rigmarolish

English

Etymology

From rigmarole +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪɡməɹoʊlɪʃ/

Adjective

rigmarolish (comparative more rigmarolish, superlative most rigmarolish)

1. 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   • 1854, letter to Florence de Quincey, November 18, published 1877 in Thomas de Quincey: His Life and Writings, with Unpublished Correspondence, H. A. Page, editor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• 1879, H.A. Page,Thomas de Quincey: His Life and Writings, with Unpublished Correspondence, London: John Hogg & Co.; pg. 86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