin lizzie, da Vinci, * kissy-kissy, itsy-bitsy, busy Lizzie, Mitsubishi, Murrumbidgee
18.8 bibber, Cibber, cribber, fibber, gibber, ribber, Wilbur, limber, Simba, timber, timbre, chipper, clipper, dipper, flipper, gripper, kipper, nipper, Pippa, ripper, shipper, skipper, slipper, snipper, stripper, tipper, tripper, whipper, zipper, crimper, shrimper, simper, whimper, crisper, whisper, * marimba, Agrippa, * winebibber, mudskipper, * women’s libber, * rib her, tip her, etc.
18.9 bicker, clicker, dicker, flicker, kicker, licker, liquor, nicker, picker, pricker, quicker, sicker, slicker, snicker, sticker, thicker, ticker, tikka, vicar, Whicker, Wicca, wicker, Sitka, milker, Rilke, Simca, blinker, clinker, drinker, Glinka, Inca, linker, minke, sinker, stinker, thinker, tinker, winker, frisker, risker, whisker, bigger, chigger, digger, figure, Frigga, jigger, ligger, nigger, rigger, rigor, rigour, snigger, swigger, trigger, vigour, finger, linger, * Treblinka, freethinker, stotinka, nondrinker, Soyinka, configure, transfigure, square-rigger, prefigure, disfigure, malinger, fishfinger, syringa, * pigsticker, billsticker, bootlicker, headshrinker, grave-digger, outrigger, forefinger, * reconfigure, alcheringa, ladyfinger, * kick her, sink her, etc.
Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
OGDEN NASH
18.10 bidder, kidder, whydah, builder, gilder, guilder, Hilda, Tilda, tilde, cinder, hinder, Linda, Pindar, tinder, bitter, critter, fitter, flitter, fritter, glitter, gritter, hitter, jitter, knitter, litter, pitta, quitter, Ritter, sitter, skitter, spitter, titter, twitter, witter, scripter, dicta, lictor, Richter, victor, Victor, sphincter, drifter, grifter, lifter, snifter, swifter, filter, kilter, philtre, quilter, tilter, Pinter, printer, sinter, splinter, sprinter, tinter, winter, Bicester, blister, clyster, glister, lister, Lister, mister, Mr, sister, twister, vista, hipster, quipster, tipster, trickster, minster, spinster, * consider, St Kilda, Matilda, bewilder, Belinda, Dorinda, Lucinda, aglitter, committer, transmitter, bedsitter, Birgitta, embitter, emitter, remitter, descriptor, constrictor, predictor, CARIFTA, gefilte, midwinter, transistor, demister, enlister, resistor, * shipbuilder, coach-builder, Fassbinder, outfitter, bullshitter, weightlifter, scene-shifter, shoplifter, half-sister, stepsister, Axminster, Westminster, * reconsider, overbidder, underbidder, body-builder, baby-sitter, counterfeiter, Anaglypta®, Araminta, teleprinter, overwinter, Kidderminster, * neurotransmitter, vasoconstrictor, boa constrictor, * hid her, missed her, etc.
18.11 differ, sniffer, titfer, pilfer, giver, liver, quiver, river, shiver, sliver, silver, sylva, dither, hither, slither, thither, whither, wither, zither, * forgiver, deliver, downriver, upriver, Bat Mitzvah, Bar Mitzvah, * caregiver, lawgiver, quicksilver, * give her, with her, etc.
18.12 chiller, Cilla, driller, filler, griller, Hiller, killer, miller, Miller, pillar, Schiller, Scylla, shriller, spiller, stiller, thriller, tiller, villa, Willa, dribbler, nibbler, quibbler, scribbler, nimbler, tippler, simpler, pickler, stickler, tickler, sprinkler, twinkler, giggler, wriggler, mingler, Swingler, diddler, fiddler, tiddler, swindler, Hitler, littler, whittler, riffler, whiffler, sniveller, Himmler, Simla, whistler, Whistler, Rizla®, sizzler, mirror, sirrah, Libra, Libya, * papilla, megillah, Attila, flotilla, gorilla, guerrilla, zorilla, Camilla, mamilla, manila, Manila, vanilla, mantilla, Aquila, Anguilla, axilla, maxilla, cedilla, scintilla, distiller, instiller, Priscilla, chinchilla, Godzilla, fulfiller, Ludmilla, Drusilla, belittler, * painkiller, weedkiller, * caterpillar, manzanilla, sarsaparilla, lady-killer, Polyfilla®, potentilla, pulsatilla, aspidistra, * kill her, thrill her, etc.
18.13 dimmer, glimmer, grimmer, Rimmer, shimmer, simmer, skimmer, slimmer, Strimmer®, swimmer, trimmer, Zimmer®, sigma, stigma, Wilma, Brynner, Cinna, dinner, grinner, inner, Jinnah, pinna, Pinner, sinner, skinner, Skinner, spinner, thinner, tinner, winner, Dymphna, Kilner, Milner, Pilsner, Krishna, bringer, clinger, dinger, pinger, ringer, singer, Singer, springer, stinger, stringer, swinger, winger, wringer, * aglimmer, nonswimmer, enigma, charisma, Berliner, beginner, echidna, humdinger, * breadwinner, prizewinner, bell-ringer, Schrödinger, klipspringer, mudslinger, gunslinger, * Hare Krishna, mastersinger, Minnesinger,