Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Galimau’frey or Gallimau’frey (g hard).

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Galian’a (g hard).

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Galimau’frey or Gallimau’frey (g hard).

A medley; any confused jumble of things; but strictly speaking, a hotchpotch made up of all the scraps of the larder. (French, galimafrée; Spanish, gallofa, “broken meat,” gallofero, a beggar.)

“He woos both high and low, both rich and poor,

Both young and old, one with another, Ford;

He loves thy gaily-mawfry [all sorts].”

Shakespeare: Merry Wives, ii. 1.

Galian’a (g hard).

Gall and Wormwood.

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