Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To plod.
- noun A puddle; a plash.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A puddle; a plash.
- noun Prov. Eng. Porridge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun informal a
fat person - noun UK, dialect A
puddle ; aplash . - noun UK, dialect
porridge
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gysbert Cornellisen's cooking pot, once smoking with savory Spanish stew or hodge-podge, is still to be seen in the Stedelyk (city) Museum, which every American ought to visit when in Leyden.
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If you’re looking for “authenticity”, this Pan-Asian hodge podge is not going to cut it in some ways.
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I used to eat my porridge (called "podge" in my family) with brown sugar, or with dried fruit and nuts (dried cranberries and almonds are nice), but then my friend introduced me to the idea of golden syrup on the porridge, and I've never looked back.
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"All right, Uncle Podger, I'll come and 'podge' for you," laughed
A Popular Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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It was like the lady who attributed the decline of the Italian opera to the fact that singers would no longer "podge" their voices.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868
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Ms. Alonso gave Ms. Reyes a tour of Pro Danza, which has been housed in this marble and wrought-iron hodge-podge building since 1984.
In Cuba, Dancing With a Full Heart Pia Catton 2010
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Similarly, SF Signal has a hodge-podge of info for this first day of June, including some interviews and free fiction.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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The show is a hodge podge of scenes, stories and standup about aging and how it can be an assault to our vanity and bafflement to our obsolete sense of self.
Erika Milvy: "Marga Gomez Is Not Getting Any Younger" Extended Erika Milvy 2011
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Mozilla's Security and Privacy Engineer, Sid Stamm wrote on his personal blog that instead of using a hodge-podge of opt-out cookies, the header will transmit a message to tell all sites that a user wishes to opt-out.
Google, Mozilla detail new privacy features Hayley Tsukayama 2011
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Mozilla's Security and Privacy Engineer, Sid Stamm wrote on his personal blog that instead of using a hodge-podge of opt-out cookies, the header will transmit a message to tell all sites that a user wishes to opt-out.
Google, Mozilla detail new privacy features Hayley Tsukayama 2011
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