gallimaufry
a hodgepodge; confused medley; jumble.
a ragout or hash.
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How to use gallimaufry in a sentence
Another contemporary critic announces that “our English tongue was a gallimaufry or hodge-podge of all other speeches.”
Amenities of Literature | Isaac DisraeliTo net a Millsborough gallimaufry of decadents, criminals, and potential rebels had become in a few hours his absorbing desire.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick | Oliver FlemingWe 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.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long | Charles ReadeThey seemed to have been derived rather from a gallimaufry of familiar models.
Zuleika Dobson | Max BeerbohmAll this jumble, this gallimaufry, I say, does not impair the spiritual worth of the play.
Introduction to Robert Browning | Hiram Corson
British Dictionary definitions for gallimaufry
/ (ˌɡælɪˈmɔːfrɪ) /
a jumble; hotchpotch
Origin of gallimaufry
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