gallimaufry
Plural: gallimaufries
Noun
- a motley assortment of things
- A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.
- Any absurd medley, an elaborate mishmash
Origin / Etymology
From French galimafrée, from Old French calimafree (“stew of various kinds of meats”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from a combination of Old French galer (“to have fun, to enjoy oneself”) and Old Northern French (Picard) mafrer (“to eat gluttonously”).
Synonyms
farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag, Whitman's sampler, bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, congeries, crazyquilt, disjecta membra, galimatias, gallimaufry, grab bag, horse and rabbit stew, hotchpot, job lot, jumble, macedoine, medley, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, olio, olla podrida, pastiche, patchwork quilt, potpourri, salmagundi, slurry, smorgasbord, welter
Scrabble Score: 20
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