Hotchpotch

Quick meaning: Hotchpotch is a noun meaning (property law) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, especially in the case of divorce or intestacy.

Meaning

(property law) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, especially in the case of divorce or intestacy.

More Meanings

1. Alternative form of hodgepodge (“miscellaneous collection”).
2. Alternative form of hodgepodge (“mixture of ingredients”).
3. (archaic) A kind of mutton broth with green peas instead of barley or rice.

Example Sentences

A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes.

The railways in Wales are a bizarre hotchpotch of lines which, remarkably, do not even allow for a journey between the lines in the south and those in the north without venturing across the border into England.

Word Forms

• hotchpotches
• hotchpot
• hotchpotz
• hotch-pot

Synonyms for hotchpotch

Depending on context, synonyms include farrago, hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ragbag, farrago, hodgepodge, mingle-mangle, omnium-gatherum, oddments.

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