hotch

[ hoch ]

verb (used without object)

1. to fidget; shift one's weight from one foot to the other.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to fidget or shiver.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hotch¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English (north) hotchen; akin to Dutch hotsen “to jolt,” from dialectal German hotzen “to move up and down,” French hocher “to jog, shake” ( Old French hochier, from Germanic)

Example Sentences

All these inconsistencies of theory follow from the assumption that the Iliad must be a hotch-potch of many ages.

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Now here is a strange jumble and Hotch potch of Matters, if you mind it.

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The old and the new mingled, forming a kind of a spiritual hotch-potch.

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But, by good-hap, she had been most fortunate in the hotch-potch, which was unanimously pronounced to be inimitable.

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The consequence is that the written language is more or less a hotch-potch of Chinese characters and the Japanese alphabet.

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