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Hodgepodge is a funny-sounding word for a somewhat funny occurrence — a grouping of things or people that don't fit together.

Hoity toity = haughty or snobbish.

Pismire = an ant.

Hardpan = a hardened impervious layer, typically of clay, occurring in or below the soil and impairing drainage and plant growth.

The hoochie coochie is a catch-all term to describe several sexually provocative belly dance-like dances from the mid-to late 1800s.

Scheherazade is a major character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights.

Saltbox = a frame house having up to three stories at the front and one fewer at the back with a steeply pitched roof.

Bog = wet muddy ground too soft to support a heavy body.

Collier = a coal miner.

Indenture = bind (someone) by an indenture as an apprentice or laborer.