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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. In a jumbled, confused manner; helter-skelter.
  2. adv. In frantic disorderly haste; headlong: "I went to work pell-mell, blotted several sheets of paper with choice floating thoughts” ( Washington Irving).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. With confused or indiscriminate violence, energy, or eagerness; indiscriminately; promiscuously; confusedly; in a disorderly mass or manner.
  2. n. A variant of pall-mall.
  3. Tumultuous; promiscuous; disorderly.
  4. n. A mêléc; a confused fight; disorder.
  5. To mix up promiscuously; pile in confused heaps.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Hasty, uncontrolled.
  2. adv. In haste, uncontrolledly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See pall-mall.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. with undue hurry and confusion
  2. adv. in a wild or reckless manner

Etymologies

  1. French pêle-mêle This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology. (Wiktionary)
  2. French pêle-mêle, from Old French pesle mesle, probably reduplication of mesle, imperative of mesler, to mix; see meddle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • yarb "The rooks were tumbling pell-mell among the violet clouds of autumn."

    - Orlando, Virginia Woolf Feb 7, 2008

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