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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 Etymology: Middle English & Yiddish; Middle English mysse masche, perhaps reduplication of mash mash; Yiddish mish-mash, perhaps reduplication of mishn to mix Date: 15th century hodgepodge, jumble

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a confused mixture. Etymology: ME, reduplication of MASH

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mishmash Mish"mash`, n. [Cf. G. mish-mash, fr. mischen to mix.] A hotchpotch. --Sir T. Herbert.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also mish-mash If you say that something is a mishmash, you are criticizing it because it is a confused mixture of different types of things. The letter was a mish-mash of ill-fitting proposals taken from two different reform plans. = hotch-potch, hodgepodge N-SING: usu a N of n [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

all sorts, arsy-varsiness, assemblage, assortment, broad spectrum, clutter, conglomeration, farrago, gallimaufry, goulash, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, hysteron proteron, jumble, jungle, litter, magpie, mash, medley, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mix, mixed bag, mixture, muddle, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium gatherum, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, potpourri, rummage, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, stew, tangle, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, tumble, turmoil, unholy mess, welter, what you will