Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A collection or mixture of unrelated things; a hodgepodge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hotchpotch; a medley.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hodgepodge or hotchpotch; a confused jumble.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A collection containing a variety of
miscellaneous things - verb transitive To mix together, especially in a confused way.
- verb intransitive To become mixed together.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a motley assortment of things
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This whole photography drawn thing mishmash is messing with my head.
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"There's more clarity at the two extremes and the mishmash is in the middle," Keysar adds.
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That is, it isn't a system (sorry Jan) the multimodal mishmash is wasteful in nearly every way.
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Really nice of you, mishmash is very true, Thank you for supporting the newbies. sharmi
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Nettop, stands for the word mishmash of interNET and deskTOP.
Pocket-lint.com 2009
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The mishmash is bursting with movies this week, but I’ll have to be brief.
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The mishmash is bursting with movies this week, but I’ll have to be brief.
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It’s a mishmash is what it is, created by Allan Ball of Six Feet Under and co-produced by Supernatural’s Raelle Tucker, it’s all tied together with that pay cable twist which means it can get totally raunchy and still air in primetime.
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So, what we have right now is a mishmash, which is being offered up as reform.
Democracy Now! 2009
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[This week’s cover article] on whether Charlottesville is “Southern,” is stupid and has what can charitably be described as a mishmash of quotations on our town.
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April 16, 2008