Definition of GALIMATIAS

galimatias

Noun

  • nonsense, gobbledygook
  • confused mixture; hodgepodge

Origin / Etymology

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

Synonyms

BS, Bandini, Greek, Irish bull, Whitman's sampler, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, catch-all, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, cocktail, codswallop, congeries, crap, crazyquilt, crock, crock of shit, disjecta membra, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, eyewash, farrago, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, gallimaufry, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, grab bag, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hodgepodge, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse and rabbit stew, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, hotchpot, hotchpotch, humbug, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, job lot, jumble, junk, lallation, macaroni, macedoine, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, medley, melange, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, mixture, moonshine, motley, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pastiche, patchwork quilt, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, potpourri, prattle, put-on, ragbag, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, salmagundi, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, slurry, smorgasbord, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, tripe, tush, twaddle, wass, welter, whiff-whaff, word salad

Scrabble Score: 13

galimatias: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionary
galimatias: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
galimatias: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 0

galimatias: not valid in Words With Friends