hotchpotch

[hoch-poch]

hotch·potch

[hoch-poch]
noun
1.
a thick soup or stew of vegetables or meat, often thickened with barley.
2.
British. hodgepodge.
3.
Law. a hotchpot.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English hoche poche, rhyming variant of hotchpot
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Hotchpotch is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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hotchpotch or esp (US and Canadian) hodgepodge (ˈhɒtʃˌpɒtʃ)
 
n
1.  a jumbled mixture
2.  a thick soup or stew made from meat and vegetables
 
[C15: a variant of hotchpot]
 
hodgepodge or esp (US and Canadian) hodgepodge
 
n
 
[C15: a variant of hotchpot]

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