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Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy.

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  1. n. Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy.
  2. a. Secret; clandestine; sly.
  3. a. Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.
  4. adj. in utter disorder
  5. adj. conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
  6. n. a state of confusion
  7. adv. in secrecy
  8. 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.
  9. Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, withhaste and secrecy. [Archaic]Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. Fuller.
  10. n. a state of confusion r. in secrecy