| 单词 |
farrago |
| 释义 |
farrago|fəˈreɪgəʊ|
Also 8–9 farago.
[a. L. farrāgo mixed fodder for cattle, hence fig. a medley, confused mixture, f. farr-, far spelt, corn.]
A confused group; a medley, mixture, hotchpotch. †a. of material things or of persons. Obs.
1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady i. vii, Hee..holds..their causes, a farragoe, Or a made dish. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. iii. 149 The People were a Farrago, collected and gathered out of the neighbouring Nations. 1789G. White Selborne (1853) II. xxx. 245 Among this farrago also were to be seen some maggots.
b. of immaterial things.
1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 371 A strange miscellanie, farrago, and hotch-potch of Poperie, Arminianisme, and what not. 1783Pott Chirurg. Wks. II. 7 Ancient surgery was..loaded with a farrago of external applications. a1827Canning Poet. Wks. (1827) 41 No longer we want This farrago of cowardice, cunning, and cant. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 120 A farrago of the Lord's Prayer, the Litany of the Church of England, and the extemporaneous effusion of Dr. Cumming himself. |
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