gallimaufry
/ˌɡalɪˈmɔːfri
/noun [in singular]
A confused jumble or medley of things: a glorious gallimaufry of childhood perceptions...
- Beneath the relative uniformity of its standard, edited variety, American English is a rich gallimaufry of exotic and native stuffs.
- Rather belatedly we've got round to The Collection (Chatto & Windus, 25) by Peter Ackroyd, which in Scots might be called a gallimaufry, comprising as it does journalism, book reviews, essays, short stories and lectures.
- They called it an eruption of a police state, and envisioned a gallimaufry of bizarre hidden agendas - from a pretext for oppressing evangelical Christians and gun owners, to a blank check for discriminating against blacks.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from archaic French galimafrée 'unappetizing dish', perhaps from Old French galer 'have fun' + Picard mafrer 'eat copious quantities'.
Rhymes
- muscle flexing
- muscle force
- musclehead
- muscle in/into
- muscle juice
- muscleless
- muscle magazine
- muscleman
- muscle Mary
- muscle memory
- muscle nucleus
- muscle plate
- muscle pull
- muscle relaxant
- muscle rod
- muscle scar
- muscle sense
- muscle shirt
- muscle spindle
- muscle strain
- muscle sugar
- muscle tone
- muscle toning
- muscle tumor
- muscle tumour