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Mar 19, 2010 This week's theme Words about food and eating This week's words salmagundi edacious olla podrida prandial gallimaufry This week's comments AWADmail 403 Next week's theme Loan translations Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg gallimaufry PRONUNCIATION: (gal-uh-MAW-free) MEANING: noun: A hodgepodge; a jumble. ETYMOLOGY: From Middle French galimafree (stew), probably from galer (to make merry) + mafrer (to gorge oneself). USAGE: "I've got a gallimaufry of cosmetics bottles of various kinds." Caroline Kamp; How Do I Look?; The Independent (London, UK); May 21, 2005. Explore "gallimaufry" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. -Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870)

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