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Farrago definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FARRA'GO, n. [L. from far, meal.] A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a motley assortment of things [syn: odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -goes) Etymology: Latin farragin-, farrago mixed fodder, mixture, from far spelt — more at barley Date: 1632 a confused mixture ; hodgepodge

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -os or US -oes) a medley or hotchpotch. Derivatives: farraginous adj. Etymology: L farrago farraginis mixed fodder f. far corn

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Farrago Far*ra"go, n. [L. farrago, -aginis, mixed fodder for cattle, mash, medley, fr. far a sort of grain. See Farina.] A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture. A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. --Sheridan.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(farragoes, or farragos) If you describe something as a farrago, you are critical of it because you think it is a confused mixture of different types of things. (FORMAL) His own books and memoirs are a farrago of half-truth and outright invention. = hotchpotch N-COUNT: oft N of n [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Medley, mixture, jumble, hodgepodge, hotch-potch, salmagundi, olio, gallimaufry, olla-podrida.