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What does hotchpotch mean?

Noun Plural: hotchpotches
hotchpotch - a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables
hotchpotch - a motley assortment of things
		odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum

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hotchpotch (Noun)
A hodgepodge; a collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
hotchpotch (Noun)
A hotchpot.

hotchpotch (n.)
A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.
hotchpotch (n.)
A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given.

hotchpotch
hoch′poch, Hotchpot, hoch′pot, Hodgepodge, hoj′poj, n. a confused mass of ingredients shaken or mixed together in the same pot: a kind of mutton-broth in which green peas take the place of barley or rice.—Hotchpot, a commixture of property in order to secure an equable division amongst children. [Fr. hochepot—hocher, to shake, and pot, a pot—Old Dut. hutsen, to shake, Dut. pot, a pot.]

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