What a wonderful word, Ann,
gallimaufry, with noble antecedents.
He loves the
gallimaufry: Ford, perpend.
Merry Wives of Windsor: II, i
Say is a
gallimaufry of gambols, because they are
The Winter's Tale: IV, iv
1545-55; < Middle French galimafree kind of sauce or stew, probably a conflation of galer to amuse oneself (see
gallant ) and Picard dialect mafrer to gorge oneself (< Middle Dutch moffelen to eat, nosh)
Rhymezone has are no rhymes for it, but the Oxford suggests
orphrey (an ornamental stripe or border, especially one on an ecclesiastical vestment such as a chasuble.) So there might be the kernel of a poem residing inside it.
Definitions abound.
1. a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
2. a ragout or hash.
noun (pl) -fries
1. a jumble; hotchpotch
A
confused jumble or
medley of things:
a glorious gallimaufry of childhood perceptions