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podge

British  
/ pɒdʒ, pʌdʒ /

noun

  1. informal a short chubby person

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That is very hard to not play into… I have a bit of podge I am trying to get rid of, but it’s hard.

From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2017

I was willing to prepare a hodge podge of eggs, french toast, pancakes, etc.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2015

Sprawling China presented to the world last week a grim picture in hodge podge.

From Time Magazine Archive

But if he just kept standing here like a podge, he’d give away their escape route, and they’d all be doomed.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

We refrain from offering examples of the hodge podge of stupidity and sham solemnity with which Herr Duehring regales his readers for fifty full pages as fundamental knowledge on the elements of consciousness.

From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich