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hugger-mugger
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synonyms: surreptitious, clancular, furtive, in petto ???
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Definition:1. Secret; clandestine; sly. [now considered archaic]2. Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean;Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Thick and and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him;
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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when Verdi saw us hugger-mugger with Tuminello on our way to the Tombs of the Popes, he realised the game was up.
Gyles Brandreth. Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders, p.329 (2012)
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