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mishmash

mishmash

Date: Mar 23 2005

Quote

1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.

“It’s actually a mishmash of two names.”
- Ben Grimes, of the band Golden Republic, talking about the band’s name.

Definition

1. Definition - Study the definition.

a mishmash is a combination of two or more different things

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

This term can be very useful when you want to describe something and are having a hard time doing it. It can be especially helpful with music or art. You can say that a band is a mishmash of ABBA and Usher. Wouldn’t that be fun?
Another way to use this term is like the way it is used in this quote. The band’s name is literally a mishmash, or combination, of the other names that they liked.
We see this in marriages sometimes as an option to the traditional taking the name of your spouse. For example if Mary Smith marries John Gray, they could change their names to Mary and John Graysmith. What a great mishmash of names!

Examples

1. Examples - Hear some example sentences.

“I like your fashion sense. It’s kind of a mishmash of urban Los Angeles and Hawai’ian style. What a great mix!”

””I like your fashion sense. It’s kind of a mishmash of urban Los Angeles and Hawai’ian style. What a great mix!”
“Their house is really cool. It’s a mishmash of a bunch of eclectic furniture from around the world.”
“The mishmash of people at his parties make them a lot of fun to go to. I always meet such a wide variety of people there.”

“Their house is really cool. It’s a mishmash of a bunch of eclectic furniture from around the world.”

“The mishmash of people at his parties make them a lot of fun to go to. I always meet such a wide variety of people there.”

Winners

1. Winners - See who guessed the slang definition correctly.

Mishmash = Mixture, Mix-up
by Jefferson (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
mishmash means a mixture
by Iman (mashhad, Iran)
i think it is ‘combination’
by zane (shenzhen, china)
combination
by gilda may (dumaguete, philippines)
I guess it means a mixture between two names ..
by Hesham (Cairo, Egypt)
mishmash is a mixture of very different things that are put together in a way that is not organized.
by lucia (hong kong, )
I think “mishmash’ is mean mix many things and become another thing.
by Shuying (Chongqing, China)
mixture, cross
by yi (BJ, China)
mishmash is combination of two name n become one
by ratna (banda aceh, indonesia)
mixing two words/thing into one name
by IMAH (Tarakan, Indonesia)
hmmmmmmmmm. it means motley of things
by Naser (Dammam, Saudi Arabia)
mishmash means mixed things
by Lois (Shenzhen, China)
i tihnk it means a combination, a kind of peculair or curious combination of two words.
by Cristina (Lima, Peru)
hotch-potch;apparently hastily put together name;slightly incongruous combination
by Urvi (GURGAON, INDIA)
a mixture of sth., combination.
by Jason (Beijing, P.R.C)
I think that mishmash is a mix of two things, in this case two names
by MIchele (João Pessoa, Brasil)
I think “mishmash” means it was not absolutely asame with something,it was mixed
by Michelle (Wide goose, China)
it’s meaning is bad mixture, but to be frank I looked up in a dictionary…
by SONER (Çanakkale, Turkey)
a mishmash is a mixture of two different words; it means that the name of the band is made up of two different words
by Graciela (mar del plata, argentina)
it means a mix.
by paola (pasto, colombia)
Mishmash means mess,mix-up,maze.
by Kornelia (Varna, Bulgaria)
It means a mixture or a compound,which is combined by two different stuffs.
by Yan (Tianjin, China)
means combination of more than one for example, i have mishmash work to do means the combination of tasks to be performed
by sweety (biratnagar, nepal)
this word means a mixture of unrelated stuff.
by victor (tianjin, china)
mishmash, the mixture of two things.
by lisa (dalian , china)
mishmash means confused and mixed each other.
by Angel (Nantong, China)
Mishmash means “mixture”, I think.
by Bruce (ShenZhen, China)
mishmash is a mixture of things
by bayie (hangzhou, China)
integration of the two names
by dan (dalian, China)
It’s a mixture of things consists of several different things together.
by heeja (seoul, Korea)
a mishmash of sth means a mix-up of sth.
by Ali (Dezful, Iran)
it means you mix two things together. Jumble.
by Lu (beijing, China)
from east and west so it is mixture of many thing
or it could comes like random
by amer (damsuce, syria)
a mixture of two items
by anichel (Monterrey, Mexico)
I think it means:
a composition, a mixture.
by Alexandre (Recife, Brazil)
i guess that it’s a mix of something. maybe of 2 styles
by magda (Białystok, poland)
a mishmash it s when we use words and we mix them to create another things
by gregory (saint etienne, France)
it’s the same as a mixture of both.
by Viviane (Campinas-SP, Campinas)

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NIJ321655

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Wow were are there going can I come I love this guy’s there cool.

04:45 PM Sep 24 2016 |

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