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farrago

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"Confused mixture"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /fəˈɹeɪɡoʊ/Part of speech nounSorted aafgorrStarts with FEnds with O1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a motley assortment of things

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.

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