olio

noun

ˈō-lē-ˌō 

plural olios

1

: olla podrida sense 1

The Spanish restaurant offered an olio containing a variety of ingredients.

2

a

: a miscellaneous mixture : hodgepodge

… an incredible bourgeois olio of fancy stonework, stained glass, and light-opera staircases …

—R. H. Rovere

b

: a miscellaneous collection (as of literary or musical selections)

This olio of broadsides, speeches, letters, poems, and other documents …

—S. R. Slaton

Synonyms

• medley
• assortment
• variety
• jumble
• collage

Examples of olio in a Sentence

the performance was an old-fashioned olio of songs, dances, and puppetry

Word History

Etymology

modification of Spanish olla

First Known Use

circa 1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1