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Definitions: Hugger-mugger |
Hugger-muggerAdjective1. In utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes". 2. 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". Adverb1. In secrecy; "they did it all hugger-mugger". Noun1. A state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hugger-mugger" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
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Literature | Hugger-mugger The primary meaning is clandestinely. The secondary meaning is disorderly, in a slovenly manner. To hugger is to lie in ambush, from the Danish hug, huger, huggring, to squat on the ground; mugger is the Danish smug, clandestinely, whence our word smuggle. The king in Hamlet says of Polonius: "We have done but greenly in hugger-mugger to inter him" - i.e. to smuggle him into the grave clandestinely and without ceremony. Sir T. North, in his Plutarch, says: "Antonius thought that his body should be honourably buried, and not in hugger-mugger" (clandestinely). Ralph says: - "While I, in hugger-mugger hid, Have noted all they said and did." Butler: Hudibras, iii. 3. Under the secondary idea we have the following expressions: - He lives in a hugger-mugger sort of way; the rooms were all hugger-mugger (disorderly). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: Hugger-muggerSynonyms: clandestine (adj), cloak-and-dagger (adj), disorderly (adj), higgledy-piggledy (adj), hole-and-corner(a) (adj), hush-hush (adj), jumbled (adj), on the quiet(p) (adj), secret (adj), surreptitious (adj), topsy-turvy (adj), undercover (adj), underground (adj), mumbo jumbo (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hugger-mugger |
| English words defined with "hugger-mugger": mumbo jumbo. (references) |
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| "Hugger-mugger" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Hugger-mugger" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "hugger-mugger"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zavarosan (in a jumble, incoherently, intricately, to rant), zavaros (ambiguous, bleary, blurred, chaotic, cloudy, confused, feculent, fustian, haywire, incoherent, indistinct, intricate, motley, muddled, muddling, muddy, obscure, puddly, rambling, roily, troubled, troublous, turbid), titokzatosság (eeriness, furtiveness, hugger mugger, mystery, mystique), rendetlenül (higgledy-piggledy, tumultuously), rejtett (arcane, clandestine, concealed, covert, dormant, hidden, hooded, inner, latent, latent image, occult, perdu, potential, privy, recondite, stealthy, surreptitious), lopva (covertly, furtively, stealth, stealthily, surreptitiously), kapkodva (desultorily, hurry-scurry, hurry-skurry, precipitately, slap-dash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ugger-muggerhay тайком (in hugger-mugger, in petto, on the sly, quiet, stealth, under the rose). (various references) sự thầm lén sự lộn xộn, sự hỗn độn (confusion, messiness, mussiness, printer), sự giấu giếm (concealment), sự bí mật (secrecy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: huggermugger. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-g-g-h-m-r-r-u-u" | |
-5 letters: remueur. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-g-g-g-h-m-r-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: huggermuggers. | |
+2 letters: huggermuggered. | |
+3 letters: huggermuggering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 75 67 67 65 72 2D 6D 75 67 67 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01110101 01100111 01100111 01100101 01110010 00101101 01101101 01110101 01100111 01100111 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H u g g e r - m u g g e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0075 0067 0067 0065 0072 002D 006D 0075 0067 0067 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42877373718415798773737184 |
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