or hotch-potch, subs. (old: now recognised).—A mixture; a medley. Sp., commistrajo. See HOTCH-POTCH.

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  1579.  SPENSER, The Shepheardes Calender, Epistle. They have made our English tong a gallimaufrey, or HODGEPODGE of all other speeches.

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  1718.  D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, i., 199.

                Some Collier-like Saint,
        Who to publish the Cant,
Had rak’d a HODG PODG for the Devil.

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  1728.  VANBRUGH, A Journey to London, iii., 1. They were all got into a sort of HODGE-PODGE argument for the good of the nation, which I did not well understand.

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  d. 1764.  R. LLOYD, Poems (1774), ‘A Tale.’ Was ever such an HODGE-PODGE seen.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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