Rigmarole

Definition: Rigmarole

Rigmarole

Noun

1. A set of confused and meaningless statements.

2. A long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rigmarole" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Rigmarole

Unmeaningness

Nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity; vagueness; (unintelligibility).

Crosswords: Rigmarole

This rigmarole of Rue Blomet, of Pamela, of barracks, of a lancer, had passed before Marius like a phantasmagoria

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "rigmarole": tell a long rigmarole. Additional references.

Albanian

bisedë e palidhur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, piffling, ramble, rot, rubbish, slush, tosh, trash, trumpery, wind), ‏لهجة غريبة (jargon), ‏خطبة غير مترابطة, ‏إجراء معقد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

брътвеж (babble, chat, footle, palaver, prate, prattle, quack, wash), дълга несвързана история. (various references)

Czech

ceremonie (ceremony, performance), blábolení, žvanìní (cackle, chatter, chitchat, claptrap, double talk, flapdoodle, flubdub, gab, gas, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wind). (various references)

Farsi 

چرند (Baloney, Bilk, Corny, Crap, Hokum, Inane, Jive, Ludicrous, Nonsensical, Shenanigan, Silly, Stuff, Trashy, Unmeaning, Windy), حرف بی ربط, جفنگ (Trashy), بی معنی (Absurd, Hokum, Inept, Insensate, Irrational, Unmeaning), بی ربط (Desultory, Disjointed, Impertinent, Incoherent, Irrelevant, Loose). (various references)

French

mesure compliquée, histoire compliquée,discours décousu, galimatias, discours incohérent, charabia, bavardage. (various references)

German

Geschwätz (bunk, drivel, flubdub, gab, gossip, gossiping, idle talk, jaw, palaver, prattle, tittle tattle). (various references)

Greek 

μωρολογία (babble, drivel, fudge, prattle, prittle prattle, twaddle). (various references)

Hebrew 

פטפוט ארוך. (various references)

Hungarian

szószaporítás (circumlocution, logorrhea, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, tautology, verbiage), hanta (balderdash, crap, rant, spiel), üres fecsegés (blather, blether, buncombe, bunkum, froth, hot air, jangle, rant, verbiage). (various references)

Italian

trafila (procedure), tiritera, chi� cchiera. (various references)

Pig Latin

igmaroleray.(various references)

Portuguese

palavreado sem sentido, incoerente (contradictory, disconnected, inconsistent), confuso (abrupt, abstruse, blear, cloudy, confused, disorderly, disturbed, dizzy, hugger-mugger, indistinct, intricate, jumbled up, labyrinthine, lacklustre, mazy, medley, messy, mixed, muddle-headed, muddy, obscure, pell-mell, perplexed, promiscuous, rough and tumble, tangly, topsy-turvy), asneira (bilge, rot, stupid thing, stupidity). (various references)

Romanian

trãncãnealã (babble, chit chat, clack, clatter, drivel, flippancy, gibber, rattle, tattle, yap), tiradã (flourish, tirade), pãlãvrãgealã (chatter, chit chat, crack, gabble, prate, prattle), litanie (litany), incoerent (disconnected, disjointed, inarticulate, incoherent, incoherently, rambling), fãrã şir, aiurealã (babble, confusion, flurry, fuss, hubbub, muss, raving, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, twaddle). (various references)

Russian 

пустая болтовня (guff, hot, idle talk, lip-labour, palaver). (various references)

Scottish

ruapais. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lupetanje (jibber), koještarija (baloney, bilge, buncombe, bunk, bunko, cobbler, crap, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, rot), birokratizam. (various references)

Spanish

relación disparatada, galimatías (balderdash, double dutch), filateria. (various references)

Swedish

svammel (flannels, froth, jazz, rambling, twaddle, wish-wash), ramsa. (various references)

Turkish

tekerleme (nursery rhyme, tongue twister), saçma sapan lâf, deli saçması (raving, ravings, utter nonsense). (various references)

Ukrainian

пусте базікання (bibble-babble, jive), дурниця (absurdity, absurdness, applesauce, balderdash, ballyhoo, bosh, buncombe, froth, humbug, mush, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, porridge, rubbish, sappiness, shucks, slum, trash, tripe). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rời rạc (desultory, fragmentary, incohesive, sporadic, sporadical, straggling, straggly, unconnected), sự kể lể huyên thiên, sự kể lể dông d� i câu chuyện vô nghĩa, không có mạch lạc (skimble-scamble). (various references)

Ragemon le bon. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rigmarole": rigmaroles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rigmarole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Redmarley, rigamorle, Romorola. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: armigero.

-2 letters: armiger, armoire, glarier, glomera, gomeral, gomeril, gremial, loamier, lorimer, marlier.

-3 letters: galore, gamier, gaoler, glaire, glamor, glioma, gloria, goalie, gorier, imager, irreal, larger, logier, maigre, mailer, malgre, milage, mirage, moiler, morale, railer, remail, remora, roamer.

-4 letters: agile, aimer, airer, algor, amigo, amole, argil, argle, argol, ariel, armer, armor, email, gamer, gimel, glair.

+1 letter: glamorizer, rigamarole, rigmaroles.

+2 letters: glamorizers, rigamaroles.

+4 letters: martyrologies, oleomargarine, overglamorize, reformulating, renormalizing.

+5 letters: oleomargarines, overglamorized, overglamorizes, preformulating, steamrollering.