hugger-mugger

Secret, clandestine, sly.

Disorderly, chaotic, confused.

hugger-mugger doings

So Brad McLaughlin mingled reckless talk Of heavenly stars with hugger-mugger farming, Till having failed at hugger-mugger farming, He burned his house down for the fire insurance And spent the proceeds on a telescope […]

Secrecy.

[…]; and we haue done but greenly In hugger mugger to interre him.

Many things have been done in Hugger mugger in our Age, prophane perſons conceited that their privacy protected them from divine inſpection.

Disorder.

As we passed through the quadrangle the church was glowing more brightly than a pearl, like a lily in strong sunlight, in spite of all the scaffolding and hugger-mugger.

Portentous events and lots of huggermugger quickly proliferate, as they always in Pynchon-land: a dead body turns up near the pool in a famous Upper West Side building; […]

Secretly.

Confusedly, in a muddle.