How many words in the English language rhyme with "bagel"? I'm not talking Ogden Nash rhymes.

I can only come up with "finagle."

Um....Beyond "finagle," all I could come up with was "Kegel" - as in the Kegels exercises women do to keep the floor of the vagina toned. And I don't think there's ever just one Kegel - I think the exercises are referred to as "Kegels."

Come to think of it, the word might even be pronounced "Keegels" - in which case it doesn't even approximately rhyme with "bagel."

In short: I don't know!

If you can't see the bright side, polish the dull side.

Welcome, Littljoe! An intriguing way to inveigle your way onto the board! Stick around for awhile, I'm sure there's more where these came from! Tough one.

Makes me think of Monty Python's Philosopher's Drinking Song, Littljoe [Hi BTW]:


Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
who was just as sloshed as Schlegel




Changing the consonant is, of course, a cop-out, but otherwise it looks like you're stuck with other words derived from related language groups - which are mostly names in this case.

well there is the old joke, If sea gulls fly of the sea, what flies over the bay?
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bagels, of course!

the e in bagels is a schwa, and gulls (or at least how we NY'ers say gulls) does rhyme.

we eat ham and jam and spamalot!

Inveigle. That's a good one! Thank you.

As for "kegel," during my experience as an expectant mother it was pronounced "keegle." Of course, the same nurses also insisted on saying "san-timeter" for "centimeter," so who knows.

we eat ham and jam and spamalot!



Such good taste.

There once was a woman named Hegel
Who exercised there a la Kegel
She practised at length
And so grew her strength
... ... ... ... a bagel

There once was a woman named Hegel
Who exercised there a la Kegel
She practised at length
And so grew her strength
Dialectically creating a bagel

I will never live this down.