mishmash

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mish=mash

CIDE DICTIONARY

mishmash, n. [Cf. G. mish-mash, fr. mischen to mix.].

 A hodgepodge or hotchpotch; a confused jumble.  Sir T. Herbert.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mishmash, n. a confused mixture.

Etymology

ME, reduplication of MASH

THESAURUS

mishmash

all sorts, arsy-varsiness, assemblage, assortment, broad spectrum, clutter, conglomeration, farrago, gallimaufry, goulash, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, hysteron proteron, jumble, jungle, litter, magpie, mash, medley, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mix, mixed bag, mixture, muddle, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium gatherum, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, potpourri, rummage, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, stew, tangle, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, tumble, turmoil, unholy mess, welter, what you will

ROGET THESAURUS

mishmash

Disorder

N disorder, derangement, irregularity, anomaly, anarchy, anarchism, want of method, untidiness, disunion, discord, confusion, confusedness, mishmash, mix, disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber, cahotage, farrago, mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge, hotch-potch, hotch-pot, imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley, mere mixture, fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles, complexity, turmoil, ferment, to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble, whirlwind, bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors, Bedlam, all hell broke loose, bull in a china shop, all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay, pretty kettle of fish, pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business, disorderly person, disorderly persons offence, misdemeanor, slattern, slut (libertine), disorderly, orderless, out of order, out of place, out of gear, irregular, desultory, anomalous, acephalous, deranged, aimless, disorganized, straggling, unmethodical, immethodical, unsymmetric, unsystematic, untidy, slovenly, dislocated, out of sorts, promiscuous, indiscriminate, chaotic, anarchical, unarranged &c (arrange), confused, deranged, topsy-turvy, shapeless, disjointed, out of joint, troublous, riotous, complex, irregularly, by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts, pellmell, higgledy-piggledy, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, in a ferment, at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes, upside down, the cart before the horse, hysteron proteron, chaos is come again, the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.