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hotchpotch

[ hoch-poch ]

noun

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


hotchpotch

/ ˈhɒtʃˌpɒtʃ /

noun

  1. a jumbled mixture
  2. a thick soup or stew made from meat and vegetables
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hotchpotch1

1350–1400; Middle English hoche poche, rhyming variant of hotchpot
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hotchpotch1

C15: a variant of hotchpot
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Example Sentences

"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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