rigmarolen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈrɪɡmərəʊl/, U.S.

/ˈrɪɡ(ə)məˌroʊl/

Forms: 1700s riggmonrowle, 1700s rig-me-role, 1700s rig me roll, 1700s rig mi rol, 1700s rig-my-role, 1700s rig-my-roll, 1700s– rigmarol, 1700s– rigmarole, 1800s rigmarowl (Irish English (northern)), 1800s– rigmaroll, 1800s– rigmorale, 1900s– rigamarole.

Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: Ragman roll n.

Etymology: Probably a variant of Ragman roll n.; with the sense development compare Ragman n.¹ 5b.

A. n.

a. An unduly protracted, involved, or diffuse piece of speech or writing; a story, explanation, etc., regarded as unintelligible or incoherent. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of

rotea1400

rabblec1400

rabblement1547

gabbling1599

bilka1637

ribble-row1665

sottise1673

rigmarolec1736

lockram1809

ráiméis1828

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > prolixity > prolix passage > rigmarole

Ragman?1507

rat-rane1513

rat-rhyme1553

reavel-ravel1568

paternoster1651

kyrielle1653

rat1671

rigmarolec1736

nominy?1746

Megillah1911

c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Rigmarole, a long story: a ‘tale of a tub’.

1757 S. Foote Author ii. 37 You are always running on with your Riggmonrowles.

1766 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. I. 77 How I have run on! Burn this rig-me-role instantly, I entreat your ladyship.

1779 F. Burney Diary 1 Nov. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 412 That's better than a long rig mi rol about nothing.

1814 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) IV. 274 She repeated a sort of rigmarole which I suppose she had ready for such occasions.

1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel I. xiv. 209 You never heard such a rigmarole.

1883 Times 2 Nov. 2/3 A long rigmarole was told how the journalist's hat had fallen into the Seine.

1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlvi. 28 Rigmarole, a lengthy story, discussion.

1993 Harper's Mag. May 70/2 All she could do was listen to his rigmaroles, and care that he couldn't bear wool next to his skin.

b. Without article: language or discourse characterized by elaboration or (excessive) length; (in later use also) rambling or incoherent speech or writing. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun]

jargon1340

gibberishc1557

fustiana1593

hibber-gibber1593

rabble?1593

gabbling1599

rantum-scantum1599

ribble-rabble1601

gabble1602

High Dutch1602

Greek1603

baragouin1614

galimatias1653

riddle-me-ree1678

clink-clank1679

Hebrew1705

alieniloquy1727

jabber1735

mumbo-jumbo1738

gibbering1786

rigmarole1809

gibber1832

rigmarolery1833

Babelism1834

jargoning1837

barrikin1851

abracadabra1867

double Dutch1876

jabberwock1902

jabberwocky1908

jibber-jabber1922

mumbo-jumbery1923

mumbo1931

double-talk1938

garbology1944

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1759 I. 191 John Hawkins has given a long detail of it, in that manner vulgarly, but significantly, called rigmarole.]

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. vi. 222 They were exactly the same that..may be classed in rhetoric under the general title of Rigmarole.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I clxxiv. 90 His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call ‘rigmarole’.

1887 A. Jessopp Arcady iii. 88 Scraps of paper..scribbled over with rigmarole.

1920 Times 3 Apr. 14 The Colonel perspicuously expresses his practice, with a disdain of all parade, rigmarole..or exaggeration.

1964 Times 29 Oct. 9/2 The plaintiff was a person given to rigmarole and to wild statements.

1987 E. E. Smith Miss Melville Returns xxvii. 231 Why did you make me listen to all that rigamarole?

2. A long, involved, or tedious procedure, or set of these; fuss, ‘palaver’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > too long duration > something long or tedious

trance1763

rigmarole1841

1841 J. Q. Adams Diary 7 July in Mem. (1876) X. 498 A New York Democrat, of vinegar aspect, who railed his hour out against the Loan, and the Bank bills.., and all the rigmarole of mock Democracy.

1847 R. Sears Scenes & Sketches Continental Europe xx. 488 They..carried their national habits and amusements, and almost their country's costume, into the very midst of the severity and rigmarole of an Austrian army.

1881 Good Company May 216/2 On the 1st of June, we encountered a large village of Netchilluc Esquimaux, and the same rigmarole of preliminary ceremonies had to be enacted.

1925 W. Lewis Foxes' Case in Cal. Mod. Lett. Oct. 77 Ectogenetic birth will shortly supersede the present brutal rigmarole of animal love.

1955 Times 24 June 12/5 The Government set up..the whole rigmarole of scheduling, listing, and building preservation orders.

