Word of the Day 05/31/24 Gallimaufry
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Gallimaufry (noun)
gallimaufry [ gal-uh-maw-free ]
noun, Chiefly Literary., Plural gal·li·mau·fries.
1. a hodgepodge; confused medley; jumble.
2. a ragout or hash.
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Synonyms
1. omnium-gatherum, miscellany, mixed bag, grab bag, goulash, muddle, mess, welter, tangle, mixture, mishmash, mélange, medley, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, hash, farrago
Origin: 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”); gallant
Example Sentences
Another contemporary critic announces that “our English tongue was a gallimaufry or hodge-podge of all other speeches.”
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To net a Millsborough gallimaufry of decadents, criminals, and potential rebels had become in a few hours his absorbing desire.
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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.
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They seemed to have been derived rather from a gallimaufry of familiar models.
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All this jumble, this gallimaufry, I say, does not impair the spiritual worth of the play.
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Gallimaufry (noun)
gallimaufry [ gal-uh-maw-free ]
noun, Chiefly Literary., Plural gal·li·mau·fries.
1. a hodgepodge; confused medley; jumble.
2. a ragout or hash.
See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
Synonyms
1. omnium-gatherum, miscellany, mixed bag, grab bag, goulash, muddle, mess, welter, tangle, mixture, mishmash, mélange, medley, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, hash, farrago
Origin: 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”); gallant
Example Sentences
Another contemporary critic announces that “our English tongue was a gallimaufry or hodge-podge of all other speeches.”
From Project Gutenberg
To net a Millsborough gallimaufry of decadents, criminals, and potential rebels had become in a few hours his absorbing desire.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
They seemed to have been derived rather from a gallimaufry of familiar models.
From Project Gutenberg
All this jumble, this gallimaufry, I say, does not impair the spiritual worth of the play.
From Project Gutenberg
Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.