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[ UK /hˈɒd‍ʒpɒd‍ʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈhɑdʒˌpɑdʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
  2. a motley assortment of things

How To Use hodgepodge In A Sentence

  • The real choice is between becoming a fully fledged United States of Europe, or remaining little more than a modern-day Holy Roman Empire, a gimcrack hodgepodge of "variable geometry" that will sooner or later fall apart. The End of the Euro
  • Sandwiched between the Adriatic and Black Seas, the peninsular is a hodgepodge mix of religions, peoples and cultures. TheTrumpet.com: Front Page
  • The locally based Cancer Research Society, one of a hodgepodge of Canadian anti-cancer groups, receives no government cash and raises $11-million a year to figure out how to beat the disease.
  • The rest of the population seems to be a hodgepodge of rapscallions who all speak different languages.
  • After three years of political stalemate, the governing party and the opposition - a hodgepodge of small political parties, business leaders and student groups - are finally sitting down at the negotiating table.
  • This CD is a hodgepodge of elements that never cohere to become anything.
  • Niall Ferguson, no Europhile, recently wrote in these pages: "The real choice is between becoming a fully fledged United States of Europe … and a gimcrack hodgepodge … that will sooner or later fall apart. In Defense of Europe
  • The original two-story house combined brick, plaster, and board-and-batten siding into a hodgepodge of disparate details.
  • Which default when as some endeuoured to salue and recure, they patched vp the holes with peces and rags of other languages, borrowing here of the french, there of the Italian, euery where of the Latine, not weighing how il those tongues accorde with themselues, but much worse with ours: So now they have made our English tongue, a gallimaufray or hodgepodge of al other speches. Shepheardes Calendar
  • The result is a system that is a hodgepodge of mostly public ownership and some private, without any clear direction from government.
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