Crossword clues for rigmarole
rigmarole
- Large Miro sabotaged: complicated procedure
- Having got married in capital, character makes fuss
- Doctor and old lady taking part in tiresome process
- Doctor and MA having part in complex procedure
- Doctor and mother almost watch performance
- Song and dance
- Tediously detailed process
- Long, complicated and confusing procedure
- Long complicated procedure
- Convoluted process
- Complicated baloney
- Complex procedure
- Elaborate procedure
- A set of confused and meaningless statements
- A long and complicated and confusing procedure
- Get angry about blasted Margo’s fuss
- Confused American girl with more garbled nonsense
- Complicated procedure in part - current government getting hurt
- Complicated procedure
- Fix function for parent that’s boringly complicated
- Lengthy procedure
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rigmarole \Rig"ma*role\, a. Consisting of rigmarole; frivolous; nonsensical; foolish.
Rigmarole \Rig"ma*role\, n. [For ragman roll. See Ragman's roll.] A succession of confused or nonsensical statements; foolish talk; nonsense. [Colloq.]
Often one's dear friend talks something which one
scruples to call rigmarole.
--De Quincey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1736, "a long, rambling discourse," apparently from an altered, Kentish colloquial survival of ragman roll "long list or catalogue" (1520s), in Middle English a long roll of verses descriptive of personal characters, used in a medieval game of chance called Rageman, perhaps from Anglo-French Ragemon le bon "Ragemon the good," which was the heading on one set of the verses, referring to a character by that name. Sense transferred to "foolish activity or commotion" by 1939.
Wiktionary
n. 1 complex, obsolete procedures; excess steps or activity; needless motion. 2 nonsense; confused and incoherent talk.
WordNet
n. a set of confused and meaningless statements [syn: rigamarole]
a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time" [syn: rigamarole]
Wikipedia
Rigmarole formed around the second week of April in 2003 and started to play in local gigs and competitions(Battles) after the 1st week of May 2003. They have always played their own compositions ever since.
Rigmarole has had numerous changes in their lineup, but still has 3 of its original members trying to keep their music alive. Namely – Herbert “Pman” Pelingon on vocals, Johndy Bruce on guitars... See More Description Rigmarole is a Rock band from Lemery, Batangas.
Year after year, Rigmarole has struggled and worked very hard to be recognized with the goal of standing out from the rest of other upcoming rock bands in the South-West region of Batangas. They have established a reputation of giving very lively performances, with an aggressive approach in the structure of their songs. Rigmarole has a variety of influences, contributing greatly to the diversity of their compositions. From Hard Rock to Rap and Metal, they have created a different type of harmony that is deeply felt in their live sets.
The name “Rigmarole” was suggested by Jay Coro (original drummer who now resides in Singapore), and the word today is defined as following a lengthy & unnecessary process - which the group believes to be the reason for our country’s slow development and delayed progress, but maybe slow progress is exactly what we need. Slow progress allows us to adapt as necessary, learn at each step of the journey, and ensure that we’re honoring our ideals and actual desires, instead of pushing ourselves blindly in the pursuit of success.
Rigmarole - from ragman roll [For ragman roll a long list of names, the devil's roll or list; where ragman is of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. ragmenni a craven person, Sw. raggen the devil. Icel. ragmenni is fr. ragr + menni (in comp.) man, akin to E. man. See Roll, and cf. Rigmarole.]
Rigmarole (also Rigamarole) is a complex procedure or confused talk.
Rigmarole may also refer to:
- Rigmarole (Filipino band)
Usage examples of "rigmarole".
Demetrius commanded Margari to go up into his room and have a complete translation of all this Latin rigmarole written down in honest Hungarian by the morning and to encourage him in his task he gave him two guldens and an order on the butler for as much punch as he could drink.
Officially Slattery determined that there was not even hard evidence that national security had been compromised for him to go through the whole rigmarole of informing Washington.
All the rigmarole about Trema being dead, having died bravely in the service of the Emperorthat is, the Commission of Public Safetyall nonsense.
Meanwhile, Fitz had had Zanni Bonvecino write for him a rigmarole in Italian, and had memorized it.
But the academic economists, and still more so Marx and his followers, refuse to deal with these fundamentals, and, with a stupid pose of sound practical wisdom, insist on opening up their case with an uncritical acceptance of the common antagonism of employers and employed and a long rigmarole about profits and wages.
The sight of a poor creature grubbing for rhymes to fill up his sonnet, or to cram one of those voracious, rhyme-swallowing rigmaroles which some of our drudging poetical operatives have been exhausting themselves of late to satiate with jingles, makes my head ache and my stomach rebel.
Then with the stylized rigmarole these scenes apparently required, he let the envelope slip from his fingers to the seat and, not quite on camera, jammed it into the crevice under the backrest.
Raglan took me along, we went through the rigmarole of flunkeys with brushes that I remembered from my previous visit with Wellington, and we were ushered into a study where Prince Albert was waiting for us.
Florian reeled off some more rigmarole, while Clover Lee took the remaining five saucers to that arc of the ring backed by only the empty back door of the tent, and stuck each saucer's rim into the ring's earthen curb so it stood upright.