hugger-mugger in English

adjective
1
confused; disorderly.
a spirit of careless frivolity where all was hugger-mugger
2
secret; clandestine.
He successfully pursued this hugger-mugger strategy in 1810.
noun
1
confusion; muddle.
The room is a hugger-mugger of tables with a bar, and pictures of Iberians in pink knickerbockers doing painful things to ungulates.
2
secrecy.
And the plot wandered and annoyed, piling on new mystical hugger-mugger … but when it came to the end, it hit me like an anvil in the sternum.
adjective

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4. Shall that man, be (in hugger mugger) condemned, as a Companion of the hellhoundes, and a Caller, and Conjurer of wicked and damned Spirites?"

5. A Boggler is someone who HESITATES; is a STICKLER; Someone who is a gull-catcher is a TRICKSTER, a CHEAT; When something is done hugger mugger it is done in SECRECY, CONCEALMENT; When something is huly burly it is full of COMMOTION, CONFUSION, STRIFE; If you are skimble skamble you are CONFUSED, NONSENSICAL