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Rigmarole vs Leed - What's the difference?

rigmarole | leed |

As nouns the difference between rigmarole and leed

is that rigmarole is complex, obsolete procedures; excess steps or activity; needless motion while leed is sorrow, grief, woe.

rigmarole

English

Alternative forms

* rigamarole

Noun

  • Complex, obsolete procedures; excess steps or activity; needless motion.
    • Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?
  • Nonsense; confused and incoherent talk.
    • 1895' — ''In comes Mitaiele to Lloyd, and told some '''rigmarole about Paatalise (the steward's name) wanting to go and see his family in the bush.'' — , ch XIX
  • * De Quincey
    • Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole .

    Quotations

    ;confused and incoherent talk * 1854 — (Henry David Thoreau), , ch VII *: While you are planting the seed, he cries -- "Drop it, drop it -- cover it up, cover it up -- pull it up, pull it up, pull it up." But this was not corn, and so it was safe from such enemies as he. You may wonder what his rigmarole , his amateur Paganini performances on one string or on twenty, have to do with your planting, and yet prefer it to leached ashes or plaster. * 1880 — (Rosina Bulwer Lytton), , sxn 4 *: His reply did not even allude to the subject, but was a rigmarole about the weather; as if he had been writing to an idiot, who did not require a rational answer to any question they had asked. * 1910 — , , ch XVII * 1915 — (John Buchan), , ch 1 *: He seemed to brace himself for a great effort, and then started on the queerest rigmarole .

    leed

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Language; tongue.
  • A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
  • The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
  • A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
  • A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
  • Patter; rigmarole.

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