造词工厂 | 英语中的饶舌词
当你可以只回答okay时，也可以说okay-dokey, Mr. Pokey，可能有两种情况，你在用童语逗小孩，或者存心打趣，这一类词在英语总为数不少，我将之称为饶舌词，饶舌词可以分为两种，一种是带腹韵的，一种是声母不同，韵母相同的。今天来介绍一组带腹韵的。
abracadabra
魔术师念念有词时，说天灵灵地灵灵之类的话，后来用来比喻胡言乱语。
孔乙己立刻显出颓唐不安模样，脸上笼上了一层灰色，嘴里说些话；这回可是全是之乎者也之类(abracadabra)，一些不懂了。在这时候，众人也都哄笑起来：店内外充满了快活的空气。
And with that, Hill demonstrated a “pop-out outlet,” a wall socket that’s tucked into the wall and emerges — abracadabra! — with the push of a finger. （Seattle Times）
bees-knees
最早在上世纪二十年代开始出现，开始指不存在的乱七八糟的东西，现在指excellent，很棒。没什么理由，可能因为bee和knee押韵吧。
The pants you are wearing are the bee's knees.
boogie-woogie
一种布鲁斯音乐的器乐形式。
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Memphis had heard five decades of the blues: country sounds from the Delta, barrelhouse boogie-woogie, jumps and shuffles and gospel shouts.
chick-flick
为满足女性不切实际的梦想而制作的电影，有着虚假可笑的大团圆结局。
chock-a-block
The house is chock-a-block with posters and photos from her and Cassavetes' career, family pictures and even a stuffed Elmo.
clap-trap
哗众取宠、华而不实的话。
With those tweaks, the opposition has nothing to fall back on but ideological claptrap.
even-steven
势均力敌，两不相欠。Even和Steven没啥关系，正像Odd和Todd没有关系一样，插科打诨嘛。
Bill hit Tom; then Tom hit Bill. Now they are even Steven.
fender-bender
轻微剐蹭事故
So many great stories begin with a fender-bender.
fuddy-duddy
Despite increasing pain, he retained his fuddy-duddy sense of humor.
handy-dandy
猜哪个手中有东西的儿童游戏。
hanky-panky
偷鸡摸狗的小伎俩
harum-scarum
Or do Chicagoans want to subject local education policy to the big-money, harum-scarum political process that so often poisons everything it touches?
heebie-jeebies
神经过度紧张的
The chairman of the FCC calling the parties before a merger is even announced no doubt gave the parties the heebie-jeebies.
helter-skelter
慌慌张张的
The barn swallows darted helter-skelter among the rafters like hornets shaken from their nest.
herky-jerky
颠簸的；(文章)东拉西扯的。
Google, a herky-jerky place compared with Apple, tends to put something out there and see what happens.
与苹果相比，谷歌是一个不讲规则的地方，它倾向于把产品先发布出去，然后再观察外界的反应。
higgledy-piggledy
Books are often stacked in higgledy-piggledy piles on the floor.
hob-nob
混迹于
And the student musicians will be able to hobnob with Mr. Marsalis’s band during that band’s sound check, enhancing their educational experience.
hocus-pocus
小把戏、小花招
Further aid should only be granted if Greece takes real measures instead of “another hocus-pocus”.
hodge-podge
大杂烩
But certain features are unmistakably familiar: the wry smiles on the faces, the charm of the street vendors, even the hodge-podge of old and new architecture.
hoity-toity
But the trendy vegetable has also come to be associated with hoity-toity foodies and vegetarians whom many meat-eaters love to deride.
honkey-tonk
It was a good week, though, ending with a movie-worthy trip to a little honky-tonk amusement park on the pier at the nearby beach.
hugger-mugger
偷偷摸摸地
They spent their money in a hugger mugger way.
hurly-burly
喧嚷吵闹的
Bobby Moore had about him a serenity on the football field's hurly burly that never, in my slight experience, has been matched.
itsy-bitsy
Pity poor swimwear designers who are limited by the very nature of theiritsy-bitsy products.
jiggery-pokery
小把戏，小骗局
His dissent on Obamacare brought us “pure applesauce” and “jiggery-pokery.”
lovey-dovey
卿卿我我，情意绵绵。
All my friends were either lovey-dovey couples or wild, single girls.
晦涩难懂的话
namby-pamby
意志软弱的
Those may sound like namby-pamby conclusions, but the salty text messages exchanged between players in the episode are pretty damning.
nit-wit
蠢笨呆傻的人。
All because one nitwit parent let his kid go unvaccinated.
nitty-gritty
最核心的东西。
It just seems like nitty-gritty details might get lost in translation.
okey-dokey
pell-mell
混乱的
A small crowd gathered: a pocket of calm and watchfulness amid the pell-mell.
phoney-baloney
胡说八道。
razzle-dazzle
噱头。
There’s too much at stake to allow yourself to be swayed by fancy graphics and razzle-dazzle presentations.
super-duper
teeny-weeny
小小的。
She is trying to appreciate teeny-weeny improvements, trying to keep perspective.
willy-nilly
（1）不容选择的。
These men who were thrown together willy-nilly by the Army had nothing in common.
（2）随意胡乱的。
Clerks bundled papers into files willy-nilly.
下一期将推出更多饶舌词。
bric-a-brac
chit-chat
clippity-cloppity
criss-cross
dilly-dally
ding-dong
fiddle-faddle
flim-flam
flip-flop
hee-haw
knick-knack
mishmash
ping-pong
pitter-patter
riff-raff
seesaw
shilly-shally
ship-shape
sing-song
tick-tock
tip-top
tittle-tattle
wishy-washy
zig-zag