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higgledy-piggledy

/hig-uhl-dee-pig-uhl-dee/US // ˈhɪg əl diˈpɪg əl di //UK // (ˈhɪɡəldɪˈpɪɡəldɪ) informal //

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a jumbled, confused, or disorderly manner; helter-skelter.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : confused; jumbled.

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Examples

  • The cargo of marble blocks, piled higgledy-piggledy like a child's building-bricks, formed a thorough citadel.

  • They walked along in silence, the most ill-sorted pair that you might hope to find in all that higgledy-piggledy city.

  • Several names may be set in higgledy-piggledy fashion, for they belong to no class, and are sui generis.

  • The contents of a hundred Primers rose higgledy-piggledy, to congest his mind and memory.

  • She plumped into it higgledy-piggledy and curled up, an unsightly, humpful excrescence upon its suave surface.