potch
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of potch
C20: of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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Books like this are always a hotch-potch, but here the potch is well and truly hotched.
From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2012
He was potch, poor opal, stuff of no particular value, without any fire.
From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
Roy O'Mara, working on his trace of promising black potch, still had found nothing to justify his hope of an early haul.
From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
This tremendous gallimaufry or hotch potch, produced, as some suppose, an intolerable stench, and impregnated the waters with salt, sulphur, and bitumen.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
"Potch," they would say, as his father used to, "a little bit of potch!"
From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
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