hodgepodge

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

[edit] Noun

Singular
hodgepodge

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural hodgepodges

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.

[edit] Quotations

  • 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.

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