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hotchpotch::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
| Type of | variety, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, assortment |
hotchpotch::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | stew |
Examples of hotchpotch
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The Olympics is just a hotchpotch of sports people don't care enough to pay for.
From the economist.com
That is not surprising, since the localism bill is a hotchpotch of reforms.
From the economist.com
The LSE's attempts to make progress here have been a slow hotchpotch without direction.
From the thebeaveronline.co.uk
The franchises comprise a hotchpotch of current and retired players from various countries.
From the time.com
Seating is a hotchpotch of chairs, crates, cushions and benches.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
It is, as always, a hotchpotch with some loose thematic strands.
From the time.com
She was dark and weird, sad and bawdy-a modern hotchpotch with some richly anachronistic ingredients.
From the economist.com
But Mittwoch as a whole isn't a whole, it's a hotchpotch.
From the independent.co.uk
In fact, the empire always was a work in progress and a hotchpotch of very different kinds of enterprise.
From the independent.co.uk
- Odds and ends: a motley assortment of things
- A stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables
- In property law, hotchpot (sometimes referred to as hotchpotch or the hotchpotch rule) refers to the blending of property in order to secure equality of division. It usually arises in cases of divorce or in connection with advances made from the estate of an intestate deceased.
- A hodgepodge; a collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things
