Time out for word play & pop quiz
Along with dolls, quilts, books, recipe boxes, fabric, and a few other things, I also collect words. If you can add any to my collection, please send them along!
Here's my whole collection of reduplicated words; unlike the Scrabble rules, I allow proper names. They come in three varieties.
Same consonant sounds, different vowel sounds:
chit-chat, click-clack, criss-cross, dib dab, ding dong, doodad, fiddle-faddle, flim-flam, flip flop, gewgaw, hee haw hell-hole, hip hop, jingle-jangle, King Kong, Kit Kat, knick-knack, mish-mash, Pilpel (Harriet), ping pong, pish posh, rick rack, riff raff, seesaw, shilly-shally, sing-song, spit-spot, splish splash, tall tale, tell tale, tic tac, tip top, Tritsch-Tratsch (Polka), wig-wag, wishy-washy, ying-yang, zig zag.
Rhyming (Different initial consonant sound)
Chilly Willy, chrome dome, Chunky Monkey, clap trap, hanky panky, helter skelter, higgledy piggledy, hocus pocus, hodge podge, honey bunny, hoi polloi, hugger mugger, Humpty Dumpty, hurdy gurdy, hurly burly, mumbo jumbo, namby-pamby, pell mell, Piggle Wiggle (Mrs.), tush push, rag tag, razzle dazzle, roly poly, silly willy, Skully Gully, teepee, wham bam, wing ding, wooly bully, zoot suit.
Same sounds repeated
bling bling, choo choo, doo-doo, dum-dum, frou frou, paw paw, pompom, pee pee, poo poo, sing sing, tutu.
(Yes, some of these are just baby talk. My rule was, if I googled them and got relevant results, I counted them.)
Pop Quiz
Match the following with their related words above.
"How was I to know there was a party going on? (Answer)
"To find that I was by the sea, gazing with tranquility..." (Answer)
Forrest Gump played this (Answer, with some interesting trivia)
"I have a dog and his name is Rags. He eats so much that his tummy sags." (Three answers)
Charlie Brown (Answer.)
"In the land of curls and curves he's the swellest kid around." (Answer)
"Hoboken! Oooooh, I'm DYING again!" (But actually it wasn't this one. To view the episode, see "8 Ball Bunny" here. )
"Saaaaaaaaaaaa-LUTE!" (Answer)
George C. Scott, Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Dirty-Dealing-Dealing. (Answer)
A disorderly, jumbled, muddled, confused book by Robert B. Parker (Answer)
From the same artist who was working in his lab late one night. (Answer)
"Don't drive like my brother." (Answer)
