potch

Example Sentences

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Books like this are always a hotch-potch, but here the potch is well and truly hotched.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2012

This tremendous gallimaufry or hotch potch, produced, as some suppose, an intolerable stench, and impregnated the waters with salt, sulphur, and bitumen.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

"That's a nice bit of colour, Michael," he said, admiring a small piece of grey potch with a black strain which flashed needling rays of green and gold.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

He was carefully working round a brilliantly fired seam through black potch in the shin cracker he had been breaking through two or three days before.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

"Potch," they would say, as his father used to, "a little bit of potch!"

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah