Amalgam (noun)
a-mal-gam
A mixture or blend.
Late 15th century from French amalgame or medieval Latin amalgama, from Greek malagma ‘an emollient’.
Example sentences
“It offers an odd amalgam of the traditional and the modern.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
