ragbag

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Compound of rag + bag.

If the ballad as a form of poetry were a mere ragbag of romance, one would find in it tags of old phrases, ambitious figures, tricks and turns of speech, change in metrical structure, and all manner of crumbs from the literary table; but these are conspicuous by their absence. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere
It was all over now; he had grown old and thin-faced and white, and had never done anything in the world; at least nothing for himself, his very own; he had sewn clothes,--thousands, millions of stitches in his work-weary life--no doubt there were still in existence scraps and fragments of his work,--in same old ragbag perhaps--beautiful, fine stitches, into which the keen eyesight and the deft hand had passed, still showing the artist-craftsman. — Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, Voltairine De Cleyre

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

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