different between hodgepodge vs macaronic

English

Alternative forms

• hodge-podge
• hotchpotch

Etymology

From Middle English hochepoche, a variation of hochepot, from Old French hochepot, from Middle Dutch hutspot (“beef or mutton cut into small pieces and mixed and boiled together in a pot”), from hotsen, hutsen (“to shake; jog; jolt”) + pot (“pot”), equivalent to hotch +? pot. Compare German Low German Hüttspott (“hodgepodge”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?d??p?d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?d??p?d?/

Noun

hodgepodge (countable and uncountable, plural hodgepodges)

1. A hotchpotch; a collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.

   Synonyms: farrago, melange, mishmash; see also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

   • 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler

     Man's life is but vain, for 'tis subject to pain, / And sorrow, and short as a bubble; / 'Tis a hodge-podge of business, and money, and care, / And care, and money, and trouble.

2. A confused mass of ingredients shaken or mixed together in the same pot.

Translations

Verb

hodgepodge (third-person singular simple present hodgepodges, present participle hodgepodging, simple past and past participle hodgepodged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To move or position in an erratic, disorganised manner.

English

Alternative forms

• macaronick (obsolete)

Etymology

From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæk????n?k/

Adjective

macaronic (comparative more macaronic, superlative most macaronic)

1. (archaic) jumbled, mixed
2. (literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
3. (dated) Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.

Translations

Noun

macaronic (plural macaronics)

1. (literature) A work of macaronic character.
2. (linguistic morphology) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.

Translations

Anagrams

• carcinoma, maccaroni