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English
Etymology
From rigmarole + -ish.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rigmarolish (comparative more rigmarolish, superlative most rigmarolish)
- Of or pertaining to a rigmarole; excessively elaborate, protracted, or diffuse.
His essays were always dry, dense, and rigmarolish.
- 1854, letter to Florence de Quincey, November 18, published 1877 in Thomas de Quincey: His Life and Writings, with Unpublished Correspondence, H. A. Page, editor
- Here's a rigmarolish paragraph, you say, about such a trifle as triliterality.
References
- http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/rigmarolish
- 1879, H.A. Page,Thomas de Quincey: His Life and Writings, with Unpublished Correspondence, London: John Hogg & Co.; pg. 86
- 1906, Samuel Lover, "Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life", New York: The Century Co.; pg. 181
- M. Betham-Edwards (1906) Martha Rose, Teacher, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 286