galimatias en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Borrowed from French galimatias, first attested in 1653 in Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais's works.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Nonsense, gobbledygook.
[…] and the old lady listened in silence, solemnly, rather coldly, as if she thought such talk a good deal of a galimatias: she belonged to the old-fashioned school and held that a young lady was sufficiently catalogued when it was said that she had a dazzling complexion or the finest eyes in the world.
1888, Henry James, chapter 5, in The Reverberator, Macmillan and Co.:
- (uncountable) A confused mixture; hodgepodge.
Synonyms
smorgasbord · mixed bag · bafflegab · manure · gibberish · rhubarb rhubarb · flizz · mixture · gobbledygook · junk · cocktail · horse cock · bulldust · banana oil · piffle · fuckery · doublespeak · pie in the sky · meaninglessness · trash · moonshine · Bandini · codswallop · jumble · jimjam · batcrap · horseshit · pigswill · horse puckey · bullcrap · mumbo jumbo · framis · cobblers · gibber · gup · twaddle · melange · patchwork quilt · stuff · fudge · applesauce · bullspeak · dribble · slurry · nonsense · salmagundi · grab bag · shite · farrago · omnium-gatherum · whiff-whaff · bobbins · tosh · rhubarb · flapdoodle · odds and ends · word salad · rigmarole · footle · eyewash · apple grease · crock of shit · fiddle-faddle · mingle-mangle · hocus-pocus · shit · gallery · claptrap · blatherskite · welter · olla podrida · Whitman's sampler · hoax · macedoine · nertz · clamjamfrey · anthology · gatherum · double Dutch · rubbish · horsefeathers · bunk · salad · hotchpot · oddments · bull · hodgepodge · Gallophone · clamjamfrey · blah-blah · hooey · BS · gossip · prattle · miscellanea · double talk · ruse · bilgewater · jabber · bric-a-brac · rot · motley · blah-blah-blah · catch-all · hotchpotch · bollocks · garbage · blather · tommy-rot · foolishness · gallimaufry · galimatias · hokum · gash · balls · squit · santorum · baloney · tripe · crock · ragbag · crazyquilt · all my eye · macaroni · wass · medley · disjecta membra · job lot · potpourri · lallation · bouillabaisse · galimatias · absurdity · blah · malarkey · batshit · horse and rabbit stew · stuff and nonsense · guff · congeries · bullshit · drivel · mishmash · bosh · Greek · miscellany · flim-flam · balderdash · folderol · horse piss · poppycock · tush · horse hockey · baragouin · pastiche · rummage · jabberwocky · fuckry · flummery · trittle trattle · bull feathers · crap · bunkum · all my eye and Betty Martin · jargon · olio · jive · humbug · bushwah · jibber-jabber · Irish bull · put-on · skimble-skamble · garble · hogwash
Translations (15)
nl onzin (gobbledygook) · pl gmatwanina (gobbledygook) · pt galimatias (gobbledygook) · cmn 胡言亂語 /胡言乱语 (gobbledygook) · ro galimatias (gobbledygook) · ru галиматья́ (gobbledygook) · fr galimatias (gobbledygook) · cs galimatyáš (gobbledygook) · de Gallimathias (gobbledygook) · nl zever (gobbledygook) · nl wartaal (gobbledygook) · sv gallimatias (gobbledygook) · ca galimaties (gobbledygook) · es galimatías (gobbledygook) · nl nonsens (gobbledygook)