Farraʹgo.

A farrago of nonsense. A confused heap of nonsense. Farrago is properly a mixture of far (meal) with other ingredients for the use of cattle.

“Anquetil was derided … for having suffered a farrago of nonsense to be palmed off upon him by his Parsi teachers as the works of the sage Zoroaster.”—Whitney: Oriental Studies (Avesta). chap. vi. p. 184.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Fare Well (To)
Farina
Farinata
Farleu or Farley
Farm
Farmer George
Farmers
Farnese Bull [Far-na-ze]
Farnese Hercules [Far-na-ze Hercu-lees]
Faroese
Farrago
Farringdon Ward (London)
Farthing
Farthingale
Faryndon Inn
Fascination
Fashion [fash-un.]
Fashion of Speech (A)
Fast Girl or Young Lady (A)
Fast Man (A)
Fast and Loose (To play)