olla podridan.

1590 R. Hakluyt tr. T. de Bry True Pictures People Virginia Pl. XV, in T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia (new ed.) sig. B6 They or their woemen fill the vessell with water, and then putt they in fruite, flesh, and fish, and lett all boyle together like a galliemaufrye, which the Spaniarde call, olla podrida.

1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 22 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. I desire to know, from whence or why they called it olla podrida [margin A rotten or putrified pot. Also a hotchpotch of many meats together].

1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments ii. 49 To make an excellent olepotrige, which is the onely principall dish of boild meate which is esteemed in all Spain, you shall take a very large vessell.

1622 J. Mabbe in tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 110 (margin) Olla podrida, is a very great one, contayning in it diuers things, as Mutton, Beefe, Hens, Capons, Sawsages, Piggs feete, Garlick, Onions, &c. It is called Podrida, because it is sod leisurely, til it be rotten (as we say) & ready to fall in peeces... In English it may well beare the name of Hodge-podge.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 76 Nine dishes.., the first whereof was, Three Ollas podridas.

1685 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 28 Converting our several Dishes into one, and making a meet Ollapodrida.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. xv. 286 The dish that smoaks yonder, said Sancho, seems to be an Olla podrida.

1791 R. Jephson Two Strings to your Bow ii. 37 Roast lamb at the top, partridge at the bottom, jelly and omlette on one side, pig and ham at the other, and Olla Podrida in the middle.

1840 J. F. Cooper Mercedes of Castile I. i. 18 We may have sufficient among us all to pay for an olla-podrida and its service.

1846 Edinb. Rev. 84 175 Mr. Hughes evidently prefers a beefsteak to an olla podrida.

1853 U.S. Rev. Jan. 26 I have dived into the conglomerate of the Spanish olla podrida, and overcome my disgust at the appearance of a Scotch haggis.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 2/3 It may comfort the squeamish traveller to know that the everyday ‘olla’ is not identical with the ‘olla-podrida’ or ‘putrid olla’ of unhappy memory.

1924 Travel Apr. 39/2 The most essentially national of the numberless sopas that are to be gleaned from the cafe list are properly stews, as in the case of Spains' olla podrida, that giant's-broth of all sorts and conditions of things.

1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking Introd. p. xxxiii The American vernacular of corn..joined the succotashes, gallimaufries, olla podridas, chow meins, and slumgullions in a shifting ethnic mix.

a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse i. iv. 16 in Poems (1638) A meere Olla Podrida, A medly of ill-placed, and worse pen'd humours.

1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. ii. v. 18 My little Gallimaufry, my little Oleopodrido of Arts and Arms.

1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. cxxvi. 384 There followed in order, not to give disgust in point of precedency, an Olla podrida of Books that come from Spain, worthy of great esteem, but the confusion of Learning and prittle prattle, buries the good Substance in undistinguishable Mishmash.

1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon II. ix. 317 Their accusation was..an olla podrida.

1850 H. Rogers Ess. II. iv. 169 An olla podrida, made up half of words supplied by the one language, and half of words supplied from the other.

1895 G. King New Orleans xv. 396 Ask the crowd in the street; the human olla podrida of carelessness, joviality, and colour.

1906 Man 6 128 These, and a mass of other subjects oddly placed on a common level, make up the first portion of ‘olla podrida’ of which the volume is constituted.

1944 Writer 6 6/2 He will be able to go through these old stories and..with better craftsmanship, write half a dozen good yarns out of the olla-podrida that was originally one story.

1998 W. Ferguson Identity Sc. Nation 38 The Lebor Gabála, that fascinating olla-podrida of ancient Gaelic lore.

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 13 Mar. (1941) 33 My ideas were olla-podrida-ish.

1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 748 Its omnigenous and ollapodridical character.