hotchpotch

plural hotchpotches · alternative hotchpot · alternative hotchpotz · alternative hotch-pot

1. lawThe blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, especially in the case of divorce or intestacy.

   Synonyms: collation

2. archaicA kind of mutton broth with green peas instead of barley or rice.
3. alternativeAlternative form of hodgepodge (“miscellaneous collection”).

   A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes.

   1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC

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   The railways in Wales are a bizarre hotchpotch of lines which, remarkably, do not even allow for a journey between the lines in the south and those in the north without venturing across the border into England.

   2019 December 18, Christian Wolmar, “Overdue investment and a better deal for Welsh railways”, in Rail, page 54

4. alternativeAlternative form of hodgepodge (“mixture of ingredients”).