gallimaufry
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Such terms as tacky ` not couth, 'farthingale ` hooped petticoat,' smidgen, on tick, in a pig's eye, hog wild, traipse, jitney, gallimaufry, tailormades, and What boots it?, for which a citation from Milton's Lycidas is provided, can scarcely be said to occur exclusively in the dialect (s) he describes.
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- noun A jumble; a hodgepodge.
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- Literally, a show of onions and pumpkins; metaphorically, a mess, gallimaufry. — The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
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Such terms as tacky ` not couth, 'farthingale ` hooped petticoat,' smidgen, on tick, in a pig's eye, hog wild, traipse, jitney, gallimaufry, tailormades, and What boots it?, for which a citation from Milton's Lycidas is provided, can scarcely be said to occur exclusively in the dialect (s) he describes.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3 -
"So now they have made our English tongue a gallimaufry or hodgepodge of all other speeches."
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2 -
This grammatical gallimaufry is not even in alphabetical order, for pass through comes before pass the time of day: is there some rule about ignoring articles that I missed?
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 3 -
From this gallimaufry of Gongorisms, I sort out the following, with Mr. Strauss's help:
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
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- French galimafrée, from Old French galimafree, sauce, ragout : probably galer, to make merry; see gallant + mafrer, to gorge oneself (from Middle Dutch moffelen, to open one's mouth wide, of imitative origin).
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/ (gălˌə-môˈfrē)/
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