MEANING
Arranged or occurring in an untidy, irregular jumble.
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- higgledy-piggledy buildings
- stacked higgledy-piggledy
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Higgledy-piggledy buildings followed the slope rather than any planned street.
The crates lay higgledy-piggledy across the landing.
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- higgledy-piggledy
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Forms: Invariable compound adjective/adverb; more and most only where natural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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