HOTCHPOTCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hotchpotch mean? 

• HOTCHPOTCH (noun)
  The noun HOTCHPOTCH has 2 senses:

1. a motley assortment of things

2. a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables

  Familiarity information: HOTCHPOTCH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOTCHPOTCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A motley assortment of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

farrago; gallimaufry; hodgepodge; hotchpotch; melange; mingle-mangle; mishmash; oddments; odds and ends; omnium-gatherum; ragbag

Hypernyms ("hotchpotch" is a kind of...):

assortment; miscellanea; miscellany; mixed bag; mixture; motley; potpourri; salmagundi; smorgasbord; variety (a collection containing a variety of sorts of things)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hotchpotch" is a kind of...):

stew (food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables)

 Context examples 

It was a hotchpotch of illiterate abuse of Martin, and of assertion that the so- called Martin Eden who was selling stories to magazines was no writer at all, and that in reality he was stealing stories from old magazines, typing them, and sending them out as his own.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)