galimatías
See also: galimatias
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French galimatias, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡalimaˈtias/ [ɡa.li.maˈt̪i.as]
- Rhymes: -ias
- Syllabification: ga‧li‧ma‧tí‧as
Noun
galimatías m (uncountable)
- (colloquial) gibberish, nonsense, jumble
- 2020 September 6, “Las comunidades autónomas buscan a la desesperada reclutar a 39.000 profesores”, in El País:
- El proceso es un galimatías. La primera opción para la mayoría de comunidades es recurrir a las listas de los que no consiguieron plaza en otras oposiciones.
- The process is nonsense. The first option for most communities is to use the lists of those who did not get a place in other competitions.
- (colloquial) gallimaufry
Further reading
- “galimatías”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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