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A mixture you invented on purpose and now must explain to others.
means A blend of ingredients combined into something new, often improvised, suspicious, or oddly ambitious.
from From Latin concoquere, to cook together or digest — literally boiling things down until they merge into one.
Medical rootOnce meant the body digesting food into usable matter.
Tone shiftDrifted from cooking to scheming and dubious brews.
Sibling wordDecoction is its boiled-too-long cousin.