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Rigermarole
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SilentAiche
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Uh, me brown-n-serve is dead?
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Well, if you actually mean "rigmarole"....
From The Etymology Dictionary:
Susan
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
From The Etymology Dictionary:
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[white]Rigmarole: 1736, "a long, rambling discourse," from an altered, Kentish colloquial survival of ragman roll "long list or catalogue" (1523), in M.E. a long roll of verses descriptive of personal characters, used in a medieval game of chance called Rageman, perhaps from Anglo-Fr. 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" c.1955, but known orally from 1930s. [/white]Susan
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CajunCenturion
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Continuing on from SF0751
Ragman Rolls
ragman-roll
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Well, the origin I was digging for was provided by CajunCenturion.
Way to go to both CC and SF0751 ! You both got further than I was expecting in so short a period of time.
And by the way, the spelling I used was the one suggested by Google when I spelt it wrong originally.
Did you mean: rigermarole
Also, in looking around, it appears that it is spelled with many variations (correctly or incorrectly, besides the point).
Thanks for playing.
~Thadeus
Way to go to both CC and SF0751 ! You both got further than I was expecting in so short a period of time.
And by the way, the spelling I used was the one suggested by Google when I spelt it wrong originally.
Did you mean: rigermarole
Also, in looking around, it appears that it is spelled with many variations (correctly or incorrectly, besides the point).
Thanks for playing.
~Thadeus
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