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farrago

Postby Apoclima » Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:01 pm

farrago
far·ra·go
n., pl. -goes.

An assortment or a medley; a conglomeration: “their special farrago of resentments” (William Safire).

[Latin farrāgō, mixed fodder, hodgepodge, from far, farr-, a kind of grain.]
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Postby Slava » Sun Jun 20, 2010 7:54 pm

I'll re-up the suggestion for this one. It's a nice word, and fits in well with the other mish-mash words we've seen here.
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