mingle-mangleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Reduplicated from mingle.

名詞

mingle-mangle (複数形 mingle-mangles)

1. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
   • 1902, Charles James Longman, Longman's Magazine - Volume 39 - Page 191:

     Is not it an extraordinary instance of a minglemangle of old Norse Paganism and Christianity? Thor's Mell and Christ's Cross.

同意語

• farrago
• hodgepodge
• hotchpotch
• melange
• mishmash
• omnium-gatherum
• ragbag
• See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

動詞

mingle-mangle (三人称単数 現在形 mingle-mangles, 現在分詞 mingle-mangling, 過去形および過去分詞形 mingle-mangled)

1. To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of.

   Synonym: jumble

   • 1550 October 19 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon XII. Preached at Stamford, Oct. 9, in the Year 1550.”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, Master Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester. […], volume I, London: […] J. Scott, […], published 1758, →OCLC, page 240:

     So ſhould vve Preachers be true men, Preachers of God's vvay, truly, truly, vvithout regard of perſon; that is, for man's pleaſure corrupting the vvord, or mingle-mangle the vvord vvith man's inven tion and traditions.