galimatias
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of galimatias
First recorded in 1645–55; from French, word of obscure origin first attested in Montaigne ( jargon de galimathias )
Example Sentences
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Our European galimatias about the ‘smiles of the fair,’ etc., look very mean beside ‘Achul en Benàt,’ methinks.
From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet
As a matter of fact, idle talk and galimatias of the sort are in no wise literature.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
We must, of course, acknowledge that as it is there are longueurs, intrusion of Saint Simonian jargon, passages of galimatias, and of preaching.
From The Country Doctor by Marriage, Ellen
Our geography was galimatias, and book-keeping a crime: the people must not think they were on a level with the learned, and the children must do this and that.
From The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
At times," said de Puysange, with dignity, "your galimatias are insufferable.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch
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