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Thesaurus: hugger-mugger
Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy.
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- 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
- Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. [Archaic] Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. Fuller. 1. Secret; clandestine; sly. 2. Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.
- Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, withhaste and secrecy. [Archaic]Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. Fuller.
- n. a state of confusion r. in secrecy