hotchpotch
noun/ˈhɒt͡ʃpɒt͡ʃ/
Etymology From French hochepot, from hocher (“to shake”) + pot (“pot”); of Dutch or German origin. Compare Dutch hutspot.
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Archaic A kind of mutton broth with green peas instead of barley or rice.
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Alternative Alternative form of hodgepodge (“miscellaneous collection”).
- A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- The railways in Wales are a bizarre hotchpotch of lines which, remarkably, do not even allow for a journey between the lines in the south and those in the north without venturing across the border into England.2019 December 18, Christian Wolmar, “Overdue investment and a better deal for Welsh railways”, in Rail, page 54:
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Alternative Alternative form of hodgepodge (“mixture of ingredients”).
- Synonyms
- farrago, hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag