Hodgepodge
[hoj-poj] /ˈhɒdʒˌpɒdʒ/
noun
1.
a heterogeneous mixture; jumble.
/ˈhɒdʒˌpɒdʒ/
noun (US & Canadian)
1.
a jumbled mixture
2.
a thick soup or stew made from meat and vegetables
n.
also hodge podge, hodge-podge, early 15c., hogpoch, alteration of hotchpotch (late 14c.) “a kind of stew,” especially “one made with goose, herbs, spices, wine, and other ingredients,” earlier an Anglo-French legal term (late 13c.) meaning “collection of property in a common ‘pot’ before dividing it equally,” from Old French hochepot “stew, soup,” first element from hocher “to shake,” from a Germanic source (cf. Middle High German hotzen “shake”).
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