rigmarole
noun/ˈɹɪɡməɹəʊl/UK/ˈɹɪɡməɹoʊl/US
Etymology
From ragman roll (“long list; catalogue”). Recorded since c1736.
Definitions
A long and complicated formal procedure.
- Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?
Confused and incoherent talk
Confused and incoherent talk; nonsense.
- Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
- His reply did not even allude to the subject, but was a rigmarole about the weather; as if he had been writing to an idiot, who did not require a rational answer to any question they had asked.
Characterized by rigmarole
Characterized by rigmarole; prolix; tedious.
- This is a most rigmarole letter, for after each sentence, I take breath[…]
The neighborhood
- synonymcarry-on
- synonymcircus act
- synonympalaver
- synonymriddle me ree
- synonymrigmarole
- synonymsong and dance
- neighboractivity
- neighborcommotion
- neighbornuisance
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for rigmarole. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA