FARRAGO (farragoes)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: farragoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does farrago mean? 

• FARRAGO (noun)
  The noun FARRAGO has 1 sense:

1. a motley assortment of things

  Familiarity information: FARRAGO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARRAGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A motley assortment of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("farrago" is a kind of...):

assortment; miscellanea; miscellany; mixed bag; mixture; motley; potpourri; salmagundi; smorgasbord; variety (a collection containing a variety of sorts of things)

 Context examples 

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance; and an appeal so worded could not be set aside without a grave responsibility.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)