gallimaufry

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gal=li=mau=fry

CIDE DICTIONARY

gallimaufry, n. [F. galimafrée a sort of ragout or mixed hash of different meats.].

•  A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.  [1913 Webster]

  "Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat."  [1913 Webster]
•  Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch.  [1913 Webster]

  "The Mahometan religion, which, being a gallimaufry made up of many, partakes much of the Jewish."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gallimaufry, n. (pl. -ies) a heterogeneous mixture; a jumble or medley.

Etymology

F galimafr{eacute}e, of unkn. orig.

ROGET THESAURUS

gallimaufry

Mixture

N mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion, commixion, intermixture, alloyage, matrimony, junction, combination, miscegenation, impregnation, infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion, infiltration, seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding, interpolation, adulteration, sophistication, tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon, alloy, amalgam, brass, chowchow, pewter, magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts, jumble, salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn, mosaic, half-blood, half-caste, mulatto, terceron, quarteron, quinteron, quadroon, octoroon, griffo, zambo, cafuzo, Eurasian, fustee, fustie, griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule, catalo, cross, hybrid, mongrel, mixed, implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous, motley, miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate, miscible, among, amongst, amid, amidst, with, in the midst of, in the crowd.