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 Hotch-pot.Hot’spur. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Hotch-potch.
 
A confused mixture or jumble; a thick broth containing meat and vegetables.   1
       
“A sort of soup, or broth, or brew,
Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes.”
       
Thackeray: Ballad of Bouillabaisse, stanza 2.
 


 Hotch-pot.Hot’spur. 

 
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