Farrago

//fəˈɹeɪɡoʊ// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.

    "Yet do I carry every vvhere vvith me ſuch a confounded farago of doubts, fears, hopes, vviſhes, and all the flimſy furniture of a country Miſs's brain!"

  2. 2
    a motley assortment of things wordnet

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gallimaufryhodgepodgehotchpotchmelangemingle-manglemishmash

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"Yet do I carry every vvhere vvith me ſuch a confounded farago of doubts, fears, hopes, vviſhes, and all the flimſy furniture of a country Miſs's brain!"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin farrāgō (“mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge”), from far (“emmer (a kind of wheat), coarse meal, grits”). Doublet of farro.

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