galimatias
Meanings
Noun
- nonsense, gobbledygook
- confused mixture; hodgepodge
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French galimatias, first attested in 1653 in Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais's works.
Synonyms
absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, BS, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, catch-all, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, cocktail, codswallop, congeries, crap, crazyquilt, crock, crock of shit, disjecta membra, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, eyewash, farrago, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, gallimaufry, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, grab bag, Greek, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hodgepodge, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse and rabbit stew, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, hotchpot, hotchpotch, humbug, Irish bull, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, job lot, jumble, junk, lallation, macaroni, macedoine, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, medley, melange, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, mixture, moonshine, motley, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pastiche, patchwork quilt, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, potpourri, prattle, put-on, ragbag, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, salmagundi, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, slurry, smorgasbord, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, tripe, tush, twaddle, wass, welter, whiff-whaff, Whitman's sampler, word salad
Scrabble Score: 13
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