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Date "HOTCH-POTCH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Hotch-potch A confused mixture or jumble; a thick broth containing meat and vegetables. "A sort of soup, or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes." Thackeray: Ballad of Bouillabaisse, stanza 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disorder | Noun: disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly; (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; Adjective: disunion; discord. confusion; confusedness; Adjective: mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HOTCH-POTCH |
| Specialty definitions using "HOTCH-POTCH": Kedjeree' ♦ Pot-Pourri. (references) |
| "HOTCH-POTCH" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "HOTCH-POTCH" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.83% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "HOTCH-POTCH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Manx | spranglane. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | otch-potchhay pracas. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hotchpotch. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-h-h-h-o-o-p-t-t" | |
-2 letters: hotchpot. | |
-4 letters: hootch. | |
-5 letters: chott, cooch, coopt, hooch, hotch, photo, pooch, potto, tooth. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-h-h-h-o-o-p-t-t" | |
+2 letters: hotchpotches. | |
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