What's the difference between hodgepodge and hotchpot?

Hodgepodge


Definition:

  • (n.) A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Singapore, however, where a hodgepodge mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian residents actively aim to maintain what the nation's "founder", Lee Kuan Yew, has termed "racial harmony", supporters are hard to come by.
  • (2) Unfortunately it is also home to this thing – a fifth-tier multi-colored hodgepodge by Frank Gehry, which opened in 2000 and utterly failed to do for Seattle what his Guggenheim did for Bilbao.
  • (3) The entrance to Za'atari – now Jordan's fifth largest city – is a chaotic hodgepodge of Syrian refugees, Jordanian citizens, journalists, aid workers, vans and water trucks, with up to 10,000 visitors a day.
  • (4) Iron Man 2 was a huge disappointment, The Avengers (Iron Man 2½) an aimless hodgepodge and The Dark Knight Rises a pretentious, incoherent mess.
  • (5) The latter is true of the north-east Aegean, which includes a hodgepodge of islands stretching from lush Samos in the south – just off the coast of Turkey – up to Thassos, 400km to the north and closer to Bulgaria than it is to Athens.
  • (6) If there is a conceptual framework behind all this, it is as much of a hodgepodge as Skrillex's music.
  • (7) A hodgepodge alliance of US legislators is finally waking up to the need and opportunity to stand up for citizens' rights , but they will be slow and, don't we know, ineffective and often uninformed .
  • (8) The TV integration is an awkward hodgepodge of menus and overlays and dead ends.

Hotchpot


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Hotchpotch

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