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Example sentences for: reduplication

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By using willy-nilly rather than more formal terms such as “whether desired or not” ( American Heritage Dictionary ), they were turning to a minor word pattern in English called `reduplication,' meaning a partial or complete duplication of a given word.
The same impoverishment of formal devices is found in examples of religious glossolalia, with an exaggerated tendency towards repetition, syllable reduplication, vocalic parallelism, open syllabification, excessive symmetry in contrasts, an impoverished inventory of sounds--whatever the mother tongue of the glossolalist.
Bauerle's “The Power of Doubled Words” [XVIII,2] mentions the reduplication tricky-dicky , applied to President Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
Another rhyming reduplication, mumbo jumbo, is probably borrowed from a word in African Mandingo: Mama Dyumbo was a deity who helped husbands to bewilder wives whom they suspected of talking too much.
In fact, one of the less reputable wine producers immediately named one of its abominable sparkling wines fuddle-duck . No reduplication there.