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

More than a century later, the book was found among a pile of books at a charity jumble sale by Cindie Raven in Dorset.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2024

It can be fabulous, or it can be like a dreadful art jumble sale – “hung with the usual motley abandon”, as art critic Alastair Sooke noted last year.

From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2018

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 Parsonage rapidly assumed the appearance of a clothing warehouse or permanent jumble sale, and Paddy’s first real laugh broke out one afternoon when she came over to help sew on name-tapes.

From Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Page, Gertrude