": a tray or trough that has a pole handle and that is borne on the shoulder for carrying loads (as of mortar or brick)":[]
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"probably from Middle Dutch hodde ; akin to Middle High German hotte cradle":""
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": a nonsurfer who frequents surfing beaches and pretends to be a surfer":[]
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": a heterogeneous mixture : jumble":[
"a hodgepodge of styles"
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"the exhibit was a hodgepodge of mediocre art, bad art, and really bad art",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The state of the U.S. economy is a hodgepodge of strong data and alarming signals. \u2014 Charley Grant, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"At the turn of the 20th century, the United States was a hodgepodge of state divorce laws. \u2014 April White, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"There is still no national plan for curbing the spread of the disease, just a hodgepodge of conflicting local and state approaches to everything from shutdowns to masking up. \u2014 Marc Fisher, Washington Post , 12 Dec. 2020",
"The book is a hodgepodge of short, quirky chapters that cohere as a quasi-narrative because Mr. Reilly structures them around his relationship with his father\u2014which wasn\u2019t at all pretty. \u2014 John Paul Newport, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
"The event is being organized by a hodgepodge of anti-vaccine groups. \u2014 NBC News , 21 Jan. 2022",
"The Port of Beirut is overseen by a hodgepodge of government and security agencies with overlapping mandates. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Oct. 2021",
"The successful escape of Masoud's family is one of countless informal rescue missions put together during the chaotic final days of the US withdrawal by a hodgepodge of current and former US officials with experience in Afghanistan. \u2014 Katie Bo Lillis, CNN , 20 Oct. 2021",
"The battalion is a hodgepodge , with fighters from all over Ukraine and the world. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022"
": a laborer employed in carrying supplies to bricklayers, stonemasons, cement finishers, or plasterers on the job":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"During the 1800s, blacks held a variety of jobs, including barber, bartender, hotel bell boy, carriage driver, hod carrier , janitor, laborer, railway postal clerk and undertaker. \u2014 Marylynne Pitz, Washington Post , 25 Feb. 2020",
"Andy was a hod carrier , charged with carrying supplies to bricklayers. \u2014 Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star , 20 Feb. 2020",
"Like the West Oak Lane hod carrier who in 1925 whacked his coworker with a bundle of bricks, knocking him through a hole in a roof, 12 feet to the ground below, and into the hereafter. \u2014 Mike Newall, Philly.com , 22 June 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1771, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": coarse cloth of undyed wool":[]
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"\u02c8h\u00e4d\u1d4an"
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"origin unknown":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-213844"
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-231800"
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": waddle":[]
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"\u02c8h\u00e4d\u1d4al"
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"probably by alteration":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-002539"
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"noun"
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": a mythical animal reported chiefly from Wisconsin and Minnesota, noted for its ugliness, lateral horns, and hooked tail, and reputed to be outstanding in both ferocity and melancholy":[]
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"\u02c8h\u014d\u02ccdag"
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"origin unknown":""
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"noun"
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": fool , blockhead , simpleton":[]
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"noun"
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": a malignant lymphoma that is characterized by progressive enlargement of lymph nodes, spleen, and liver and by progressive anemia":[]
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"\u02c8h\u00e4j-kinz-"
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"Thomas Hodgkin \u20201866 English physician":""
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"1865, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"history_and_etymology":{
"hoddy- (from hoddy-doddy ) + poll":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-160212"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a mineral MnZn 2 SiO 5 .H 2 O consisting of a hydrous zinc manganese silicate that occurs in the form of pink to reddish brown crystals":[]
