| 单词 | gallimaufry |
| 释义 | gallimaufry (once / 149612 pages) n Use the noun gallimaufry when you're talking about a jumbled mix of things. You might describe your family's traditional Thanksgiving meal as a gallimaufry of Italian, American, and Indian dishes. Any mishmash of stuff can be called a gallimaufry. You might have a gallimaufry of socks in your drawer, all different colors and sizes and patterns, or a gallimaufry of guests at your birthday party. You could criticize a writer's short story collection as a gallimaufry of pieces, all with different, mismatched moods and styles. Gallimaufry comes from the French galimafrée, "hash or ragout," from the Old French calimafree, "unappetizing stew or sauce." WORD FAMILYgallimaufry USAGE EXAMPLESWhich brings us back to Trump’s victory speech in Nevada, which was his usual gallimaufry of disconnected thoughts. The Guardian(Feb 24, 2016) From the start, King was a nihilistic and nonsensical lawsuit, a gallimaufry of raw partisanship, crass opportunism, and legalistic argle-bargle. Slate(Jun 30, 2015) Blue laws in New York state were struck down in a 1976 court decision stating that a “gallimaufry of exceptions” had undermined the restrictions’ credibility. The New Yorker(Feb 07, 2015) n a motley assortment of things Syn|Hyper farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety a collection containing a variety of sorts of things |
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