REDUPLICATIVES

These are called reduplicative words or reduplicatives. They are also sometimes referred to as doubles, rhyming compounds, tautonyms or echo words. Or how about blimey rhymeys?

Okie dokie, this is a goofie bunch of hubbub, fiddle-faddle, razzle-dazzle, mishmash, ticky-tacky, and a bit of argy-bargy, chit-chat, but no hanky-panky, nothing hotsy-totsy, neither namby-pamby, airy-fairy, or even bon ton, but rather somewhat willy-nilly, nothing fancy schmancy, but then some real high muck-a-muck, and maybe even an itty-bitty bit of mumbo jumbo, like eenie-meenie, minie, moe, but yo won't find any knickknacks, or bric-a-brac, or gewgaw hoo-hah, except maybe a protocol converter, or two.

It's just a teeny-wheeny bunch of jibber-jabber from my ragbag, but at least I am not a big-whig ragtag wheeler-dealer.

Don't get hoogley-woogley on me and beat feet, this ain't no fun run. Other than this higgledy-piggledy, it is not all helter-skelter.

And don't get all higgly giggly, there won't be any hurly-burly, hubba-hubba, hootchy-kootchy hotchpotch in this hodgepodge.

So be neither a hoity-toity nor a fuddy-duddy, namby-pamby, this is not a flim-flam, not really hosh-posh, nah, it's just an itsy-bitsy bunch of pish posh.

There is no juju, mojo, voodoo, hoodoo, hocus-pocus here, so don't get the heebie-jeebies or the jim-jams, and hurry-skurry off all pell-mell to Oshkosh.

Now you might believe the president's weave, but to me it is mumbo-jumbo, jibber-jabber, flim-flam, hocus-pocus, while he dilly-dallys and fills you with hocus-pocus, and phonus-balonus.

Uh oh, is it getting humdrum? Fuddle-duddle, don't teeter-totter. Nothing to hari-kari over. Get out your slim-jim on the whim-wham. Huh?

Don't tittle-tattle, take no potshots, keep it hush-hush and true-blue, and don't flip-flop.

Bring the whole fam-damily, hobnob and have some tictacs and chipdip, get a bit roly-poly. Sorry there is no hurdy-gurdy man clownin' around for the whippersnappers.

Don't be a hobo, or a hotshot, just dilly-dally, shilly-shally around a bit . . . do the hokey-pokey ... now start boot-scootin'... don't be wishy-washy, and send me some more of these words!

Hey deadhead, try some hubble-bubble, I'll try not to zigzag too much... we'll have a real wingding, stay mellow-yellow, git on down to the real nitty-gritty, and find some flower-power and get lovey-dovey... have a powwow, goto a picnic and have some tutti-frutti.

• Airy-fairy - impractical and foolishly idealistic.
  
• Argle-Bargle - copious, but meaningless talk or writing, nonsense.
  
• Argy-bargy - noisy quarreling or wrangling.
  
• Artsy-fartsy - pretentiously or showily artistic, affected, or over-refined.
  
• Big-whig - is an informal term for an important, influential, or high-ranking person, such as a company executive or official.
  
• Bish bash bosh - a task completed quickly, easily, and efficiently.
  
• Bon ton - a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status. Refers to polite society, fashionable style, or the "proper" thing to do.
  
• Boo​gie-woo​gie - a percussive style of playing blues on the piano characterized by a steady rhythmic ground bass of eighth notes in quadruple time and a series of improvised melodic variations.
  
• Boot-scootin' - Line dancing. It involves sliding, shuffling, or stepping while keeping feet close to the floor. The act of one of your pets sitting on the floor and dragging its anus (booty) pleasurably along the ground.
  
• Hoogley-woogley - "wow" or "goodness") often used to convey shock or disbelief. See also "googly-moogly" or "oogly-boogly"
  
• Bric-a-brac - a miscellaneous collection of small, usually old, ornamental, or sentimental items of little monetary value, such as trinkets, knickknacks, and curios.
  
• Chit-chat - inconsequential conversation.
  
• Crinkum-crankum - 1. Elaborate decoration or detail.
  2.Something full of twists and turns.
  
• Deadhead - 1. complete a trip without paying passengers or freight. (a passenger or member of an audience with a free ticket.)
  2. remove dead flower heads from (a plant) to encourage further blooming.
  3. a sunken or partially submerged log.
  4. a fan and follower of the rock group the Grateful Dead.
  
• Dilly-dally - waste time through aimless wandering or indecision.
  
• Ding-dong - the noise made by a bell.
  
• Easy-peasy - this is easy, very easy.
  
• Fancy Schmancy - extremely or excessively fancy.
  
• Fiddle-faddle - trivial matters; nonsense.
  
• Fingle-fangle - a geegaw or trifle; something unimportant or whimsical.
  
