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galimatias

/ˌɡæləˈmeɪʃi.əs/
/-ˈmæti.əs/

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

noun

uncountable Nonsense, gobbledygook. […] 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 wo
Similar: absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin
uncountable A confused mixture; hodgepodge.
Similar: bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, rummage, salad, anthology, gallery, gatherum, congeries, crazyquilt

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noun gobbledygook

Español	galimatías
中文	胡言亂語 /胡言乱语 húyánluànyǔ
Português	galimatias
Français	galimatias
Deutsch	Gallimathias
Română	galimatias
Русский	галиматья́ galimatʹjá

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@misc{galimatias_2026,
  title = {galimatias},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/galimatias},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}