capharnaum

capharnaum

See also: Capharnaum and capharnaüm

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French capharnaüm.

Noun

capharnaum (plural capharnaums)

1. A disorderly jumble.
   • 1950, Christopher Morley, Preface to Boswell’s London Journal, 1762–1763, Yale University Press, page xxix:

     To his amazement, going through a capharnaum of miscellany (this was October, 1930, to January, 1931), Professor Abbott found what completely sidetracked him from Beattie.