Bible Dictionaries
Hugger-Mugger

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Secret; clandestine; sly.

(2):

(a.) Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.

(3):

(n.) Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hugger-Mugger'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/hugger-mugger.html. 1828.