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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GAL'LIMAUFRY, n. A hash; a medley; a hodge-podge. [Little used.]
1. Any inconsistent or ridiculous medley.
2. A woman. [Not in used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a motley assortment of things [syn: odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -fries) Etymology: Middle French galimafree stew Date: circa 1556 hodgepodge <a gallimaufry of opinions>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) a heterogeneous mixture; a jumble or medley. Etymology: F galimafrée, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gallimaufry Gal`li*mau"fry, n.; pl. Gallimaufries. [F. galimafr['e]e a sort of ragout or mixed hash of different meats.] 1. A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout. Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat. --King. 2. Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch. The Mahometan religion, which, being a gallimaufry made up of many, partakes much of the Jewish. --South.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Olio, ragout, hash. 2. Medley, farrago, jumble, miscellany, salmagundi, olio, hotch-potch, hodge-podge, confused mixture.