different between salmagundi vs mishmash

English

Alternative forms

• salmagundy
• solomongundy
• Solomon Gundy

Etymology

From French salmigondis (“seasoned salt meats”), from Middle French salmigondin, probably related to Middle French salomene (“hodgepodge of meats or fish cooked in wine”), from Old French salemine.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sal.m????n.di/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sæl.m????n.di/

Noun

salmagundi (plural salmagundis)

1. A food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
2. Hence, any mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 544:

     Partly too it reflected the nature of Revolutionary politics throughout the 1790s, which was invariably a kind of inspired bricolage, which involved yoking together a wide range of pre-existent elements into an unanticipated and constantly changing salmagundi of political forms.

Synonyms

• (mixture of various ingredients): miscellany, olio, potpourri

References

• salmagundi in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Alternative forms

• mish-mash
• mishmosh

Etymology

From Old English as reduplication of mash. Cognates include Saterland Frisian Miskmask and German Mischmasch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???mæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

mishmash (plural mishmashes)

1. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.

Synonyms

• farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, melting pot, mingle-mangle, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag
• See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

Translations

Verb

mishmash (third-person singular simple present mishmashes, present participle mishmashing, simple past and past participle mishmashed)

1. (transitive) To mix together, especially in a confused way.
2. (intransitive) To become mixed together.

Anagrams

• Shim Sham, shammish