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.
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.
Hoity toity.
Harum scarum.
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.
Hotsy totsy!
Tighty whities!
Oingo Boingo.
Icky sticky.
Yowie Zowie!
Ratso Rizzo?
Oompa Loompa…
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.
Tutti frutti.
Lucky ducky.
Cater-corner.
Flower power!
Tricky Dicky
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
Mana mana (doodoodoodoodoo)
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.
shilly shally in comment #3.
Provides me the opportunity for one more cheat. ... and editing lets me do it retroactively.
Humpty Dumpty
Fancy shmancy
Am I the only pervert here? Hoochi-koochi. I do so love a sense of rhythm.
Forty-six pages, and Hladky misses “lefty-loosey, righty-tighty”? Bah. Clearly incomplete. Move along.
I’m losing track, but:
Hokey pokey
Hocus pocus
Fun run
Beat feet
Honey bunny
Spring fling
Hodge podge
The movie edition:
Fright Night
True Blue
King Kong
Sky High
Peter Pan
Beat Street
Oh, and Super Troopers
rasser frasser
Hip hop.
Flip flop.
Clip clop.
Tigtog!
Hi-de-hi! Hi-de-ho!
Hot spot.
Hot shot.
Potshot.
Brain drain.
Jet set.
Rag tag.
Zig zag.
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
Hubbly bubbly! (as in, would you like to hit the…)
A Google search indicates quite popular in Iraq.
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).
Wabi-sabi.
Twiddle twaddle
Knick knack PADDYWHACK!
Rinkydink?
Ipso facto.
Fungus amongus.
Okeechobee.
Mai-tai!
Higglety-pigglety.
How ‘bout another Mai-tai? Okey-dokey!
Piggly Wiggly!
tric trac
okefenoke
trish trash
pell mell
acey ducey
I’m assuming no subtext - - would hate to spoil the game.
Arr, that’d be d**eucey** if I could spell good.
crinkle crankle
The very Kiwi portable cooler
chilly billy
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?!
How old am I?!
Well into Fuddy duddy figures?
Yer young
whipper snapper!
‘Curly Wurly’
Have I overlooked “Inky dinky…”?
Double Bubble (chewing gum)
double trouble
oops- didn’t mean to sloppy copy..!
fancy schmancy
Calloo! Callay! Best comment thread EVER.
conjunction junction