The difference between Hodgepodge and Melange


Hodgepodge is also verb with the meaning: to move or position in an erratic, disorganised manner.

Melange is also noun with the meaning: a mixture of different things.

check bellow for the other definitions of Hodgepodge and Melange

  1. Hodgepodge as a noun:

    Examples:

    "His latest sculpture is a hodgepodge of kitchen clutter and scrap glued together. In fact, all his recent pieces have been similar hodgepodges."

  2. Hodgepodge as a noun:

  1. Hodgepodge as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To move or position in an erratic, disorganised manner.

  1. Melange as a noun:

    A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.

    Examples:

    "The room was a melange of comic books and posters."

  2. Melange as a noun:

    A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.

  3. Melange as a noun (geology):

    A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.