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View synonyms for hugger-mugger
hugger-mugger
[ huhg-er-muhg-er ]
noun
- disorder or confusion; muddle.
- secrecy; reticence:
Why is there such hugger-mugger about the scheme?
adjective
- secret or clandestine.
- disorderly or confused.
verb (used with object)
- to keep secret or concealed; hush up.
verb (used without object)
- to act secretly.
hugger-mugger
/ ˈhʌɡəˌmʌɡə /
noun
- confusion
- rare.secrecy
adjective
- with secrecy
- in confusion
verb
- tr to keep secret
- intr to act secretly
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hugger-mugger1
First recorded in 1520–30; earlier hucker-mucker, rhyming compound based on mucker, from Middle English mokeren “to hoard”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hugger-mugger1
C16: of uncertain origin
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Example Sentences
But they were taking no steps for this purpose; they were content with social hugger-mugger.
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Mr Bethany tossed the hugger-mugger of pamphlets across the table.
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Still, everything drifts on to these hugger-mugger large enterprises; Chicago spreads over the world.
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They can't do it,—by Act of Parliament,—except in a hugger-mugger left-handed way, that wouldn't suit you at all.
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All that set you were brought up in—why, one only had to look at them to see what a hugger-mugger way they probably lived.
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