farrago

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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

What is all this farrago to me? — The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California, Gustave Aimard
This I could discern by the studied hair-splitting farrago of his rejoinder. — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes, Edgar Allan Poe
And on the other hand Socialism and Trade Unionism cannot accept Mikado-worship and the whole farrago of myth upon which the Japanese State depends. — The Problem of China, Bertrand Russell

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

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