A miscellaneous jumble. A hodgepodge in which disparate elements are thrown together without clear order, often with a faintly comic or culinary undertone. Where mixture is neutral, gallimaufry suggests a chaotic stew: many ingredients, no single recipe.

From French galimafrée, originally a kind of ragout or stew. The word’s metaphor is built-in: disorder as cookery—leftovers made into something that fills the pot, if not the palate.