hodgepodge

English

Etymology

From Old French hochepot

Alternative forms

• hodge-podge

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈhɒdʒˌpɒdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"hQdZ%pQdZ/
• (US) IPA: /ˈhɑdʒˌpɑdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"hAdZ%pAdZ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

hodgepodge (countable and uncountable; plural hodgepodges)

1. 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 Wikisaurus:hodgepodge

Translations

collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble

• Dutch: mikmak (nl) m, mengelmoes (nl)
• Finnish: sekamelska (fi)
• French: salmigondis (fr)
• German: Sammelsurium (de) n, Mischmasch (de)
• Italian: pot-pourri (it)
• Norwegian: sammensurium (no) n, virvar (no) n

• Portuguese: mistureba (pt) f, miscelânea (pt)
• Russian: всякая всячина (ru) (vsjákaja vsjáčina) f, мешанина (ru) (mešanína) f
• Spanish: mezcolanza (es) f
• Swedish: sammelsurium (sv) c, salig blandning (sv)
• Welsh: cybolfa (cy) f