Noun: olla podrida
| Singular | olla podrida |
| Plural | olla podridas |
Sample Sentences
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Continuously testing the resilience of the melting pot differentiates America from other places; and the olla podrida of colors and cultures creates a reservoir of talents unduplicated on the planet. [2003 August 22, Rotan E. Lee, “Black gay men suffer double racism”, in Philadelphia Tribune:]
Nouns inflected like olla podrida
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish olla podrida, from Old Spanish olla potrida (literally “rotten pot”) or olla poderida (literally “pot [of the] mighty”). Doublet of potpourri. See: Spanish Nouns '
olla podrida'.