Perhaps the pot was shaken instead of stirred since hochepot was formed from hochier, meaning "to shake," and pot, which had the same meaning in early French as it does in English now. Before long hotchpotch and hodgepodge were used not just for a mixture of foods cooking in a pot ...
Meaning: 1. A stew of various sorts of meats and vegetables all mixed together. 2. A mishmash, jumble, a confused agglomeration of heterogenous things, farrago, gallimaufry. Notes: Some people still spell this word with a hyphen in the middle: hodge-podge. Either way is OK until speakers...
Log in Advertisementhodgepodge (n.) also hodge podge, hodge-podge, early 15c., hogpoch, alteration of hotchpotch (late 14c.) "a kind of stew," especially "one made with goose, herbs, spices, wine, and other ingredients," earlier an Anglo-French legal term meaning "collection of property...
The literal meaning is to have your head chopped off e.g.: several wives of King Henry VIII lost their heads. BONUS IDIOM: to get cold feet This means a last minute feeling of reluctance, or to have reservations about doing something, or before entering something that is usually a very ...
•404(for-oh-for)n.Someone who's clueless. (From the browser message “404 Not Found” meaning that the requested site cannot be found.) •Generica(je-ne-ri-kuh)n.Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where you are: fast food joints, malls with the...
About This Site This site is a collection of my favorite recipes, tested as many times as it takes to get it right. The recipes are gathered from around the world, but filtered by a Japanese palate, meaning lightly-sweetened desserts and a selection of Japanese home cooking favorites. The ...