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suh la bik

  • a  of or relating to syllables
    syllabic accent
    syllabic characters each represent a syllable
  • a  consisting of or using a syllabary
    eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing
  • a  (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
  • a  consisting of a syllable or syllables
  • a  (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable
    the syllabic 'nl' in 'riddle'

  • McDonough can now say, for example, that the poem's most common syllabic pattern is a word of one short followed by two long syllables appearing at the end of a line, in 6,344 .
  • Other fortifiers, pharmaceutical gimmicks and syllabic concoctions from Madison Avenue test tubes: Gardol, Estron, Lurex, Lumium, Vionate, Bio-Dyne, Rynosec and Purscent .
  • No rapper ever made multi-syllabic rhymes ("Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis When I was dead broke man I couldn't picture this") sound as smooth.
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