Mish-mash


noun

(also mish-mosh)A confused mixture; an indiscriminate miscellany: regarded as a hopeless mishmash/ as untidy as untangling the Starrett mishmash

[1450+; apparently originally fr German Mischmasch, but probably in its modern use chiefly fr Yiddish]

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