Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A collection or mixture of unrelated things; a hodgepodge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hotchpotch; a medley.
Wiktionary
- n. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things
- v. transitive To mix together, especially in a confused way.
- v. intransitive To become mixed together.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A hodgepodge or hotchpotch; a confused jumble.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a motley assortment of things
Etymologies
- From Old English as reduplication of “mash” (Wiktionary)
- Middle English misse-masche, probably reduplication of mash, soft mixture; see mash. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“That is, it isn't a system (sorry Jan) the multimodal mishmash is wasteful in nearly every way.”
“This whole photography drawn thing mishmash is messing with my head.”
“There's more clarity at the two extremes and the mishmash is in the middle," Keysar adds.”
“Really nice of you, mishmash is very true, Thank you for supporting the newbies. sharmi”
“Nettop, stands for the word mishmash of interNET and deskTOP.”
“The mishmash is bursting with movies this week, but I’ll have to be brief.”
“It’s a mishmash is what it is, created by Allan Ball of Six Feet Under and co-produced by Supernatural’s Raelle Tucker, it’s all tied together with that pay cable twist which means it can get totally raunchy and still air in primetime.”
“So, what we have right now is a mishmash, which is being offered up as reform.”
“[This week’s cover article] on whether Charlottesville is “Southern,” is stupid and has what can charitably be described as a mishmash of quotations on our town.”
“Cresson Township engineer Rich Wray said the project will replace 2-inch galvanized pipe that he described as a "mishmash," in an area along Admiral Peary Highway west of Sheetz.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mishmash’.
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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Not edible
Things that sound edible but are not (usually). See Liberty's To Eat, or Not to Eat? for more diet food.
cinnabar, dulcimer, belfries, potto, maltha, grapple, loam, rake, tort, pomade, buffalo chip, wedgie and 172 more...
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Only the Vowels are Different
hip-hop, fiddle-faddle, mishmash, flip-flop, chit-chat, riffraff, knick-knack, ping-pong, zigzag, sing-song, criss-cross, seesaw and 14 more...
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A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of...
amalgam, medley, conglomerate, pastiche, mishmash, motley, miscellaneous, various, sundry, congeries, potpourri, omnifarious and 5 more...
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Intertanglement
A list of bejumble and minglement.
intertanglement, mixture, commingle, commixtion, immixture, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, intermixture, medley, minglement, mingle-mangle, blendure and 60 more...
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Choi inspired
Fun words my friend loves and others I introduced to him.
Namby-pamby, Niminy piminy, Nitpick, Nit-wit, Piggly-wiggly, Ping-pong, Pitter-patter, Raggle-taggle, Riff-raff, zoot suit, zig-zag, wishy-washy and 73 more...
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Trash Talk
Words that indicate meaningless, confusing or deceptive talk.
white noise, blarney, pidgin, jabber, bullshit, yadda yadda yadda, mishmash, farrago, gobbledygook, yammer, drivel, jargon and 18 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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words I love to use
kerfuffle, smarmy, sketchy, grim, wheedle, piffle, prattle, loggerheads, snarky, piddling, nix, caterwaul and 90 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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Favorites
machiavellian, mercurial, deus ex machina, synecdoche, litotes, phallic, freudian, metonymy, chrestomathy, falsifiable, gestalt, truthiness and 211 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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Double Trouble
Reduplicatives and more.
splish-splash, hip-hop, kit-kat, dingaling, hugger-mugger, even-steven, tit for tat, higgledy-piggledy, dilly-dally, boogie-woogie, knick-knack, mai tai and 131 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mishmash.
gangerh Spidgespudge? Apr 16, 2008