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noun

Hugger-mugger n.

Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. (Archaic) "Many things have been done in hugger-mugger."

Confusion; disorder.

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Etymology of 'Hugger-mugger'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hugger-mugger" Quotes from Famous Books

... of fathers and mothers,' by their thoughts, while they secretly long after, and desire their death, that the inheritance may be theirs, and that they may be delivered from obedience to their parents.(1 Tim. 1:9) This is a sin in the house, in the family, a sin that is kept in hugger-mugger, close; but God sees it, and hath declared his dislike against it, by an implicit threatening, to cut them off that are guilty of it. (Eph. 5:1-5) Let them then that name the name of Christ, depart ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... to know the full meaning and value of it—the beauty and luxury, the stateliness and good taste. To have known it in this way, to have been almost part of it and then to leave it, to go back to a hugger-mugger existence in a wretched bungalow hounded by debt, pinched and bound hard and fast by poverty, which offered no future prospect of bettering itself into decent good luck! ...

— Emily Fox-Seton - Being The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst • Frances Hodgson Burnett

Words linked to "Hugger-mugger" : hush-hush, hugger mugger, underground, clandestine, untidy, topsy-turvy, cloak-and-dagger, jumbled, confusion