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galimatias

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

noun

  1. confused or unintelligible talk.


galimatias

/ ˌɡælɪˈmeɪʃɪəs; -ˈmætɪəs /

noun

  1. rare.
    confused talk; gibberish
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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 )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of galimatias1

C17: from French, of unknown origin
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Example Sentences

As a matter of fact, idle talk and galimatias of the sort are in no wise literature.

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

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

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

He goes on with an eternal galimatias of patriotism, with such a self-sufficient air and decided tone!

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