Hugger-mugger /(?)/

Hug·ger-mug·ger

Hugger-mugger

n.
  1. Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. [Archaic]
    Many things have been done in hugger-mugger.
  2. Confusion; disorder.

Hugger-mugger

a.
  1. Secret; clandestine; sly.
  2. Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.