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hugger mugger

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hug⋅ger-mug⋅ger

[huhg-er-muhg-er]
–noun
1. disorder or confusion; muddle.
2. secrecy; reticence: Why is there such hugger-mugger about the scheme?
–adjective
3. secret or clandestine.
4. disorderly or confused.
–verb (used with object)
5. to keep secret or concealed; hush up.
–verb (used without object)
6. to act secretly.

Origin:
1520–30; earlier hucker-mucker, rhyming compound based on mucker, ME mokeren to hoard
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