| \gal-uh-MEY-shee-uh s, -MAT-ee-uh s\ | noun
1. confused or unintelligible talk.
| | Quotes | I have seen this letter in which you tell me there is so much galimatias, and I assure you that I have not found any at all. On the contrary, I find everything plainly expressed …
-- George Eliot, "A Woman in France: Madame de Sablé," The Westminster Review, January and April, 1854 | | | | | | | | | | Origin of galimatias | | Galimatias is of uncertain origin except that it is French and may be related to gallimaufry "a hash of various meats, hodgepodge." It entered English the mid-1600s. | |
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