单词 | hotchpotch |
释义 | hotchpotchn.adj. A. n. 1. A confused mixture of disparate things; a medley, a jumble. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > a disorderly collection rabblea1398 hotchpotc1405 hotchpotchc1410 mishmashc1475 gaggle?1478 chaos?1550 humble-jumble1550 huddle1587 wilderness1594 lurry1607 hatterc1626 farragoa1637 bumble1648 higgledy-piggledy1659 jumble1661 clutter1666 hugger-mugger1674 litter1730 imbroglio1753 confusion1791 cludder1801 hurrah's nest1829 hotter1834 welter1857 muddle1863 splatter1895 shamble1926 the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture hotchpotc1405 hodge-podgec1426 omnigatherum?a1430 mishmashc1475 peasemeala1525 omnium gatherum1530 mingle1548 hotchpotch1549 mingle-mangle1549 gallimaufry1551 rhapsody1574 sauce-medley1579 pell-mellc1586 linsey-woolsey1592 wilderness1594 brewage1599 motley1609 macaronic1611 medley1618 olla podridaa1635 farragoa1637 consarcination1640 porridge1642 olio1645 bisque1653 mélange1653 hash1660 jumble1661 farrage1698 capilotade1705 jargon1710 salmagundi1761 pasticcio1785 pea meal1789 ollapod1804 mixty-maxty1818 macédoine1820 ragbag1820 haggis1822 job lot1828 allsorts1831 conglomerate1837 pot-pourri1841 chow-chow1850 breccia1873 pastiche1873 macaroni1884 mixed bag1919 casserole1930 mixed bunch1958 rattle-bag1982 mulligan1993 c1410 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Harl. 7334) (1885) §2447 Ȝe haue cast alle here wordes in an hochepoche. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 3rd Serm. sig. Jiiv Germany was visited xx. yeares wyth goddes word, but they..made a myngle mangle and a hotchpotch of it. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia v. sig. D3 Witnes that hotch-potch of so many noyses. a1648 G. Gillespie Treat. Misc. Questions (1649) xii. 152 Machomet having compyled his Alcoran, partly out of the Jewish, and partly out of the Christian Tenents, and made it an hotch potch out of both. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires iii. 48 A mash'd heap, a Hotchpotch of the Slain. 1728 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 371 A hotch-potch of errors. 1783 G. W. Lemon Eng. Etymol. Pref. 4 The English language, which, say they, is only a hotch-potch, composed of all others. 1838 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 208 The labor of..digesting a grand historico-chronological hotchpotch. 1890 T. H. Huxley in 19th Cent. Nov. 761 That wonderful ethnological hotch-potch miscalled the Latin race. 1905 H. James N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 805 Such a hotch-potch of racial ingredients. 1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iii. 62 It might be thought that with such a mixture the result would be a hotchpotch. 1992 World of Interiors July 94/1 The inside of the château is a hotch potch of periods and tastes. 2000 Guardian 5 Dec. i. 28/6 Valuing a hotch-potch of options and stakes in internet businesses at almost £100m. 2. Cookery. A dish containing a mixture of many ingredients; spec. a thick soup of barley, peas, and other vegetables, and sometimes meat. Also: a mutton and vegetable stew. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] brotha1000 pottage?c1225 pulmenta1325 hotchpot1381 sewc1386 wortsc1390 long wortsc1440 poddish1528 porridge?1533 hotchpotch1567 sowpa1568 potage1653 soup1653 bouillon1656 soupe1767 pot-au-feu1841 shackles1888 zuppa1961 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 63v Out she brought hir..a Hotchpotch made of steeped Barlie browne And Flaxe and Coriander seede and other simples more. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie lxxii. 443 We make a hotchpotch of halfe figges and half reysons as they say. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 85 They long For Memphian hotch-potch, Leeks, and Garlike strong. 1692 J. Dryden Ess. Satire in Ess. (1882) 44 A kind of olla, or hotchpotch, made of several sorts of meats. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Pot-pourri, a Culinary Term, signifying an Hotch-Potch. 1797 Sporting Mag. 9 327 [She] had got ready what is there [sc. in Scotland] called hotchpotch, for dinner. 1823 J. Galt Entail III. iv. 39 She flings away the pease, and mak's her hotch-potch wi' the shawps. 1891 M. Oliphant Railway Man I. xi. 178 The hotch-potch..was excellent. It is a soup made with lamb and all the fresh young vegetables. 1951 C. Harnett Wool-pack 59 The dinner to-day was a simple affair... There was only one dish—a delicious Hotch Potch. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. iv. 123 Goose in hotch-potch was a favourite recipe. 2000 M. Kneale Eng. Passengers (2001) i. 42 Before us appeared..tins of hotch potch from Aberdeen. 3. English Law. = hotchpot n. 3. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > equal division of inherited property hotchpot1528 gavelkind?1530 hotchpotch1602 commixtion1607 commixture1706 hodgepot1721 gavel1827 collation1828 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iv. ii. 1586 If that fee-simple, and the fee taile be put together it is called hotch potch. a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 189. All debts to be released, and all lands to be cast into a hotch potch and equally shared among them. 1724 W. Nelson Lex Testamentaria (ed. 2) 426 This Child shall come in for a further share of the customary Part of his Father's personal Estate, bringing the Portion already received into Hotch-potch with the unadvanc'd Children. 