What is "mishmash"

Usage examples of "mishmash".

Their skins are chocolate-tinted but their faces betray the genetic mishmash that is their ancestry - perhaps they call themselves Arapesh, Mundugumor, Tchambuli, Mafulu, in the way that he calls himself a Jew, but they have been liberally larded with chromosomes contributed by Chinese, Japanese, Europeans, Africans, everything.

I sang a mishmash of all kinds of songs that I liked, in all sorts of genres.

No, whatever mishmash delusions any of these drugs induce originate within the minds of the takers, no matter how far out the fantasies seem.

The Serpents' silly experiment went dreadfully wrong of course, and the rampant carryon particle transformed the people into a mishmash of mutated creatures.

Mishmashed neo-Quellist sentiment and old-time Commin, Commu—” He snapped his fingers.

Mishmashed neoQuellist sentiment and old time Commin, Commu —" he snapped his fingers.

But in this mishmash, like plums in a stodgy pudding, were the hard facts of which Craig stood accused.

CHAPTER 26 Silence was all Chloe heard when she could hear again, though it wasn't exactly silence, for, in contrast to the utter vacuum of deafness, silence was a mishmash of white noise: the faint hum of fluorescent lighting, the soft push of air from dehumidifiers installed to protect the ancient texts.

The original form, or rather forms, were an attempt to fuse Christianity with a mishmash of Oriental mystery cults, Neoplatonism, and sorcery.

Whenever he logged on at his Mospheira office port he'd inevitably acquire, through the filter that censored and frequently made hash of what it let him have, a mishmash of messages, some official, some scholarly inquiries, some the advisories of the hard-worked staff that supported the paidhi's office, from the devoted crew that sifted the outpourings of the phone-ins of every ilk, to the more reliable information that came to him down official channels, and to the Mospheira news summaries, neatly computer-censored for buzzwords and restricted concepts the paidhi couldn't take with him across the strait.

He wrote a draft, then painfully translated 'the letter into a mishmash of German, Russian, colloquial English, beatnik jive, literary allusions, pig Latin, and special idioms.

Like Saint Cyril's invention, Ulfilas's alphabet was a mishmash of letters borrowed from different sources: about 20 Greek letters, about five Roman letters, and two letters either taken from the runic alphabet or invented by Ulfilas himself.

Today, when seeds are transported over the whole globe by ship and plane, we take it for granted that our meals are a geographic mishmash.

Prince enjoyed watching street dancers lose their way in the mishmash of rhythms.

Its surface was a mishmash of boxy superstructures as tall as skyscrapers and force-bubble pressurization access ports the size of impact craters.