Razzle Dazzle!

By on 2007 05 05 at 10:41:00 pm

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.

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51 comments on "Razzle Dazzle!"
  1. Ron Sullivan's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com
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  3. Hank Fox's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    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.

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  11. Hank Fox's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    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.

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  16. Lesley's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Tricky Dicky

  17. Hank Fox's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    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

  18. tigtog's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Mana mana (doodoodoodoodoo)

  19. JP Stormcrow's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    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.

  20. JP Stormcrow's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    shilly shally in comment #3.

    Provides me the opportunity for one more cheat.  ... and editing lets me do it retroactively.

    Humpty Dumpty
    Fancy shmancy

  21. Carl Buell's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Am I the only pervert here?  Hoochi-koochi.  I do so love a sense of rhythm.

  22. Chris Clarke's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Forty-six pages, and Hladky misses “lefty-loosey, righty-tighty”? Bah. Clearly incomplete. Move along.

  23. Hank Fox's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    I’m losing track, but:

    Hokey pokey
    Hocus pocus
    Fun run
    Beat feet
    Honey bunny
    Spring fling

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    The movie edition:

    Fright Night
    True Blue
    King Kong
    Sky High
    Peter Pan
    Beat Street

  26. the_bone's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Oh, and Super Troopers

  27. embee's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    rasser frasser

  28. Chris Clarke's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Hip hop.
    Flip flop.
    Clip clop.

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  30. tigtog's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Hi-de-hi! Hi-de-ho!

  31. Chris Clarke's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Hot spot.
    Hot shot.
    Potshot.

    Brain drain.

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    Rag tag.
    Zig zag.

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    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

  35. Fred Levitan's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Hubbly bubbly! (as in, would you like to hit the…)

    A Google search indicates quite popular in Iraq.

  36. Oaktown Girl's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    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).

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  38. Fred Levitan's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Twiddle twaddle

    Knick knack PADDYWHACK!

  39. Ron's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Rinkydink?
    Ipso facto.
    Fungus amongus.
    Okeechobee.
    Mai-tai!
    Higglety-pigglety.
    How ‘bout another Mai-tai? Okey-dokey!
    Piggly Wiggly!

  40. Nan McIntyre's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    tric trac
    okefenoke
    trish trash
    pell mell
    acey ducey

    I’m assuming no subtext - - would hate to spoil the game.

  41. Nan McIntyre's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Arr, that’d be d**eucey** if I could spell good.

    crinkle crankle

  42. Nan McIntyre's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    The very Kiwi portable cooler

    chilly billy

  43. Nan McIntyre's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    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?!

  44. tigtog's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    How old am I?!

    Well into Fuddy duddy figures?

  45. Nan McIntyre's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Yer young
    whipper snapper!

  46. Ron's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    ‘Curly Wurly’

    Have I overlooked “Inky dinky…”?

  47. Lesley's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Double Bubble (chewing gum)

    double trouble

  48. rose's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    oops- didn’t mean to sloppy copy..!

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  50. Dave's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Calloo! Callay! Best comment thread EVER.

  51. shane's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    conjunction junction

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