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farraginous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /fəˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪnəs/ (UK)
• /fəˈɹæd͡ʒɪnəs/ (UK)

Etymology

From (the stem of) Latin farrago + -ous.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate.
   • For being a confusion of knaves and fools, and a farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages; it is but natural if their determinations be monstrous, and many waies inconsistent with Truth. 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC:
   • Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor bar none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:

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