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ˈhɒtʃˌpɒtʃhotch·potch
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Princeton's WordNet
odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherumnoun
a motley assortment of things
hotchpotchnoun
a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables
Wiktionary
hotchpotchnoun
A hodgepodge; a collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Hotchpotchnoun
yet the former corruption is now generally used. A mingled hash; a mixture.
Etymology: haché en poche, French; or hachee en pot, French, as William Camden has it, as being boiled up in a pot;
Such patching maketh Littleton’s hotchpot of our tongue, and, in effect, brings the same rather to a Babellish confusion than any one entire language. William Camden, Remains.
A mixture of many disagreeing colours is ever unpleasant to the eye, and a mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes is unpleasant to the taste. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
Nor limbs, nor bones, nor carcass would remain;
But a mash’d heap, a hotchpotch of the slain. John Dryden, Juvenal.
Wikipedia
hotchpotch
In civil and property law, hotchpot (sometimes referred to as hotchpotch or the hotchpotch rule) is the blending, combining or offsetting of property (typically gifts) to ensure equality of a later division of property.The name hotch-pot is taken from a kind of pudding, and is derived from the French word hocher, or "shake." It was used as early as 1292 as a legal term, and from the 15th century in cooking for a sort of broth with many ingredients (see Hodge-Podge soup), and so it is used figuratively for any heterogeneous mixture.
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hotchpotch
Hotchpotch, also spelled hodgepodge, refers to a confused or jumbled mixture of various elements, items or ideas. It can refer to both physical mixtures, such as a miscellaneous collection of objects, or abstract mixtures, such as a set of disparate ideas or styles blended together. The term originates from a kind of stew with many different ingredients mixed together.
Webster Dictionary
Hotchpotchnoun
a mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge
Hotchpotchnoun
a blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given
Etymology: [F. hochepot, fr. hocher to shake + pot pot; both of Dutch or German origin; cf. OD. hutspot hotchpotch, D. hotsen, hutsen, to shake. See Hustle, and Pot, and cf. Hodgepodge.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Hotchpotch
hoch′poch, Hotchpot, hoch′pot, Hodgepodge, hoj′poj, n. a confused mass of ingredients shaken or mixed together in the same pot: a kind of mutton-broth in which green peas take the place of barley or rice.—Hotchpot, a commixture of property in order to secure an equable division amongst children. [Fr. hochepot—hocher, to shake, and pot, a pot—Old Dut. hutsen, to shake, Dut. pot, a pot.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hotchpotch in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hotchpotch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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