galimatias

Etymology
Borrowed from, first attested in 1653 in Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais's works.

Noun

 * 1) nonsense, gobbledygook
 * 2) confused mixture; hodgepodge
 * 1) confused mixture; hodgepodge
 * 1) confused mixture; hodgepodge

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Etymology
, first attested in (1580) and other late 16th-century authors. There exist many very different hypotheses. The Trésor de la langue française informatisé cites sources that reject most of these hypotheses, including the only one in the dictionary of the Spanish Real Academia, which presents this as if it were not just one of many conjectures: "From, in reference to the way he describes the genealogy at the beginning of his Gospel." The Trésor comments it is commonly believed to be from. Coromines and Pascual prefer a derivation from, where Arimathia was thought of as an exotic place or country, then applied to incomprehensible speech, while also stating that the etymology may never be known with confidence, and that it appears the term is an invention of Michel de Montaigne's.

Noun

 * 1) nonsense, gobbledygook,

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  mishmash, hotchpotch

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) ; gobbledygook meaningless speech

Etymology
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