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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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
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
It was an olla podrida, in which Shakspeare hobnobbed with Campistron, Théophile Gautier locked arms with Dorat, Plutarch was dovetailed with the Mantua-Makers' Journal of Fashions.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various
Satire first signified a basket of first fruits offered to Ceres; then a hotchpot or olla podrida, then a medley; and so the name was given to poems written without any definite design.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan
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