I like трын-трава because it forms catchy phrases in several hilarious songs, the most popular of which is Nikulin’s Песня про зайцев
Песня про зайцев - YouTube
(you can read the lyrics in the footnotes on youtube.)
I like трын-трава because it forms catchy phrases in several hilarious songs, the most popular of which is Nikulin’s Песня про зайцев
Песня про зайцев - YouTube
(you can read the lyrics in the footnotes on youtube.)
If I'm not mistaken, трын is a corrupted form of тын, an old word for "a fence" (for which забор is now the usual term).
So тын-трава was "grass that grows by the fence" -- in other words, useless weeds -- and трын-трава was a nonsensical variant.
(But later the meaningless трын-трава was explained as being a "magical fairytale plant." Cf. "schnozzberries" in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, or Dr. Seuss's "truffula trees".)
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