gallimaufry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a motley assortment of things
    hotchpotch; farrago; ragbag; mingle-mangle; oddments; hodgepodge; odds and ends; omnium-gatherum; melange; mishmash.

WordNet

Gal`li*mau"fry noun
Etymology
F. galimafrée a sort of ragout or mixed hash of different meats.
Wordforms
plural Gallimaufries
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913