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Hugger-mugger   Listen
noun
Hugger-mugger  n.  
1.
Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. (Archaic) "Many things have been done in hugger-mugger."
2.
Confusion; disorder.





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"Hugger-mugger" Quotes from Famous Books



... and other old writers. The etymology is uncertain. Compare Jamieson in Hudge-mudge. The latter part of the word seems to be allied with smuggle, and the former part to be the reduplication. The original and proper sense of hugger-mugger is secretly. See Nares in v., who derives it from to hugger, to lurk about; but query whether such a word can be shown to ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 • Various


Words linked to "Hugger-mugger" :   undercover, secret, underground, hole-and-corner, untidy, confusion, cloak-and-dagger, disorderly, covert, clandestine, surreptitious, higgledy-piggledy


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