A less common form of reduplication has the rhyming portion occur first, so to speak, so that the pattern is AAB. Here is a list of some words and phrases that use this pattern.
aiaiai
alfalfa
Ararat
assassin
bandana
bumflummox (to confound)
cabana
clamjamfry (a disorderly mob)
cocozelle
compromise
cormorant
corporate
crepe paper
dick licker (a homosexual)
dust buster (a small portable vacuum cleaner)
fandango (a lively and dramatic dance)
flak jacket (a protective jacket)
flat hatter (a hot shot pilot who likes to fly very low)
fly by night (disreputable; unreliable)
gas passer (a joking reference to an anesthetist)
green beanie (a Green Beret)
ground pounder (an infantryman)
gunrunner (a gun smuggler)
hair fairy (an effeminate man with long hair)
Hamtramck (pronounced "Ham-tram-ick")
Harare
hillbilly (poor traditional mountain shack dwellers)
hip flipper (an oriental dancer)
hob goblin
hockdockies (shoes)
Inini
jujube
manhandle
meat eater
mundungus (tobacco that burns with a foul odor)
naysayer (one who unthinkingly refuses)
nut cutlet (a disparaging reference to vegetarian cuisine)
ononis (a genus of European herbs related to clover)
Oromo
Orono
pandanny (a palm-like tree of Tasmania)
pan handle
panjandrum
plug ugly (very ugly)
pug ugly (most grievously ugly)
ram-sammy (a raucous family argument)
ringdinger (a humdinger; a remarkable case)
rumtumbooks (the ringtail roarer)
schmegegge (an idiot)
seseli
shagwagon (a car much used for intercourse)
siksika
slap happy (senselessly silly from exhaustion or punishment)
slick licker (a machine for removing oil slicks from water)
Sopchoppy, Florida
stump jumper (a farmer)
tatami (a Japanese mat)
weed eater (a lawn trimmer)
whiff sniffer (a prohibitionist)
In a different league are words where the rhyming parts are identical (AAB):
assassin
Barbara
Barbary
coconut
jujube
kakapo (a flightless New Zealand parrot)
Kokomo
Marmara
reredos (an ornamental screen)
Tartarus (the Greek afterworld)
titivate
In another league (ABB):
banana
Another other league (ABA):
Bonobo (a chimpanzee that tells anthropologists a lot
about themselves)
kanaka (a person from a South Sea island)
katuka (a poisonous snake of southeast Asia)
lobolo (a Bantu bride price)
Yet another other league is formed by words with three distinct rhymes (aaa):
bikini
casaba
lokono - (an Arawakan language)
Panama
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