farrago

In a sentence.

1. 01

   The lecture became a farrago of anecdotes and half-finished theories.

2. 02

   His drawer held a farrago of cables, postcards, and loose keys.

Where it came from.

Farrago was borrowed from Latin farrāgō, first a mixture of fodder and then a mixture more generally. It is related to far, a kind of wheat.

Why it’s interesting.

A name for mixed animal feed became a vivid way to describe a jumble of ideas or objects.