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gal|li|mau|fry
gal|li|mau|fry «GAL uh M free», noun, plural -fries.
1. a mixture of unlike things; confused jumble; hodgepodge: »

So now they have made our English tongue a gallimaufry or hodge-podge of all other speeches (Edmund Spenser).

2. a meat stew or hash; ragout.
[< Middle French galimafrée]

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