Crossword clues for farrago
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Farrago \Far*ra"go\, n. [L. farrago, -aginis, mixed fodder for cattle, mash, medley, fr. far a sort of grain. See Farina.] A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.
A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes,
and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.
--Sheridan.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"hodgepodge, a confused mix," 1630s, from Latin farrago "medley, mixed fodder, mix of grains for animal feed," from far "grain" (see barley).
Wiktionary
n. A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.
WordNet
n. a motley assortment of things [syn: odds and ends, oddments, melange, ragbag, hodgepodge, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hotchpotch, omnium-gatherum]
[also: farragoes (pl)]
Wikipedia
First published on 3 April 1925, Farrago is Australia's oldest student newspaper. Farrago is published by the Melbourne University Student Union.
Farrago is a genus of African plants in the grass family.
The only known species is Farrago racemosa, native to the Lindi Region of southeastern Tanzania.
Farrago is a Latin word, meaning "mixed cattle fodder", used to refer to a confused variety of miscellaneous things. As a name, it may refer to:
- Farrago (genus), a genus of grass
- Farrago (newspaper), student newspaper at the University of Melbourne
- Farrago rerum theologicarum, a book by Wessel Gansfort
- Ronnie Scott's Jazz Farrago
Usage examples of "farrago".
It was obvious to Andris that Fraxinus thought this speech a fine farrago of nonsense, designed to irritate him, but the merchant only sighed, with a slight smile about his face.
Barbeyrac threw overboard the old complex medical farragos of the pharmacopoeias, as his church had disburdened itself of the popish ceremonies.
This was the beginning, as nearly as we can fix it, of that reform which has introduced plain water-dressings in the place of the farrago of external applications which had been a source of profit to apothecaries and disgrace to art from, and before, the time when Pliny complained of them.
The place was even sloppier than my flat, cluttered with easels, jars of paint, brushes, blank canvases, and other artist's supplies, and a farrago of papers, maps, books, tattered Western pulps, fishing equipment.
Lang had warned Rick about Edwards during one of the last links the Farrago had had with Base Tirol, and it was difficult to keep the memory of that brief deep-space commo from surfacing.
Still others, mounted on a dozen or more tiny wheels, their exhausts giving off a dense, bitter fume, looked like speeding wreckage, asymmetrical and inelegant farragoes of glass and metalwork.
The rest of the Alphas, Betas, and Logans fell back to guard Farrago under Miriya.
Those who know something about the Old Norse side of the 'Nibelung' traditions (mainly referred to since the name-forms used are Norse) will think this a farrago of nonsense.