Medley (noun)
med-lee
a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble.
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from Anglo-French, Old French medlee, mellee, noun and adjective use of feminine of past participle of medler “to mix, fight”; meddle
Example sentences
“After my foraging walk, I cooked myself up a mushroom medley.”
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