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mingle-mangle|ˈmɪŋg(ə)lˈmæŋg(ə)l|
Also 6 myngle mangle, mingle mangel.
[A varied reduplication of mingle n.]
A mixture; † a mess of mixed food for swine. Chiefly in contemptuous or disgusted use, a confused medley (of things or persons).
1549Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 98 They say in my contrye, when they cal theyr hogges to the swyne troughe Come to thy myngle mangle, come pyr. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Jas. 25 Their doctrine is ouer muche tempred with myngle mangle. 1603Dekker Wonderful Year D j, The maine Army consisting..of a mingle-mangle, viz. dumpish Mourners, merry Sextons [etc.]. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. To Rdr. 37 Tell me not it [the English tongue] is a mingle-mangle. 1741E. A. Laval Hist. Reform IV. viii. 1035 A Speech..no better than a Mingle-mangle of base Adulations. 1860All Year Round No. 70. 476 This mingle-mangle of dirty lanes, solemn, sorrow-stricken gaols [etc.].
b. attrib. or as adj. Like a mingle-mangle or hotch-potch, mixed confusedly.
1577Hammer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1663) 73 Tatianus..patched together, I wot not what kind of mingle-mangle consonancy of the Gospels. 1589J. Rider Bibl. Schol., In mingle mangle wise, or confusedlye. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 468 Professing a mingle-mangle hotch-potch religion. 1799Southey St. Gualberto xxv, The mingle⁓mangle mass of truth and lies. 1888Pall Mall G. 2 Oct. 9/1 The wine drunk nowadays was a mingle⁓mangle mixture of all things except that which was good.
So ˈmingle-mangle v. trans., to make a mingle-mangle of; whence ˈmingle-mangler. Also mingle-ˈmangleness.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Jas. iv. 7–17 Who so euer backbiteth his neighbour, he either condemneth the lawe,..or backbiteth it as though it were to muche myngle mangled, and walowyshe. 1550Latimer Last Serm. bef. Edw. VI (1562) 119 Yet ther be Leaueners yet styll and mingle manglers, that haue sowred Christes doctrine, with the leauen of the Pharises. 1614J. Taylor (Water-P.) Nipping Abuses B 3 b, How pitteous then mans best of wit is martyr'd,..So mingle mangled and so hack't and hewd. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. lx. (1737) 247 Then is sacrific'd to him, Haberdines, Poor-Jack, minglemangled, mishmash'd. 1827Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 56, I wish you could see what is done, which for oddity, mingle-mangleness, and out-of-the-wayness may vie with anything that has ever preceded it. |