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Higgledy-piggledy

adjective
1.
In utter disorder.  Synonyms: disorderly, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy.






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"Higgledy-piggledy" Quotes from Famous Books



... greatly enhanced by the fact that a number of paths paved with black and white stones, and each with a curious little kerb at the side, ran hither and thither in an orderly manner. The houses of the central village were quite unlike the casual and higgledy-piggledy agglomeration of the mountain villages he knew; they stood in a continuous row on either side of a central street of astonishing cleanness; here and there their particoloured facade was pierced by a door, and not a solitary ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Higgledy-piggledy" :   disorderly, untidy



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