HUGGER-MUGGER

n. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. [Archaic] Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. Fuller.

2.
a.

Secret; clandestine; sly.

3.
a.

Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.


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