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单词 gallimaufry
释义 I. gallimaufry, n.|gælɪˈmɔːfrɪ|
Forms: 6–7 gallie-, gally-, gal(l)imafry, -ay, -ey, -ie, -ee, 7 gal(l)amafrie; 6–7 galli-, gallymalfreye, -maulfry, -malfrie; 6–7 gallimaufray, -maufrie, 7 galley-, gallymaufr(e)y, -mawfrey, (galymaufry, gallemaufry, gallomawfry, gallimof(f)ry, -mophory, gallerie-maufry), 7–8 gallamaufr(e)y, 6–9 gallimaufrey, -mawfry, 6– gallimaufry.
[ad. F. galimafrée, of unknown origin.]
1. A dish made by hashing up odds and ends of food; a hodge-podge, a ragout. rare exc. dial.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Nogada salsa, a gallimaulfry of nuts.1607Dekker Westw. Hoe ii. Wks. 1873 II. 294 Lattin whole-meats are nowe minc'd, and serude in for English Gallimafries.1623T. Scott God & King (1633) 2 That I may neither slovenly chop it into gobbits, nor curiously mince it to a gallamafrie.a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xvii, The Devil mince me into a Galli-mafry, if I do not tremble for fear.1721–1800in Bailey.1859Haliburton Season Ticket vii, The Gallimaufry at once tempts and satisfies.1883Almondbury Gloss., Gallimawfry, and by corruption Gallimawverty, a mixture of several sorts of meat.
2. transf. and fig. A heterogeneous mixture, a confused jumble, a ridiculous medley.
1551–6Robinson tr. More's Utopia (Arb.) 64 Suche a tragy-call comedye or gallymalfreye.1579E. K. Ded. to Spenser's Sheph. Cal., So now they haue made our English tongue a gallimaufray, or hodgepodge of all other speches.1592Chettle Kinde-harts Dr. (1841) 29 Hee put me downe with such a galliemafrey of Latine ends that I was glad to make an end.1613Purchas Pilgrimage ii. viii. 128 And after by marriages with some false Christians, made such a galli-maufrey as [etc.].1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. vii. 42 The hotchpotch or gallimafree of the perpetually begging Friars.1668R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 57 Are you the Author then (quoth I) of that Gallimaufry of Prophesies, that's Publish'd in your Name?1678Salmon Pharm. Londin. 670 This is one of the greatest Gally-maufries that ever I saw: but it was intended as an Antidote against Plague.1872J. R. Planché Recoll. II. xviii. 245 To me, the glittering gallimaufry in which all the ingenuity and beauty of the original fairy tale was lost and destroyed.1892A. Birrell Res Judic. xi. 260 At present it [the history of the Reformation] is but a hotch-potch, a gallimaufry, a confused mingle-mangle of divers things jumbled or put together.
3. A promiscuous assemblage (of persons).
1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. i. 119 He wooes both high and low..he loues the Gally-mawfry (Ford) perpend.1877Holderness Gloss., Gallimawfry, a gathering, or set of persons or things. Generally used in an unfavourable sense.
4. Said somewhat contemptuously of a person: A man of many accomplishments; a composite character. Now rare.
1600Dekker Gentle Craft Wks. 1873 I. 21 Peace pudding broth..peace you gallimafrey.1632Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry ii. ii, A good, foolish, knavish, sociable gallimaufry of a man.1663Cowley Cutter Coleman St. ii. v, Why how now my little Gallimaufry, my little Oleopodrido of Arts and Arms!1781G. Parker View Soc. I. 207 A compound of Player, Soldier, Stroller, Sailor, and Tinker! An odd gallimaufry!1844Disraeli Coningsby i. v. Perhaps the most ludicrous characteristic of these factious gallimaufreys was an occasional assumption of the high moral and admonitory tone.
5. attrib.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. i. 110 These Galley-maufry humours.a1734North Exam. ii. iv. (1740) 242 Such a Gallimaufry Piece of Nonsense it was.1769S. Paterson Another Traveller! II. 204 The gallimaufry list of pill-and-drop-mongers.
Hence galliˈmaufrical a., miscellaneous.
1836New Monthly Mag. XLVII. 227 It has been the custom..to get up a gallimaufrical performance that is not deemed dramatic.
II. gallimaufry, v. rare—1.|gælɪˈmɔːfrɪ|
[f. the n.]
trans. To cut up into a hodge-podge; to make mince-meat of. In quot. fig.
1831Fraser's Mag. III. 197 In chapter the third, the satire rolls only against Long's hotel, which is thus wickedly gallimawfred.
Hence galliˈmaufrier, one who makes a gallimaufry or medley (of something).
1592Nashe 4 Lett. Confut. K b, The gallimafrier of all stiles in one standish.
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