galimatias

Definitions

1. nonsense, gobbledygook
   uncountable
2. confused mixture; hodgepodge
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] and the old lady listened in silence, solemnly, rather coldly, as if she thought such talk⟳ a good deal⟳ of a galimatias: she belonged to the old-fashioned school and held that a young lady was sufficiently catalogued when it was said that she had a dazzling complexion or the finest eyes in the world.”

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