The story
The word was derived from Geoffrey Chaucer's line "in sowre hungry tyme".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: An experimental movement in arts and literature in West Bengal, India, during the period 1961-1965, claiming that India was in the grip of sarvagrass, meaning that its culture fed on all the morsels available to it from all over the world. Full definition →
The word was derived from Geoffrey Chaucer's line "in sowre hungry tyme".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.