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A mess so confident it calls itself a system.
means A jumbled mixture of unrelated things thrown together without order.
from A reduplication word, born the way English loves to make them — take a word and echo it with a vowel shift. 'Mishmash' comes from the older 'mish-mash,' itself probably a doubling of 'mash,' meaning a pulpy mixture. Related reduplications include 'hodgepodge' and 'hugger-mugger' — English has a long habit of naming chaos by stuttering at it.
- origin
- reduplication of mash, 1400s English
- cousin term
- related to Yiddish mish mash, same meaning
- usage tell
- always messier than the word sounds
- synonym energy
- hodgepodge's less organized sibling