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Razzle Dazzle!
Itsy bitsy.
Topsy turvy.
Hunky dory.
Loosey goosey.
Teeny tiny.
Hurly burly.
Dilly dally.
Teeter totter.
Argy bargy.
Namby pamby.
Handy dandy.
Fuzzy wuzzy.
Willy nilly.
Posted by: Chris Clarke
Note: A database glitch in 2008 ate a bunch of archived comments. Don't be offended if yours isn't here, or confused if the conversation seems disjointed. Thanks!
Hoity toity.
By: By Ron Sullivan on 2007 05 06
Harum scarum.
By: By Ron Sullivan on 2007 05 06
Jeezie Louisie.
Shilly shally.
Hurdy gurdy.
Hanky panky.
Silly billy.
Herky jerky.
Teeny weenie!
Money, Honey.
Woolly Bully.
Piggly Wiggly.
Henny Penny.
Milli Vanilli.
Hippie Dippie Weatherman.
Messy Tessie. (Garbage Pail Kids)
Hustle AND bustle.
Hither AND thither.
...
Also:
Betwixt. Hale. Vim. Tittle. Flotsam. Atwitter. Nonce. Yon. Caboodle.
...
You started it.
By: By Hank Fox on 2007 05 06
Hotsy totsy!
By: By Hank Fox on 2007 05 06
Tighty whities!
By: By Ron Sullivan on 2007 05 06
Oingo Boingo.
By: By Ron Sullivan on 2007 05 06
Icky sticky.
By: By Ron Sullivan on 2007 05 06
Yowie Zowie!
By: By Ron Sullivan on 2007 05 06
Ratso Rizzo?
By: By Ron Sullivan on 2007 05 06
Oompa Loompa…
By: By Ron Sullivan on 2007 05 06
Heh. I love the fact that there are good-natured wackadoos like me who’d playfully start something like this, or chime in on it.
A COMMUNITY of such people. Thank you, Internets.
By: By Hank Fox on 2007 05 06
Tutti frutti.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2007 05 06
Lucky ducky.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2007 05 06
Cater-corner.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2007 05 06
Flower power!
By: By Chris Clarke on 2007 05 06
Tricky Dicky
By: By Lesley on 2007 05 06
Chilly Willy
Riff raff
Sing-song
Clip clop
Razzamatazz
Heebie-jeebies
Chitter-chatter
Yackety yak
Pow-wow
Wacky terbacky
Honky tonk
Easy peasy
Andy Panda
By: By Hank Fox on 2007 05 06
Mana mana (doodoodoodoodoo)
By: By tigtog on 2007 05 06
Splish splash
flip flop
bing bang
rub-a-dub (?)
(all used by Darin in Splish Splash)
super duper
Wavy Gravy
And since folks have caught most of the obvious ones - found this in google search to see if theflibberty gibbety form was ever used (answer: rarely - flibberty gibbet far more common.) Notes on Reduplicative Words in English by Josef Hladky. Lots and lots of words and lists and charts. If, for instance, you want to know the proportion of ablauts versus rhymes versus echoes by century of origin - you can find it here.
Of course it would be cheating to use anything I found there. Hugger mugger. Higgedly Piggedly.
By: By JP Stormcrow on 2007 05 06
shilly shally in comment #3.
Provides me the opportunity for one more cheat. ... and editing lets me do it retroactively.
Humpty Dumpty
Fancy shmancy
By: By JP Stormcrow on 2007 05 06
Am I the only pervert here? Hoochi-koochi. I do so love a sense of rhythm.
By: By Carl Buell on 2007 05 06
Forty-six pages, and Hladky misses “lefty-loosey, righty-tighty”? Bah. Clearly incomplete. Move along.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2007 05 06
I’m losing track, but:
Hokey pokey
Hocus pocus
Fun run
Beat feet
Honey bunny
Spring fling
By: By Hank Fox on 2007 05 06
ticky tacky
(from Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds)
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses
All go to the university,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
And there’s doctors and there’s lawyers
And business executives,
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf-course,
And drink their Martini dry,
And they all have pretty children,
And the children go to school.
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
And they all get put in boxes
And they all come out the same.
And the boys go into business,
And marry, and raise a family,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.
By: By Lesley on 2007 05 06
Hodge podge
By: By the_bone on 2007 05 06
The movie edition:
Fright Night
True Blue
King Kong
Sky High
Peter Pan
Beat Street
By: By the_bone on 2007 05 06
Oh, and Super Troopers
By: By the_bone on 2007 05 06
rasser frasser
By: By embee on 2007 05 07
Hip hop.
Flip flop.
Clip clop.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2007 05 07
Tigtog!
By: By Chris Clarke on 2007 05 07
Hi-de-hi! Hi-de-ho!
By: By tigtog on 2007 05 07
Hot spot.
Hot shot.
Potshot.
Brain drain.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2007 05 07
Jet set.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2007 05 07
Rag tag.
Zig zag.
By: By the_bone on 2007 05 07
i spy
bed head
bees knees
book nook
turkey lurkey
loosey goosey
wibble wobble
fiddle faddle
yum yum
tum tum
ho hum
some fun
rabble babble
mumbo jumbo
mish mash
poop scoop
By: By rose on 2007 05 07
Hubbly bubbly! (as in, would you like to hit the…)
A Google search indicates quite popular in Iraq.
By: By Fred Levitan on 2007 05 07
With these types of fun threads, it’s always hard to keep track of what’s been said (I know I’m at work and I can’t go back and scroll through it all right now!). But I will claim “first” to fiddle faddle, and Chris has loosey goosey up in his original post.
And Fred, “Hubble” makes me think of “Hubby”, and Ben and Jerry has made “Chubby Hubby” famous enough to be on this list, yes? (Again, that may have been mentioned already).
By: By Oaktown Girl on 2007 05 07
By: By the_bone on 2007 05 07
Twiddle twaddle
Knick knack PADDYWHACK!
By: By Fred Levitan on 2007 05 07
Rinkydink?
Ipso facto.
Fungus amongus.
Okeechobee.
Mai-tai!
Higglety-pigglety.
How ‘bout another Mai-tai? Okey-dokey!
Piggly Wiggly!
By: By Ron on 2007 05 08
tric trac
okefenoke
trish trash
pell mell
acey ducey
I’m assuming no subtext - - would hate to spoil the game.
By: By Nan McIntyre on 2007 05 08
Arr, that’d be d**eucey** if I could spell good.
crinkle crankle
By: By Nan McIntyre on 2007 05 08
The very Kiwi portable cooler
chilly billy
By: By Nan McIntyre on 2007 05 08
paily waily - what a Scots dad looks like after consuming too much of what’s in the chilly billy
Boney Moroney
How old am I?!
By: By Nan McIntyre on 2007 05 08
How old am I?!
Well into Fuddy duddy figures?
By: By tigtog on 2007 05 08
Yer young
whipper snapper!
By: By Nan McIntyre on 2007 05 08
‘Curly Wurly’
Have I overlooked “Inky dinky…”?
By: By Ron on 2007 05 08
Double Bubble (chewing gum)
double trouble
By: By Lesley on 2007 05 08
oops- didn’t mean to sloppy copy..!
By: By rose on 2007 05 08
fancy schmancy
By: By Joanna on 2007 05 09
Calloo! Callay! Best comment thread EVER.
By: By Dave on 2007 05 09
conjunction junction
By: By shane on 2007 05 10
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