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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.

See more usage examples of gallimaufry in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

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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