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hotch
[ hoch ]
verb (used with object)
- to cause to fidget or shiver.
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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)
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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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