Hodgepodge

Definitions

1. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
   countable, uncountable
2. A confused mass of ingredients shaken or mixed together in the same pot.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“His latest sculpture is a hodgepodge of kitchen clutter and scrap glued together.”

“MAn's life is but vain, for tis ſubject to pain, / and ſorrow, and ſhort as a buble; / 'tis a hodge podge of buſineſs, and mony and care, / and care, and mony, and trouble⟳.”

“The entire section is a hodgepodge of ill-absorbed and ill-digested bits of information lifted in a haphazard fashion from the sources used with apparently no other goal in mind⟳ than to accumulate a list of items with some degree of resemblance to forms from Manding and Dravidian […]”

“The little Pieces of Beef vvere like⟳ Plums in our Hodg-podg. Indeed 'tvvas not fit to be eaten any other vvay; for tho' it did not ſtink, yet it vvas very unſavory and black, vvithout the leaſt ſign of Fat in it: […]”

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