farrago

noun
/fəˈɹeɪɡoʊ/

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from farrāgō — “mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge

Definitions

  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!
    • Balfe's next work, 'The Maid of Artois,' was written to a libretto furnished by Bunn, the first of those astonishing farragoes of balderdash which raised the Drury Lane manager to the first rank amongst poetasters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for farrago. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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