hotchpotch

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hotch·potch | \ ˈhäch-ˌpäch

Definition of hotchpotch

1a : a thick soup or stew of vegetables, potatoes, and usually meat

b : hodgepodge

2 : hotchpot

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Sunday supper was a hotchpotch of leftovers.

Recent Examples on the Web Rather, members of the country’s single biggest religious group vote along a hotchpotch of social and demographic lines. — The Economist, "Cathechismic The Trump campaign makes its pitch to Catholic voters," 25 Apr. 2020 In any case, an all-populist coalition could give itself a limited mandate to alter Italy’s hotchpotch of an electoral law, enact a few popular reforms and then go back to the country. — The Economist, "Italy’s populists edge closer to forming a government," 27 Mar. 2018

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