farraginous

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /fəˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪnəs/, /fəˈɹæd͡ʒɪnəs/

Adjective

farraginous (comparative more farraginous, superlative most farraginous)

  1. (now rare) Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
      Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor bar none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.
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