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gal⋅i⋅ma⋅ti⋅as

  [gal-uh-mey-shee-uhs, -mat-ee-uhs]
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–noun
confused or unintelligible talk.
Origin:
1645–55; < F, word of obscure orig. first attested in Montaigne (jargon de galimathias)
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gal·i·ma·ti·as   (gāl'ə-mā'shē-əs, -māt'ē-əs)   
n.  Nonsense; gibberish.

[French.]
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