mare's nest

1. 1.

   a confused multitude of things

   Synonymsclutterjumblemuddlefuddleweltersmother

   Broaderdisorderliness

   Narrowerrummage

Questions about mare's nest

What does mare's nest mean?

mare's nest means "a confused multitude of things".

What is another word for mare's nest?

Close synonyms include clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, welter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mare's nest a common word?

mare's nest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.