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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