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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

all sorts, assemblage, assortment, broad spectrum, check, checker, checkerboard, checkerwork, chessboard, colors in patches, confusion, conglomeration, crazy quilt, crazy-work, gallimaufry, harlequin, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, jumble, magpie, marquetry, mash, medley, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, mixture, mosaic, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, parquet, parquetry, pasticcio, pastiche, plaid, potpourri, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, stew, tartan, tessellation, tesserae, variegated pattern, what you will

Dictionary Results for patchwork:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

patchwork
    n 1: a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or
         incongruous ideas [syn: patchwork, hodgepodge,
         jumble]
    2: a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials
       together [syn: patchwork, patchwork quilt]
    3: sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn
       together in a pattern

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Patchwork \Patch"work`\, n.
   Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of
   various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of
   incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly or
   clumsily composed; a thing patched up. --Swift.
   [1913 Webster]

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