Meaning & use
Huggermugger
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Secrecy, confusion, or disorderly muddle, especially involving concealment.
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The whole negotiation was conducted in huggermugger, with no public record of what was agreed.
He disliked the huggermugger of office politics and preferred straightforward dealings.
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An old reduplicated word dating to the 1500s, used by Shakespeare in "Hamlet" to describe hasty, secretive burial arrangements.
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2. adjective
Done secretly or in a confused, disorderly manner.
They buried the treaty's details in a huggermugger fashion to avoid scrutiny.
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