1996 T. Clancy Executive Orders xxxvi. 497 The entry rigmarole which America inflicts on her visitors.

B. adj.

Of the nature of or characterized by rigmarole; incoherent; rambling; unduly elaborate, protracted, or diffuse.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [adjective] > characterized by rigmarole

rigmarole1742

rigmarolish1827

rigmarolic1846

1742 Proc. Old Bailey 3 June 114/2 She desired to see me there, accordingly I went, and there she run on a rig-me-roll Story, and said, that I had married her at Chelsea.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxv. 141 You must all of you go on in one rig-my-roll way; in one beaten track.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 117 Their rigmarole wonderings and lamentations at the number of miles which you have travelled out of your way.

1839 J. C. Maitland Lett. from Madras (1843) 242 Probably the performance will be so queer and rigmarole that nobody will read it.

1857 S. Osborn Quedah xi. 138 He began a long rigmarole story about Malaymen not liking to clean copper.

1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. x. 213 What a rigmarole letter!

1909 G. B. Shaw Admirable Bashville Pref. 290 I poetasted The Admirable Bashville in the rigmarole style.

1948 G. V. Desani All About H. Hatterr 22 I write rigmarole English, staining your goodly godly tongue, maybe.

2006 Africa News (Nexis) 2 May We condemned and reject the rigmarole style of NLC President's speech.

Derivatives

† rigmarolery n. Obsolete diffuse or protracted discourse; the use of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun]

jargon1340

gibberishc1557

fustiana1593

hibber-gibber1593

rabble?1593

gabbling1599

rantum-scantum1599

ribble-rabble1601

gabble1602

High Dutch1602

Greek1603

baragouin1614

galimatias1653

riddle-me-ree1678

clink-clank1679

Hebrew1705

alieniloquy1727

jabber1735

mumbo-jumbo1738

gibbering1786

rigmarole1809

gibber1832

rigmarolery1833

Babelism1834

jargoning1837

barrikin1851

abracadabra1867

double Dutch1876

jabberwock1902

jabberwocky1908

jibber-jabber1922

mumbo-jumbery1923

mumbo1931

double-talk1938

garbology1944

1833 Monthly Rev. Feb. 182 The one, a veteran, trained in all the technicalities of legal puzzles.., quirks, rigmarolery, brow-beating, ridicule, and subtlety.

1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 466 Sentimental rigmarolery and practical benevolence seldom go together.

rigmaˈrolic adj. rare of the nature of or characterized by rigmarole.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [adjective] > characterized by rigmarole

rigmarole1742

rigmarolish1827

rigmarolic1846

1846 E. A. Poe in Graham's Mag. June 247/1 ‘What is Poetry?’ notwithstanding Leigh Hunt's rigmarolic attempt at answering it, is a query, [etc.].

2007 S. R. Waybill Fortieth Year Wollongong Woman 214 Society today is simply ridiculous and rigmarolic.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rigmarolev.

Brit.

/ˈrɪɡmərəʊl/, U.S.

/ˈrɪɡ(ə)məˌroʊl/

Forms: see rigmarole n. and adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rigmarole n.

Etymology: < rigmarole n.

rare.

1. transitive. To cajole or trick with a rigmarole.

ΚΠ

1803 R. Southey Let. 19 Nov. in New Lett. (1965) I. 336 He rigmarolls them with a farrago of what he does not understand himself.

1971 M. T. Place Witch who saved Halloween xvii. 145 A witch shouldn't have to rigmarole them into action. But I will. Watch!

2. intransitive. To speak in rigmarole; to talk diffusely or at excessive length.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > talk gibberish [verb (intransitive)]

rabblea1400

javerc1440

jabber1499

jabble1570

jargon1570

gabble1574

gibberish1577

gibber1604

cant1728

jibber1824

rigmarole1831

to talk through (the back of) one's neck1899

garble1913

jibber-jabber1922

jabberwock1959

1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 330/2 Ridgway rigmaroled, and Brougham vapoured.

1868 Churchman's Compan. Apr. 319 He goes on rigmaroling like that, Frank, till over leaf.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 721 O beau pays de la Touraine that I never even sang once explaining and rigmaroling about religion and persecution.

2008 Africa News (Nexis) 5 Feb. Members of other political parties have resolved that they can not to waste another four years rigmaroling and meandering.

3. transitive. To present or deliver as a rigmarole; to make a rigmarole of.

ΚΠ

1857 C. G. F. Gore Two Aristocracies II. vii. 154 The only daughter of her only son rigmaroling Italian lovesongs in company with professors and opera-singers.

1934 R. Nichols Fisbo ii. ii. 22 He had an eye for the effective fault—Such as when rigmarolled in rhyming chaff With meanest jest would raise the loudest laugh.

