Post by t-bob on Feb 4, 2019 10:03:27 GMT -5
RIGMAROLE
noun
1. an elaborate or complicated procedure: to go through the rigmarole of a formal dinner.
2. confused, incoherent, foolish, or meaningless talk.
Quotes
He said he had a shack in Mill City and I would have all the time in the world to write there while we went through the rigmarole of getting the ship. -- Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957 At the station, I went through the rigmarole of implied consent and told Father Grady I wanted him to take a Breathalyzer test. -- Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care, 2009
Origin
Rigmarole, with many variant spellings in the 18th century, is probably a reduction of ragman roll, a long catalog or list, a sense dating from the early 16th century. In Middle English ragmane rolle was a roll or scroll of writing used in a game of chance in which players draw out an item hidden in the roll. This game of chance possibly arose from Ragemon le bon (Rageman the Good), an Anglo-French poem. The sense “confused, incoherent, foolish, or meaningless talk” dates from the 18th century; the sense “elaborate or complicated procedure” dates from the 19th
noun
1. an elaborate or complicated procedure: to go through the rigmarole of a formal dinner.
2. confused, incoherent, foolish, or meaningless talk.
Quotes
He said he had a shack in Mill City and I would have all the time in the world to write there while we went through the rigmarole of getting the ship. -- Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957 At the station, I went through the rigmarole of implied consent and told Father Grady I wanted him to take a Breathalyzer test. -- Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care, 2009
Origin
Rigmarole, with many variant spellings in the 18th century, is probably a reduction of ragman roll, a long catalog or list, a sense dating from the early 16th century. In Middle English ragmane rolle was a roll or scroll of writing used in a game of chance in which players draw out an item hidden in the roll. This game of chance possibly arose from Ragemon le bon (Rageman the Good), an Anglo-French poem. The sense “confused, incoherent, foolish, or meaningless talk” dates from the 18th century; the sense “elaborate or complicated procedure” dates from the 19th
