farraginous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From (the stem of) Latin farrago + -ous.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
farraginous (comparative more farraginous, superlative most farraginous)
- (now rare) Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC:
- For being a confusion of knaves and fools, and a farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages; it is but natural if their determinations be monstrous, and many waies inconsistent with Truth.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor bar none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.