hotchpotch

• Speaking of stew, it's a tribute to the enduring popularity of this combination of boiled vegetables and TO POT meant meat that almost every culture in the world has developed its own local version, from Hungarian goulash to Scottish hotchpotch (whence our hodgepodge , meaning meat destined "jumbled mixture"). —  The Word Detective
• Canada has had a hotchpotch of different voluntary and mandatory organic certification in place in different provinces across the country. —  FoodNavigator-USA RSS
• Or perhaps he had no faith in his script that he had to indulge in a vague hotchpotch of a plot (read flashback) to come up with the climax.
• The rest of his argument is a hotchpotch of miscellaneous quotes which at best claim that various early North African peoples or languages or cultures originated in the Middle East; in a particularly ludicrous case, he blithely quotes Bousquet (1957) to the effect that the Berber language "came from Asia Minor" —  Jabal al-Lughat
• The militia was a hotchpotch of students from the madrasas in the NWFP, Balochistan and Sindh, former Pashtoon officers and soldiers of the late Najibullah's Soviet-trained armed forces and Pakistani ex-servicemen and serving military personnel, given leave of absence by the Pakistani military, to enable them assist the Taliban. —  IntelliBriefs

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