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Definition of Hugger mugger
1. Verb. Act stealthily or secretively.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hugger Mugger
Literary usage of Hugger mugger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"In HUGGER-MUGGER. In secrecy, or concealment. For the various derivations, see Todd.
But I am inclined to think that they are all erroneous, ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"The phrase in hugger-mugger is now obsolete ; the word is used, if at all, as an
adjective, as, hugger- mugger doings ; or an adverb, as, it was all carried ..."
3. Essays on Social Subjects from the Saturday Review by Anne] [Mozley (1865)
"HUGGER-MUGGER. MOST minds have an untidy corner. Most men have a taste, in some
quarter or other, for hugger-mugger, — for unworthy shifts and expedients, ..."
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