hotchpotch

Meanings

Plural: hotchpotches

Noun

• a motley assortment of things
• a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables
• The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, especially in the case of divorce or intestacy.
• A kind of mutton broth with green peas instead of barley or rice.
• Alternative form of hodgepodge (“miscellaneous collection”).
• Alternative form of hodgepodge (“mixture of ingredients”).

Synonyms

collation, farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag