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单词 hotchpotch
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hotchpotch

[ hoch-poch ]
/ ˈhɒtʃˌpɒtʃ /
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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

hot-cathode tube, hotch, hotcha, Hotchkiss, hotchpot, hotchpotch, hot cockles, hot cold-working, hot comb, hot corner, hot cross bun
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Example sentences from the Web for hotchpotch

  • Their religion is a hotchpotch of Shamanism, Mahommedanism and Christianity.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1|Various
  • 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 West
  • The nature of the hotchpotch will be understood from a recital of some of its contents, in their chronological order.

    The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science|Various
  • 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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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