masculine rhyme

noun

Prosody.

1. a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.

masculine rhyme

noun

1. prosody a rhyme between stressed monosyllables or between the final stressed syllables of polysyllabic words Compare feminine rhyme

   book, cook

   collect, direct

Word History and Origins

Origin of masculine rhyme¹

First recorded in 1575–85