Scottish. A long or rambling discourse, a rhapsody; a rigmarole. Obsolete.

= rat-rhyme, n.

A string of meaningless words; a piece of doggerel verse; a rigmarole.

A rigmarole. on reavel-ravel: in an incoherent, rambling, or confused manner.

A tedious recital or utterance, esp. a nonsensical or officious one. Obsolete. rare.

A long rigmarole.

= rat-rhyme, n.

An unduly protracted, involved, or diffuse piece of speech or writing; a story, explanation, etc., regarded as unintelligible or incoherent. Now rare.

A speech; a sermon, esp. a long or tedious one. Also: a form of words or rhyming formula in popular use.

slang. A long, tedious, or complicated story; frequently in a whole Megillah. Also the whole Megillah: the whole business, the whole thing…