Rhyming compounds

The term rhyming compound, as I have distinguished above, corresponds to the definition of reduplication as given in Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, 1974: “the combination of two rhyming words (the second sometimes a coinage for the purpose) to form one, as in hurry-skurry, popsy-wopsy”.

Rhyming compounds include some evocative and useful compounds:

creepy-crawly,

dilly-dally,

fuddy-duddy,

hanky-panky,

hocus-pocus, hodge-podge,

hoity-toity,

helter-skelter,

hubbub, itsy-bitsy,

lovey-dovey,

mumbo-jumbo,

nitty-gritty,

pell-mell,

ragtag,

razzle-dazzle,

super-duper,

teenie-weenie,

wheeler-dealer,

willy-nilly.