galimatias

American  

[gal-uh-mey-shee-uhs, -mat-ee-uhs] / ˌgæl əˈmeɪ ʃi əs, -ˈmæt i əs /

noun

1. confused or unintelligible talk.

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galimatias British  

/ ˌɡælɪˈmeɪʃɪəs, -ˈmætɪəs /

noun

1. rare confused talk; gibberish

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Etymology

Origin of galimatias

First recorded in 1645–55; from French, word of obscure origin first attested in Montaigne ( jargon de galimathias )

Example Sentences

Mrs. Tramore stared, as if at a language she had never heard, a farrago, a galimatias.

From The Chaperon by James, Henry

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

I have seen this letter in which you tell me there is so much galimatias, and I assure you that I have not found any at all. 

From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan

Wilson, impatient in everything, had fluctuated between grandeur and galimatias, bathos and bad taste; De Quincey, at times supreme, had at others simply succumbed to "rigmarole."

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George

"I fail to see," a dignified young lady stated, "what Cazaio, at least, has to do with your galimatias."

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch