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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



... The expenditure is larger, and yet you do not feel "at home" there. The atmosphere seems to be full of discomfort. Books, hats, shawls, and stockings in course of repair, are strewn about. Two or three chairs are loaded with goods. The rooms are hugger-mugger. No matter how much money is spent, it does not mend matters. Taste is wanting, for the manager of the household has not yet learnt ...
— Thrift • Samuel Smiles
... carried on? No one could have wondered if there had been hundreds of unforeseen incidents, if military trains had arrived at their stations with great delays, if there had resulted in many places a wild hugger-mugger from the tremendous problems on hand. But there was not a trace of this. On the Monday evening of the first week of mobilization a high officer of the General Staff said: "It had to go well today, but ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 - Who Began the War, and Why? • Various


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


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