hotch

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The composite I now show is what I call a hotch-pot composite; its use is to form a standard whence deviations towards any particular sub-type may be conveniently gauged.

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  1. intransitive verb Scots To fidget.

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  • Without him they would be a flock without a shepherd, or a hotch-potch, in which it would be difficult to discriminate anything. —  Letters of Anton Chekhov
  • This hotch-potch of misinterpretation evoked no responses at its point of origin - "the final hour" blogspot and hardly seems worth bringing to propeller. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • This is just a hotch-potch post of my latest pretty things that are gladdening my heart this week. —  Posy
  • The town's rich multicultural past, meanwhile, is visible in the features of its inhabitants, who can point to a hotch-potch of ancestry - Japanese, Malay and Aboriginal, for instance. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Our visitors, Port Vale, were an indiscriminate hotch-potch of players formed with an absence of thought; individual members offered glimpses of skill, patches of productivity, but as a team they were frustratingly ponderous. —  WordPress.com News
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  1. Middle English, perhaps from Old French hocher, to shake, possibly of Germanic origin.

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  1. from French hocher, shake, wag, jog, from Old Dutch hutsen, hotsen, Dutch hotsen, shake, jog, jolt. Cf. D. freq. hutselen, shake, jog, shake together, shake up and down, as in a tub, bowl, or basket, later English hustle, q. v.
 

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