1780 W. T. Ayres Compar. View Differences Eng. & Irish Statute I. xxxii. 386 If any of the children are provided for by the father in his life-time, not amounting to their full proportion, they shall bring such portion into hotch-potch with the brothers and sisters. 1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 560 Throwing all the collections into hotch-potch, and then re-arranging the materials according to the subjects. 1873 J. A. Jameson Constitut. Convent. (ed. 3) ii. 29 The people of the United States, in 1789, threw the existing Constitutions of the several States into hotchpotch. 1912 Jrnl. Soc. Compar. Legislation 12 333 The institution known in France as the ‘rapport’,..and in our own law as ‘hotchpotch’. 1980 Times 2 May 10/7 Even if the wife had had a half share in equity, that half share had gone into hotchpotch. 2002 Business Line (Nexis) 2 Nov. A female member cannot throw her separate property into the common hotchpotch of the family. B. adj. Confused, jumbled; inconsistent. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [adjective] > jumbled hotchpotch1556 jumbled1611 mishmash1652 shuffled1683 confused1776 rough and tumble1858 jumbly1864 higgledy-piggledy1866 mincemeaty1870 deurmekaar1871 humble-jumbled1940 higgledya1953 the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > miscellaneous or heterogeneous > incongruously mixed medleya1400 intermellé1487 farraginary1538 hotchpotch1556 promiscuous1579 hotchpot1588 pied1594 motley1601 hodge-podge1602 promiscual1602 macaronic1611 farraginous1616 throughother1626 mishmash1652 promiscous1656 hotchpotchly1674 hodge-podging1772 hashy1781 mixty-maxty1786 motleyed1798 gallimaufrical1836 odd-and-end1836 chow-chow1844 speckled1845 ragbag1882 disherent1890 1556 J. Ponet Apol. vi. sig. Gviiiv And doth not D. Gardiner the like in his hotch potch book set out vnder the name of Marcus Antonius? 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 87 Of those Drusian Robbers..and of this hotch-potch Religion. 1683 R. Dixon Canidia iii. vii. 37 This kind of Hotch-potch-Stuff, Is for Country Bumkins, rough and enough. 1723 W. Meston Knight i. 83 Mahomet and his tame pidgeon, And hotch potch Mixture of Religion. 1793 R. Burns Let. 26 Apr. (1985) II. 211 As I said in my last hotch-potch epistle. 1828 Ld. Broughton Recoll. Long Life (1910) III. 239 I knew you would not have anything to do with the hotch-potch Administration I have been compelled to make. 1867 Times 1 Nov. 5/6 The infirmary buildings, workrooms, farm buildings, children's wards..form three sides of a square in a hotchpotch building. 1909 Times 11 Jan. 6/1 The inhabitants of Mesopotamia are of the usual hotch-potch mixture peculiar to all portions of the Turkish Empire. 1958 E. Mittelhöltzer Old Blood 553 They're setting themselves up now as shopkeepers, competing with the men from Madeira. It's becoming very hotchpotch, Rose. 2001 J. Glancey London (2003) 72 There is now a hotch-potch approach to provision and an increasing disparity between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ schools. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > miscellaneous or heterogeneous > incongruously mixed medleya1400 intermellé1487 farraginary1538 hotchpotch1556 promiscuous1579 hotchpot1588 pied1594 motley1601 hodge-podge1602 promiscual1602 macaronic1611 farraginous1616 throughother1626 mishmash1652 promiscous1656 hotchpotchly1674 hodge-podging1772 hashy1781 mixty-maxty1786 motleyed1798 gallimaufrical1836 odd-and-end1836 chow-chow1844 speckled1845 ragbag1882 disherent1890 1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 181 Unmasked and singled from their hotch~potchly adjuncts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hotchpotchv. transitive. To make a hotchpotch of; to jumble (a number of disparate elements) up or together indiscriminately. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > make varied or diversify [verb (transitive)] > mix or jumble jumperc1374 jumble1542 hotchpotch1573 shuffle1593 pell-mell1606 chequerc1632 hash1654 hodge-podge1773 check1790 gallimaufry1831 commix1847 1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 606 What is the doctrine of Poperie, but a misshapen lumpe of sowre dough, leauened and hotchpotched vp togither, of a number of olde condemned Heresies? 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. K4 He can hotch-potch whole Decades vp of nothing. 1627 T. Newman Andrian Woman Prol. sig. A8v They braule That in such sort a cleanely Comedie Should not be hotch-potchd. 1855 C. Adams Adventures of my Cousin Smooth xv. 110 Your way of hotch-potching up foreign affairs I've not yet learned. 1898 C. H. B. Quennell Cathedral Church of Norwich i. 19 The Renaissance of pagan types, from which the Gothic had derived its being by a rational development, was by the revivalists of those days hotch-potched into a more or less homogeneous mass. 1934 F. E. Doran in H. Downs Theatre & Stage II. 941/2 No cast of people..should be expected to appear in a play hotch-potched together by such hit-or-miss methods. 1994 S. Feldman Confidence Building & Verification i. iii. 32 There are problems with everything—from the rain forest to nuclear war—being hotchpotched together as ‘security’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1410v.1573 |
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