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Omnium-gatherum

//ˌɑm.ni.əmˈɡæ.ðɚ.əm// noun

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

    "But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; and soon the stream rose, and rushed down, higher and higher, and fouler and fouler, full of beetles, and sticks; and straws, and worms, and addle-eggs, and wood-lice, and leeches, and odds and ends, and omnium-gatherums, and this, that, and the other, enough to fill nine museums."

  2. 2
    a motley assortment of things wordnet

Etymology

Dog Latin, from Latin omnium (“of all”) and gather + -um, suggesting a collection of everything.

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