bollix

noun

Definition of bollixnext
as in mishmash

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  1. mishmash
  2. shuffle
  3. clutter
  4. litter
  5. maelstrom
  6. hodgepodge
  7. miscellany
  8. morass
Noun
  • Until the postwar period, Paju and Haigh write, IBM’s operations outside the US were a mishmash of joint ventures, subsidiaries, and licensing agreements with no unified strategy.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Nevertheless, many of the Wings’ errors are unforced, potentially a result of their mishmash of players not being on the same page.
    Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
Definition of mishmash
Noun
  • Rotation shuffle: With Kevin Love missing the game with the back spasms that had him out after his initial stint in Tuesday night’s loss to the Bucks, first-round pick Ware played as the Heat’s first big man off the bench.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The clogs—which are filled with some sort of Tempurpedic material inside and come in a variety of designs for all animal lovers—are so comfortable for a morning shuffle to the coffee shop or around the backyard.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of shuffle
Noun
  • Top goals force you to think more critically about the tasks in front of you, cutting through the clutter to get to the heart of where your time is best spent.
    Hope Horner, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The result is a maelstrom of loops crashing into one another, lyrics shattered and left as shards, and of clutter: sonic, mental, and physical.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of clutter
Noun
  • Last December, my young cat Snoopy was only a 2-month-old kitten living with his mama, litter mates and a family who would soon give him up for adoption.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The five other tigers who were tracked in detail (as well as eight more that were not as intensively studied) have produced at least six litters of cubs and made 132 kills of prey that is more appropriate than Chinese goats.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of litter
Noun
  • The sheer number of actors would create a tumultuous maelstrom of its own.
    Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The 2024 San Francisco Giants are a hot mess, a maelstrom of injuries, disappointments and tantalizing hints of something better that’s just out of reach.
    Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 23 July 2024
Definition of maelstrom
Noun
  • The Panthers owe it to themselves to evaluate Young for a long stretch in a system much more dynamic than last year’s hodgepodge while playing behind a competent offensive line.
    Joseph Person, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Indeed, at least two states — Maryland and Maine — have issued warnings, saying that instead of comprehensive ACA coverage, these are often non-ACA products, amounting to a hodgepodge of discount cards, for example, or limited-indemnity plans.
    Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of hodgepodge
Noun
  • Yet this long, obscure miscellany turned out to be a garland of little gems.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
  • With your celestial ruler, Mars, joining forces with Jupiter in Gemini, the cosmos is inspiring you with a fiery burst of motivation to enhance your skills and tackle writing projects as well as other miscellanies.
    Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2024
Definition of miscellany
Noun
  • For such writers and thinkers, including Jean-François Lyotard, Hannah Arendt, and Heinrich Blücher, history felt like a betrayal in which former traditions and institutions had collapsed, leaving behind a morass of emptiness and fractured communities.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
  • He’s principally defined by having no clear place to be, which can be rich territory for psychological texture — or a narrative morass that bogs everything down.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 July 2024
Definition of morass
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