higgledy-piggledy: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Sep. 17, 2014

higgledy-piggledy \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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