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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



... 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. ...
— The Combined Maze • May Sinclair


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


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