hotchpotch
[
hoch
-poch]
/ˈhɒtʃˌpɒtʃ/
noun
1.
a thick soup or stew of vegetables or meat, often thickened with barley.
2.
British,
hodgepodge
.
3.
Law.
a hotchpot.
Origin
1350-1400;
Middle English
hoche poche,
rhyming variant of
hotchpot
Examples from the web for
hotchpotch
Participants then face a bewildering
hotchpotch
of additional fees, deductions, limits and restrictions to services.
She was dark and weird, sad and bawdy-a modern
hotchpotch
with some richly anachronistic ingredients.
British Dictionary definitions for
hotchpotch
hotchpotch
/
ˈhɒtʃˌpɒtʃ
/
noun
1.
a jumbled mixture
2.
a thick soup or stew made from meat and vegetables
Word Origin
C15: a variant of
hotchpot