Usage of "hugger-mugger"

Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.

Related terms

In utter disorder.

Related terms

Mumbo jumbo.

Usage of hugger-mugger in English

We have to eat all hugger-mugger with the clerks and carpenters. 
 Sovereign 

I don't want to hear any more about corporate hugger-mugger. 
 The mammoth book of the best of best new sf 

The various departments are said to be in a state of "hugger-mugger." 
 The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither 

As they thought, hid in hugger-mugger, each accusing the other of being a racist. 
 Kalooki Nights 

Nor is the New Yorker a hugger-mugger with his money. 
 North America — Volume 1 

Well, I thought it would be all of a hugger-mugger. 
 Love Eternal 

Between now and then there will be plenty of hugger-mugger. 
 The Irish Times 

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

Its ordinary hugger-mugger had been cleared away-pushedback into corners and out of sight. 
 The Mating of Lydia 

There was no hugger-mugger escape of travel-clad bride and bridegroom. 
 Jaffery 

Naturally, I refused, not wanting to seem to be too hugger-mugger with a famous entrepreneur. 
 The Irish Times 

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

What was it like saying goodbye to crew mates he'd lived hugger-mugger with for so long? 
 The Guardian 

Why should she think us a hugger-mugger family? 
 What Timmy Did 

It is all hugger-mugger, with miss a-leaving. 
 Foul Play 

The trial was all mystery, hugger-mugger, horror. 
 Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with ... 

Frequent collocations

Hugger-mugger through the time

Meanings of hugger-mugger in English