galimatías
See also: galimatias
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French galimatias, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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[1]:
- 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
[edit]- “galimatías”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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