hotchpotch
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French hochepot, from hocher (“to shake”) + pot (“pot”); of Dutch or German origin. Compare Dutch hutspot.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈhɒt͡ʃpɒt͡ʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]hotchpotch (plural hotchpotches)
- Alternative form of hodgepodge (“miscellaneous collection”).
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes.
- 2019 December 18, Christian Wolmar, “Overdue investment and a better deal for Welsh railways”, in Rail, page 54:
- The railways in Wales are a bizarre hotchpotch of lines which, remarkably, do not even allow for a journey between the lines in the south and those in the north without venturing across the border into England.
- Alternative form of hodgepodge (“mixture of ingredients”).
- (civil law) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, especially in the case of divorce or intestacy.
- Synonym: collation
- (archaic) A kind of mutton broth with green peas instead of barley or rice.
Alternative forms
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- farrago, hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag
- See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
Translations
[edit]hodgepodge — see hodgepodge
References
[edit]- “hotchpotch”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.