mishmash

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  1. noun A collection or mixture of unrelated things; a hodgepodge.

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  • Britannica, by contrast, was a bloated mishmash, a consequence of its long tradition of having articles written by many different celebrity authors.
  • Utterly confused, Wilhelm said to himself explosively, What kind of mishmash, claptrap is this! —  Seize the Day
  • It was a real mishmash -- hardcovers and paperbacks, fiction and non-fiction and textbooks, atlases and magazines and even postcards. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
  • Instead, it just feels like a mishmash without any real cleverness or inspiration. —  The Hollywood News
  • A former dancer with Ballet Nacional de Cuba, White bases his teaching methodology on that of the revered Russian ballet pedagogue Agrippina Vaganova and denigrates the plethora of contemporary ballet teachers who use what he sees as a "mishmash" method, "cherry-picking" ideas from different instructional approaches.
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  1. Middle English misse-masche, probably reduplication of mash, soft mixture; see mash.

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  1. A varied reduplication of mash. Cf. equivalent G. mischmasch (= Danish miskmask), a varied reduplication of mischen, mix.
 

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