Gallimaufry (noun)
gal-i-maw-free
A confused jumble or medley of things.
Mid 16th century from archaic French galimafrée ‘unappetizing dish’, perhaps from Old French galer ‘have fun’ + Picard mafrer ‘eat copious quantities’.
Example sentences
“As I smelled the honeysuckle, a gallimaufry of childhood memories washed over me.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
