1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 3rd Serm. sig. Jii^v They say in my contrye when they call theyr hogs to y^e swine trough, Come to thy myngle mangle, come pyr.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. James i. f. xxv^v Their doctrine is ouer muche tempred with myngle mangle.

1573 R. Lever Arte of Reason Forespeache sig. ★.vj^v They, that with inckhorne termes doe chaunge and corrupt the same, making a mingle mangle of their natiue speache, and not obseruing the propertie thereof.

1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. D1 The maine Army consisting..of a mingle-mangle, viz. dumpish Mourners, merry Sextons [etc.].

1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. To Rdr. 37 Tell me not it [sc. the English tongue] is a mingle-mangle.

a1633 F. Godwin Man in Moone (1638) 69 I found in stead of Partridge, and Capon which I thought to have put there, a mingle mangle of drye leaves, of Goats hayre, sheepe, or Goats-dung, Mosse, and such like trash.

1741 S. A. Laval Compend. Hist. Reformation IV. ii. 1035 A Speech..no better than a Mingle-mangle of base Adulations.

1805 R. Southey Let. 6 Apr. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. 323 Their creed is not reasonable; it is a vile mingle mangle which a Catholic may well laugh at.

1860 All Year Round 25 Aug. 476 This mingle-mangle of dirty lanes, solemn, sorrow-stricken gaols [etc.].

1892 A. Birrell Res Judicatæ xi. 260 At present it [sc. the history of the Reformation] is but a hotch-potch, a gallimaufry, a confused mingle-mangle of divers things jumbled or put together.

1930 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 13 Nov. 8/7 Bishop Deane also explained America's great difficulty in welding together its extraordinary mingle-mangle of peoples, nations, and tongues.

1977 National Geographic Aug. 287/2 We deal with hands and cords, drams and scruples, pecks and carats, grains and points, firkins and hogsheads—all part of a gloriously illogical mingle-mangle of some 80 separate measures.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iv. xxvii. 74 Tatianus..patched together, I wot not what kind of mingle mangled consonancy of the Gospells.]

1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 946 In mingle mangle wise, or confusedlye.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 468 Professing a mingle-mangle hotch-potch religion.

1805 R. Southey Metrical Tales 57 The mingle-mangle mass of truth and lies.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Oct. 9/1 The wine drunk nowadays was a mingle~mangle mixture of all things except that which was good.

1998 Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 Sept. k10 Goddesses, mentors, monks, mystics and maestros of illusion put in requisite appearances in this mingle-mangle melodrama.

1827 R. Southey Select. from 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.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. James iv. f. xxxvii^v Who so euer backbiteth his neighbour, he either condemneth the lawe..or backbiteth it as though it were to muche myngle mangled, and walowyshe.

1614 J. Taylor Nipping of Abuses sig. B3^v How pitteous then mans best of wit is martyr'd,..So mingle mangled and so hack't and hewd.

1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. lx. 247 Then is sacrific'd to him, Haberdines, Poor-Jack, minglemangled, mishmash'd.

1988 New Leader (Nexis) 18 Apr. 20 Next most unhappy would be the true believers in one of the various Eastern cults whose language and rites are mingle-mangled at the ashram Sarah Worth describes.

1992 Harper's Aug. 45/2 A pagan goddess..helped a golden-skinned suppliant guess the meanings of words which had been mingle-mangled as to their letters.