hochepoche

Middle English

Etymology

A variant of hochepot, from Old French hochepot.

Noun

hochepoche (plural hochepoches)

1. hotchpotch (soup; (figuratively) jumble)
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of Chaucer”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Ȝe haue cast alle here wordes in an hochepoche.

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