different between hotchpotch vs farrago

English

Etymology

From French hochepot, from hocher (“to shake”) + pot (“pot”); of Dutch or German origin. Compare Dutch hutspot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?t??p?t??/

Noun

hotchpotch (plural hotchpotches)

1. Alternative form of hodgepodge (“miscellaneous collection”).
2. Alternative form of hodgepodge (“mixture of ingredients”).
3. (civil law) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, especially in the case of divorce or intestacy.

   Synonym: collation

4. (archaic) A kind of mutton broth with green peas instead of barley or rice.

Alternative forms

• hotchpot
• hotchpotz
• hotch-pot

Synonyms

• farrago, hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag
• See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

Translations

References

• “hotchpotch”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin farr?g? (“mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge”), from far (“spelt (a kind of wheat), coarse meal, grits”) (English farro).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???e??o?/, /f??????o?/

Noun

farrago (plural farragos or farragoes)

1. A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.

   Synonyms: hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag

   • a. 1900, William Barclay Squire, Balfe, Michael William, article in Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 3,

     Balfe's next work, 'The Maid of Artois,' was written to a libretto furnished by Bunn, the first of those astonishing farragoes of balderdash which raised the Drury Lane manager to the first rank amongst poetasters.

   • 1911, Drama, 11f: Modern English Drama, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,

     Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.

   • 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 72

     Or, This is a farrago of absurdity, I could never feel anything of the sort myself.

   • 2005 November 7, Toronto Star,

     The original script is a complicated farrago of intertwined greed and lust, with marriages being planned and hearts being broken in order to accumulate fortunes as well as romance.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

Derived terms

• farraginous

Related terms

• farro

Translations

See also

• bric-a-brac
• eclectic
• grab bag
• heteroclite
• miscellany

Latin

Etymology

far (“spelt”) +? -?g?

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /far?ra?.?o?/, [fär?rä??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /far?ra.?o/, [f?r?r????]

Noun

farr?g? f (genitive farr?ginis); third declension

1. A kind of hash, mixed fodder for animals
2. Mixture, hodgepodge

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: farratge
• ? English: farrago, farraginous
• Galician: ferraña, ferrán
• Italian: farragine, fraina
• Portuguese: farragem
• Sardinian: farràine, farrani, forrani
• Spanish: herrén, fárrago, rain

References

• farrago in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• farrago in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• farrago in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• farrago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette