Definition:
Repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis (usually with no words in between).
Etymology:
From the Greek, "fastening together"Examples:
- "And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life!
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,
And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,
Never, never, never, never!"
(William Shakespeare, King Lear, V.3) - "If you think you can win, you can win."
(William Hazlitt) - "Break, break, break
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea"
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson) - "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
(Captain Renault in Casablanca) - "If it says Libby's, Libby's, Libby's
on the label, label, label.
You will like it, like it, like it
on your table table table."
(1950s commercial jingle) - "Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!"
(last words of Florenz Ziegfeld) - "For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting."
(Robert Benchley) - "Oh you need fluff, fluff, fluff
To make a fluffer nutter,
Marshmallow fluff and lots of peanut butter.
First you spread, spread, spread
Your bread with peanut butter,
Add marshmallow fluff and have a fluffernutter."
(commercial jingle) - "Waitress: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Bloody vikings. You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
Mr. Bun: Shh dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam.
(Monty Python, "The Spam Sketch") - "You, you, you, you,
you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
I wanna talk about me!"
(Toby Keith, "I Wanna Talk about Me")
Pronunciation: ep-uh-ZOOX-sis
Also Known As: cuckowspell, doublet, geminatio, underlay
