Meaning of HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY
| Pronunciation: | | 'higuldee'piguldee
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- [adv] in a disordered manner; "they were piled up higgledy-piggledy"
- [adj] in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes"
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| | Synonyms: | | disorderly, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy, topsy-turvy, untidy |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hig`gle*dy-pig"gle*dy\, adv.
In confusion; topsy-turvy. [Colloq.] --Johnson.
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| | Related Terms: | | all over, all over hell, anarchic, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, balled up, bollixed up, capriciously, chaotic, chaotically, confused, erratically, every which way, fouled up, galley-west, harum-scarum, helter-skelter, hugger-mugger, impulsively, in a jumble, in a mess, in a muddle, in confusion, in disarray, in disorder, inconsistently, inconstantly, irregularly, jumbled, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, nonuniformly, scattered, screwed up, skimble-skamble, snafu, spasmodically, sporadically, topsy-turvy, unequally, unevenly, unsteadily, unsystematically, ununiformly, upside-down, willy-nilly |
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