Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fəˈɹeɪɡoʊ/, /fəˈɹɑːɡoʊ/
Noun
farrago (plural farragos or farragoes)
- A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.
- Synonyms: hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle; see also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 20: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!
1885 July, “A Forgotten Pamphleteer”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume 37, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 84: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.
a. 1900, William Barclay Squire, “Balfe, Michael William”, in Dictionary of National Biography, volume 3:Balfe's next work, 'The Maid of Artois,' was written to a libretto furnished by Bunn, the first of those astonishing farragoes of balderdash which raised the Drury Lane manager to the first rank amongst poetasters.
1911, “Drama, 11f: Modern English Drama”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.
1929 September, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, uniform edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1931 (April 1935 printing), →OCLC, page 72:Or, This is a farrago of absurdity, I could never feel anything of the sort myself.
2005 November 7, Toronto Star: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.