• Flibbertigibbet - someone who is frivolous or overly talkative.
  
• Flim-flam - nonsensical or insincere talk.
  
• Flip-flop - A sudden, complete reversal of opinion, policy, or decision.
  
• Flower Power - The hippie movement in the sixties against the Viet Nam War.
  
• froufrou - a rustling noise made by someone walking in a dress.
  
• Fuddle-duddle - used euphemistically in place of an expletive.
  
• Fuddy-duddy - a person who is old-fashioned, fussy, conservative, or boringly conventional.
  
• Gewgaw (or Geegaw)- a showy thing, especially one that is useless or worthless.
  
• Goody-goody - affectedly or ingratiatingly good or proper.
  
• Habnab - to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink (see hobnob)
  
• Hanky-panky - behavior, in particular sexual or legally dubious behavior, considered improper but not seriously so.
  
• Harum-scarum - cheerfully irresponsible.
  
• Hari kari - (properly spelled hara-kiri) refers to a Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment, historically practiced by samurai to restore honor, avoid capture, or protest dishonor. It involves plunging a blade into the abdomen and slicing left to right, often as a ceremonial act of self-sacrifice.
  
• Heebie-jeebies - a state of nervous fear or anxiety.
  
• Helter-skelter - involving disorderly haste or confusion.
  
• Higgledy-piggledy - in confusion or disorder.
  
• Hirdy-girdy - uproar.
  
• Hiy-tity or highty-tighty - frivolous or overly self-important.
  
• Hobnob - mix socially, especially with those of higher social status.
  
• Hocus-pocus - meaningless talk or activity, often designed to draw attention away from and disguise what is actually happening.
  
• Hodgepodge - a confused mixture. AKA hotchpotch.
  
• Hoity-toity - haughty or snobbish.
  
• Holus-Bolus - All at once.
  
• honky-tonk - a cheap or disreputable bar, club, or dance hall, typically where country music is played.
  
• Hoochie coochie (or Hootchy-kootchy)- a sexually provocative, belly dance-style performance.
  
• Hoodoo - bewitch - See Voodoo.
  
• Hoo-hah - a commotion, fuss, disturbance, or uproar about something, often used informally to describe a silly or unnecessary fuss, but can also be an exclamation of surprise or, in older slang, a euphemism for female genitalia.
  
• Hosh-posh - an exclamation to dismiss something as nonsensical, ridiculous, or unimportant. AKA pish-posh
  
• Hotshot - an important or exceptionally able person.
  
• Hotsy-totsy - 1. very pleasing or good.
  2. another term for hoity-toity.
  
• Hubba-hubba - used to express approval, excitement, or enthusiasm, especially with regard to a person's appearance.
  
• Hubble-bubble - noisy, chaotic, or bustling commotion
  
• Hubbub - a chaotic, loud, and confused noise, often created by a crowd, or a general state of commotion and turmoil.
  
• Hugger-mugger - secret, clandestine. Also confused; disorderly
  
• Humdrum - something dull, monotonous, routine, or boring, often referring to unexciting, everyday life.
  
• Hurdy-gurdy - While primarily a musical instrument, "hurdy-gurdy" in slang referred to noisy, chaotic places like brothels or taverns.
  
• Hurkle-durkle - To lie in bed, or to lounge after it is time to get up or go to work.
  
• Hurly-burly - busy, boisterous activity.
  
• Hurry-skurry - a state of frantic, disorganized, and confused haste or bustle.
  
• Hush-hush - especially of an official plan or project) highly secret or confidential.
  
• itsy-bitsy - extremely small or tiny.
  
• itty-bitty - very small, tiny.
  
• Jeepers creepers - used to express surprise or alarm.
  
• Jibber-jabber - rapid, meaningless, or unintelligible speech, often described as nonsensical chatter or gobbledygook.
  
• Jiggery-pokery - underhanded manipulation or dealings.
  
• Jim-jam - Placeholder word for a thing or person nonspecific, unknown or forgotten; thingamabob. Nonsense; rigmarole. Chaotic activity; uproar; craziness.
  
• Jum-jams - a fit of depression or nervousness.
  
• Juju - magical properties dealing with luck, whether good or bad. The name is also associated with the music genre, Jùjú as well as a slang term for the energy of something or someone.
  
• Kappa-Slappa - female townie/chav. They have long hair tied back extremely tight and have at least three piercings in each ear. They also wear soverign rings, one for each finger which are accompanied by smaller rings.
  
• Knickknacks - small worthless objects, especially a household ornament.
  
• Kowtow - act in an excessively subservient manner.
  
• Lovey-dovey - very affectionate or romantic, especially excessively so, or my Honey Bunny: Rika!!.
  
