hodge-podge
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It's why my hodge-podge accent – neither entirely Southern nor Northern – made me feel self-conscious to speak, compounding my anxieties about exposing my already shaky grasp on the language.
From Salon • May 12, 2024
And a box of fridge-cake can be make an inexpensive bar plain chocolate and a hodge-podge of store cupboard ingredients into a fancy treat.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2023
However sheepish this hodge-podge crew seemed before, everyone spends the next hour quietly panting as their limbs flail in uncoordinated dance to music only they can hear.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2022
The Chiefs were so ransacked by injuries a year ago, particularly when the playoffs rolled around, and they were forced to start a hodge-podge of offensive linemen.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2021
I. We shall afterwards see reason to conclude, that the famous Satira Menippea of Varro seems not to have been Satyra, but Satura, a hodge-podge, or medley.394.Horat.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John