This week’s theme
Food as metaphor

This week’s words
bouillabaisse
cherry-pick
rechauffe
saccharine
farrago


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PRONUNCIATION:

(fuh-RAH-goh)

MEANING:

noun: A confused mixture.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin farrago (mixed fodder). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhares- (barley), which also gave us barn, barley, and farina. Earliest documented use: 1637.

USAGE:

“Max Landis’s script cobbles together a farrago of cod^* psychology and makeshift backstory to prop up a plot that never finds any cohesive direction.”
Donald Clarke; Creaking at the Seams; Irish Times (Dublin) Dec 4, 2015.
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See more usage examples of farrago in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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