Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mixture of dissimilar ingredients; a jumble.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hotchpotch . - noun In law, a commixture of lands. See
hotchpot , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mixed mass; a medley. See
hotchpot .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A collection of
miscellaneous things; ajumble .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a motley assortment of things
- noun a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But doctors have chafed at being measured by what they describe as a hodgepodge of systems that lack any oversight and consistency -- and some health-care experts say they have a point.
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As an advocate of single-payer, I can't say I am particularly fond of some of these controversial parts, although given the total mess of the current system, and the convincing projections of how much worse it will get if we do nothing, I'm prepared to accept that even this hodgepodge is significantly better than nothing.
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I've always wanted to use the word hodgepodge in a title of a blog post.
Feld Thoughts 2009
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Mercy Corps is described as hodgepodge of about 3700 professionals working to help millions in crisis around the world.
CBS3.com - Philadelphia's Source For Breaking News, Weather, Traffic and Sports 2010
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Mercy Corps - Mercy Corps is described as hodgepodge of about 3700 professionals working to help millions in crisis around the world.
CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports 2010
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The song is a lot like the group itself - a revealingly rag-tag hodgepodge of goodness, an infectious combination of emotions, a mixture of joyful sounds.
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The Best Sandwiches in Toronto there's a new place called hodgepodge that has the best sandwich in the city.
blogTO 2009
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The song is a lot like the group itself - a revealingly rag-tag hodgepodge of goodness, an infectious combination of emotions, a mixture of joyful sounds.
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The song is a lot like the group itself - a revealingly rag-tag hodgepodge of goodness, an infectious combination of emotions, a mixture of joyful sounds.
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Theophrastus, who knew his book, said that it seemed only half-finished, a kind of hodgepodge he attributed to the author's melancholy.
Doctor, My Eyes 2009
chained_bear commented on the word hodgepodge
"Another particularly exhausting new dish came from Spain, a casserole known as olla podrida, olepotridge or hodge podge, whose merit seemed to consist in throwing as many things as you could put your hands on into the largest pot available. Markham's recipe for hodge podge was one of the earliest, representing hours of patient culinary toil. ... It could clearly be a case of the whole feast in a single dish, and, though it sounds fairly nasty, hodge podge was rich, expensive, time-consuming, and a fabulous way of showing off. ... Though its name came to mean something random and clumsy, the striking novelty of the hodge podge ensured its popularity, and it was exactly the kind of dish that paved the way for the table fork, another Continental habit poised to arrive in Britain."
--Kate Colquhoun, <i>Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking</i> (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 118
See also another note on hash.
January 11, 2017