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higgledy-piggledy

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higgledy-piggledy

  1. sotkuinen, sottaisa, sotkeutunut, sikin sokin oleva, sikin sokin, epäjärjestyksessä oleva, epäjärjestyksessä, sekasotkuinen, hujan hajan oleva, hujan hajan, mullin mallin oleva, mullin mallin, sekava.

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sikin sokin, sikin sokin oleva In utter disorder or confusion; mixed up.

I cant find your memo since my desk is all higgledy-piggledy.''

1911 — w:H. G. Wells|H. G. Wells, s:The Country of the Blind|The Country of the Blind
The houses of the central village were quite unlike the casual and higgledy-piggledy agglomeration of the mountain villages he knew.
1937 — w:Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt, s:Roosevelts Fireside Chat, 12 October 1937|Fireside Chat, 12 October''
For many years we have all known that the executive and administrative departments of the Government in Washington are a higgledy-piggledy patchwork of duplicate responsibilities and overlapping powers.
1930 — w:Bertrand Russell|Bertrand Russell, s:The Conquest of Happiness|The Conquest of Happiness
The world is a higgledy-piggledy place, with things pleasant and unpleasant occurring in no particular sequence.
In a confused, disordered, or random way.
1881 — w:James Greenwood|James Greenwood, s:Low-Life Deeps|Low-Life Deeps, ch 11
There is no kind of arrangement as regards the buildings they are erected "higgledy-piggledy;" backs to fronts, anyhow, with narrow passages between.
A disordered jumble; a confusion.
1779, Thomas Medley, The Shandymonian, subtitle:
A Higgledy-Piggledy of Controversies and Opinions on various intereſting Subjects
A double-dactyl; a short poem with eight lines in dactylic meter.
1980, Gyles Brandreth, The Joy of Lex, page 123:
Higgledy-piggledies are more sophisticated than clerihews: they comprise double dactyls and rhymes and aren't always biographical.
Any of various word games using rhyming compounds or dactylic words or phrases.
1994, Herbert Kohl, Masters Word Game Collection'', page 249:
The games are a bit archaically presented, but they include palindromes, acrostics, higgledy-piggledies, anagrams, etc.

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