Reduplicative Words

Dr. Ravi P. Reddy (India)
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  1. ding-dong
    the noise made by a bell
  2. flimflam
    (offensive) a swindle that cheats someone out of money
  3. gewgaw
    cheap showy jewelry, ornament, or decoration
  4. harum-scarum
    cheerfully irresponsible
  5. higgledy-piggledy
    in a disordered manner
  6. hocus-pocus
    verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
  7. hodgepodge
    a motley assortment of things
  8. hoity-toity
    pretentious or excessively fancy
  9. hotchpotch
    a motley assortment of things
  10. hubble-bubble
    an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
  11. hubbub
    loud confused noise from many sources
  12. hugger-mugger
    a state of confusion
  13. hullabaloo
    disturbance usually in protest
  14. hurdy-gurdy
    a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs
  15. hurly burly
    a disorderly outburst or tumult
  16. itty-bitty
    (used informally) very small
  17. mishmash
    a random assortment of things
  18. mumbo jumbo
    language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion
  19. namby-pamby
    weak in willpower, courage or vitality
  20. niminy-piminy
    affectedly dainty or refined
  21. pall-mall
    a 17th century game
  22. pell-mell
    in a wild or reckless manner
  23. roly-poly
    short and plump
  24. shillyshally
    waste time or postpone doing what one should be doing
  25. tittle-tattle
    light informal conversation for social occasions
  26. voodoo
    (Haiti) followers of a religion that involves witchcraft and animistic deities
  27. wigwag
    send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code
  28. willy-nilly
    in a random manner
  29. wishy-washy
    weak in willpower, courage or vitality
  30. zigzag
    a shape with sharp turns in alternating directions
Created on Wed Feb 13 09:44:19 EST 2013

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