omnium-gatherum

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌɒm.nɪəmˈɡæ.ðə.ɹəm/    美 /ˌɑm.ni.əmˈɡæ.ðɚ.əm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
    — But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; and soon the stream rose, and rushed down, higher and higher, and fouler and fouler, full of beetles, and sticks; and straws, and worms, and addle-eggs, and wood-lice, and leeches, and odds and ends, and omnium-gatherums, and this, that, and the other, enough to fill nine museums.

词形变化

omnium-gatherums plural omnium-gathera plural omnium gatherum alternative omnigatherum alternative

词源

Dog Latin, from Latin omnium (“of all”) and gather + -um, suggesting a collection of everything.
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