Definitions for hugger-mugger

hugger-mugger hug·ger-mug·ger

Spelling: [huhg-er-muhg-er]
IPA: /ˈhʌg ərˌmʌg ər/

Hugger-Mugger is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in hugger-mugger (-eegggghmrruu).

Definitions for hugger-mugger

noun

  1. disorder or confusion; muddle.
  2. secrecy; reticence:

adjective

  1. secret or clandestine.
  2. disorderly or confused.

verb (used with object)

  1. to keep secret or concealed; hush up.

verb (used without object)

  1. to act secretly.

Origin of hugger-mugger

1520-30; earlier hucker-mucker, rhyming compound based on mucker, Middle English mokeren to hoard

Examples for hugger-mugger

They may hugger-mugger it this way and that; but this Mr. Ralph can't be like t'other young gentleman.

The trouble was his “hugger-mugger” management, as Carlyle expressed it.

They can't do it,—by Act of Parliament,—except in a hugger-mugger left-handed way, that wouldn't suit you at all.

Let alone his meals being all hugger-mugger and comfortless.

Mr Bethany tossed the hugger-mugger of pamphlets across the table.

Muddle flies before it, and hugger-mugger becomes a thing unknown.

Still, everything drifts on to these hugger-mugger large enterprises; Chicago spreads over the world.

All that set you were brought up in—why, one only had to look at them to see what a hugger-mugger way they probably lived.

Word Value for hugger-mugger
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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