Suggested by Dale H.
Definition: (from dictionary.com)
-noun
1. an elaborate or complicated procedure
2. confused, incoherent, foolish, or meaningless talk
Examples:
"My mom told me that making pasta from scratch was a rigmarole, so the first time I went to an Italian restaurant I requested the rigmarole pasta - my parents will never let me live that down."
"Listening to the rigmarole statements coming out of my girlfriend's mouth makes me worry about the future of America."
Origin: (from etymonline.com)
"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 called
Rageman, perhaps from Anglo-French
Ragemon le bon 'Ragemon the good,' which was the heading on one set of the verses, referring to a character by that name. Sense transferred to 'foolish activity or commotion' by 1939."
Awkwardness rating: 5
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Could I have the rigmarole, please? (chow.com) |