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olla podrida|ˌɒlə pəʊˈdriːdə|
Also 7 olio (ollio) podrido, oleopodrido, olepotride, ollapod-, 9 olla-podrida.
[a. Sp. olla podrida = ‘rotten pot’, f. olla (see olla1, olio) and podrida = L. putrida putrid, rotten. The spelling olepotride simulates Fr.]
1. A dish of Spanish origin composed of pieces of many kinds of meat, vegetables, etc. stewed or boiled together: = olio 1.
1599Minsheu Span. Dial. 22, I desire to know, from whence or why they called it olla podrida [marg., A rotten or putrified pot. Also a hotchpotch of many meats together]. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. ii (1668) 63 An excellent Olepotride..the only principle dish of boyled meat which is esteemed in all Spain. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. i. ii. i. 110 margin, Olla podrida, is a very great one, contayning in it diuers things, as Mutton, Beefe, Hens, Capons, Sawsages, Piggs feete, Garlick, Onions, &c. It is called Podrida, because it is sod leisurely, til it be rotten (as we say) and ready to fall in peeces... In English it may well beare the name of Hodge-podge. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal (1682) 208 For foure hundred pieces to bespeake An ollio podrido. a1648Ld. Herbert Autobiog. (1886) 159 Nine dishes,..the first whereof was, three ollas podridas. 1846Edin. Rev. LXXXIV. 175 Mr. Hughes evidently prefers a beefsteak to an olla podrida.
2. A hotchpoch, medley; a mixture of languages; = olio 2.
a1634Randolph Muse's Looking-glass i. iv, A mere Olla Podrida, A medley, of ill-placed, and worse penn'd humours. 1663Cowley Cutter Coleman St. ii. v, My little Gallimaufry, my little Oleopodrido of Arts and Arms. 1829Scott Napoleon Introd., Wks. 1870 IX. 236 Their accusation was..an olla podrida. 1850H. Rogers Ess. II. iv. 169 An olla podrida, made up half of words supplied by the one language, and half of words supplied from the other. 1859Green Lett. i. (1901) 30 That olla-podrida of a brain of mine.
Hence ˌollapoˈdrida-ish, ˌollapoˈdridical adjs. (nonce-wds.), heterogeneous.
1827Scott Jrnl. 13 Mar., My ideas were olla-podrida-ish. 1830Fraser's Mag. I. 748 Its omnigenous and ollapodridical character. |