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Gallimaufry is a sixteenth-century word that I adore. It means 'jumble' or 'medley'. It comes from the fourteenth-century French galimafrée ('unappetising dish'). Compare it with pot-pourri. That means literally 'rotten pot'.
So now they have made our English tongue a gallimaufry or hodgepodge of all other speeches. Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599): The Shepard's Calendar: Letter to Gabriel Harvey.
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