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Hugger-mugger   Listen
adjective
Hugger-mugger  adj.  
1.
Secret; clandestine; sly.
2.
Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.





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"Hugger-mugger" Quotes from Famous Books



... of their living in two rooms. Violet, who had lived in one room, said that living in two rooms was horrible, and Mrs. Usher said that Violet was right. It was better for all parties to begin as you meant to go on. Begin in hugger-mugger and you may end in it. But if he gave Violet a home of her own that was a home at the very start, she'd soon settle down in it. He needn't worry about the hard work it meant. The only thing that would keep Violet steadylike was downright hard work. No; she didn't mean anything cruel. They could ...
— The Combined Maze • May Sinclair
... Spenser, Shakspeare, 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 ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 • Various


Words linked to "Hugger-mugger" :   cloak-and-dagger, underground, hole-and-corner, topsy-turvy, surreptitious, secret, jumbled, higgledy-piggledy, disorderly, hush-hush, hugger mugger, untidy, clandestine


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