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hodge-podge

hodge-podge is the alternative form of hodgepodge.

Meaning of hodgepodge

Noun

hodgepodge (countable and uncountable, plural hodgepodges)

  1. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
    • His latest sculpture is a hodgepodge of kitchen clutter and scrap glued together.
  2. A confused mass of ingredients shaken or mixed together in the same pot.
    • The little Pieces of Beef vvere like Plums in our Hodg-podg. Indeed 'tvvas not fit to be eaten any other vvay; for tho' it did not ſtink, yet it vvas very unſavory and black, vvithout the leaſt ſign of Fat in it: […]1699, William Dampier, chapter I, in Voyages and Descriptions. Vol. II. […], London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC, part II (Mr. Dampier’s Voyages to the Bay of Campeachy), page 38

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Forms of hodge-podge

pluralhodge-podges

Questions about hodge-podge

What is hodge-podge the alternative form of?
Hodge-podge is the alternative form of hodgepodge.

Words near hodge-podge in the dictionary

  1. Hodge duals
  2. Hodge star
  3. Hodge stars
  4. Hodge theory
  5. Hodge-de Rham spectral sequence
  6. hodge-podge
  7. hodge-podges
  8. hodge-podgey
  9. Hodgeman County
  10. Hodgen
  11. Hodgens

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