higgledy-piggledy

• (Spoken) -- All higgledy-piggledy, pigs in the straw -- Lawyers, Lapidaries, —  Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)
• Sailor shanties and landsmen's nautical effusions were jumbled together higgledy-piggledy, along with —  The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
• A paper of tea and a loaf of bread I found in a higgledy-piggledy mixture of clothes, books and papers. —  The Belovéd Vagabond
• I just mixed anything together and popped it down higgledy-piggledy style, as —  Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life
• The baker-man tumbled into the watering-trough, and all the rest rushed higgledy-piggledy into the houses and stores. —  Seven O'Clock Stories

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