hotchpotch
Americannoun
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a thick soup or stew of vegetables or meat, often thickened with barley.
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British. hodgepodge.
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Law. a hotchpot.
noun
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a jumbled mixture
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a thick soup or stew made from meat and vegetables
Etymology
Origin of hotchpotch
1350–1400; Middle English hoche poche, rhyming variant of hotchpot
Example Sentences
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But other studies point to a more complex story, in which humanity began as a hotchpotch of many different groups of ancient Africans that, together, evolved into modern-day humans.
From Scientific American • Apr. 14, 2022
The book is a hotchpotch of notes, a diary-slash-scrapbook of her life and how she apparently got there.
From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2020
But Studio B and the hotchpotch of corridors and rooms around it are in a terrible state - flaking walls, collapsed ceilings and dead pigeons on the floor.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2015
The answer: they are all part of the myriad of inspirations found on the first full day of Paris’ ready-to-wear shows and fashion’s ever-creative hotchpotch.
From Washington Times • Sep. 24, 2014
The intellectual basis had been lulled to sleep by that hotchpotch of convention and largeness that we call the Victorian Era.
From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius
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