A little more info to supplement ermanen’s list, I note these from Merriam-Webster’s

Eleventh Collegiate

Dictionary (2003):

aye-aye (n.)

Berber (n.)

bonbon (n.)

buddy-buddy (adj.)

bulbul (n.)

caracara (n.)

cha-cha (n.)

chowchow (n.)

aye-aye (n.) —the relish not the dog, which is spelled chow chow )

dumdum (n. 4) —the bullet)

dum-dum (n. the one thing) (s.) Ganda (adj.)

go-go (adj.)

goody-goody (adj.)

goo-goo (adj.)

goo-goo (ask. & n.)

gris-gris (n.)

ha-ha (interj.)

ha-ha (n.) & ha-ha (infr.) –a sunk fence)

lavalava (n.d. lavalava) Can’t describe the interaction between mau mau

and volcanic

lava in

Japan) mau-mau

(v.) meme (n.) motmot (n.) mumu (n.) , from MW’s Unabridged Dictionary)

no-no (n.)

pawpaw (n.)

so-so (adj.) & &

adv.) tsetse

(n.) tu00fck-tut (interj.) muschi (n.) Why does

Merriam-Webster’s not acknowledge hubba-hubba by Merriam-Webster’s? I know what other dictionary I should read, but I would like to

know what they are…

• Caca and maybe kaka
• mama
• mawmaw
• dada
• pawpaw
• bonbon
• put-put
• wawa
• wee
• wee
• mumu
• har-har
• haw-haw
• chop-chop

BB BB BB BB BB BB.

Here is the terminology of reduplication. (Note: if you repeat lexeme together, the whole word is resampling) It is actually called full reduplication, or full reduplication. What are used for the words hyphen and hyphen inbetween. For example “go-go”

There is a list of English reduplications here:
http://en.wikipedia.org. org/wiki/Category:English_reduplications

Full reduplication examples:

• boo-boo
• bye-bye
• cancan
• chop-chop
• gee-gee
• jaw-jaw
• licky-licky
• moo-moo
• murmur
• nulla-nulla
• pee-pee
• pompom
• poo-poo
• pooh-pooh
• rah-rah
• tartar
• dodo
• lulu
• tutu
• papa
• couscous
• tete
• coco