• Mellow-yellow - a citrus-flavored soda brand (Mello Yello), a specific shade of yellow paint, and slang for the hallucinogen LSD.
  
• Mishmash - a confused, disorganized, or random jumble of different items, styles, or ideas, often implying a lack of consistency or poor organization.
  
• Mojo - a magic charm, talisman, or spell.
  
• Muck-a-muck or muckety-muck - a person of great importance or self-importance.
  
• Mumbo jumbo - language or ritual causing or intended to cause confusion or bewilderment.
  
• Namby-pamby - weak, silly, emotional, lacking energy, strength, or courage; feeble, timid, or ineffectual.
  
• Niminy-piminy - affectedly dainty or refined.
  
• Nitty-gritty - the most important aspects or practical details of a subject or situation.
  
• Okie dokie - it's all right.
  
• Ooglely Booglely - "horrible" or a scary, jump-out-at-you moment, sometimes derived from "ooga booga" or related to the "great googly moogly" idiom.
  
• Palsy-walsy - being or appearing to be very intimate.
  
• Pell-mell - in a confused, rushed, or disorderly manner.
  
• Phonus-balonus - That's nonsense, rubbish, pretentious lies.
  
• Picnic - an outing or occasion that involves taking a packed meal to be eaten outdoors.
  
• Pish posh - An expression of disapproval, contempt, or disdain.
  
• Pitter-patter - a sound as of quick light steps or taps.
  
• Potshot - a shot aimed unexpectedly or at random at someone or something with no chance of self-defense.
  
• Powwow - a conference or meeting for discussion, especially among friends or colleagues. A indigenous people of North America ceremony involving feasting, singing, and dancing.
  
• Ragbag - a bag used for storing scrap cloth, or more commonly, a confused, miscellaneous, or motley assortment of items, ideas, or people.
  
• Ragtag - a disorganized, mismatched, or motley group of people or things, often implying they are of poor quality, shabby, or comprised of misfits.
  
• Rantum-scantum - careless, disorderly.
  
• Razzle-dazzle - noisy, showy, and exciting activity and display designed to attract and impress.
  
• Ricky-tick - sweet jazz of a style reminiscent of the 1920s.
  
• Riff-raff - disreputable or undesirable people.
  
• Right-tighty - How to turn to tighten screws, nuts, and bolts. The opposite of lefty-loosey.
  
• Roly-poly - having a short, round, plump appearance.
  
• Rumpy pumpy - um, a sexual encounter.
  
• Shilly-shally - fail to act resolutely or decisively.
  
• Shim-sham - a famous, high-energy jazz/swing line dance and tap routine originating in the late 1920s.
  
• Skimble-skamble - rambling and confused : senseless.
  
• Slim-jim - skinny guy, long narrow trousers, a long thin smoked sausage, or a lock-picking tool (a thin metal strip).
  
• Super-duper - of the greatest excellence, size, effectiveness, or impressiveness.
  
• Teeny tiny - well, very tiny.
  
• Teeny weeny - very tiny.
  
• Teeter-totter - seesaw.
  
• Tictac - A "tic tac" is a trick where a skater lifts the front wheels of the board and pivots to gain momentum. Slang: It is sometimes used as a street name for PCP (phencyclidine).
  
• Ticky-tacky - inferior or cheap material, especially as used in suburban building.
  
• Tittle-tattle - idle talk; gossip.
  
• Tohubohu - A state of chaos; utter confusion.
  
• True-blue - unwavering in one's commitment; extremely loyal.
  
• Tutti-frutti - "all fruits". It is defined as a confection, ice cream, or candy containing a variety of chopped, often candied fruits.
  
• Voodoo - a religion with magical and religious rites, and characterized by sorcery and spirit possession. affect (someone) by the practice of voodoo.
  
• Wabi-sabi - Accepting imperfection as a natural part of life.
  
• Wheeler-dealer - a person who engages in commercial or political scheming.
  
• Whim-wham - a quaint and decorative object; a trinket.
  
• Whippersnapper - An impertinent, cheeky, or arrogant youngster.
  
• Whoopsy doopsy - I made a mistake.
  
• Wibble wobble (wibbly-wobbly)- an unsteady, shaky, or trembling motion.
  
• Willy-nilly - 1. whether one likes it or not.
  2. without direction or planning; haphazardly.
  
• Wingding - a lively event or party.
  
• Wishy-washy - feeble or insipid in quality or character; lacking strength or boldness.
  
• Yin Yang - This may not really be quite a reduplicative, but that is the yin and yang of it. Yin and Yang are central ideas in Chinese thought, especially Taoism, symbolizing opposite but interdependent forces.
  
• Zigzag - one of a series of short sharp turns, angles, or alterations in a course.
  

I got a lot of definitions from these two websites:
dictionaryscoop.com
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary
/www.merriam-webster.com

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