hotchpotch
a thick stew with meat and vegetables
TRANSLATION
hotchpotch = Eintopfgericht —— hotchpotch = Durcheinander, Mischmasch
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
“Scottish food historian Fraser Wright revisits this wonderful recipe for Hairst Bree (HOTCH POTCH).”
Fraser Wright - The Scotsman
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Not a bad set of priorities for the next election manifesto, though the specific measures he mentioned, from freezing energy bills to votes for 16-year-olds seemed to be a HOTCH-POTCH of ideas rather than a coherent new way to run the economy.
Diane Abbott - The Guardian
Did you
know?
hotch-potch (UK), hodge-podge (US)
- a thick soup or stew of vegetables, potatoes, and usually meat
- a confused mixture of different things
Cambridge & Merriam-Webster Dictionaries
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ORIGIN
The original English term was “hotchpot,” dating from 1381 and deriving from the Anglo-Norman and Middle French "hochepot", a dish containing a mixture of many ingredients, especially a kind of stew made with minced beef or goose and various vegetables.
"Hotchpote" took on a metaphorical meaning, as in a confused mixture or a jumble by 1405, followed five years later by a rhyming version, "hotchpotch," referring both to the stew and the figurative jumble.
(Thanks to Ben Yagoda)
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SYNONYMS
a confused mixture of different things
alphabet soup, grab bag, hodge-podge, HOTCH-POTCH, mishmash, motley collection, patchwork, pig’s (or dog’s) breakfast, potpourri, scissors-and-paste job, smorgasbord
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PRACTICE OWAD in an English conversation, discuss something like:
“How about having HOTCHPOTCH this coming weekend?”
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