† ˈhodgepot Obs.
Also 5 hogge pot, hogepotte.
[Corruption of hotchpot: cf. hodge-podge.]
1. Cookery. = hotchpot 1, hodge-podge 1.
| c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 32 Gose in a Hogge pot. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 18 A goos in hogepotte. 1550 J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §102 (1877) 89 The rest seke theyr lyvynges..of herbes, rotes, warmons, hodgepottes, fruyte, & such other beggery. 1616 Bacon Sp. agst. C'tess Somerset (T.), As for mercury water, and other poisons, they might be fit for tarts, which is a kind of hodgepot. [1897 Chicago Rec. 29 May, Samp cooked in Dutch fashion like a hutespot or hodgepot, with salt beef or pork and potatoes and other roots, such as carrots and turnips.] |
2. Law. = hotchpot 2.
| 1721 Bailey, Hodge-pot (in Law), is the putting together of Lands of several Tenures, for the more equal dividing of them. |