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Definition of Mingle-mangle
1. Noun. A motley assortment of things.
Generic synonyms: Assortment, Miscellanea, Miscellany, Mixed Bag, Mixture, Motley, Potpourri, Salmagundi, Smorgasbord, Variety
Definition of Mingle-mangle
1. Noun. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mingle-mangle
Literary usage of Mingle-mangle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of William Wilberforce by Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce (1838)
"H.—beautiful; Spence Against Foreign Commerce—sad stuff, a vile mingle-mangle of
blundering conclusions from Adam Smith, Economists, &c.; Lowe on State of ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Latimer has the expression not un- frequently, and even as a verb, " to mingle-mangle
the word with man's inventions. ... (These mingle mangle, motly ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"mingle-mangle, sb. a medley ; hotch-potch. The Germans "made a mingle-mangle and
a hotch-potch of it—I cannot tell what, partly Popery, partly true religion ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1820)
"The doctrine of the philosophers of this world is overmuch tempered with mingle-
mangle," kc. Erasmus on St. James, cap. 1. " Here is a medicine more potent ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"A mingle mangle of manie matters in one booke," Nomenclátor, 1585, p. 5. "
Such a confused mingle mangle, and varietie of apish toyes in ..."
6. Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)
"They say in my country when they call their hogs to the swine-trough, ' Come to
thy mingle-mangle, come pur, come pur;' even so they made a mingle-mangle of ..."
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