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Hodgepodge

Yesterday, I used the word “hodgepodge” in a sentence and wondered later what that word really meant and where it came from. So I Googled it. Merriam-Webster defines it as “a heterogeneous mixture” while Wikipedia reports it is derived from the Middle English word hochepot, which is a “dish of many mixed ingredients, especially [...]

In Fun, Language, Web on 21 March 2007 with Comments Off