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Rigmarole

Also rig-my-role, riggmonrowle, and the like. See ragman. George Gordon Byron in DON JUAN (1818) declares: His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call rigmarole. Hence rigmarolery; rigmarolic, rigmarolish.
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