rigmarole

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
rigmarole
    n 1: a set of confused and meaningless statements [syn:
         {rigmarole}, {rigamarole}]
    2: a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that
       academic rigmarole was a waste of time" [syn: {rigmarole},
       {rigamarole}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rigmarole \Rig"ma*role\, a.
   Consisting of rigmarole; frivolous; nonsensical; foolish.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rigmarole \Rig"ma*role\, n. [For ragman roll. See {Ragman's
   roll}.]
   A succession of confused or nonsensical statements; foolish
   talk; nonsense. [Colloq.]
   [1913 Webster]

         Often one's dear friend talks something which one
         scruples to call rigmarole.              --De Quincey.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "rigmarole":
      absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash,
      bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, claptrap, double-talk,
      drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol,
      fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish,
      gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, humbug, jabber, jargon,
      mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense,
      palaver, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rodomontade, rubbish,
      skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, trash,
      trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling
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