omnium-gatherum
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value UK is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˌɒm.nɪəmˈɡæ.ðə.ɹəm/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value US is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˌɑm.ni.əmˈɡæ.ðɚ.əm/
Etymology
Dog Latin, from Latin omnium (“of all”) and gather + -um, suggesting a collection of everything.
Noun
omnium-gatherum (plural omnium-gatherums or omnium-gathera)
- A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
- 1864, Robert Kerr, The Gentleman's House, page 342:
- We live in the era of Omnium-Gatherum; all the world's a museum, and men and women are its students. To design any building in England nowadays is therefore to work under the eye, so to speak, of the Society of Antiquaries.
Synonyms
- farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, ragbag
- See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
Translations
collection of miscellaneous things — see hodgepodge