Word of the Day for Friday, December 4, 2009
gallimaufry \gal-uh-MAW-free\, noun:
A hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
Gallimaufry, originally meaning "a hash of various kinds of meats," comes from French galimafrée, from Old French, from galer, "to rejoice, to make merry" (source of English gala) + mafrer, "to eat much," from Medieval Dutch maffelen, "to open one's mouth wide."
Your mission, should you chose to accept it, is to get gallimaufry into an official document at your place of work.
gallimaufry \gal-uh-MAW-free\, noun:
A hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
Maran reports the daily jostlings and thrivings in a public school with 3,200 students, 185 teachers, 45 languages, a principal and five vice principals, five safety monitors, 62 sports teams and a gallimaufry of alternative programs, clubs and cliques.
-- Colman McCarthy, "A Writer Goes Back to School", Washington Post, August 20, 2001
-- Colman McCarthy, "A Writer Goes Back to School", Washington Post, August 20, 2001
Your mission, should you chose to accept it, is to get gallimaufry into an official document at your place of work.
