amphigouri

Can anyone give me the etymology of this word, meaning "a verse composition that sounds well but makes absolutely no sense"?

"origin unknown", but here's what OED has, fwiw:

[mod.Fr.; orig. unknown. According to Litt. first used in 18th c.; referred by some to Gr. {alenis}{mu}{phi}{giacu} about + {gamma}{gufrown}{rho}{omicron}{fsigma} circle, or -{alenis}{gamma}{omicron}{rho}{giacu}{alpha} speech, cf. allegory, category.]

(sorry about the Greek; that's the way it copies)

usu. spelled amphigory in Eng.

Thanks.

Here's an example of an amphigory from The Book of Literary Anecdotes (1990) if you're interested (although, maybe its a comment on modern poetry that these lines don't strike me as especially senseless):

"From the depth of the dreary decline of the dawn
through a notable nimbus of nebulous moonshine.
Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flown that
Flickers with fear for the flies as they float,
Are the looks of our lovers that lustrously lean from
a marvel of mystic miraculous moonshine,
These that we feel in the blood of our blushes that
Thicken and threaten with throbs through his throat?"

—Nephelidia: an amphigouri, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909).