galimatias

[ gal-uh-mey-shee-uhs, -mat-ee-uhs ]

noun

1. confused or unintelligible talk.

galimatias

/ ˌɡælɪˈmeɪʃɪəs; -ˈmætɪəs /

noun

1. rare.
   confused talk; gibberish

Word History and Origins

Origin of galimatias¹

First recorded in 1645–55; from French, word of obscure origin first attested in Montaigne ( jargon de galimathias )

Word History and Origins

Origin of galimatias¹

C17: from French, of unknown origin

Example Sentences

Galimatias, gal-i-mā′shi-as, n. nonsense, gibberish: any confused mixture of unlike things.

From Project Gutenberg

Why should there not be a double irony for the clever, just as there is a galimatias double for the dull?

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He goes on with an eternal galimatias of patriotism, with such a self-sufficient air and decided tone! never suspecting that he says only what other people make him say, and that he is listened to, only to find out what some people think.

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Her dress, like her language, is a galimatias of several countries.

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Wilson, impatient in everything, had fluctuated between grandeur and galimatias, bathos and bad taste; De Quincey, at times supreme, had at others simply succumbed to "rigmarole."

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