galimatias

[ gal-uh-mey-shee-uhs, -mat-ee-uhs ]

noun

1. confused or unintelligible talk.

galimatias

/ ˌɡælɪˈmeɪʃɪəs; -ˈmætɪəs /

noun

1. rare.
   confused talk; gibberish

Word History and Origins

Origin of galimatias¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of galimatias¹

C17: from French, of unknown origin

Example Sentences

Galimatias, gal-i-mā′shi-as, n. nonsense, gibberish: any confused mixture of unlike things.

From Project Gutenberg

Why should there not be a double irony for the clever, just as there is a galimatias double for the dull?

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Her dress, like her language, is a galimatias of several countries.

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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."

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I remembered, when I was collecting material for my story, that in General Wilkinson's galimatias, which he calls his "Memoirs," is frequent reference to a Jorkins-like partner of his, of the name of Nolan, who, at some time near the beginning of this century, was killed in Texas.

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