参考词典中hugger-mugger的常规释义:
基本释义
- a. 秘密的,杂乱的
ad. 秘密地,杂乱地
n. 秘密
词形变化
- 时 态:hug·ger-mug·gered, hug·ger-mug·ger·ing, hug·ger-mug·gers名 词:hug'ger-mug'ger·y副 词:hug'ger-mug'ger
英英解释
1个副词解释
- in secrecy
[例]- they did it all hugger-mugger
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- a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses
[同] hugger-mugger, mumbo jumbo
[例]- he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance
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- in utter disorder
[同] disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy
[例]- a disorderly pile of clothes
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
[同] hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground, clandestine, cloak-and-dagger
[例]- clandestine intelligence operations
- cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
- hole-and-corner intrigue
- secret missions
- a secret agent
- secret sales of arms
- surreptitious mobilization of troops
- an
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