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The Oxford English Dictionary definition is: "A dish made of a mixture of various kinds of meat, vegetables, etc., stewed together" and "esp in Scottish = Hotchpotch – A dish containing a mixture of many ingredients; spec. a thick soup of barley, peas, and other vegetables, and sometimes meat". [1]
Hodgepodge or hotchpotch describes a confused and/or disorderly mass and/or collection of things; a "mess" or a "jumble". Hodge-podge may refer to: Hodge-Podge (comics), a character from the comic strip Bloom County; Hodge-Podge (soup), a type of mutton soup "Hodge Podge", a Series H episode of the television series QI (2010)
Mishmash is a confused or disorderly mixture of things, a hodgepodge. Mishmash or mish mash may also refer to: Mish-mash (food), a Bulgarian dish; Mish Mash, a 1997 album by English dub band Rockers Hi-Fi; Mish Mash!, a 2004 rock album by Regurgitator; Mish Mash (band), a UK electronic dance music group
The term four-letter word serves as a euphemism for words that are often considered profane or offensive.. The designation "four-letter" arises from the observation that many (though not all) popular or slang terms related to excretory functions, sexual activity, genitalia, blasphemies, and terms linked to Hell or damnation are incidentally four-character monosyllables.
The name hotch-pot is taken from a kind of pudding, and is derived from the French word hocher, or "shake." It was used as early as 1292 as a legal term, and from the 15th century in cooking for a sort of broth with many ingredients (see Hodge-Podge soup ), and so it is used figuratively for any heterogeneous mixture.
In the majority of alternades, every second letter is used to make two smaller words, but in some cases, every third letter is used to make three smaller words. Theoretically, a very long word could use every fourth letter to make four smaller words; e.g., «partitioned» is an alternade for «pin», «ate», «rid», and «to».
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Collins Scrabble Words (CSW, formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the US, Thailand and Canada, [1] although Scrabble tournaments in the US and Canada are also organized with divisions that use Collins Scrabble Words as their lexicon, some under the auspices of organizations such as the Collins Coalition.