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Date: 2014-09-17 2:05 GMT-05:00
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Sep. 17, 2014
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higgledy-piggledy Audio Pronunciation
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\HIG-uhl-dee-PIG-uhl-dee\
adverb
1. in a jumbled, confused, or disorderly manner; helter-skelter.
adjective
1. confused; jumbled.
Quotes
Within six hours, Kesselring had ordered all or parts of eleven divisions to converge around the Colli Laziali in what he would later term a "higgledy-piggledy jumble."
-- Rick Atkinson, The Day of the Battle, 2007
Origin
Higgledy-piggledy came to English in the late 1500s and is a rhyming compound of uncertain origin.
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