Rhymes for Orange, Purple, and Silver

As dynamic as the English language is, there remain no widely used words that rhyme with the colors orange, purple, or silver.

I would like to change that.

Below are my suggestions for new words, along with their definitions, all of which rhyme with either orange, purple, or silver.

My primary purpose is simply to supply suitable pairings for these rhyme-impoverished words, so that poets and jingle writers can color their work with them.

But my secondary purpose is to assign words to universal concepts for which a word does not already exist in English. When you read through this list, I want you to think, "Finally! Thank goodness there's now a word for that! I want to use it all the time!"

GILVER (n), a witty comeback thought of too late.

Inspired by the magnificent French term l'esprit d'escalier.

Example:

Yesterday, he lobbed an insult
Now I've got a gilver
If I'd had it yesterday
I'd be gold and he'd be silver

SURPLE (n), the feeling of being too cold under one layer but too hot under two.

Can also more generally refer to the one discrete value being too low and the next value being too high, with no way to arrive at a happy medium.

Example:

I tossed and turned all night long
Feeling uncomfortably surple
Too chilly under my sheet of blue
But too hot with my quilt of purple.

MORANGE (n), listlessness relieved by making a change to one's appearance.

Example:

When he left, I plunged into a sadness
Withering in deep, abiding morange
Finally, the thing that led to gladness?
Dying my hair three shades of orange

BRILVER (v), to feign drunkenness.

Example:

Her friends got good and sloshed
She felt the urge to brilver
She was strictly iced tea
But acted Bacardi Silver

BLORANGE (n), a legitimate criticism, dismissed because of an apparent conflict of interest.

Example:

Everyone but she could see her beau was dreadful
The warning signs were clear, flashing red and orange
I told her if she stayed with him, she'd be regretful
But I pined for her myself, so it ended up as blorange.

HERPLE (n), a person whose enthusiasm for an activity far exceeds their ability.

Example:

Maya, the theater lover,
Auditioned for "The Color Purple."
Her tone-deaf singing struck her out
Poor Maya was clearly a herple.

QUORANGE (n), a vote decided by the closest possible margin.

Example:

Mr. Pear versus Mr. Orange!
The race for mayor on the line!
The results came in: a quorange!
Pear won 300-299.

PRILVER (v), to justify putting off something because you've already put it off for so long.

Could apply to situations like procrastinating on a thank-you note because it's already unacceptably late or keeping a long-overdue library book another day because you've already amassed such high late fees than an extra day's fine seems negligible.

Example:

The maid knew she'd soon be fired
If she failed to polish the silver
But it had been three weeks already
so she tried to prilver.

VERPLE (adj), comfortably dark

Can refer to either visual darkness, such as a dimly lit room, or darkness of mood or style, as with gothic costumes.

Example:

The sun had set an hour ago
The sky was now dark purple
His eyes relaxed; the strain was gone
the room, finally, was verple.

WILVER (v), to unconsciously rock or sway while standing

Example:

Her six children had all grown up
Her hair was turning silver
Yet from years of rocking them,
She couldn't help but wilver

TARRANGE (v), to eat foods in a particular order.

Example:

First the blue, then the yellow,
then green, red, brown, and orange.
I cannot handle M&Ms
unless I'm allowed to tarrange.

SKIRPLE (v), a word, skill, or concept you use infrequently enough that you have to re-educate yourself about it every time you want to use it.

This might refer to a word whose spelling you need to look up every time, or a procedure that you can't confidently complete unless you re-read the instructions.

Example:

Once in a blue moon,
I face a vexing skirple
Can never recall how many r's are in "maroon"
So instead I just write "purple."