subs. (old: now recognised).—A medley; a HODGE-PODGE (q.v.).
1597. JOSEPH HALL, Satires, i., 3.
| A goodly HOTCH-POTCH! when vile russetings | |
| Are match’d with monarchs, and with mighty kings. |
1606. The Return from Parnassus, iv., 2 (DODSLEY, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, ix., 183). This word HOTCH-POTCH in English is a pudding; for in such a pudding is commonly not one thing only, but one thing with another.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HOTCH-POTCH, an Oglio, or Medly of several Meats in one Dish.
1708. KING, The Art of Cookery, ix. (CHALMERS, English Poets, 1810, ix., 259). The first delighting in HODGE-PODGE, gallimaufry, forced meats … and salmagundy.
1725. A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.
1728. PATRICK WALKER, Alexander Peden, ‘Postscript’ (ed. 1827, i., 128). A HOTCH-POTCH or bagful of Arrian, Arminian, Socinian, Pelagian, old condemn’d, damnable errors.
1892. Pall Mall Gazette, 17 Oct., p. 2, c. 1. Both are a sort of HOTCHPOTCH of songs, dances, and extravaganzas.
