Hodgepodge vs Montage - What's the difference?
hodgepodge | montage |
A collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble.
* 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
An art form consisting of putting together or assembling various smaller pictures to create a larger work.
An analogous literary, musical or other heterogenous artistic composite
To combine or depict into a montage
As nouns the difference between hodgepodge and montage
is that hodgepodge is a collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble while montage is an art form consisting of putting together or assembling various smaller pictures to create a larger work.As a verb montage is
to combine or depict into a montage.hodgepodge
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.
