hotchpotch
[ hoch-poch ]
/ ˈhɒtʃˌpɒtʃ /
noun
a thick soup or stew of vegetables or meat, often thickened with barley.
British.
hodgepodge.
Law.
a hotchpot.
Origin of hotchpotch
1350–1400; Middle English
hoche poche, rhyming variant of
hotchpot
Words nearby hotchpotch
hotbox,
hotch,
hotcha,
hotchkiss,
hotchpot,
hotchpotch,
hotdogging,
hotel,
hotel rack,
hotelier,
hotelkeeper
Example sentences from the Web for hotchpotch
Their religion is a hotchpotch of Shamanism, Mahommedanism and Christianity.
The 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.
First they ate "hotchpotch," soup with the meat swimming in capital broth.
The Underground City |Jules Verne
British Dictionary definitions for hotchpotch
hotchpotch
esp US and Canadian hodgepodge
/ (ˈhɒtʃˌpɒtʃ) /
noun
a jumbled mixture
a thick soup or stew made from meat and vegetables
Word Origin for hotchpotch
C15: a variant of
hotchpot