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hashmagandy

hashmagandy noun: a stew made from a variety of ingredients.

Noun

hashmagandy (uncountable)

  1. (Australia) A stew made from a variety of ingredients.
  2. (Australia, slang) An insipid army dish.
  3. Residue remaining after organic material is processed, such as at an abattoir, used as fertiliser or by anglers as bait.
    • These fishermen procure from a boiling-down establishment, where diseased sheep, oxen, and horses are reduced to glue and other useful articles, the residuum, an awfully stinking substance called Hashmagandy,[…].1905, Arthur Henry Beavan, Fishes I Have Known, page 127
    • […]nitrogen is contained in the nitrate form in nitrate of soda and nitrate of potash, in the ammoniacal form in sulphate of ammonia, and in the organic form in dried blood, bonedust, bones, and digester refuse (hashmagandy), and manures of a similar class.1905, Victorian Department of Agriculture, The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria, volume 3, page 714

Origin of hashmagandy

Corruption of salmagundi.

Questions about hashmagandy

What does hashmagandy mean?
Hashmagandy means a stew made from a variety of ingredients.
What part of speech is hashmagandy?
Hashmagandy is a noun.

Words near hashmagandy in the dictionary

  1. hashkey
  2. hashkeys
  3. hashlike
  4. hashlock
  5. hashlocks
  6. hashmagandy
  7. Hashman
  8. Hashmans
  9. hashmap
  10. hashmaps
  11. hashmark

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