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gal⋅li⋅mau⋅fry

  [gal-uh-maw-free]
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–noun, plural -fries. Chiefly Literary.
1. a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
2. a ragout or hash.
Origin:
1545–55; < MF galimafree kind of sauce or stew, prob. a conflation of galer to amuse oneself (see gallant ) and Picard dial. mafrer to gorge oneself (< MD moffelen to eat, nosh)
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gal·li·mau·fry   (gāl'ə-mô'frē)   
n.   pl. gal·li·mau·fries
A jumble; a hodgepodge.

[French galimafrée, from Old French galimafree, sauce, ragout : probably galer, to make merry; see gallant + mafrer, to gorge oneself (from Middle Dutch moffelen, to open one's mouth wide, of imitative origin).]
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Gallimaufry

Gal`li*mau"fry\, n.; pl. Gallimaufries. [F. galimafr['e]e a sort of ragout or mixed hash of different meats.]

1. A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.

Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat. --King.

2. Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch.

The Mahometan religion, which, being a gallimaufry made up of many, partakes much of the Jewish. --South.
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gallimaufry 
"a medley," 1551, from Fr. galimafrée "hash, ragout," origin unknown, perhaps from O.Fr. galer "to make merry, live well" + O.N.Fr. mafrer "to eat much," from M.Du. maffelen. Others see the proper name Maufré.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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