hotchpotch
Americannoun
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a thick soup or stew of vegetables or meat, often thickened with barley.
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British. hodgepodge.
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Law. a hotchpot.
noun
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a jumbled mixture
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a thick soup or stew made from meat and vegetables
Etymology
Origin of hotchpotch
1350–1400; Middle English hoche poche, rhyming variant of hotchpot
Example Sentences
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"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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