Hodgepodge

/ˈhɒd͡ʒˌpɒd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things..

Definitions by Sense

1. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
2. A confused mass of ingredients shaken or mixed together in the same pot.
3. (ambitransitive) To move or position in an erratic, disorganized manner.

Example Sentences

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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• hodgepodges
• hodge-podge
• hotchpotch
• hodgepodging
• hodgepodged

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