1994 Observer (Nexis) 3 Apr. 12 A wedding..is staged sentiment, privacy rigmaroled into the public domain.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rigmarole
释义	rigmarolen.adj. Brit. /ˈrɪɡmərəʊl/, U.S. /ˈrɪɡ(ə)məˌroʊl/ Forms: 1700s riggmonrowle, 1700s rig-me-role, 1700s rig me roll, 1700s rig mi rol, 1700s rig-my-role, 1700s rig-my-roll, 1700s– rigmarol, 1700s– rigmarole, 1800s rigmarowl (Irish English (northern)), 1800s– rigmaroll, 1800s– rigmorale, 1900s– rigamarole. Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: Ragman roll n. Etymology: Probably a variant of Ragman roll n.; with the sense development compare Ragman n.¹ 5b. A. n. 1. a. An unduly protracted, involved, or diffuse piece of speech or writing; a story, explanation, etc., regarded as unintelligible or incoherent. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of rotea1400 rabblec1400 rabblement1547 gabbling1599 bilka1637 ribble-row1665 sottise1673 rigmarolec1736 lockram1809 ráiméis1828 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > prolixity > prolix passage > rigmarole Ragman?1507 rat-rane1513 rat-rhyme1553 reavel-ravel1568 paternoster1651 kyrielle1653 rat1671 rigmarolec1736 nominy?1746 Megillah1911 c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Rigmarole, a long story: a ‘tale of a tub’. 1757 S. Foote Author ii. 37 You are always running on with your Riggmonrowles. 1766 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. I. 77 How I have run on! Burn this rig-me-role instantly, I entreat your ladyship. 1779 F. Burney Diary 1 Nov. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 412 That's better than a long rig mi rol about nothing. 1814 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) IV. 274 She repeated a sort of rigmarole which I suppose she had ready for such occasions. 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel I. xiv. 209 You never heard such a rigmarole. 1883 Times 2 Nov. 2/3 A long rigmarole was told how the journalist's hat had fallen into the Seine. 1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlvi. 28 Rigmarole, a lengthy story, discussion. 1993 Harper's Mag. May 70/2 All she could do was listen to his rigmaroles, and care that he couldn't bear wool next to his skin. b. Without article: language or discourse characterized by elaboration or (excessive) length; (in later use also) rambling or incoherent speech or writing. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] jargon1340 gibberishc1557 fustiana1593 hibber-gibber1593 rabble?1593 gabbling1599 rantum-scantum1599 ribble-rabble1601 gabble1602 High Dutch1602 Greek1603 baragouin1614 galimatias1653 riddle-me-ree1678 clink-clank1679 Hebrew1705 alieniloquy1727 jabber1735 mumbo-jumbo1738 gibbering1786 rigmarole1809 gibber1832 rigmarolery1833 Babelism1834 jargoning1837 barrikin1851 abracadabra1867 double Dutch1876 jabberwock1902 jabberwocky1908 jibber-jabber1922 mumbo-jumbery1923 mumbo1931 double-talk1938 garbology1944 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1759 I. 191 John Hawkins has given a long detail of it, in that manner vulgarly, but significantly, called rigmarole.] 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. vi. 222 They were exactly the same that..may be classed in rhetoric under the general title of Rigmarole. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I clxxiv. 90 His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call ‘rigmarole’. 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady iii. 88 Scraps of paper..scribbled over with rigmarole. 1920 Times 3 Apr. 14 The Colonel perspicuously expresses his practice, with a disdain of all parade, rigmarole..or exaggeration. 1964 Times 29 Oct. 9/2 The plaintiff was a person given to rigmarole and to wild statements. 1987 E. E. Smith Miss Melville Returns xxvii. 231 Why did you make me listen to all that rigamarole? 2. A long, involved, or tedious procedure, or set of these; fuss, ‘palaver’. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > too long duration > something long or tedious trance1763 rigmarole1841 1841 J. Q. Adams Diary 7 July in Mem. (1876) X. 498 A New York Democrat, of vinegar aspect, who railed his hour out against the Loan, and the Bank bills.., and all the rigmarole of mock Democracy. 1847 R. Sears Scenes & Sketches Continental Europe xx. 488 They..carried their national habits and amusements, and almost their country's costume, into the very midst of the severity and rigmarole of an Austrian army. 1881 Good Company May 216/2 On the 1st of June, we encountered a large village of Netchilluc Esquimaux, and the same rigmarole of preliminary ceremonies had to be enacted. 1925 W. Lewis Foxes' Case in Cal. Mod. Lett. Oct. 77 Ectogenetic birth will shortly supersede the present brutal rigmarole of animal love. 1955 Times 24 June 12/5 The Government set up..the whole rigmarole of scheduling, listing, and building preservation orders. 1996 T. Clancy Executive Orders xxxvi. 497 The entry rigmarole which America inflicts on her visitors. B. adj. Of the nature of or characterized by rigmarole; incoherent; rambling; unduly elaborate, protracted, or diffuse. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [adjective] > characterized by rigmarole rigmarole1742 rigmarolish1827 rigmarolic1846 1742 Proc. Old Bailey 3 June 114/2 She desired to see me there, accordingly I went, and there she run on a rig-me-roll Story, and said, that I had married her at Chelsea. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxv. 141 You must all of you go on in one rig-my-roll way; in one beaten track. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 117 Their rigmarole wonderings and lamentations at the number of miles which you have travelled out of your way. 1839 J. C. Maitland Lett. from Madras (1843) 242 Probably the performance will be so queer and rigmarole that nobody will read it. 1857 S. Osborn Quedah xi. 138 He began a long rigmarole story about Malaymen not liking to clean copper. 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. x. 213 What a rigmarole letter! 1909 G. B. Shaw Admirable Bashville Pref. 290 I poetasted The Admirable Bashville in the rigmarole style. 1948 G. V. Desani All About H. Hatterr 22 I write rigmarole English, staining your goodly godly tongue, maybe. 2006 Africa News (Nexis) 2 May We condemned and reject the rigmarole style of NLC President's speech. Derivatives † rigmarolery n. Obsolete diffuse or protracted discourse; the use of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] jargon1340 gibberishc1557 fustiana1593 hibber-gibber1593 rabble?1593 gabbling1599 rantum-scantum1599 ribble-rabble1601 gabble1602 High Dutch1602 Greek1603 baragouin1614 galimatias1653 riddle-me-ree1678 clink-clank1679 Hebrew1705 alieniloquy1727 jabber1735 mumbo-jumbo1738 gibbering1786 rigmarole1809 gibber1832 rigmarolery1833 Babelism1834 jargoning1837 barrikin1851 abracadabra1867 double Dutch1876 jabberwock1902 jabberwocky1908 jibber-jabber1922 mumbo-jumbery1923 mumbo1931 double-talk1938 garbology1944 1833 Monthly Rev. Feb. 182 The one, a veteran, trained in all the technicalities of legal puzzles.., quirks, rigmarolery, brow-beating, ridicule, and subtlety. 1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 466 Sentimental rigmarolery and practical benevolence seldom go together. rigmaˈrolic adj. rare of the nature of or characterized by rigmarole. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [adjective] > characterized by rigmarole rigmarole1742 rigmarolish1827 rigmarolic1846 1846 E. A. Poe in Graham's Mag. June 247/1 ‘What is Poetry?’ notwithstanding Leigh Hunt's rigmarolic attempt at answering it, is a query, [etc.]. 2007 S. R. Waybill Fortieth Year Wollongong Woman 214 Society today is simply ridiculous and rigmarolic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rigmarolev. Brit. /ˈrɪɡmərəʊl/, U.S. /ˈrɪɡ(ə)məˌroʊl/ Forms: see rigmarole n. and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rigmarole n. Etymology: < rigmarole n. rare. 1. transitive. To cajole or trick with a rigmarole. ΚΠ 1803 R. Southey Let. 19 Nov. in New Lett. (1965) I. 336 He rigmarolls them with a farrago of what he does not understand himself. 1971 M. T. Place Witch who saved Halloween xvii. 145 A witch shouldn't have to rigmarole them into action. But I will. Watch! 2. intransitive. To speak in rigmarole; to talk diffusely or at excessive length. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > talk gibberish [verb (intransitive)] rabblea1400 javerc1440 jabber1499 jabble1570 jargon1570 gabble1574 gibberish1577 gibber1604 cant1728 jibber1824 rigmarole1831 to talk through (the back of) one's neck1899 garble1913 jibber-jabber1922 jabberwock1959 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 330/2 Ridgway rigmaroled, and Brougham vapoured. 1868 Churchman's Compan. Apr. 319 He goes on rigmaroling like that, Frank, till over leaf. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 721 O beau pays de la Touraine that I never even sang once explaining and rigmaroling about religion and persecution. 2008 Africa News (Nexis) 5 Feb. Members of other political parties have resolved that they can not to waste another four years rigmaroling and meandering. 3. transitive. To present or deliver as a rigmarole; to make a rigmarole of. ΚΠ 1857 C. G. F. Gore Two Aristocracies II. vii. 154 The only daughter of her only son rigmaroling Italian lovesongs in company with professors and opera-singers. 1934 R. Nichols Fisbo ii. ii. 22 He had an eye for the effective fault—Such as when rigmarolled in rhyming chaff With meanest jest would raise the loudest laugh. 1994 Observer (Nexis) 3 Apr. 12 A wedding..is staged sentiment, privacy rigmaroled into the public domain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1736v.1803
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