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- adjective Alternative spelling of
higgledy-piggledy . - adverb Alternative spelling of
higgledy-piggledy .
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Examples
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What's the result of this higgledypiggledy system?
The Vision Splendid William MacLeod Raine 1912
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Footmarks are stamped over it in all senses, heel to heel, heel to hollow, toe to toe, feet locked, a morris of shuffling feet without body phantoms, all in a scrimmage higgledypiggledy.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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a return cargo for the eggs, poultry, butcher's meat, and green stuff that he had brought up, made altogether such a higgledypiggledy that you do not often see in these days, when Servant-maids come up by Coach -- my service to them!
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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