rigamarole
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Speak out like a man, and don't give me any more of this tiresome rigamarole."
- "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."
- "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!"
- "“Happy Father's Day! Birdhouse is coming along great. 'Course, the city inspector's riding me about zoning laws, and my electrician's putting me through the whole rigamarole.” “Steve, you've made peace with never being with a woman, right?” “Uh, yeah.”"
- "They don't know the meaning of water nor soap I don't have time for the rigamarole"
Usage
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable