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Definition of “hugger-mugger”
Example Sentences Including 'hugger-mugger'
Belle, irritated at the excluding conspiracy, asked, `What's your hugger-mugger for?Telling the Pictures
He loved its hugger-mugger houses, the strange sea creatures that came up in baskets from the boats, the constant harbourside shouting.THE MAIN CAGES (2002)
I would prefer not to be living in such a hugger-mugger way.Times, Sunday Times (2004)
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Thank you for this very interesting suggestion. We will certainly look into it.
Report as inappropriateI suggest that this word comes from the Irish phrase 'cogar mogar'. 'Cogar' by itself means 'whisper' as well as 'secret talk, conspiring talk' (Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, ed. Niall Ó Dónaill, Dublin, 1977), and the phrase 'cogar mogar' is widely used in spoken Irish today to denote a huddle of whispering, conspiratorial talk. The word 'mogar' is meaningless by itself, and simply echoes the sound of 'cogar'.
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