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FARRAGO (farragoes)

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Irregular inflected form: farragoes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does farrago mean? 

FARRAGO (noun)
  The noun FARRAGO has 1 sense:

1. a motley assortment of thingsplay

  Familiarity information: FARRAGO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FARRAGO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A motley assortment of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

farrago; gallimaufry; hodgepodge; hotchpotch; melange; mingle-mangle; mishmash; oddments; odds and ends; omnium-gatherum; ragbag

Hypernyms ("farrago" is a kind of...):

assortment; miscellanea; miscellany; mixed bag; mixture; motley; potpourri; salmagundi; smorgasbord; variety (a collection containing a variety of sorts of things)


 Context examples 


The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance; and an appeal so worded could not be set aside without a grave responsibility.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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