subs. (old).—See quots.
1598. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes. A chaos, a confused lump, a formelesse masse, a MISHMASH.
1609. HOLLAND, Ammianus Marcellinus, 386. And these are so full of their confused circumlocutions, that a man would thinke he heard Thersites with a frapling and bawling clamor to come out with a MISHMASH and hotchpotch of most distastfull and unsavorie stuffe.
1638. SIR T. HERBERT, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great, p. 27. Their language … [is] a MISH-MASH of Arabic and Portuguese.
1755. JOHNSON, A Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. MISHMASH. A low word. A mingle or hotch-potch.
