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Hodgepodge vs Macaronic - What's the difference?

hodgepodge | macaronic |

As nouns the difference between hodgepodge and macaronic

is that hodgepodge is a collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble while macaronic is (literature) a work of macaronic character.

As an adjective macaronic is

(archaic) jumbled, mixed.

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

    macaronic

    English

    (Macaronic language)

    Alternative forms

    * macaronick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) jumbled, mixed
  • (literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (literature) A work of macaronic character.
  • (morphology) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.

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