Olio

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: o=li=o

CIDE DICTIONARY

Olio, n. [Sp. olla a round earthen pot, a dish of boiled or stewed meat, fr. L. olla a pot, dish. Cf. Olla, Olla-podrida.].

•  A dish of stewed meat of different kinds.  [1913 Webster]

  "Besides a good olio, the dishes were trifling."  [1913 Webster]
•  A mixture; a medley.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
•  A collection of miscellaneous pieces.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Olio, n. (pl. -os)
1 a mixed dish; a stew of various meats and vegetables.
2 a hotchpotch or miscellany.

Etymology

Sp. olla stew f. L olla cooking-pot

THESAURUS

Olio

Irish stew, all sorts, assemblage, assortment, bouillabaisse, brew, broad spectrum, chowder, conglomeration, curry, etuvee, fricassee, gallimaufry, goulash, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, jumble, magpie, mash, meat stew, medley, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, odds and ends, olla, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, oyster stew, paella, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, potpourri, ragout, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, stew, what you will

ROGET THESAURUS

Olio

Mixture

N mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion, commixion, intermixture, alloyage, matrimony, junction, combination, miscegenation, impregnation, infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion, infiltration, seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding, interpolation, adulteration, sophistication, tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon, alloy, amalgam, brass, chowchow, pewter, magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts, jumble, salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn, mosaic, half-blood, half-caste, mulatto, terceron, quarteron, quinteron, quadroon, octoroon, griffo, zambo, cafuzo, Eurasian, fustee, fustie, griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule, catalo, cross, hybrid, mongrel, mixed, implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous, motley, miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate, miscible, among, amongst, amid, amidst, with, in the midst of, in the crowd.