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~ Saturday, April 30, 2005
ALL OVER AGAIN Six letter words which repeat themselves: 1 motmot (tropical bird) 2 cancan (French dance) 3 dumdum (soft-nosed bullet) 4 bye-bye (form of goodbye) 5 zoozoo (a dove or pigeon, sometimes zouzou) 6 haw-haw (a ha-ha, a fenced ditch) 7 chichi (self-consciously stylish) 8 akeake (type of tree) 9 valval (relating to a valve) 10 grigri (African amulet) 11 tzatza (Black Sea fish) 12 humhum (cotton cloth) 13 mulmul (muslin cloth) 14 boo-boo (a blunder or a blemish) 15 kai-kai (a Maori feast) 16 tut-tut (to rebuke) 17 atlatl (a central American throwing-stick) 18 beebee (type of parrot) 19 goo-goo (babies' noise) 20 hee-hee (laughing sound) 21 palpal (of a palp, an insect's sense-organ) 22 piupiu (Maori ceremonial skirt) 23 jigjig (a jolting motion) 24 lablab (tropical bean) 25 pawpaw (tree / fruit) 26 tomtom (a hand drum) 27 tartar (chemical substance) 28 yum-yum (expressing delight at food) 29 gru-gru (palm tree) 30 tsetse (African fly) 31 wee-wee (to urinate) 32 murmur (soft vocal sound) 33 cha-cha (Latin American dance) 34 laplap (a taro/yam dish) 35 furfur (dandruff) 36 Berber (N African people / language) 37 sarsar (cold Middle-Eastern wind) 38 foo-foo (mashed cassava) 39 bulbul (songbird) 40 coocoo (Armenian pie, also variant of 'cuckoo') 41 testes (reproductive organs) 42 chocho (tropical tree) 43 muu-muu (Hawaiian gown) 44 aye-aye (type of lemur) 45 semsem (another word for sesame) 46 waw-waw (a wailing sound, same as wah-wah, in musical terms) 47 dik-dik (small African antelope) 48 tuk-tuk (Asian three-wheeled vehicle) 49 mam-mam (child's word for grandmother, also nan-nan) 50 sesses (same as cesses, old word for local taxes) 51 toitoi (New Zealand grass, also spelled toetoe) 52 bonbon (a sweet) 53 loglog (the logarithm of a logarithm) 54 cuscus (millet grain, also spelled 'couscous') 55 kumkum (red powder used to mark the forehead) 56 boubou (an African shrike or a long African garment) 57 pip-pip (a sign-off or goodbye) 58 ulaula (a hibiscus flower or a fish, from the Hawaiian for red) 59 tam-tam (a gong) 60 dugdug (tree of the Pacific islands) Source: various |