Hugger-mugger

Quick meaning: Hugger-mugger is an adjective meaning Secret, clandestine, sly.

Meaning

Secret, clandestine, sly.

More Meanings

1. Disorderly, chaotic, confused.
2. Disorder.
3. Secretly.
4. Confusedly, in a muddle.
5. To meet or act secretly.
6. (archaic) Secrecy.

Example Sentences

hugger-mugger doings

[…]; and we haue done but greenly In hugger mugger to interre him.

There were densely tenanted houses on the main road, pigsties hugger-mugger with people, fireplace ashes thrown out at night.

Many things have been done in Hugger mugger in our Age, prophane perſons conceited that their privacy protected them from divine inſpection.

Word Forms

• huggermugger
• hugger-muggers
• hugger-muggering
• hugger-muggered

Synonyms for hugger-mugger

Depending on context, synonyms include abstruse, catlike, backroom, stealth, clandestine, cloak-and-dagger.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include surreptitious, covert, hole-and-corner, clandestine, undercover, cloak-and-dagger.

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