n. 1. Confused, rambling, or incoherent discourse; nonsense. 2. A complicated, petty set of procedures. [Alteration of obsolete ragman roll, catalog, from Middle English ragmane rolle, scroll used in Ragman, a game of chance : perhaps from Anglo-Norman Ragemon le bon, Ragemon the Good, title of a set of verses about a character of this name + Middle English rolle, list (from Old French, from Latin rotula, wheel; see ROLL).] |
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