rigamarole

rigamarole

English

Noun

rigamarole (countable and uncountable, plural rigamaroles)

1. (chiefly US) Alternative form of rigmarole
   • 1899, Stephen Crane, "The Monster":

     Speak out like a man, and don't give me any more of this tiresome rigamarole.

   • 1914, Constance Garnett translating Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, part II, ch 4:

     A peasant called Dushkin, who keeps a dram-shop facing the house, brought to the police office a jeweller's case containing some gold ear-rings, and told a long rigamarole.

   • 1934, Stanley G. Weinbaum, A Martian Odyssey:

     Then I figured he'd missed my point, and I went through the whole blamed rigamarole again, and it ended the same way, with Tweel on his nose in the middle of my picture!