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Salmagundi vs Mishmash - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between salmagundi and mishmash

is that salmagundi is a food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions while mishmash is a collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.

As a verb mishmash is

to mix together, especially in a confused way.

salmagundi

English

(wikipedia salmagundi)

Alternative forms

* solomongundy * Solomon Gundy

Noun

(en noun)
  • A food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
  • Hence, any mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.
  • *2002 , , 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.
  • *'>citation

    • Synonyms

    * (mixture of various ingredients) miscellany, olio, potpourri

    References

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    mishmash

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mish-mash * mishmosh

    Noun

    (es)
  • 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

    Verb

    (es)
  • To mix together, especially in a confused way.
  • To become mixed together.
    • English reduplications