rigmarole

rigmarole
n
1. nonsense, falderal, gibberish, babble, babbling, babblement, Fr. bavardage; twaddle, twaddling, Both Brit. twattle, twattling; blather, blathering, drivel, driveling, drool, drooling; jargon, Sl. jive, Greek, Chiefly Southern U.S. Choctaw; hocus-pocus, mumbo jumbo, abracadabra, fiddle-de-dee; moonshine, gobbledegook, foolish humbug, foam, froth, bunkum or buncombe, Sl. bunk, Sl. blah; flummery, Inf. hokum, Sl. applesauce, Sl. eyewash; rub-bish, Sl. tripe, refuse, Dial. culch, chaff, trash, Inf. truck, trumpery; tommyrot, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. crap, Sl. crock, Sl. bull; balderdash, hogwash, swill, Sl. horsefeathers; stuff, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, Brit. Inf. gammon, Brit. Sl. tosh; fudge, foolishness, folly, amphigory; footle, Inf. malarkey, Sl. bushwa, Sl. baloney, Sl. bilge or bilge water, Sl. meshugaas, Scot, and North Eng. haver; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. hooey, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle; idle talk, Inf. gab, Sl. gas, palaver, palavering, palaverment; claptrap, rodomontade, fustian, bombast, rant, Sl. hot air; Jabberwocky, jabber, jabbering, prate, prating; patter, pattering, gabble, gabbling; clack, clacking, clatter, clattering, rattling, Sl. running off or on at the mouth; chatter, chattering, prattle, prattling, chippering, cackle, cackling; chit-chat, chit-ter-chatter, small talk, Anglo-Indian. bukh.
2. elaborate procedure, involved ceremony, pomposity, affectation; red tape, excessive formality, protocol, bureaucracy, complicated routine; bother, pain, annoyance, Inf. hassle.

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  • Rigmarole — Rig ma*role, n. [For ragman roll. See {Ragman s roll}.] A succession of confused or nonsensical statements; foolish talk; nonsense. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Often one s dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. De Quincey …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Rigmarole — Rig ma*role, a. Consisting of rigmarole; frivolous; nonsensical; foolish. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rigmarole — (n.) 1736, a long, rambling discourse, from an altered, Kentish colloquial survival of ragman roll long list or catalogue (1520s), in Middle English a long roll of verses descriptive of personal characters, used in a medieval game of chance… …   Etymology dictionary

  • rigmarole — [n] nonsense babble, balderdash*, baloney, blather, bull, bunk*, drivel, foolishness, gibberish, gobbledygook*, hogwash*, hot air*, jargon, jive*, madness, mumbo jumbo*, palaver, poppycock*, prattle, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, trash*;… …   New thesaurus

  • rigmarole — ► NOUN 1) a lengthy and complicated procedure. 2) a long, rambling story. ORIGIN apparently from obsolete ragman roll, originally denoting a legal document recording a list of offences …   English terms dictionary

  • rigmarole — [rig′mə rōl΄] n. [altered < ragman roll < ME rageman rolle, a long list or document] 1. foolish or incoherent rambling talk; nonsense 2. a foolishly involved, fussy, or time wasting procedure …   English World dictionary

  • rigmarole — [[t]rɪ̱gməroʊl[/t]] rigmaroles N COUNT: usu sing (disapproval) You can describe a long and complicated process as a rigmarole. Then the whole rigmarole starts over again... I couldn t be bothered to go through the rigmarole of changing clothes …   English dictionary

  • rigmarole — rig|ma|role [ rıgmə,roul ] noun singular a long complicated process that seems unnecessary or silly: I had to go through the whole rigmarole of being questioned and searched before they let me in. a. a description or story that is longer and more …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • rigmarole — [18] Rigmarole is a corruption of an earlier ragman roll, a term first encountered in the late 13th century. It denoted a roll of parchment used in a gambling game. The roll had things written on it, such as names, with pieces of string attached… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • rigmarole — also rigamarole AmE noun 1 (singular, uncountable) a long confusing process or description: Omar went into this rigmarole about how he lost his passport. 2 (U) a long confusing series of actions that seems silly: I had to go through the whole… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • rigmarole — UK [ˈrɪɡmərəʊl] / US [ˈrɪɡməˌroʊl] noun [singular] a) a long complicated process that seems unnecessary or silly I had to go through the whole rigmarole of being questioned and searched before they let me in. b) a description or story that is… …   English dictionary

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