What's the difference between hodgepodge and macaronic?

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.

Macaronic


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.
  • (n.) A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.
  • (n.) A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Beca is upping her game and is using beetroot too and making savoury macarons.
  • (2) At Aux Délices du Palais, customers in the long queue snaking to the door in the 14th arrondissement agreed that Teixeira and his family made exceedingly good bread, not to mention excellent macarons – for which they have also won prizes – and mouthwatering pâtisserie.
  • (3) Breakfast, which costs €18 extra, is served in the independently run restaurant-bar ( apotekrestaurant.is ) – where you can sample (and buy) tempting macarons, chocolates and desserts made by award-winning pastry chef Axel Thorsteinsson.
  • (4) Sue Series one, Edd [Kimber]blew everyone away with a macaron and now everybody is making them in week one, just to dress a bake.
  • (5) Cakes are worth a special mention: sticky banana and pumpkin loaves, homemade macarons – matcha, salted caramel – in jewel colours.
  • (6) Great in the afternoon for Le Tea Time: Lenôtre macarons, tea by Mariage Frères .
  • (7) Even within baking there's the view that a spelt sourdough is somehow more sincere than a miniature macaron.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bake Off creates a fairytale landscape of tottering choux towers, cheesecake tiers, lady fingers, sponges and macarons and frangipanes.
  • (9) For the viewer, an hour in the Bake Off tent is like peeping through the window into a charmed land of plenty: a fairytale landscape of tottering choux towers, charlotte russes filled with trembling expanses of bavarois, gingerbread houses and cheesecake tiers and lady fingers and sponges and macarons and frangipanes.
  • (10) With precise judgment, a lot of practice and expert patience, the skilled kitchen craftsman learns to transform clouds of eggwhite into shiny-topped macarons, pools of molten chocolate into hard and gleaming tempered sheets, dusty heaps of flour and foaming yeast into elaborate plaits of yielding bread.
  • (11) The life and soul of the quartier is rue des Martyrs , a bustling street lined with shops and a paradise for foodies, whether you're looking for rustic figatellu sausage, speciality cheeses and charcuterie at Terra Corsa, a Corsican delicatessen at no 42, or mouth-watering champagne and passion fruit macarons from master boulanger-pâtissier, Arnaud Delmontel at no 39.

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