omnium-gatherum

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A livelier and more variegated omnium-gatherum was never assembled.

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  1. noun A miscellaneous collection; a hodgepodge.

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  1. Latin omnium, genitive pl. of omnis, all; see op- in Indo-European roots + gatherum (mock-Latinate alteration of gather).

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  1. Dog-Latin, ‘a gathering or collection of everything’: L. omnium, of everything, of all things (see omnium); gatherum, a feigned noun of L. form, from English gather. Cf. omnigatherum.
 

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/ˈɑmnɪumˈgæðərum/
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