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Hodgepodge vs Hotchpot - What's the difference?

hodgepodge | hotchpot |

As nouns the difference between hodgepodge and hotchpot

is that hodgepodge is a collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble while hotchpot is hodgepodge; miscellaneous collection.

hodgepodge

English

Alternative forms

* hodge-podge

Noun

  • A collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble.
    • His latest sculpture is a hodgepodge''' of kitchen clutter and scrap glued together. In fact, all his recent pieces have been similar '''hodgepodges .
  • * 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * farrago, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag * See also

    hotchpot

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia hotchpot) (en noun)
  • hodgepodge; miscellaneous collection
  • (legal) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, especially in the case of divorce or intestacy

    • See also

    *hotchpotch