jumble sale

American  

noun

British.

1. rummage sale.

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jumble sale British  

noun

1. US and Canadian equivalent: rummage sale.  a sale of miscellaneous articles, usually cheap and predominantly secondhand, in aid of charity

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Etymology

Origin of jumble sale

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

They’d found a piece of fabric in a jumble sale together.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024

My father, imagining himself as Goethe, bought a pair of ice skates at a jumble sale; they fitted none of us.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2016

But in the church’s aisles, a used-book jumble sale and an exhibition by local painters take up far more room than the vaunted chapels.

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2015

The other similarity with the traditional car park jumble sale is that the artworks are sold for knockdown prices - with pieces changing hands for as little as £10.

From BBC • May 28, 2012

Say you went to a jumble sale and bought it; you paid one-and-twopence-halfpenny for it.

From The Rebel of the School by Meade, L. T.