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Hugger-mugger
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What's The Definition Of Hugger-mugger?
[n] a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance"
[adv] in secrecy; "they did it all hugger-mugger" [adj] conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" [adj] in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes" [v] act stealthily Synonyms | Synonyms for Hugger-mugger: clandestine | cloak-and-dagger | covert | disorderly | higgledy-piggledy | hole-and-corner(a) | hush-hush | jumbled | mumbo jumbo | on the quiet(p) | secret | surreptitious | topsy-turvy | undercover | underground | untidy Related Terms | Find terms related to Hugger-mugger: airtight secrecy | all over | all over hell | anarchic | arsy-varsy | ass-backwards | back-door | backstairs | balled up | black out | bollixed up | by stealth | censor | chaotic | clandestine | close secrecy | closeness | concealment | confused | covert | covertly | crypticness | discreetness | discretion | evasion | evasiveness | every which way | feline | fouled up | furtive | furtively | galley-west | harum-scarum | hash | helter-skelter | hiddenness | hidlings | higgledy-piggledy | hole-and-corner | hugger-muggery | hush | hush up | hush-hush | in a jumble | in a mess | in a muddle | in camera | in confusion | in disarray | in disorder | jumble | jumbled | jungle | kill | litter | mash | mixed up | mucked up | muddle | muddled | muffle | privately | privy | quash | quiet | repress | rummage | scattered | scramble | screwed up | secrecy | secretiveness | secretness | shifty | shush | silence | sit on | skimble-skamble | skulking | slinking | slinky | sly | smother | snafu | sneaking | sneaky | squash | squelch | stealthily | stealthy | stifle | sub rosa | subterfuge | suppress | surreptitious | surreptitiously | the dark | topsy-turvy | tumble | uncommunicativeness | undercover | underground | underhand | underhanded | underneath | under-the-counter | under-the-table | unobtrusive | upside-down | willy-nilly See Also | act | behave | confusion | do Hugger-mugger In Webster's Dictionary \Hug"ger-mug`ger\, n. [Scot. huggrie-muggrie;
Prov. E. hugger to lie in ambush, mug mist, muggard sullen.]
Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger,
with haste and secrecy. [Archaic]
Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. --Fuller.
\Hug"ger-mug`ger\, a. 1. Secret; clandestine; sly. 2. Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings. |
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