Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
poach . - In paper manufacturing, to perform gas-bleaching upon (paper-stock) in a potching-engine.
- A variant of
poach .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete See
poach , to cook. - intransitive verb obsolete To thrust; to push.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
thrust . - verb To
trample . - noun mineralogy A type of rough
opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling. - verb Obsolete form of
poach (to cook)
Etymologies
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Examples
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But of our hotch-potch of nationalities fore and aft there is no person who catches an inkling of their language or nationality.
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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These children had no effective catalyst to turn a hotch-potch of letters and words into meaningful information.
Early Reading With Fun Phonics « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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This DI loon is aiming this most recent speel at an ever increasingly marginalised hotch potch of ID supporters.
Casey Luskin: the new Wendell Bird? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Edit an ever increasingly marginalised hotch potch of ID supporters.
Casey Luskin: the new Wendell Bird? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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The hotch-potch of influences is reflected in their suburban New York home where we meet, a large house set in its own thick greenery in an area of real estate where residents are surely more familiar with hedge funds and stock fluctuations than fistulas or honour killings.
Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide 2010
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All free peoples have a right to self-determination and we who live near to or in the Pennines demand the same rights as the Scots and the Welsh, (but not the English, who aren't entitled to self determination because they are a multi-cultural mongrel hot potch undeserving of privileged minprity status).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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For a longer article on the groupings, this hotch-potch, by Grant Osborne and other writers, could help.
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It sounds like a hotch potch and most of the work was drawing, rubbing out, redrawing, not trying to emulate any particular style but drawing from them.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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The Brown affair has now for some time been a hotch-potch of all the wrongs attributed to it by fmr.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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The Brown affair has now for some time been a hotch-potch of all the wrongs attributed to it by fmr.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
kenspeckle commented on the word potch
Usually used by Jewish mothers in conjunction with the word tuccus.
February 17, 2007
bilby commented on the word potch
"...for where
I thought to crush him in an equal force,--
True sword to sword,--I'll potch at him some way,
Or wrath or craft may get him."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 28, 2009