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Hugger-mugger   /hˈəgər-mˈəgər/   Listen
Hugger-mugger

noun
1.
A state of confusion.






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"Hugger-mugger" Quotes from Famous Books



... a false glory and debased religion. They even publicly rejoiced at a death-bed made pitiable by the absence of his mistress, confessor, and family; and meeting in mobs that, encountering his corpse on its way through by-lanes to hugger-mugger interment at St. Denis, they might tear it into shreds, gave early and portentous evidence that the germ of an envenomed and bloody democracy had been elicited in the very perfection of his stern and heartless tyranny. The unblushing excesses of the Regent and of Louis the Fifteenth, who ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various



Words linked to "Hugger-mugger" :   confusion, disorderly, untidy, higgledy-piggledy, covert, hugger mugger



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