Thesaurus:hodgepodge

Thesaurus

hodgepodge

English

Noun

Sense: collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things

Synonyms

• bouillabaisse
• bric-a-brac
• catch-all
• clamjamfrey (Scots)
• cocktail
• congeries
• crazyquilt
• disjecta membra
• farrago
• galimatias
• gallimaufry
• hodgepodge
• horse and rabbit stew
• hotchpotch
• job lot
• jumble
• macedoine
• medley
• melange
• mingle-mangle
• miscellanea
• miscellany
• mishmash
• mixed bag
• mixture    [⇒ thesaurus]
• motley
• odds and ends
• oddments
• olio
• olla podrida
• omnium-gatherum
• pastiche
• patchwork quilt
• potpourri
• ragbag
• salmagundi
• slurry
• smorgasbord
• welter
• Whitman's sampler

Hypernyms

• assortment
• collection
• group    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

• bits and bobs
• dribs and drabs
• odds and ends
• odds and sods

Various

• gubbins
• miscellanea
• miscellaneous
• miscellany

See also

• Thesaurus:disorder
• Thesaurus:heterogeneous
• Thesaurus:uniformity

Further reading

• “59. disorder” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “hodgepodge” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.