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gallimaufry
[ gal-uh-maw-free ]
noun
- a hodgepodge; confused medley; jumble.
Synonyms: omnium-gatherum, miscellany, mixed bag, grab bag, goulash, muddle, mess, welter, tangle, mixture, mishmash, mélange, medley, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, hash, farrago
- a ragout or hash.
gallimaufry
/ ˌɡælɪˈmɔːfrɪ /
noun
- a jumble; hotchpotch
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Origin of gallimaufry1
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Example Sentences
Another contemporary critic announces that “our English tongue was a gallimaufry or hodge-podge of all other speeches.”
To net a Millsborough gallimaufry of decadents, criminals, and potential rebels had become in a few hours his absorbing desire.
We are not at home to such gallimaufry as that; it is as much as my place is worth to denounce that there bonnet to our ladies.
They seemed to have been derived rather from a gallimaufry of familiar models.
All this jumble, this gallimaufry, I say, does not impair the spiritual worth of the play.
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