olla podrida
Americannoun
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a spicy Spanish stew of sausage and other meat, chickpeas, and often tomatoes and other vegetables.
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an incongruous mixture or miscellany; olio.
noun
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a Spanish dish, consisting of a stew with beans, sausages, etc
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an assortment; miscellany
Etymology
Origin of olla podrida
1590–1600; < Spanish: literally, rotten pot
Example Sentences
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A skillfully concocted olla podrida of Latin American nightclub idioms sizzling in Stravinskian sauce with occasional Straussian dumplings.
From Time Magazine Archive
His family is what the Spanish call olla podrida, or rotten pot, a mess.
From Time Magazine Archive
The investigating priest is soon dipping into an olla podrida involving cupidity, lost love and sudden deaths at the church that may or may not have been accidents.
From Time Magazine Archive
These satires are an olla podrida, dealing with all sorts of subjects in a satirical manner, sometimes put in the dialogue form and cast in a mélange of prose and verse.
From The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Abbott, Frank Frost
He is an indefatigable "snapper-up of unconsidered trifles," and his store is the most comical olla podrida of heterogeneous merchandise that I ever saw.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith
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