LekhoriLekhoriSecret, clandestine, sly.
Disorderly, chaotic, confused.
hugger-mugger doings
Secrecy.
[…]; and we haue done but greenly In hugger mugger to interre him.
Disorder.
As we passed through the quadrangle the church was glowing more brightly than a pearl, like a lily in strong sunlight, in spite of all the scaffolding and hugger-mugger.
Secretly.
Confusedly, in a muddle.
To meet or act secretly.
Unknown; perhaps from Anglo-Irish cuggermugger (“a whispering, a low-voiced gossiping”), from Irish cogar (“whisper”). Compare also Scots hudge-mudge, hody-moke, Swedish mjugg (“stealth, secrecy”).
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