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A drawer for things too interesting to throw away and too random to name.
means A mixture of various things gathered together without a single unifying category — a collection united only by not fitting anywhere else.
from From Latin miscellaneus, 'mixed,' itself from miscere, 'to mix' — the same root that gives us 'mix,' 'miscible,' and 'promiscuous' (literally 'mixed forward,' i.e., indiscriminately mingled). The Romans had miscellanea, a dish of mixed scraps thrown together — so the word has smelled faintly of the kitchen midden since antiquity, long before it migrated to bookshelves and odds-and-ends drawers.
- etymology
- from Latin miscellaneus, literally mixed together
- usage
- often hides the best parts of a book
- synonym trap
- not the same as junk, curation implied
- collective cousin
- relates to miscellaneous but sounds classier