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means A confused mixture or jumble of unrelated things thrown together.

from A worn-down version of 'hotchpotch,' which itself came from the older 'hotchpot' — a legal term for pooling property together before dividing it up fairly. 'Hotchpot' likely borrowed from Old French 'hochepot,' combining 'hocher' (to shake) with 'pot,' picturing all your odds and ends shaken together in one container. So the word has always meant exactly what it sounds like: stuff shaken into one pot, no sorting required.