GALLIMAUFRY

Definitions: GALLIMAUFRY

GALLIMAUFRY

Noun

1. Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch.

2. A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "GALLIMAUFRY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Gallimaufry (See Galimaufrey.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Mixture	Alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble; (disorder); salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic; (variegation).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: GALLIMAUFRY

English words defined with "GALLIMAUFRY": Gallimaufries. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Gallimaufry (reference) Gallimaufry to Go: Puns, Put-Downs, and Other Curiosities (reference) The Mockingbird in the Gum Tree: A Literary Gallimaufry (Essays) (reference) West of widdershins; a gallimaufry of stories brewed in her own cauldron (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Gallimaufry (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Woolfenden: Gallimaufry (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"GALLIMAUFRY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GALLIMAUFRY" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

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Language		Translations for "GALLIMAUFRY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gjëra të ndryshme (motley, sundries). (various references)

Arabic		‏الفرنسة. (various references)

Bulgarian		смесица (alloy, amalgam, farrago, gumbo, intermixture, mash, melange, mess, miscellany, mixture, motley, olio, omnium gatherum, patchwork), галиматия (galimatias). (various references)

Czech		sekanina. (various references)

Farsi		فضولی (Impertinence, Pry). (various references)

French		fouillis, fatras. (various references)

Hungarian		kotyvalék (brew, glop, hodgepodge). (various references)

Italian		guazzabuglio (bungle, hotchpotch, jumble, mixture, muddle), miscuglio (admixture, blend, brew, compound, concoction, hotchpotch, jumble, medley, mishmashes, mixture, motley). (various references)

Pig Latin		allimaufrygay.(various references)

Portuguese		mistura (adjust, admixture, bastard, batch, blend, blending, coal blend, commixture, compound, concoction, cross, fusion, half and half, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hybrid, immixture, interim, intern, jumble, mash, medley, mischance, mix, mixing, mixture, olio, patchwork, re-recording, salmagundi, shuffle), embrulhada (embryo, imbroglio, intricacy, involution, moil, muddle, Mull, puddle), calções (pantechnicon, shorts). (various references)

Russian		всякая всячина (et, et cetera, mingle-mangle, motley, olio, sundries, whatnot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		papazjanija (hash, hodgepodge, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, omnium gatherum, pepper pot, salmagundi). (various references)

Spanish		baturrillo (hodgepodge, hotchpotch, medley, mingle-mangle, mishmash, olio, omnium gatherum). (various references)

Swedish		röra (admixture, affect, be pertinent to, concern, farrago, hash, higgledy-piggledy, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, huggermugger, jumble, mess, mixture, move, muck-up, muss, patchwork, pie, promiscuity, shambles, stir, touch, tumble, turmoil, welter, wilderness), hopkok (concoction, confection, farrago). (various references)

Turkish		yahni (ragout, stew), karmakarışık şey (farrago, hotchpotch, jumble, macaroni). (various references)

Ukranian		мішанина (bastard, chow-chow, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mash, mingle-mangle, omnium gatherum). (various references)

Vietnamese		mớ hỗn độn (medley, mishmash, welter), mớ hổ lốn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"GALLIMAUFRY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: galamaufry, galimaufrey, galimaufry, gallamaufry, gallimaufrey, gallumaufry, gaulimaufry, gaullimaufry. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "GALLIMAUFRY" (pronounced 'Gal`li*mau"fry'): Belfry. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-f-g-i-l-l-m-r-u-y"
	-3 letters: aimfully, frugally, graymail.
	-4 letters: armilla, aurally, figural, frailly, fugally, gallium, ligular, myalgia, rufiyaa.
	-5 letters: aimful, alarum, allium, alular, argali, argufy, argyll, armful, fairly, family, famuli, firmly, frilly, frugal, fullam, fulmar, gamily, glairy, gluily, glumly, grimly, ligula, margay, ramify, uglify, uglily.
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