rigmarolish

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English

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Etymology

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From rigmarole +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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rigmarolish (comparative more rigmarolish, superlative most rigmarolish)

  1. Of or pertaining to a rigmarole; excessively elaborate, protracted, or diffuse.
    His essays were always dry, dense, and rigmarolish.
    • 1854, letter to Florence de Quincey, November 18, published 1877 in Thomas de Quincey: His Life and Writings, with Unpublished Correspondence, H. A. Page, editor
      Here's a rigmarolish paragraph, you say, about such a trifle as triliterality.

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