gallimaufry

[ gal-uh-maw-free ]

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noun,plural gal·li·mau·fries.Chiefly Literary.

a hodgepodge; confused medley; jumble.
a ragout or hash.

Origin of gallimaufry

First recorded in 1545–55; from Middle French galimafree “kind of sauce or stew,” probably a conflation of galer “to amuse oneself” and Picard dialect mafrer “to gorge oneself” (from Middle Dutch moffelen “to eat, nosh”); see also gallant

Other words for gallimaufry

1	farrago, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, medley, mélange, mishmash, mixture, tangle, welter; mess, muddle; goulash, grab bag, mixed bag, miscellany, omnium-gatherum

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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 Disraeli
To net a Millsborough gallimaufry of decadents, criminals, and potential rebels had become in a few hours his absorbing desire.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick | Oliver Fleming
We 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 Reade
They seemed to have been derived rather from a gallimaufry of familiar models.
Zuleika Dobson | Max Beerbohm
All 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

gallimaufry

/ (ˌɡælɪˈmɔːfrɪ) /

nounplural -fries

a jumble; hotchpotch

Origin of gallimaufry

C16: from French galimafrée ragout, hash, of unknown origin

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