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GALIMAUFREY

"GALIMAUFREY" is a common misspelling or typo for: gallimaufry.


Specialty Definition: GALIMAUFREY

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Galimaufrey or ~~~Gallimaufrey
Gallimaufrey (g hard). A medley; any confused jumble of things; but strictly speaking, a hotch-potch made up of all the scraps of the larder. (French, galimafrée; Spanish, gallofa, "broken meat," gallofero, a beggar.)
"He woos both high and low, both rich and poor,
Both young and old, one with another, Ford;
He loves thy gaily-mawfry [all sorts]."
Shakespeare: Merry Wives, ii.1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

GALIMAUFREY. A hodgepodge made up of the remnants and scraps of the larder. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GALIMAUFREY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-g-i-l-m-r-u-y"

-3 letters: graymail.

-4 letters: failure, figural, flamier, fragile, gremial, gulfier, imagery, myalgia, refugia, regalia, rufiyaa, uraemia.

-5 letters: aerial, aerify, aerily, aflame, aglare, agleam, agrafe, aimful, alarum, alegar, argali, argufy, argyle, armful, earful, fairly, family, famuli, ferial, ferula, figure, filmer, firmly, flamer, flayer, fleury, frugal, fulmar, fumier, gamely, gamier, gamily, glaire, glairy, gleamy, gluier, grimly, imager.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GALIMAUFREY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 41 4C 49 4D 41 55 46 52 45 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01000001 01001100 01001001 01001101 01000001 01010101 01000110 01010010 01000101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#65 &#76 &#73 &#77 &#65 &#85 &#70 &#82 &#69 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0041 004C 0049 004D 0041 0055 0046 0052 0045 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4135464347355540523959

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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