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Thesaurus: hugger-mugger
Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy.
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Definitions
- n. Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy.
- a. Secret; clandestine; sly.
- a. Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.
- adj. in utter disorder
- adj. conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- n. a state of confusion
- adv. in secrecy
- n. a state of confusion r. in secrecy