Drove vs Hodgepodge - What's the difference?
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A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
(usually, in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven
(drive).
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
A collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble.
* 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
As nouns the difference between drove and hodgepodge
is that drove is a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures while hodgepodge is a collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble.As a verb drove
is simple past of drive.drove
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) drove, drof, draf, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
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Derived terms
* in drovesEtymology 2
From earlier drave, from (etyl) drave, draf, from (etyl) .Verb
(drov)Anagrams
* * English irregular simple past formshodgepodge
English
Alternative forms
* hodge-podgeNoun
- His latest sculpture is a hodgepodge''' of kitchen clutter and scrap glued together. In fact, all his recent pieces have been similar '''hodgepodges .
- Man's life is but vain, for 'tis subject to pain, / And sorrow, and short as a bubble; / 'Tis a hodge-podge of business, and money, and care, / And care, and money, and trouble.