hodgepodge

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Quotations 1.3.2 Synonyms 1.3.3 Translations

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• hodge-podge

[edit] Pronunciation

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

[edit] 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.

[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.

[edit] Synonyms

• farrago, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag
• See also Wikisaurus:hodgepodge

[edit] Translations