LekhoriLekhoriIn utter disorder or confusion; mixed up.
I can't find your memo since my desk is all higgledy-piggledy.
In a confused, disordered, or random way.
There is no kind of arrangement as regards the buildings they are erected "higgledy-piggledy;" backs to fronts, anyhow, with narrow passages between.
A disordered jumble; a confusion.
A Higgledy-Piggledy of Controversies and Opinions on various intereſting Subjects
A reduplicated rhyming compound. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible link to pig, since the animals huddle in irregular groups, but notes that the connection is uncertain. First use appe...
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A double-dactyl; a short poem with eight lines in dactylic meter.
Higgledy-piggledies are more sophisticated than clerihews: they comprise double dactyls and rhymes and aren't always biographical.