A “farrago” (fuh-RAH-goh) - from the Latin for a mixed crop of feed grains - is a hodgepodge.

Example (as used by Virginia Heffernan in a New York Times review of The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell): “[Sarah Vowell] delivers a farrago of free-floating pedantry… having evidently made it her job to enlighten slacker Gen-Xers with a remedial history of our own nation.”

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