Crossword clues for hotchpotch
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hotchpot \Hotch"pot`\, Hotchpotch \Hotch"potch`\, n. [F. hochepot, fr. hocher to shake + pot pot; both of Dutch or German origin; cf. OD. hutspot hotchpotch, D. hotsen, hutsen, to shake. See Hustle, and Pot, and cf. Hodgepodge.]
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A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.
A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes.
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(Law) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given.
--Bouvier. Tomlins.Note: This term has been applied in cases of salvage. Story. It corresponds in a measure with collation in the civil and Scotch law. See Collation.
--Bouvier. Tomlins.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A hodgepodge; a collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things. 2 (context legal English) A hotchpot.
WordNet
n. a motley assortment of things [syn: odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, hodgepodge, mishmash, mingle-mangle, omnium-gatherum]
a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables
Usage examples of "hotchpotch".
It came out in a hotchpotch of half-finished sentences and far too many reasons as to why she wished to terminate her contract.
The room was a hotchpotch of charming antique furniture, which, after years of being together, blended nicely.
She followed the stalwart little woman upstairs once more and into a bedroom, as dusty as the first one had been but considerably tidier, only on a small table drawn up under a window there was a hotchpotch of papers, closely written notes, and open books.
Castilian proverb dug from the hotchpotch at the back of dictionaries.
Low and rambling, with creeper-covered waIls built of mellow stone, it had mullioned windows, twisted barley- sugar chimneys and a hotchpotch of crooked roofs and ga bles.
Low and rambling, with creeper-covered walls built of mellow stone, it had mullioned windows, twisted barley-sugar chimneys and a hotchpotch of crooked roofs and gables.
He watched the land again, a vast hotchpotch of islands, large and small.
The flotilla was to work as a team again, not in a hotchpotch of escorts and patrols.
I said, trying to hide the hotchpotch of emotions that was bubbling over inside me.
Although we were a hotchpotch of children and often stared at for our own differences, we were as prone to gaze and gawp at Grandad as any stranger might have been.
And that house of hers, that incredible hotchpotch of stone and baked-earth bricks and flattened petrol drums, and inside a cross between a Bedouin tent and an English cottage, with great heaps of things in the process of being classified and sketched and a silver tea service and a paraffin heater and block-and-board shelving sagging with books and gewgaws.
Spanish olla--a hotchpotch of the jockey tramper, philologist, and missionary.
Today the Mandaean religion is, frankly, a hopelessly confused hotchpotch: various fragments of Old Testament Judaism, heretical Gnostic forms of Christianity and Iranian dualist beliefs are all mixed into their cosmology and theology.
It falls into four categories: Western currency payments to the East German State, Western currency payments to private individuals, trade credits guaranteed by Bonn, and a hotchpotch of trade deals that wouldn't be done except that we or more frequently Bonn push them along.