Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology
UK Vereinigtes Königreich (Großbritannien u. Nordirland), Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Paare, Zwillingsformeln

Zwillingsformel (W3)

collocation, Kollokation (W3)

binomial (W3)

A

B

by and by (W3)

C

D

E

F

fair and aquare (W3)

first and foremost (W3)

fun and games (W3)

G

give and take (W3)

H

higgledy-piggledy (W3)

• "hurly-burly" = "Tumult", "Aufruhr"
• "fiddle-faddle" = "Blühender Unsinn"
• "pitter-patter" = "das Trappeln", "das Prasseln"
• "higgledy-piggledy" = "drunter und drüber", "kreuz und quer"
• "helter-skelter" = "Hals über Kopf"
• "dilly-dally" = "trödeln"

I

ifs and buts (W3)

ins and outs (W3)

J

Jack and Jill (W3)

Jekyll und Hyde, Dr.Jekyll und Mr.Hyde (W3)

K

L

leaps and bounds (W3)

M

N

O

owad - Reduplications

P

park and ride (W3)

peace and quiet (W3)

Q

quick and dirty (W3)

R

rack and ruin (W3)

Reduplicatives

• ack ack (anti-aircraft fire)
• aye-aye (a sailor's assent)
• BB (a small round bullet used in children's guns)
• beri beri (a nutritional disease)
• bonbon (a candy)
• booboo (a mistake)
• boomboom (a gun; the sound of falling)
• Bora Bora (a South Pacific island)
• bouncy bouncy (sexual intercourse)
• broom-broom (a car)
• caca (excrement)
• can can (a dance)
• cha cha (a dance)
• chin chin (a drinking toast; casual chat)
• choo choo (baby talk for a locomotive)
• chop chop (quickly, without delay)
• chow chow (a Chinese dog)
• Coco (a name)
• coco (a palm tree)
• cous cous
• Dada (an art movement)
• dada (a child's name for father)
• dindin (baby talk for "dinner")
• dodo (a flightless, stupid, extinct bird; a person who should be extinct)
• dumdum (a stupid person; a nasty bullet)
• eye eye (an expression meaning "look at that!")
• gogo (enthusiastic; lively)
• goody goody (an expression of delight; an overly proper person)
• googoo (an imitation of baby talk)
• haha (an imitation of the sound of laughter) hoho
• housey housey (the British name for bingo)
• hush hush (secret)
• knock knock (imitation of the sound of knocking)
• mama (mother)
• murmur (a quiet low sound)
• never never (an imaginary land)
• no no (something forbidden)
• papa (father)
• pee pee (to urinate)
• poo poo (a childish word for excrement)
• pooh-pooh (to disparage)
• putt putt (the sound of a motor)
• rah rah (the sound of cheering; enthusiasm)
• same old same old (nothing has changed)
• Sing Sing (a prison in upstate New York)
• so so (mediocre; undistinguished)
• ta ta (farewell)
• tom tom (a primitive drum)
• tum tum (baby talk for "stomach")
• twenty twenty (perfect eyesight)
• wee wee (to urinate)
• yatata yatata (monotonous talking)
• yaw-yaw (to talk affectedly)
• yoyo (a toy)
• yuk-yuk (empty idle talk)
• yum-yum (an exclamation of delight)

• shilly-shally = to hesitate, to be unable to decide = wankelmütig sein (a corruption of "Shill I? Shall I?". Shill being a weak form of shall. Also etwa "Sollte ich? Soll ich?)
• Bali belly (traveler's sickness in Indonesia)
• bibble babble (babble)
• Cancun (a resort town in Mexico)
• chit chat (idle conversation)
• chitter chatter
• clip clop (an imitation of the sound of a horse on a street)
• criss cross (an interlacing pattern)
• dilly dally (to dawdle)
• Dig Dug
• ding dang (a mild expletive)
• ding dong (a mild expletive; the sound of a bell; a fool)
• fiddle faddle (a dismissive exclamation)
• flim flam (the deception used to implement a fraud)
• flip flop (a sandal; to reverse oneself)
• gewgaw (a gaudy trinket)
• giff-gaff (give and take; banter)
• group grope (a sex party)
• hip hop (a slightly less shrill version of rap)
• hippity hoppity (describing a hopping movement)
• Hong Kong (a port city in China)
• jim jam (to jam; to jazz up)
• the jim-jams (delirium tremens; the shakes; pajamas)
• jing jang (the vagina)
• jipajapa (a South American plant that looks like a palm)
• kim kam (astray; awry; out of order)
• King Kong (our hero)
• Kit Kat (a club name; a candy bar)
• kittle cattle (difficult creatures to handle)
• knickknack (a curio or keepsake)
• Lib-Lab (an alliance between the Liberal and Labor parties)
• mishmash (a formless mess)
• mixty-maxty (muddled together)
• nid nod (to allow the head to drop repeatedly from drowsiness)
• pilpul (subtle rabbinic hairsplitting argumentation)
• ping pong (table tennis)
• pish pash (an East Indian rice broth made with bits of meat)
• pishery pashery (disparaging, trifling talk)
• pitter patter (supposedly, the sound of little feet)
• pussy posse (the vice squad)
• riff raff (a disreputable group of people)
• rimble ramble (nonsense)
• riprap
• shilly shally (to dawdle)
• shim sham (a feeling of unease or fear)
• ship shape (in order; neat)
• sing song (to speak in a way that emphasizes sound over meaning)
• skimble skamble (confusingly rambling)
• slipslop (a blundering misuse of a word)
• spit spot (fine, excellent)
• splish splash (imitation of splashing water sounds)
• teeter totter (a children's amusement, a see saw)
• tew taw (an implement for breaking hemp or flax)
• Tic Tac (a candy)
• tick tock (imitation of the sound of a clock)
• ticky tacky (vulgar and banal)
• tip top (first rate)
• tisty tosty (a ball of cowslips)
• tittle tattle (idle chatter; gossip)
• whimsy whamsy (a whim)
• wig wag (a kind of signaling flag)
• wiggle waggle (a musical fairground amusement; to sway)
• willie wellie (a condom: a "wellie" is a sort of rubber boot)
• wing wang (a joking term for dollars)
• wing wong (a thingmajig)
• wishy washy (indecisive)
• xiraxara
• ying yang
• zig zag (characterized by repeated changes in direction)

rest and relaxation (W3)

rough and ready (W3)

S

slowly but surely (W3)

smoke and mirrors, Schall und Rauch (W3)

spick and span (W3)

T

touch and go (W3)

U

V

W

wait and see (W3)

whys and wherefores (W3)

wining and dining (W3)

X

Y

Z