Originally Posted By: Tromboniator

Doggerel by P. Tromboniator


I'm impressed..especially by the last word...which I looked up, cause I wondered how it 'fitted'.

Raffle a jangle or tangle; a rabble, raff, or riff-raff of persons or things.
Examples: raffle of conversation, 1891; of cords; of intorted cordage, 1892; of flying drapery; of knaves, 1486; of priests and friars, 1670; of spars.
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