Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hodgepodge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cooked dish containing a medley of ingredients; specifically, in Scotland, a kind of thick broth made by boiling lamb, mutton, or beef with many kinds of vegetables.
- noun An indiscriminate mixture; a medley or jumble; a hodgepodge.
- noun Synonyms See
mixture .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
hodgepodge ; a collection containing a variety ofmiscellaneous things.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables
- noun a motley assortment of things
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Page 50 jumbling of two sorts of flesh together be a sin, how intolerable an offence must it be to make a Spanish olla, that is, a hotchpotch of every kind of thing that is eatable?
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Mr Blair listed a catalogue of things that would be different and he stressed how important it was that the Welsh Conservatives should not be allowed to lead a 'hotchpotch' coalition after the May election.
Blair Speaks to Welsh Labour for Last Time David Maxwell 2007
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Mr Blair listed a catalogue of things that would be different and he stressed how important it was that the Welsh Conservatives should not be allowed to lead a 'hotchpotch' coalition after the May election.
Archive 2007-02-01 David Maxwell 2007
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You prefer to be one of those down whose throats the hotchpotch which is being cooked will be crammed.
The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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First they ate "hotchpotch," soup with the meat swimming in capital broth.
The Underground City 1877
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First they ate "hotchpotch," soup with the meat swimming in capital broth.
The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern Jules Verne 1866
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I was waiting to see if my school intended to renew my contract, and not concerned if they did not, for I really felt it necessary to swap my 'hotchpotch' Chinese speaking for something more erudite.
magic-city-news.com 2009
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Replying to a student's question at the convocation ceremony of the International Islamic University here, Gilani said the prevalent system in Pakistan was a 'hotchpotch' of a system.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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It was a curious hotchpotch and I was uncomfortable with a model I felt was not only unsustainable in the long term, but also unlikely to change attitudes or affect radical change.
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Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative.
Chapter 29 2010
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February 1, 2010