"Hugger-mugger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rather crossly, "why didn't you tell me, and I'd have tidied the room. It is all hugger-mugger, with ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... baskets full of squid which they were taking to wash in the fresh water of the fountains. Everywhere prodigious heaps of merchandise of every kind. Silks, minerals, baulks of timber, ingots of lead, carobs, rape-seed, liquorice, sugar cane, great piles of dutch cheeses. East and west hugger-mugger. ...
— Tartarin de Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
... of the like injury, been of a more magnanimous and heroic spirit, who, in imitation and at the example of the children of Jacob revenging upon the Sichemites the rapt of their sister Dinah, having found the rascally ruffian in the association of his mystical mole-catcher closely and in hugger-mugger conferring, parleying, and coming with their daughters, for the suborning, corrupting, depraving, perverting, and enticing these innocent unexperienced maids unto filthy lewdnesses, have, without any further advisement on the matter, cut them instantly into ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... HUGGER-MUGGER. In its Shakspearian bearing may have meant secretly, or in a clandestine manner, but its nautical application is to express anything out of order or done ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth |
