"hotchpotch" Definition

Definitions for the word "hotchpotch" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
(also hodgepodge) confused mixture or jumble, esp. Of ideas. [french hochepot shake pot]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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