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Galimatias

//ˌɡæləˈmeɪʃi.əs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    nonsense, gobbledygook uncountable

    "[…] and the old lady listened in silence, solemnly, rather coldly, as if she thought such talk a good deal of a galimatias: she belonged to the old-fashioned school and held that a young lady was sufficiently catalogued when it was said that she had a dazzling complexion or the finest eyes in the world."

  2. 2
    confused mixture; hodgepodge uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from French galimatias, first attested in 1653 in Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais's works.

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