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[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

Hellu! Miss Loki thanks you for your fawning, and has advised that she will spare all those who provided kind words when the mechanofeline overlords rise in the future.

Galimatias [gal-i-may'shi-us]
noun

Definition
Nonsense! A confused mixture of unrelated things. A very cordial-sounding way to inform someone that their ideas are bafflingly ridiculous and incoherent without seeming overly impolite. It combines the senses of 'incoherent' and 'ridiculous' into a unique and useful term.

Etymology
From French, meaning 'gibberish.'

Usage kinda boring, but I couldn't think of anything funny :(
Jim, CEO of Awesome Inc., looked down the long board room table at the sweating, balding man in front of him. He remained silent a moment to let the moment linger, then eyed the proposal in front of him. "Johnson, this is the last straw!" He bellowed. "I asked you for a proposal on how we could get our profits up, and you give me this gallmatias of crap! You're fired!" He picked up a red rubber stamp and stamped IMBECILE in big, bold words on the front of the page.

Comments

[siraenuhlaalu.livejournal.com]

This word is from Russian. There is a word "Галиматья" "Galimatya" in our language which means nonsense.

[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

Amazing how languages from cultures many thousands of kilometres apart can have such similar sources.

[stagknight.livejournal.com]

They may have just been from the same source. The OED lists it as having unknown root but having come from French, having its first recorded use in English in 1551, and to compare gallimaufry (French: galimafrée). This page in Russian (http://www.lexicon555.com/march07/etymology.htm) (translated by Google (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://www.lexicon555.com/march07/etymology.htm&ei=RSaNSsW8DuOZjAfA1rj2DQ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=4&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%25D0%2593%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B8%25D0%25BC%25D0%25B0%25D1%2582%25D1%258C%25D1%258F%2Betymology%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den)) appears to contain an explanation, but I couldn't tell from context whether it was conjecture, made-up, or accurate.

(Edited to fix the link)

[nerdfury.livejournal.com]

Possibly also related to Gallifrey?

:D

[siraenuhlaalu.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. May be. French used to be very popular in XIX century in Russia.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Oh excellent -- I collect synonyms of gallimaufry.

---L.