rigmarole

1. (dated) Confused and incoherent talk; nonsense.Examples: "Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole."; "While you are planting the seed, he cries -- "Drop it, drop it -- cover it up, cover it up -- pull it up, pull it up, pull it up." But this was not corn, and so it was safe from such enemies as he. You may wonder what his rigmarole, his amateur Paganini performances on one string or on twenty, have to do with your planting, and yet prefer it to leached ashes or plaster."; "His reply did not even allude to the subject, but was a rigmarole about the weather; as if he had been writing to an idiot, who did not require a rational answer to any question they had asked."Synonyms: babble, blather, gibberish, migmarole, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesaucecountabledateduncountable