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单词 omnium gatherum
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omnium gatherumn.adv.adj.

Brit. /ˌɒmnɪəm ˈɡað(ə)rəm/, U.S. /ˌɑmniəm ˈɡæð(ə)rəm/
Inflections: Plural omnium gatherums, (rare) omnium gathera.
Forms: 1500s–1600s omnium githerum, 1500s– omnium gatherum, 1600s omnium getherum.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin omnium , omnigatherum n.
Etymology: < classical Latin omnium (see omnium n.) + -gatherum (in omnigatherum n.), as alteration of omnigatherum n.With sense A. 3 compare earlier omnium n.
A. n.
1. Chiefly colloquial. A gathering or collection of all sorts of people or things; a catch-all, an inclusive group or category. In early use, also: miscellaneous people or things considered together. Occasionally with omission of partitive of.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture
hotchpotc1405
hodge-podgec1426
omnigatherum?a1430
mishmashc1475
peasemeala1525
omnium gatherum1530
mingle1548
hotchpotch1549
mingle-mangle1549
gallimaufry1551
rhapsody1574
sauce-medley1579
pell-mellc1586
linsey-woolsey1592
wilderness1594
brewage1599
motley1609
macaronic1611
medley1618
olla podridaa1635
farragoa1637
consarcination1640
porridge1642
olio1645
bisque1653
mélange1653
hash1660
jumble1661
farrage1698
capilotade1705
jargon1710
salmagundi1761
pasticcio1785
pea meal1789
ollapod1804
mixty-maxty1818
macédoine1820
ragbag1820
haggis1822
job lot1828
allsorts1831
conglomerate1837
pot-pourri1841
chow-chow1850
breccia1873
pastiche1873
macaroni1884
mixed bag1919
casserole1930
mixed bunch1958
rattle-bag1982
mulligan1993
1530 R. Croke Let. to Cranmer (Vitell. B.xiii) f. 123v Certayne subscriptions unto the kynge, wheroff sauff ij, there ys none worthe a botton, but be omnium gatherum.
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 43 [The Jesuits] haue made religion..a very hotch potch of omnium githerum.
1622 J. Taylor Arrant Thiefe sig. B8 I haue the hands of Knights and Squiers: And Omnium gatherum Cheating knaues and liers.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 543 The Apothecary had muster'd up his several Slops and compleated the Composition of Omniumgatherum.
1776 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 214 My letters to you are an odd mixture. They would appear to a stranger like the dish which is sometimes called omnium gatherum.
1796 T. Morton Way to get Married ii. ii. 34 I'll make you up to all—Cons—Rescounters, short stuff, bonus, backwardation, omnium gatherum.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. vii. 230 Such an omnium gatherum as the inhabitants of a new settlement.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iii. 114 Odds and ends, and omnium-gatherums, and this, that, and the other, enough to fill nine museums.
1885 Academy 28 Nov. 357/3 If your faculty is an omnium-gatherum then it will not work.
1912 C. H. C. Wright Hist. French Lit. ii. 21 The third [epic] cycle was little more than an omnium-gatherum and included much that would not go into the other ones.
1955 G. Gorer Exploring Eng. Char. v. 65 The omnium gatherum of ‘other’ found members of dramatic societies, boy scouts and girls guides, [etc.]
1992 New Yorker 14 Dec. 134/1 An omnium-gatherum of a master reporter's work.
2. A kind of boisterous dance known in mid 17th cent. England, and perhaps identical with the cushion-dance (cushion-dance n.) or trenchmore (trenchmore n.). Obsolete.Perhaps an isolated application of sense B.; this is suggested by the form of words in quot. a1652, while the use of omnium gatherum in quot. 1689, in which it is preceded by the names of two dances but followed by two adverbs meaning ‘promiscuously’, ‘indiscriminately’, is as likely to be adverbial as substantival.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]
dance of Macabre?c1430
springc1450
lege de moya1529
bobc1550
lusty gallant1569
duret1613
fading1613
huckler1617
ground-measure1621
entry1631
slatter de pouchc1640
ballo1651
Irish trot1651
omnium gatheruma1652
clutterdepouch1652
upspring1654
passacaglia1659
shuffle1659
passacaille1667
flip-flap1676
chaconne1685
charmer1702
Cheshire-round1706
Louvre1729
stick dance1730
white joke1730
baby dance1744
Nancy Dawson1766
fricassee1775
bumpkin1785
Totentanz1789
Flora('s) dance1790
goombay1790
egg-dance1801
supper dance1820
Congo dance1823
slip-jig1829
bran-dance1833
roly-poly1833
Congo1835
mazy1841
furry1848
bull-dance1855
stampede1856
double-shuffling1859
frog dance1863
hokee-pokee1873
plait dance1876
slow dancing1884
snake dance1895
beast dance1900
soft-shoe1900
cakewalk1902
floral dance1911
snake dance1911
apache dance1912
grizzly bear1912
jazz dance1917
jazz dancing1917
jazz1919
wine-dance1920
camel-walk1921
furry dance1928
snake-dance1931
pas d'action1936
trance dancing1956
touch dance1965
hokey-cokey1966
moonwalk1969
moonwalking1983
Crip Walk1989
mapantsula1990
a1652 R. Brome New Acad. v. ii. 110 in Five New Playes (1659) Stri. Play then Les tous ensembles. Neh. That's the French name on't, Uncle, 'tis in Dutch call'd All-to-Mall; and I call it in English. Omnium Gatherum, 'tis the daintiest daunce.
1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 28 There has been nothing but Trench-more [printed French-more] and the Cushion Dance, omnium gatherum, tolly, polly, hoite come toite.
3. Stock Market. = omnium n. 1. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > stock > of the national debt > government's amount for unit of capital
omnium1760
omnium gatherum1761
1761 T. Mortimer Every Man his own Broker 163 Omnium is the whole subscription undivided; and is known in the Alley by the name of Omnium Gatherum, a cant phrase for, all together.
1793 J. Beresford in W. Roberts Looker-on No. 51. 402 With the omnium-gatherums, scrips, discounts, &c. it appeared, that the funds and credit of Virtue were gradually rising.
B. adv.
In a heterogeneous crowd or group of people; muddled up, without distinction or order. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adverb] > in a confused manner
omnium gatherum1648
1648 Merc. Acad. No. 1. 4 Being come omnium gatherum into the Convocation-house.
1650 A. B. Mutatus Polemo 28 Whither we ganged as drunkenly reeling as the Ship, omnium getherum, all together.
C. adj.
Comprising an omnium gatherum; miscellaneous, various; catch-all, inclusive. Also: (colloquial) in disorder or chaos; all over the place.
ΚΠ
1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold ii. 10 Rolled into one omnium-gatherum store.
1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Feb. 151/2 One of the omnium-gatherum volumes of the Historical Manuscripts Commission's Publications.
1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 June 742/3 Embracing everything from the family to the road system. Some might think this a somewhat omnium gatherum approach.
1986 P. Friedrich Princes of Naranja viii. 238 [In] political anthrohistory..one needs an overall cultural view and an omnium-gatherum approach to data collecting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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