farraginous
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fəˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪnəs/
Adjective
farraginous (comparative more farraginous, superlative most farraginous)
- (now rare) Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
- For being a confusion of knaves and fools, and a farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages; it is but natural if their determinations be monstrous, and many waies inconsistent with Truth.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor bar none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
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