Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To fidget.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shake; jolt; shake in order to separate, as beans from peas after they are threshed together.
- To drive (cattle).
- To shake; move by sudden jerks or starts.
- To limp.
- To be restless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Scotland To move irregularly up and down.
- verb Scotland To
swarm (with ).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866
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The cuisine for the evening includes traditional Celtic dishes such as hotch potch, tattie soup, Irish stuffed leg of lamb, ale bread, bannocks, potatoes and more.
Aspen Times - Top Stories CO Colorado Valley Journal Staff Report Aspen 2008
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Briana shivered in the 90⁰ heat, jumping with hotch scotch feet over puddled corners.
Madi's Love Tiffany R. White 2011
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But of our hotch-potch of nationalities fore and aft there is no person who catches an inkling of their language or nationality.
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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These children had no effective catalyst to turn a hotch-potch of letters and words into meaningful information.
Early Reading With Fun Phonics « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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This DI loon is aiming this most recent speel at an ever increasingly marginalised hotch potch of ID supporters.
Casey Luskin: the new Wendell Bird? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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The hotch-potch of influences is reflected in their suburban New York home where we meet, a large house set in its own thick greenery in an area of real estate where residents are surely more familiar with hedge funds and stock fluctuations than fistulas or honour killings.
Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide 2010
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Edit an ever increasingly marginalised hotch potch of ID supporters.
Casey Luskin: the new Wendell Bird? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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The Brown affair has now for some time been a hotch-potch of all the wrongs attributed to it by fmr.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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The Brown affair has now for some time been a hotch-potch of all the wrongs attributed to it by fmr.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
yarb commented on the word hotch
"Ye can always see more stars when you're in the country, especially if there's a nip of frost in the air, and these night the sky was just hotching with stars."
- Alasdair Gray, Lanark, ch. 17
January 19, 2009
yarb commented on the word hotch
"At certain times of the year, particularly after the rainy season, they velvet mites'>velvet mites proliferated, and the grass around our house hotched with them."
- William Boyd, Memories of the Sausage Fly (collected in Bamboo).
Reading that Lanark citation from two years ago makes me want to go back and read it again.
April 26, 2011
yarb commented on the word hotch
The novel that is, not just the citation.
April 26, 2011