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noun
1.
disorder or confusion; muddle.
2.
secrecy; reticence: Why is there such hugger-mugger about the scheme?
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Huggermuggering
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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, Middle English mokeren to hoard
1520–30; earlier hucker-mucker, rhyming compound based on mucker, Middle English mokeren to hoard
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