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Amphigory

//ˈæm.fɪ.ɡɔ.ɹi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, which is meaningless despite possibly appearing to have meaning.

    "There is always a danger that a poet, in search after the infinitely ingenious, may lapse into amphigory, into sheer absurdity and triviality, which Cowper, in spite of his elegant lightness, does not always escape."

  2. 2
    nonsensical writing (usually verse) wordnet

Etymology

From French amphigouri, of uncertain derivation; perhaps from Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí) + γῦρος (gûros, “circle”) or -αγορία (-agoría, “speech”).

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