hotchpotch
a thick soup or stew of vegetables or meat, often thickened with barley.
British. hodgepodge.
Law. a hotchpot.
Origin of hotchpotch
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How to use hotchpotch in a sentence
Whole volumes of that great hotchpotch of criticism are lost in the sandbanks of my treacherous memory for ever.
Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; | Herbert George WellsThe intellectual basis had been lulled to sleep by that hotchpotch of convention and largeness that we call the Victorian Era.
G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study | Julius WestThe nature of the hotchpotch will be understood from a recital of some of its contents, in their chronological order.
Many a poisonous hotchpotch hath evolved in our cellars: many an indescribable thing hath there been done.
Thus Spake Zarathustra | Friedrich NietzscheAs old Simon said, his wife knew no rival in the art of preparing hotchpotch.
The Underground City | Jules Verne
British Dictionary definitions for hotchpotch
esp US and Canadian hodgepodge
/ (ˈhɒtʃˌpɒtʃ) /
a jumbled mixture
a thick soup or stew made from meat and vegetables
Origin of hotchpotch
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