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Definition of hotchpotch in English: hotchpotchnoun ˈhɒtʃpɒtʃˈhɑtʃˌpɑtʃ British 1A confused mixture. 混杂物，杂乱拼凑 a hotchpotch of uncoordinated services 不协调服务的混合。 Example sentencesExamples - The villa itself is a hotchpotch of classical bits and bobs (‘fragments of ancient marble… stuck into the walls like nuts in nougat ’, as Chatwin puts it).
- The locally based Cancer Research Society, one of a hodgepodge of Canadian anti-cancer groups, receives no government cash and raises $11-million a year to figure out how to beat the disease.
- The result is a system that is a hodgepodge of mostly public ownership and some private, without any clear direction from government.
- By combining a hodgepodge of miscellaneous claims with no apparent context, the author has created a scary image of impending doom.
- After three years of political stalemate, the governing party and the opposition - a hodgepodge of small political parties, business leaders and student groups - are finally sitting down at the negotiating table.
- This corporate milieu suits the man who convinced a hodgepodge of individuals, corporations and governments to join him in raising the cash to construct a new space to accommodate Calgary's burgeoning theatre scene.
- He oversees a hodgepodge of intelligence agencies, but he doesn't have the authority to hire or fire agency heads.
- Now, for the simplest act of finding a phone number from a finite list, we are faced with a hotchpotch of different companies, all charging different amounts, all applying different conditions.
- So the cabinet has wound up consisting of a hodgepodge of people of different ideologies who find it virtually impossible to build team spirit.
- The decor is a hodgepodge of retro furniture and bistro posters, and it hasn't really settled on what vibe it wants to send to customers.
- We're like a hodgepodge of colored jellybeans all in one big jar!
- The eclectic set dressings and costumes call to mind a hodgepodge of charmingly cheesy pop moments.
- The group creates a sort of subversive performance art, with a hodgepodge of unorthodox and sometimes silly scientific projects commissioned to expose the inadequacies and evils of modern biotech research.
- The content is currently a hotchpotch of what is available (for free), and what a variety of educational institutions around the country can rustle up.
- Besides, what person - religious or not - would accept that her belief system is a hodgepodge of ‘truths and fallacies?’
- This is a truly dreadful movie, a hotchpotch of historical inaccuracies and romantic fiction.
- Opting for the latest trend every year can result in a hotchpotch of investments too heavily exposed to a particular risk in the economy.
- A nationalised corporation, Amtrak, runs all the trains on tracks owned by a hotchpotch of companies (again the effective reverse of the British situation).
- The main shopping thoroughfares of Lord, Church, and Bold Streets, achieve, in spite of a dearth of any really good buildings, and a hotchpotch of eccentric styles, quite a pleasing effect.
- Overshadowed by the Minster, the largest gothic cathedral in northern Europe, York is a hotchpotch of narrow, cobbled lanes and medieval alleyways.
Synonyms mixture, mix, mixed bag, assortment, assemblage, collection, selection, jumble, ragbag, miscellany, medley, patchwork, pot-pourri melange, mess, mishmash, confusion, clutter, farrago informal mash-up rare gallimaufry, olio, olla podrida, salmagundi 2A mutton stew with mixed vegetables. 羊肉炖蔬菜，羊肉蔬菜杂烩 Example sentencesExamples - To call the Scottish legislative programme a hotchpotch is an insult to stews.
- Lunenburg puddin’ and hodgepodge, the way we do it, you really can't find it anywhere else.
OriginLate Middle English: variant of hotchpot. In the late Middle Ages English acquired the word hotchpot for ‘a confused mixture’. It came from French hochepot, which was formed from hocher ‘to shake’ and pot ‘pot’. Hotchpot is still used in English law in the context of joining together all of a dead person's property so that it can be divided equally. In its everyday sense, though, people quickly changed it to hotchpotch, so that the elements rhymed for emphasis. The same rhyming impulses then changed it to hodgepodge, now mainly used in North America.
Definition of hotchpotch in US English: hotchpotchnounˈhäCHˌpäCHˈhɑtʃˌpɑtʃ British 1 a hotchpotch of uncoordinated services 不协调服务的混合。 variant of hodgepodge Example sentencesExamples - This corporate milieu suits the man who convinced a hodgepodge of individuals, corporations and governments to join him in raising the cash to construct a new space to accommodate Calgary's burgeoning theatre scene.
- Besides, what person - religious or not - would accept that her belief system is a hodgepodge of ‘truths and fallacies?’
- We're like a hodgepodge of colored jellybeans all in one big jar!
- The villa itself is a hotchpotch of classical bits and bobs (‘fragments of ancient marble… stuck into the walls like nuts in nougat ’, as Chatwin puts it).
- The result is a system that is a hodgepodge of mostly public ownership and some private, without any clear direction from government.
- This is a truly dreadful movie, a hotchpotch of historical inaccuracies and romantic fiction.
- Overshadowed by the Minster, the largest gothic cathedral in northern Europe, York is a hotchpotch of narrow, cobbled lanes and medieval alleyways.
- He oversees a hodgepodge of intelligence agencies, but he doesn't have the authority to hire or fire agency heads.
- A nationalised corporation, Amtrak, runs all the trains on tracks owned by a hotchpotch of companies (again the effective reverse of the British situation).
- The content is currently a hotchpotch of what is available (for free), and what a variety of educational institutions around the country can rustle up.
- Now, for the simplest act of finding a phone number from a finite list, we are faced with a hotchpotch of different companies, all charging different amounts, all applying different conditions.
- After three years of political stalemate, the governing party and the opposition - a hodgepodge of small political parties, business leaders and student groups - are finally sitting down at the negotiating table.
- The main shopping thoroughfares of Lord, Church, and Bold Streets, achieve, in spite of a dearth of any really good buildings, and a hotchpotch of eccentric styles, quite a pleasing effect.
- The eclectic set dressings and costumes call to mind a hodgepodge of charmingly cheesy pop moments.
- By combining a hodgepodge of miscellaneous claims with no apparent context, the author has created a scary image of impending doom.
- The locally based Cancer Research Society, one of a hodgepodge of Canadian anti-cancer groups, receives no government cash and raises $11-million a year to figure out how to beat the disease.
- The decor is a hodgepodge of retro furniture and bistro posters, and it hasn't really settled on what vibe it wants to send to customers.
- So the cabinet has wound up consisting of a hodgepodge of people of different ideologies who find it virtually impossible to build team spirit.
- Opting for the latest trend every year can result in a hotchpotch of investments too heavily exposed to a particular risk in the economy.
- The group creates a sort of subversive performance art, with a hodgepodge of unorthodox and sometimes silly scientific projects commissioned to expose the inadequacies and evils of modern biotech research.
Synonyms mixture, mix, mixed bag, assortment, assemblage, collection, selection, jumble, ragbag, miscellany, medley, patchwork, pot-pourri 2A mutton stew with mixed vegetables. 羊肉炖蔬菜，羊肉蔬菜杂烩 Example sentencesExamples - To call the Scottish legislative programme a hotchpotch is an insult to stews.
- Lunenburg puddin’ and hodgepodge, the way we do it, you really can't find it anywhere else.
OriginLate Middle English: variant of hotchpot. |