McGonagall
Proper noun
Meaning
McGonagall (plural McGonagalls)
A surname.
Examples
A grave-slab installed to his memory in 1999 is inscribed: :William McGonagall :Poet and Tragedian :"I am your gracious Majesty :ever faithful to Thee, :William McGonagall, the Poor Poet, :That lives in Dundee."
Author Norman Watson speculates in his biography of McGonagall that the poetaster may have been on the " autism-Asperger's spectrum ".
I don’t imagine they were often all on set together,” he went on, referencing a scene where ‘s Minerva McGonagall teaches Harry and his Hogwarts classmates transfiguration (a spell where objects can change from one thing into another).
In motion pictures * A 1974 movie called The Great McGonagall starred Spike Milligan as a fictionalised William McGonagall.
McGonagall seemed happy with this arrangement, but the events became so raucous that the city magistrates were forced to put a ban on them.
From c.1950 to 1995 a memorial bench stood on the path immediately to the north side of the church commemorating McGonagall and bearing the typically McGonagall-esque inscription "Feeling tired and need a seat?