galimafrée

French

Etymology

From Old French calimafree (“stew of various kinds of meats”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from a combination of Old French galer (“to have fun, to enjoy oneself”) and Old Northern French (Picard) mafrer (“to eat gluttonously”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.li.ma.fʁe/

Noun

galimafrée f (plural galimafrées)

1. (archaic) gallimaufry

Further reading

• “galimafrée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.