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Roget 59: disorder; derangement etc. 61; irregularity; anomaly etc. (unconformity) 83; anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness etc. adj.; disunion; discord etc. 24.    confusion; confusedness etc. adj.; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage^†; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U.S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch^†, hotch-pot^†; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum [Lat.], medley; mere mixture etc. 41; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra [Lat.], rudis indigestaque moles [Lat.] [Ovid]. complexity etc. 59.1. turmoil; ferment etc. (agitation) 315; to-do, trouble, pudder^†, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour^†, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind etc. 349; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors [Lat.]; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre [Fr.], Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work [Fr.], pretty piece of business [Fr.].    [legal terms] disorderly person; disorderly persons offence; misdemeanor.    [moral disorder] slattern, slut (libertine) 962.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 584: loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness etc. adj.; garrulity; multiloquence^†, much speaking.    jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, twattle, rattle; caquet^†, caquetterie [Fr.]; blabber, bavardage^†, bibble-babble^†, gibble-gabble^†; small talk etc. (converse) 588.    fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words; flux de bouche [Fr.], flux de mots [Fr.]; copia verborum [Lat.], cacoethes loquendi [Lat.]; furor loquendi [Lat.]; verbosity etc. (diffuseness) 573; gift of the gab etc. (eloquence) 582.    talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler etc. v.; rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser^†, driveler; blatherskite [U.S.]; gossip etc. (converse) 588; magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles [Fr.].    ... meer laten zien

Roget 563: neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym^†; barbarism.    archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.    corruption, missaying^†, malapropism, antiphrasis^†.    pun, paranomasia^†, play upon words; word play etc. (wit) 842; double-entendre [Fr.] etc. (ambiguity) 520; palindrome, paragram^†, anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms.    dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism^†; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.    dog Latin, macaronics^†, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English^†, chi-chi.    figure of speech etc. (metaphor) 521; byword.    colloquialism, informal speech, informal language.    substandard language, vernacular.    vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity.    jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot; St.    Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang.    pseudology^†.    pseudonym etc. (misnomer) 565; Mr.    So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em^†, whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy^†, thingumbob; je ne sais quoi [Fr.].    neologist^†, coiner of words.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 414: discord, discordance; dissonance, cacophony, want of harmony, caterwauling; harshness etc. 410.    [Confused sounds], Babel, Dutch concert, cat's concert; marrowbones and cleavers.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 560: language; phraseology etc. 569; speech etc. 582; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect etc. 563.    confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie^†; pantomime etc. (signs) 550; onomatopoeia; betacism^†, mimmation, myatism^†, nunnation^†; pasigraphy^†.    lexicology, philology, glossology^†, glottology^†; linguistics, chrestomathy^†; paleology^†, paleography; comparative grammar.    literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres [Fr.], muses, humanities, literae humaniores [Lat.], republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship etc. (scholar) 492.    ... meer laten zien

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