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  1. noun A mixture of dissimilar ingredients; a jumble.

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  • A kooky hodgepodge, considering they were headed for the city. —  Chapter One
  • He hated being confused, and this hodgepodge was making him dizzy. —  015 - The Mystery On The Snow
  • It looked at first to be a hodgepodge, but Tansman had gradually learned that first there was a system in the store and then learned the system itself Brother Boris was standing at the small rack of books that was one of the store's principal reasons for being, for all that the books were few in number and not conspicuously displayed. —  Analog October, 1966
  • For my allosaur femur and Schweitzer's T rex bone, ih which DNA fragments (if such exist) were free to migrate, we have much more material to work with--but it exists as a hodgepodge of multiple copies of the jigsaw puzzle thrown up in the air and mixed together. —  Omni: Fall 1995
  • Strangely, the resulting architectural hodgepodge was both pleasing and intriguing. —  THE SEDUCTION OF SARA
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  1. Alteration of Middle English hochepot, from Old French, stew; see hotchpot.

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  1. A corruption of hotch-potch, q. v., and this of hotchpot, q. v.
 

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