Fiasco vs Farrago - What's the difference?
fiasco | farrago |
A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.
* William Barclay Squire, , Volume 3,
* 1911 , ,
* 1929, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 72
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As nouns the difference between fiasco and farrago
is that fiasco is a ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong while farrago is a collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.fiasco
English
Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (ludicrous or humiliating situation) (l)See also
* fiasci (hypercorrect plural) * fiaschiReferences
* Concise Oxford Dictionary, s. v. fiasco. *Compact Oxford English Dictionary on-line. *
The Word Detective, Issue of Oct 30, 2001. ----
farrago
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Balfe's next work, 'The Maid of Artois,' was written to a libretto furnished by Bunn, the first of those astonishing farragoes of balderdash which raised the Drury Lane manager to the first rank amongst poetasters.
- Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.
- Or, This is a farrago of absurdity, I could never feel anything of the sort myself.
- The original script is a complicated farrago of intertwined greed and lust, with marriages being planned and hearts being broken in order to accumulate fortunes as well as romance.
