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GALIMATIAS

Definition: GALIMATIAS

GALIMATIAS

Noun

1. Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "GALIMATIAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Galimatias \Gal`i*ma"tias\, noun. [French expression]. (references)

Crosswords: GALIMATIAS

English words defined with "GALIMATIAS": Gallimatia. (references)

Non-English Usage: "GALIMATIAS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (balderdash, malarkey, rigmarole).

Modern Usage: GALIMATIAS

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Czyli kogel-mogel II Galimatias (1989)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: GALIMATIAS

Domain	Title
Books	Dictionnaire de la bêtise et des erreurs de jugement : contenant des galimatias, bévues et cacographies, des pensées déréglées et absurdes, des hypothèses plus ou moins hasardeuses touchant l'histoire universelle ou la biographie des personnes, � quoi l'o (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: GALIMATIAS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
galimatias	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: GALIMATIAS

Language		Translations for "GALIMATIAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash). (various references)

Bulgarian		галиматия (gallimaufry). (various references)

Hungarian		zavaros beszéd (fustian, maunderings). (various references)

Pig Latin		alimatiasgay.(various references)

Russian		галиматья (balderdash, double dutch, poppycock). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepovezan govor. (various references)

Swedish		gallimatik. (various references)

Turkish		saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), karmakarışık söz, boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash). (various references)

Vietnamese		lời nói vô nghĩa (bosh, nonsense), lời nói lúng túng, không đuôi (tailless), chuyện không đầu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: GALIMATIAS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-g-i-i-l-m-s-t"
	-2 letters: astigmia.
	-3 letters: imagist, stigmal.
	-4 letters: aaliis, agamas, amigas, gaslit, lamias, limits, mislit, salaam, salami, smalti, stalag, stigma, taigas, tamals.
	-5 letters: aalii, agama, agism, agist, agmas, algas, alias, alist, almas, amias, amiga, atlas, atmas, gaits, galas, gamas, gilts, glias, glims, lamas, lamia, limas, limit, litai, litas, mails, maist, malts, milia, milts, mitis, saiga, salmi, sigil.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-g-i-i-l-m-s-t"
	+3 letters: magistratical.
	+4 letters: egalitarianism.
	+5 letters: damageabilities, egalitarianisms, magistratically, manageabilities.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography

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