Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To confuse; jumble together.
- noun A confused mixture; a medley.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of.
- noun obsolete A hotchpotch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A collection containing a variety of
miscellaneous things.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a motley assortment of things
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Examples
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I hope you like today's shot, with its mingle-mangle of old stones and inconsistent patterns.
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I hope you like today's shot, with its mingle-mangle of old stones and inconsistent patterns.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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I hope you like today's shot, with its mingle-mangle of old stones and inconsistent patterns.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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I hope you like today's shot, with its mingle-mangle of old stones and inconsistent patterns.
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I hope you like today's shot, with its mingle-mangle of old stones and inconsistent patterns.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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The Tempest is, as it were, Shakespeare's affirmation, in answer to his critics, that his plays choose to be what John Lyly called a 'mingle-mangle', mixing clowns and kings, fairies and mortals, the divine and the human.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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The mingle-mangle of scarcely connected incidents which did duty with Greene for a plot, the irrepressible by-play with which
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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Why, a-God's name, was the old mass blotted out and this new mingle-mangle brought in, if it be all one?
By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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There had been no half measures at Northampton, for the Puritans had a loathing of what they called a "mingle-mangle."
By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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So that the _Essay_ is written with a stimulating mingle-mangle of attraction and reluctance, of advocacy and admission.
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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