mingle-mangle

[ ming-guhl-mang-guhl ]

noun

1. a jumbled or confused mixture; hodgepodge.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mingle-mangle¹

1540–50; gradational compound; mingle, mangle ¹

Example Sentences

So that the Essay is written with a stimulating mingle-mangle of attraction and reluctance, of advocacy and admission.

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From F. hochepot, 'a hotch-pot, or gallimaufrey, a confused mingle-mangle of divers things jumbled or put together'; Cotgrave.

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There had been no half measures at Northampton, for the Puritans had a loathing of what they called a "mingle-mangle."

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Why, a-God's name, was the old mass blotted out and this new mingle-mangle brought in, if it be all one?

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There is as muche mingle mangle of parsons there, as was in the old time at the Towre of Babell.

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