different between medley vs hodgepodge

English

Etymology

From Middle English medle, from Anglo-Norman medlee, Old French medlee, from Late Latin misculata, feminine past participle of Vulgar Latin *miscul? (“to mix”). Compare meddle. Doublet of melee.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?dli/

Noun

medley (plural medleys)

1. (now rare, archaic) Combat, fighting; a battle. [from 14^thc.]
   • 1632, Xenophon, Philemon Holland (translator), Cyrupaedia

     For greater shields they have, than that they can either doe or see ought, and being raunged by hundreds no doubt they will hinder one another in the medley, except some very few

2. A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things. [from 17^thc.]

   a fruit medley

   • this medley of philosophy and war

   • 1692, William Walsh, Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant

     Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.

3. (music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece. [from 17^thc.]

   They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.

4. (swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. [from 20th c.]
5. A cloth of mixed colours.
   • 1631, Thomas Fuller, Comment on Ruth , Chapter 1, verses 9, 10, 11

     Otherwise , as our Saviour noteth , when the old Cloth was joyned to the new , it made no good medley , but the Rent was made the wors

Synonyms

• mashup

Related terms

• meddle
• melee

Translations

Verb

medley (third-person singular simple present medleys, present participle medleying, simple past and past participle medleyed)

1. (music) To combine, to form a medley.

Anagrams

• yelmed

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English medley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?dli/, [?m?d?li]

Noun

medley n (singular definite medleyet, plural indefinite medleyer)

1. medley (of songs; swimming event)

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English medley.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: med?ley

Noun

medley m (plural medleys, diminutive medleytje n)

1. several songs strung together.

Synonyms

• potpourri

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English medley. Doublet of mezclada.

Noun

medley m (plural medleys)

1. medley (songs)

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English medley.

Noun

medley n

1. medley (songs)

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.