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    Other than helter-skelter, what is a rhyming and hyphenated word meaning "muddle"?

    Question #67944. Asked by zbeckabee. (Jul 07 06 8:06 AM)


    Gnomon

    hugger-mugger

    hug.ger-mug.ger n [origin unknown] (1529) 1: secrecy 2: confusion, muddle
    (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary)

    Jul 07 06, 8:38 AM
    ayatollah

    pell-mell also pell·mell (pĕl'mĕl')
    adv.
    In a jumbled, confused manner; helter-skelter.
    In frantic disorderly haste; headlong: “I went to work pell-mell, blotted several sheets of paper with choice floating thoughts” (Washington Irving).
    [French pêle-mêle, from Old French pesle mesle, probably reduplication of mesle. See meddle.]

    pellmell pell'-mell' adj. & n.

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    Jul 07 06, 9:36 AM
    ren33

    A second meaning of 'willy-nilly' is listed as ' without order or plan.'

    Jul 07 06, 6:57 PM
    Czolgolz

    Hurdy-gurdy

    Jul 07 06, 10:24 PM
    ren33

    I would disagree with hurdy gurdy as meaning muddled,
    A hurdy gurdy (or hurdy-gurdy) is a stringed musical instrument with several strings .

    Jul 08 06, 1:13 AM
    helenasykes

    Higgeldy-Piggeldy?

    Jul 10 06, 9:00 AM
    Baloo55th

    Hugger-mugger is 'confusion', with a rare second meaning (rather outdated) of secrecy. Higgledy-piggledy is 'in a jumble' or 'muddle'. Pell-mell is more often used when referring to confused rushing, but things can be piled pell-mell. Willy-nilly comes from 'will he, will he not' and means whether you want it or not, and no element of confusion - rather definite, in fact. There may be some confusion(!) here between hurdy-gurdy and hurly-burly. The first is indeed an instrument whose characteristic is a rosined wheel instead of a bow to sound the strings; the second is another word for confusion. (Times English Dictionary)

    Jul 10 06, 2:24 PM
    SOTHC

    How about hotch-potch?

    Jul 10 06, 2:45 PM


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