Giorgio's Lexicon of Binomials (reduplications H to Ho-)
Quite a few reduplications (words consisting of two near-duplicated elements) have been highlighted in short verses by the authors:
Matching the selection, these include "hanky-panky", "harum-scarum", "heeby-jeebies", "helter-skelter", "higgledy-piggeldy", "hillbilly", "hobo", and "hocus-pocus".
And, for those with a musical bent, we have a song-cycle of 9 songs displaying the spectrum of these binomial expressions. They have lyrics stuffed with word-pairs, arranged to familiar tunes. You can readily access this singable treasure trove of binomial expressions of various types by clicking on the link for the first song, "WORD PAIRS", HERE.
You can proceed to the next blogpost in the lexicon series (reduplications Ho- to Hu-) by clicking HERE.
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