Hug"ger-mug`ger (?), n. [Scot. huggrie-muggrie; Prov. E. hugger to lie in ambush, mug mist, muggard sullen.]
Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy.
[Archaic]
Many things have been done in hugger-mugger.
Fuller.
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Hug"ger-mug`ger, a.
1.
Secret; clandestine; sly.
2.
Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.
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