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higgledy-piggledy
[ hig-uhl-dee-pig-uhl-dee ]
adverb
- in a jumbled, confused, or disorderly manner; helter-skelter.
adjective
- confused; jumbled.
higgledy-piggledy
/ 藞丑瑟伞蓹濒诲瑟藞辫瑟伞蓹濒诲瑟 /
adjective
- in a jumble
noun
- a muddle
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of higgledy-piggledy1
Example Sentences
Instead of obsessing over the latest higgledy-piggledy, do something useful.
That could be due in part to 脰tzi鈥檚 diet, says Nina Jablonski, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University, who notes that the evolution of light skin in people in Europe was a 鈥渉iggledy-piggledy process.鈥
The 30-year-old said: "Instead of buying all matching furniture I just bought higgledy-piggledy bits and painted them to match."
Ukrainians upload a higgledy-piggledy stream of information about Russians killed in the war on several channels on the Telegram messaging application, including the names of the deceased.
Much of the turmoil, critics say, is rooted in Disney鈥檚 higgledy-piggledy decision to become the centerpiece of the contemporary culture wars.
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