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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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
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
It is an olla podrida of old legends.
From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth
I desire I may have an olla podrida, a bit of something from every one, without delay.
From Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind by Martin, Frances
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