Motley vs Farrago - What's the difference?
motley | farrago |
Comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity; heterogeneous.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
Having many colours; variegated.
An incongruous mixture.
A jester's multicoloured clothes.
(by extension) A jester; a fool.
* 1598 , , III. iii. 71:
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A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.
* William Barclay Squire, , Volume 3,
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* 1929, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 72
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As nouns the difference between motley and farrago
is that motley is an incongruous mixture while farrago is farrago, hodgepodge, mishmash.As an adjective motley
is comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity; heterogeneous.motley
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- Will you be married, motley ?
- Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there, / And made myself a motley to the view,
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.