mingle-mangle
[ ming-guhl-mang-guhl ]
noun
a jumbled or confused mixture; hodgepodge.
Origin of mingle-mangle
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How to use mingle-mangle in a sentence
So that the Essay is written with a stimulating mingle-mangle of attraction and reluctance, of advocacy and admission.
Matthew Arnold | George SaintsburyFrom F. hochepot, 'a hotch-pot, or gallimaufrey, a confused mingle-mangle of divers things jumbled or put together'; Cotgrave.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey ChaucerThere had been no half measures at Northampton, for the Puritans had a loathing of what they called a "mingle-mangle."
By What Authority? | Robert Hugh BensonWhy, a-God's name, was the old mass blotted out and this new mingle-mangle brought in, if it be all one?
By What Authority? | Robert Hugh BensonThere is as muche mingle mangle of parsons there, as was in the old time at the Towre of Babell.
One dialogue, or Colloquye of Erasmus (entituled Diuersoria) | Desiderius Erasmus
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