disapproval If you say that something is a mishmash, you are criticizing it because it is a confused mixture of different types of things. The letter was a mish-mash of ill-fitting proposals taken from two different reform plans. = hotch-potch, hodgepodge. a mixture of a lot of very different things that are put together in a way that is not organized = hodge-podge mishmash of (mash)