Rigmarole Definition

rĭgmə-rōl
noun
Foolish or incoherent rambling talk; nonsense.
Webster's New World
A foolishly involved, fussy, or time-wasting procedure.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Rigmarole

Noun

Singular:
rigmarole
Plural:
rigmaroles

Origin of Rigmarole

  • Alteration of obsolete ragman roll catalog from Middle English ragmane rolle scroll used in Ragman, a game of chance perhaps from Anglo-Norman Ragemon le bon Ragemon the Good, title of a set of verses about a character of this name Middle English rolle list (from Old French) (from Latin rotula wheel roll)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From ragman roll (“long list; catalogue").

    From Wiktionary

Rigmarole Sentence Examples

  • Until it is, I'll update the page manually, but probably not very often as it 's a right old rigmarole.

  • They still today involve a ridiculous rigmarole of searching.

  • And now what am I driving at, in all this long rigmarole?

  • Options are taken up, lapse, are sold again, the usual rigmarole.

  • Yet to get into this vast emporium of riches one has to navigate a Fort Knox type rigmarole.

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Words Starting With

RRIRIG

Words Ending With

ELEOLE

Unscrambles

rigmarole

Words Starting With R and Ending With E

Starts With R & Ends With EStarts With RI & Ends With EStarts With R & Ends With LE

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With R9 Letter Words Ending With E