smorgasbord
Plural: smorgasbords
Noun
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- "a veritable smorgasbord of religions"
- an assortment of foods starting with herring or smoked eel or salmon etc with bread and butter; then cheeses and eggs and pickled vegetables and aspics; finally hot foods; served as a buffet meal
- A Swedish-style buffet comprising a variety of cold sandwiches and other dishes; (by extension) any buffet with a wide selection of dishes.
- An abundant and diverse collection of things.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish smörgåsbord (“buffet with many small dishes; smorgasbord”), from smörgås (“sandwich”) + bord (“table”). Smörgås is from Swedish smör (“butter”) + gås (“goose”), a reference to pieces of butter which float to the surface of milk when churned.
Synonyms
assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, variety, Whitman's sampler, bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, congeries, crazyquilt, disjecta membra, farrago, galimatias, gallimaufry, grab bag, hodgepodge, horse and rabbit stew, hotchpot, hotchpotch, job lot, jumble, macedoine, medley, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pastiche, patchwork quilt, ragbag, slurry, smorgasbord, welter
Scrabble Score: 17
smorgasbord: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsmorgasbord: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
smorgasbord: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary