hochepoche
English edit
Etymology edit
A variant of hotchpotch, itself a variant of hotchpot, from Old French hochepot.
Noun edit
hochepoche (plural hochepoches)
- a thick soup or stew of vegetables or meat, often thickened with barley.
- (UK) hodgepodge.
- (law) a hotchpot
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Middle English edit
A variant of hochepot, from Old French hochepot.
Noun edit
hochepoche (plural hochepoches)
- hotchpotch (soup; (figuratively) jumble)
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of Chaucer”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Ȝe haue cast alle here wordes in an hochepoche.
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