1894 Brewer’s / H / Hotch-potch
A confused mixture or jumble; a thick broth containing meat and vegetables.
“A sort of soup, or broth, or brew,
Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes.”
Thackeray: Ballad of Bouillabaisse, stanza 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.