How about: easy-peasey, hanky-panky, boo-hoo, boogie-woogie, bees knees, eency-weency, hocus-pocus, mumbo-jumbo, roly-poly, snail-mail, walkie-talkie, tex-mex and wi-fi... I think a lot of these expressions are used in children's nursery rhymes and songs, or in modern expressions, like snail-mail. The formal term for these words is 'reduplication'.
I haven't come across lardy-dardy before, and I usually hear "art-farty" rather than the version with the s in it.
A few more: wishy-washy, walkie-talkie, super-duper, ping-pong, flip-flop, itsy-bitsy, picnic - once you start thinking of them there are heaps.
Does Japanese do this? Hindi does it a lot, and often there the second word starts with "v". So you get something like "chai-vai", where chai means tea, vai doesn't mean anything, but put them together and it means tea and snacks.
Lazy daisy.
ReplyDeleteThat's the only one that comes to mind but as soon as I hit publish I'll think of ten of them!
How about: easy-peasey, hanky-panky, boo-hoo, boogie-woogie, bees knees, eency-weency, hocus-pocus, mumbo-jumbo, roly-poly, snail-mail, walkie-talkie, tex-mex and wi-fi...
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of these expressions are used in children's nursery rhymes and songs, or in modern expressions, like snail-mail.
The formal term for these words is 'reduplication'.
PS. You can read more here:
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Super duper, later alligator, hot shot, that's off the top of my head.
ReplyDeleteThey're kind of fun.
I haven't come across lardy-dardy before, and I usually hear "art-farty" rather than the version with the s in it.
ReplyDeleteA few more: wishy-washy, walkie-talkie, super-duper, ping-pong, flip-flop, itsy-bitsy, picnic - once you start thinking of them there are heaps.
Does Japanese do this? Hindi does it a lot, and often there the second word starts with "v". So you get something like "chai-vai", where chai means tea, vai doesn't mean anything, but put them together and it means tea and snacks.
Lots of great suggestions from commenters
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting batch up words. I did not know 'hobnob' and the only other one I can thinkg of is flip-flop.
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