hotchpotch

[hoch-poch]

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noun

a thick soup or stew of vegetables or meat, often thickened with barley.
British. hodgepodge.
Law. a hotchpot.

Origin of hotchpotch

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

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Related Words for hotchpotch

stew, salmagundi, hodgepodge, confusion, muddle, medley, litter, clutter, shambles, miscellany, jumble, assortment, mishmash, hotchpotch

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Historical Examples of hotchpotch

Their religion is a hotchpotch of Shamanism, Mahommedanism and Christianity.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1
Various
First they ate "hotchpotch," soup with the meat swimming in capital broth.
The Underground City
Jules Verne
The nature of the hotchpotch will be understood from a recital of some of its contents, in their chronological order.
The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science
Various
The intellectual basis had been lulled to sleep by that hotchpotch of convention and largeness that we call the Victorian Era.
G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study
Julius West

British Dictionary definitions for hotchpotch

hotchpotch

esp US and Canadian hodgepodge

noun

a jumbled mixture
a thick soup or stew made from meat and vegetables

Word Origin for hotchpotch

C15: a variant of hotchpot

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