Tidy Lookup
All sites11
Curious Word of the Daycuriouswordoftheday.com

farrago

noun /fəˈɹeɪɡoʊ/

  1. A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.

    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!

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry farrago (CC BY-SA 4.0).

← farraginousfarsee →

Another random word More words starting with F