Hodge-podge (or Hotch-potch), subs. (old: now recognised).—A mixture; a medley. Sp., commistrajo. See Hotch-potch.
1553–99. Spenser, State of Ireland. They have made our English tongue a galimaufrey, or hodgepodge of all other speeches.
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., i., 199. Some Collier-like Saint, … Had rak’d a hodg podg for the Devil.
1726. Vanbrugh, Journey to London. They were all got into a sort of hodge-podge argument for the good of the nation which I did not well understand.
d. 1764. Lloyd, Poems (774), ‘A Tale.’ Was ever such an hodge-podge seen.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Hodman, (Oxford Univ.).—A scholar from Westminster School admitted to Christ Church College, Oxford.
1728. Bailey, Eng. Dict., s.v. Hodman.
Hodmandod, subs. (old).—1. A snail in his shell—Bacon. See Doddy.
1663. Killigrew, The Parson’s Wedding, v., 4 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 525). Painted snails with houses on their backs, and horns as big as Dutch cows.… Can any woman be honest that lets such hodmandods crawl o’er her virgin breast and belly?