Higgledy

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of higgledy-piggledy.

    "The ride was an overdose of gaudy, hurdy-gurdy, sugary surrealism, as cartoon cacao beans cavorted in a myriad poses, among higgledy houses, in forest glades and up snowy mountains, my purple buggy trundling with agonising slowness through a hallucinatory vision of marketing hell."

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higgledy-piggledy

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"The ride was an overdose of gaudy, hurdy-gurdy, sugary surrealism, as cartoon cacao beans cavorted in a myriad poses, among higgledy houses, in forest glades and up snowy mountains, my purple buggy trundling with agonising slowness through a hallucinatory vision of marketing hell."

Etymology

Shortened from higgledy-piggledy.

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