higglety-pigglety

• Willy-nilly, even higglety-pigglety and helter-skelter, these are what the featherless biped is after. —  The Perfect Gentleman
• Apparently he did not, and had built the apartment on the hit-or-miss, higglety-pigglety pattern, with unexpected alcoves cut into the walls and closets and chimneys built out from them. —  The Portygee
• Like thee, hap-step-and-lowp, here-awa-there-awa, higglety-pigglety, pell-mell, hither-and-yon, ram-stam, happy-go-lucky, up-tails-a'-by-the-light-o'-the-moon, -- has been, is, and shall be, my progress through the mosses and moors of this vile, bleak, barren wilderness of a life of ours. —  The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

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