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Definitioner
Adjektiv
Adverb
- In a confused, disordered, or random way.
Substantiv
- A disordered jumble; a confusion.
- A double-dactyl; a short poem with eight lines in dactylic meter.
- Any of various word games using rhyming compounds or dactylic words or phrases.
Exempel
- I can't find your memo since my desk is all higgledy-piggledy.
- The houses of the central village were quite unlike the casual and higgledy-piggledy agglomeration of the mountain villages he knew.
- For many years we have all known that the executive and administrative departments of the Government in Washington are a higgledy-piggledy patchwork of duplicate responsibilities and overlapping powers.
- The world is a higgledy-piggledy place, with things pleasant and unpleasant occurring in no particular sequence.
- There is no kind of arrangement as regards the buildings they are erected "higgledy-piggledy;" backs to fronts, anyhow, with narrow passages between.
- A Higgledy-Piggledy of Controversies and Opinions on various intereſting Subjects
- Higgledy-piggledies are more sophisticated than clerihews: they comprise double dactyls and rhymes and aren't always biographical.
- The games are a bit archaically presented, but they include palindromes, acrostics, higgledy-piggledies, anagrams, etc.
Böjningsformer
| Plural | higgledy-piggledies |
| Komparativ | more higgledy-piggledy |
| Superlativ | most higgledy-piggledy |