Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GAL'LI-MAU-FRY, n. [Fr. gallimafrée.]

1. A hash; a medley; a hodge-podge. [Little used.] – Spenser.
2. Any inconsistent or ridiculous medley. – Dryden.
3. A woman. [Not in use.] – Shak. [“Galimaufrey, a hodge-podge made up of the remnants and scraps of the larder.” – Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. “Clear and easy words in unintelligible things are mere words without sense; and things, which are unintelligible, though expressed with plain and easy words, are called a galemaufrey.” An Impartial Account of the Word Mystery, as it is taken in the Holy Scripture. Lond. 1691, 4to, p. 19. – E.H.B.]