capharnaum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French capharnaüm. === Noun === capharnaum (plural capharnaums) A disorderly jumble; marked by a disorderly accumulation of objects. 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.