英语词汇“mishmash”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A mishmash is a random bunch of odds and ends. Many people have a mishmash of things in their basement or garage. A pile of old keys, one sock, four paper clips, and a water bottle? Total mishmash.

Many houses have one kitchen drawer full of a mishmash of pens, rubber bands, carryout menus, and gum, for example. If you write a last-minute research paper, you might wind up with a mishmash of random ideas and opinions. The word was originally spelled with a hyphen, mish-mash, and before that it was mysse-masche, which had to do with mash, as in a bunch of soft food chucked together and fed to pigs. Another word for mishmash is hodgepodge.

WORD FAMILY

mishmash

USAGE EXAMPLES

If this sounds like a recipe for mishmash, it’s not: There’s not a single dud among the 39 works in the show.

New York Times(Dec 22, 2016)

The game’s world of Eos resembles a mishmash of eras lifted from our own, adding to the sense of having landed somewhere weird and wonderful.

Time(Nov 28, 2016)

Despite appearances, Áurea’s inhabitants are as Brazilian as members of the other groups that make up the country’s ethnic mishmash.

Economist(Nov 24, 2016)

n a motley assortment of things

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

assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety

a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

单词	mishmash
释义	mishmash (once / 50510 pages) n A mishmash is a random bunch of odds and ends. Many people have a mishmash of things in their basement or garage. A pile of old keys, one sock, four paper clips, and a water bottle? Total mishmash. Many houses have one kitchen drawer full of a mishmash of pens, rubber bands, carryout menus, and gum, for example. If you write a last-minute research paper, you might wind up with a mishmash of random ideas and opinions. The word was originally spelled with a hyphen, mish-mash, and before that it was mysse-masche, which had to do with mash, as in a bunch of soft food chucked together and fed to pigs. Another word for mishmash is hodgepodge. WORD FAMILY mishmash USAGE EXAMPLES If this sounds like a recipe for mishmash, it’s not: There’s not a single dud among the 39 works in the show. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) The game’s world of Eos resembles a mishmash of eras lifted from our own, adding to the sense of having landed somewhere weird and wonderful. Time(Nov 28, 2016) Despite appearances, Áurea’s inhabitants are as Brazilian as members of the other groups that make up the country’s ethnic mishmash. Economist(Nov 24, 2016) n a motley assortment of things Syn\|Hyper farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
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