hodge-pudding

The Century Dictionary: The Encyelopedic Lexicon of the English Language · 1887 · p. 192

(hoj’ pad” ing), n. [ (podge) + pudding.| A pudding made of a medley of ingredients. Mrs. Page. Why, Sir John, do you think that ever the devil could have made you our delight? Ford. What, a hodge pudding? a bag of flax? Shak., M. W. of W., v. 5. Hodgkin’s disease. See disease.