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Galimatias, gal-i-mā′shi-as, n. nonsense, gibberish: any confused mixture of unlike things.

Why should there not be a double irony for the clever, just as there is a galimatias double for the dull?

Her dress, like her language, is a galimatias of several countries.

Wilson, impatient in everything, had fluctuated between grandeur and galimatias, bathos and bad taste; De Quincey, at times supreme, had at others simply succumbed to "rigmarole."

I remembered, when I was collecting material for my story, that in General Wilkinson's galimatias, which he calls his "Memoirs," is frequent reference to a Jorkins-like partner of his, of the name of Nolan, who, at some time near the beginning of this century, was killed in Texas.