mingle-mangle

[ ming-guhl-mang-guhl ]

noun

1. a jumbled or confused mixture; hodgepodge.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mingle-mangle¹

1540–50; gradational compound; mingle, mangle ¹

Example Sentences

I tried it, but I always seemed to revert to excess: one big mingle-mangle, everybody in the pool.

From New York Times

The consequence is, that many passages in these sermons are what Latimer would call a "mingle-mangle," or what we should call in this day "a complete mess."

From Project Gutenberg

I pray you make no mingle-mangle of things that do so differ in themselves, though ’tis true they come all of one source—the union and the unity of Christ and the believer.”

From Project Gutenberg

Why, a-God's name, was the old mass blotted out and this new mingle-mangle brought in, if it be all one?

From Project Gutenberg

The mingle-mangle of scarcely connected incidents which did duty with Greene for a plot, the irrepressible by-play with which Lyly loved to interrupt his main story, were rejected by him.

From Project Gutenberg