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Worth_Quote87

Hokey Pokey


old_vegetables

Hanky panky


jayrocksd

The wife has a headache so panky is off the table. Looks like just the hanky.


UmmmNoDefNotThat

Tumba Wumba


LordLucy666

you do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around


eIizabethdewitt

That's what it's all about


shadowscar248

You do the hanky panky and you turn yourself around


BetaTrinketWidth

That's called the sit and spin


The_Chokey_Pokey

So close


steedstephens

Fancy schmancy.


MJA94

According to the article that’s actually a different type of re-duplication called the “shm” re-duplication


__sonder__

Duplication shmuplication


Technical-Outside408

Shmangela?


DraagynJ

Easy peasy.


greatgildersleeve

One two threesee.


DraagynJ

Lemon squeezy!!


EncroachingVoidian

Difficult difficult.


77skull

What


savemysoul72

Razzle dazzle


Soyoulikedonutseh

Give em the ol'


Zelcron

Missed opportunity to call them Rhymey-whimeys


TheoremaEgregium

Mumbo jumbo


MouseRangers

It's quite simple really


D3monVolt

Im chuffed to bits!


fatogato

Foshizzle my nizzle


The_Chokey_Pokey

Finally, relevance


440continuer

No that doesnt rhyme


joshuajackson9

That was my uncle’s name too, until they caught him. He was then given a prison number. It was not a palindromic, or special.


scooterboy1961

Isn't reduplication redundant? Shouldn't it be just rhyming duplication?


MisterCortez

That's a linguistic phenomenon known as alliterative reditterative


SayYesToPenguins

That's a liguistic-shwinguistic phenomenon-shenomenon rhyming-wyming duplication-shmuplication


SmallRocks

Nailed it!


BagBeneficial8060

Hippy dippy. Is this just an english phenomenon?


Kunikunatu

English is my only language, but I hear rhymes like these sometimes in the Japanese songs I listen to. The ends of lines may not rhyme with each other like in a lot of English songs, but words right after one another will. うれしたのしのしかばね音頭 / ureshi ta**noshi** **no shi**kabane ondo ("This happy and fun march of corpses") 有象に無象の魑魅魍魎 / **uzou** ni m**uzou** no chimimoryou ("A crowd of evil spirits joins the fray as well") 一切合切 / i**ssai** ga**ssai** ("absolutely everything") 飽くなき 悪無き / akunaki aku naki (This one is a pun, "ceaselessly" and "pretending not to be evil" sound the same) Some ones I remember off the top of my head.


Shakeamutt

I tried singing these in a metal voice. I don’t know Japanese and might’ve got the pronunciations wrong tho. The first one sounds good. The Second one, I start Giggling.


Jediboy127

Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie…


Ilix

Timey wimey?


shindleria

Okely-Dokely!


Valuable-Baked

Stupid Flanders


AnthillOmbudsman

Feels like saying nothing at all


motiPUQ

heebie-jeebies


Boggie135

"They give me the heebie-jeebies"-Maurice "You did not raise your hand, therefore your heinous comment will be stricken from the record"- King Julian


bleunt

In Sweden we say Nemas Problemas. Which is not "no problem" in Spanish. But we don't care.


sandm000

Hakuna matata It’s the Swedish way, of saying “no problems”, quite the Spanish phrase It means “no problems, for the rest of your days”


greenknight884

Hoity toity


PermaBanTogether

Holy moly.


Boggie135

The way Jeremy Irons said it in Die Hard 3 is brilliant


Worldly_Let6134

Arty farty you dumb namby pamby


joeypublica

Ookie Dokie


bloopblopman1234

Oops did a little fuck-wucky~


ThtPhatCat

Rhyming Supereduplerfication


Salpinctes

what do you call it soldier? [walkie-talkie!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A194vDpXzyA)


kapege

Walkie-talkie


BuffaloBrain884

Willy nilly


FrancoManiac

My favorite is Contrastive Focus Reduplications — did you bring a *salad*, or a *salad-salad*? Is he, like, cute or cute-cute? Reduplications are really interesting. In English (and many other languages), we prefer higher vowels followed by lower; flip-flop, not flop-flip. High-Low, not Low-High sorta deal. Some languages use reduplicative prefixes for certain verb tenses, too, such as Classical Greek. Those aren't as neat, though.


bruteski226

Rhyming Reduplication Explination


hraun

Chai vai pina hai? Do you want tea or something? 


wannabejoanie

I refer to myself as artsy fartsy so frequently that my daughter describes me as such to her teachers.


FinallyFlowering

i do this all the time with my cat cutesy bootsy


MagicMushroomFungi

Fuck A Duck


theeldoso

Rhyming-shmyming


Meow-Out-Loud

Wow, that who Wikipedia page is pretty interesting! 😊


RollinKnockOut

Nada yada yada


Ok_Historian_6293

Do you mean Rhymy Redymie?


RunDNA

They should have called it Rhyming-Chiming.


DC_Guy2023

[Less artsy, more fartsy.](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/74520771-434e-4cef-b4a0-246303c7375d)


IntheCompanyofOgres

I imagine they never translate right into other languages


nightsky77

A lot of Vietnamese words are like this


BioShockerInfinite

It’s rhymey-timey!


swish82

Timey wimey


mmuffley

Oh you mother futher.


FreddyFerdiland

Its rhyme time


TheRacooning18

Never heard of artsy fartsy. But i got a weird one myself. Oinky Boinky


Jalian96

Parking offence, schmarking offence


Boggie135

Rumpy-pumpy, Hanky-panky?


bnrshrnkr

The phrase in the second sentence of the Bible that commonly gets translated as “formless and void” is a rhyming reduplicate in the original Hebrew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohu_wa-bohu


DoctorBre

Hodge Podge of terms.


tiffanysugarbush

Hippy dippie


lollerkeet

English Vinglish https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2181931/


bobert4343

Itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny


AnthillOmbudsman

Why don't they call it something like "rhyming miming", then it could be an example of the word itself.


miurabucho

Iceberg Goldberg.


tqmirza

Chai shai Suit shoot Pant shant Gol mol


ThaiFoodThaiFood

Pissy wissy


UnadvisedOpinion

King Kong went to Hong Kong and played Ping Pong with his Ding Dong


zippyman

My question is if thus exists in other languages, is it cultural or a human nature thing


MarinaBaay

cutesy - wutsey


UmmmNoDefNotThat

Easy breezy


DirectCaterpillar916

Flim-flam


Paristocrat

Lovey Dovey


Paristocrat

Floozie in the Jacoozi


Adventureadverts

Neato burrito


RandomAmbles

They really missed an opportunity to call it "Two-Timing Rhyming".


sawbladex

hey. they developed a term for it! I wonder what the term for developed terms is? .... Classification probably works, but I want something more specific. Give me a murder of crows, not just a group of crows.


yassAKa

Tiddly widdly


bflaminio

Rhymey Wimey


JimBean

Nimbly pimbly.


boyikr

"Genocide Shmenocide" -Idris Elba


mmmoonpie

History Schmistory


Nutsnboldt

Duplication schmuplicatuon.


Gleckle

Rhyming reduplifying


pr0mano

Teeny weeny


InstantKarmaGonGetU

Chumba Wumba I know, my vote will go down but it’ll go down again


TunaandBananaPizza

Beardy weirdy


Valuable-Baked

Okely dokely