hotchpotch

[hoch-poch]

noun

1. a thick soup or stew of vegetables or meat, often thickened with barley.

2. British.,  hodgepodge.

3. Law.,  a hotchpot.

hotchpotch

/ ˈhɒtʃˌpɒtʃ /

noun

1. a jumbled mixture

2. a thick soup or stew made from meat and vegetables

Word History and Origins

Origin of hotchpotch¹

1350–1400; Middle English hoche poche, rhyming variant of hotchpot

Word History and Origins

Origin of hotchpotch¹

C15: a variant of _hotchpot

Example Sentences

"It is a great hotchpotch of different people."

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Researchers have located "the perfect solar system", forged without the violent collisions that made our own a hotchpotch of different-sized planets.

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Understandably, given the turmoil of the preceding years, expectation was not particularly high for the hotchpotch group of Britain's unfunded female sprinters at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.

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Spotify has let go hundreds of staff since that time, hitting the expansive podcasting division, a hotchpotch of podcasting companies it spent more than $400m acquiring just a few years ago.

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Kettering General Hospital chief executive Simon Weldon said the site was a "big hotchpotch of things" and the hospital required urgent attention.

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Related Words

• stew