Some More Double-barralled words- 2

jig-jog        namby-pamby           hockerty-cockerty          hodge-podge          bibble-babble                       chit-chat            ding-dong             argle-bargle             helter-skelter  
                                     hugger-mugger

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

1. jig-jog  (V/N) 

Meaning:-

• to bounce repeatedly
• bounce, jerkily and up-down movement

Usages:-

1. Roads way to my village are jig-jog.
2. Jig-jog all the balls.

2. namby-pamby (Adj.) 

Meaning:-

• weak and too emotional
• weak in willpower and courage

Usages:-

1. Don't be a namby-pamby.
2. He is showing his namby-pamby emotion.

3. hockerty-cockerty (Adj.) 

Meaning:-

• to ride on one's shoulder with a leg on each

Usages:-

1. Make a hockerty-cockerty to move outside of the wall.

4. hodge-podge/hotch-potch (N) 

Meaning:-

• a number of things mixed together without any particular order or reason

Usages:-

1. A hodge-podge of books.

5. bibble-babble (Adj.) 

Meaning:-

• idle and nonsense talk, to babble

Usages:-

1. Lazy man also busy in bibble-babble.
2. Do your work on time, don't be bibble-babble.

6. ding-dong (N) 

Meaning:-

• the noise made by a bell

Other Meaning:-

• an argument or fight

Usages:-

1. Rang the doorbell. Ding-dong.
2. The bell sounding ding-dong.

7. argle-bargle (N) 

Meaning:-

• a verbal dispute

Usages:-

1. An argle-bargel is going on in the party meeting.
2. Sound of argle-bargle in the market.

8. helter-skelter (N/Adj.) 

Meaning:-

• done in a hurry and confusion with less management
• a twisted and slidable path form the top to bottom for people to slide down (N)

Usages:-

1. People ran helter-skelter.
2. It seems that books have been kept in helter-skelter.

9. chit-chat  (Adj.) 

Meaning:-

• conversation about things that are not important

Usages:-

1. We spent the afternoon in idle chit-chat.

10.  hugger-mugger (Adj.) 

Meaning:-

• a state of confusion, not neat and clearly
• something secret or hidden

Usages:-

1. We should do this work in hugger-mugger.
2. He was engaged in hugger-mugger of money.

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