Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Nonsense; gibberish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Confused talk; gibberish; nonsense of any kind.
- noun Any confused or nonsensical mixture of incongruous things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
nonsense ,gobbledygook
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Some of the galimatias regarding Sotomayor's identity has to do with lack of understanding of Puerto Rico's confused legal status.
Gregg Easterbrook: What Is The "National Origin" of Apple Pie? 2009
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Yet I went not; but thou, of the briefness of thy wit, hast journeyed from place to place, on the faith of a dream, which was but an idle galimatias of sleep.
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Our geography was galimatias, and book-keeping a crime: the people must not think they were on a level with the learned, and the children must do this and that.
The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair
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"_Afin que les entreprises honorables et les nobles aventures et faicts d'armes soyent noblement enregistrés et conservés, je vais traiter et raconter et inventer ung galimatias_."
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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"_Afin que les entreprises honorables et les nobles aventures et faicts d'armes soyent noblement enregistres et conserves, je vais traiter et raconter et inventer ung galimatias. _"
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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"I fail to see," a dignified young lady stated, "what Cazaio, at least, has to do with your galimatias."
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918
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With the "Théologie familière" they exhibit a fair specimen of Saint-Cyran's galimatias and obscure asceticism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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As a matter of fact, idle talk and galimatias of the sort are in no wise literature.
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906
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Winckelmann announces his change of religion is a real galimatias, an unfortunate and confused document.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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And the tomtit and canary have, no doubt, at least private agreement that the utterances of the nightingale are _galimatias_, while the carrion crow thinks the eagle a fool for dwelling so high and flying so much higher.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
whichbe commented on the word galimatias
Gibberish; confused, meaningless jargon. (Luciferous Logolepsy)
May 16, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word galimatias
First appearance in English is in 1653, in Sir Thomas Urquhart’s translation of the works of the French author François Rabelais: “A Galimatia of Extravagant Conceits.�?
Note that this word, despite the later added "s", is singular, not plural.
June 26, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word galimatias
"It's all amphigories and dillydallying," she told herself, "rigamarole and bibble-babble, balderdash and fiddle-faddle, gibberish and galamatias."
Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, p 76 of the NYRB paperback
November 6, 2010