Meaning of PELL-MELL
Pronunciation: | | pel'mel
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- [adv] in a wild or reckless manner; "dashing harum-scarum all over the place"; "running pell-mell up the stairs"
- [adj] with undue hurry and confusion; "a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause"; "a pell-mell dash for the train"
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| Synonyms: | | harum-scarum, helter-skelter, hurried |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Pell`-mell"\, n.
See {Pall-mall}.
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| Related Terms: | | ado, agitation, amain, apace, at once, bedlam, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bustle, by forced marches, chaos, chaotic, chaotically, commotion, confused, confusedly, confusion, cursorily, disorder, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, excitement, expeditiously, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, feverish, feverishly, flurry, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, fume, furiously, fuss, hand over fist, hassle, hastily, hasty, helter-skelter, hotfoot, hubbub, hurly-burly, hurried, hurriedly, hurry, hurry-scurry, immediately, impetuous, impetuously, impulsive, impulsively, in passing, incautious, incautiously, instantly, mad, melee, on the run, pandemonium, panicky, perturbation, pother, precipitate, precipitately, promptly, quickly, racket, rampage, rash, rashly, reckless, recklessly, riot, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scramble, shindy, slap-bang, slapdash, speedily, spontaneously, stir, superficially, swiftly, swirl, swirling, to-do, trouble, tumult, tumultuous, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, vortex, whirl, wild, wildly, with a rush, with all haste, with dispatch, with haste, yeastiness |
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