What's the difference between gallimaufry and hodgepodge?

Gallimaufry


Definition:

  • (n.) A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.
  • (n.) Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Which brings us back to Trump’s victory speech in Nevada, which was his usual gallimaufry of disconnected thoughts.
  • (2) Nonetheless, Late Night Line-up represented a kind of creative freedom: “I mean people wanted opportunities to be creative, and we wanted television to be better, we wanted the standards to be high, we wanted ideas to circulate.” Mixing the serious and the silly At its best, the important thing about the BBC has always been its cultural heterogeneity; the fact that it is a cheerful gallimaufry of the high and the low, the serious and the silly.

Hodgepodge


Definition:

  • (n.) A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Singapore, however, where a hodgepodge mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian residents actively aim to maintain what the nation's "founder", Lee Kuan Yew, has termed "racial harmony", supporters are hard to come by.
  • (2) Unfortunately it is also home to this thing – a fifth-tier multi-colored hodgepodge by Frank Gehry, which opened in 2000 and utterly failed to do for Seattle what his Guggenheim did for Bilbao.
  • (3) The entrance to Za'atari – now Jordan's fifth largest city – is a chaotic hodgepodge of Syrian refugees, Jordanian citizens, journalists, aid workers, vans and water trucks, with up to 10,000 visitors a day.
  • (4) Iron Man 2 was a huge disappointment, The Avengers (Iron Man 2½) an aimless hodgepodge and The Dark Knight Rises a pretentious, incoherent mess.
  • (5) The latter is true of the north-east Aegean, which includes a hodgepodge of islands stretching from lush Samos in the south – just off the coast of Turkey – up to Thassos, 400km to the north and closer to Bulgaria than it is to Athens.
  • (6) If there is a conceptual framework behind all this, it is as much of a hodgepodge as Skrillex's music.
  • (7) A hodgepodge alliance of US legislators is finally waking up to the need and opportunity to stand up for citizens' rights , but they will be slow and, don't we know, ineffective and often uninformed .
  • (8) The TV integration is an awkward hodgepodge of menus and overlays and dead ends.

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