galimatias

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Nonsense, gobbledygook. uncountable
    — […] 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.
  2. A confused mixture; hodgepodge. uncountable

词源

Borrowed from French galimatias, first attested in 1653 in Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais's works.
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