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higgledy-piggledy

[hig-uhl-dee-pig-uhl-dee] / ˈhɪg əl diˈpɪg əl di /


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L.A.’s higgledy-piggledy architecture is one of our most charming characteristics.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025

Ukrainians upload a higgledy-piggledy stream of information about Russians killed in the war on several channels on the Telegram messaging application, including the names of the deceased.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2022

Moreover, the liver does not just expand higgledy-piggledy in the animals.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 15, 2022

"Some of them are more than 100 years old and quite higgledy-piggledy … they might not have a centralised escalator. If you built them from scratch you wouldn't build them that way."

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2018

On a visit there, Elizebeth was shocked to find an important collection of papers “scattered higgledy-piggledy over those iron shelves....I went home and told my husband. We sort of cried on each other's shoulders.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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