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farrago

/fəˈɹeɪɡoʊ/

farrago noun: a collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.

Noun

farrago (plural farragos or farragoes)

  1. A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.
    • Yet do I carry every vvhere vvith me ſuch a confounded farago of doubts, fears, hopes, vviſhes, and all the flimſy furniture of a country Miſs's brain!1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 20
    • Back in Paris, where all men adrift naturally float, he succeeded in publishing a fantastic novel, “Sortie d’un Rêve,” a farrago of all that is most foolish in the earlier romantic authors, with here and there a racy turn—“a personal note,” M. Zola would say.1885 July, “A Forgotten Pamphleteer”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume 37, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 84

farrago meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

farrago in Urdu

درہمی برہمی, انتشاری

farrago in Malayalam

mishmash, hotchpotch, ragbag
വ്യാമിശ്രിതം, ആശയക്കുഴപ്പമുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന സങ്കരം, വിവിധവസ്തുസമ്മിശ്രണം, അവിയൽ, കുട്ടുകറി, കിച്ചടി

farrago in Kannada

ಕಲಸುಮೇಲೋಗರ, ಕದಲು ಬದಲು, ಗೊಂದಲ ಭಾವನೆಗಳ ದುರ್ಮಿಶ್ರಣ

Examples of farrago in a sentence

  • Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.1911, “Drama, 11f: Modern English Drama”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:
  • Or, This is a farrago of absurdity, I could never feel anything of the sort myself.1929 September, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, uniform edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […]...
  • The original script is a complicated farrago of intertwined greed and lust, with marriages being planned and hearts being broken in order to accumulate fortunes as well as romance.2005 November 7, Toronto Star:
  • The farrago may have deprived Farage of a fancy bank account, but Alison Rose, chief executive of Coutts’ less exclusive owner, NatWest, gave him something much more valuable: the moral high ground.2023 December 31, Jasper Jolly, “A Farage farrago, crypto crime and rivers of cash: the 2023 Observer business awards”, in The Guardian:

Synonyms of farrago

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Forms of farrago

pluralfarragos
pluralfarragoes

Origin of farrago

Borrowed from Latin farrāgō (“mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge”), from far (“emmer (a kind of wheat), coarse meal, grits”). Doublet of farro.

Words formed from farrago

Questions about farrago

What does farrago mean?
Farrago means a collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.
What is farrago in Urdu?
Farrago in Urdu is درہمی برہمی, انتشاری. See Farrago meaning in Urdu.
How do you use farrago in a sentence?
Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.
What part of speech is farrago?
Farrago is a noun.
How do you pronounce farrago?
Farrago is pronounced /fəˈɹeɪɡoʊ/.
What is the plural of farrago?
The plural of farrago is farragos.

Words near farrago in the dictionary

  1. Farquhar
  2. Farquharson
  3. farr
  4. Farra
  5. farraginous
  6. farrago
  7. farragoes
  8. farragos
  9. Farrah
  10. Farraj
  11. Farrajs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: farrago (page history and authors); farrago (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); farrago (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); farrago (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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