Usually means: Disorganized, chaotic arrangement or state.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. higgledy-piggledy: Merriam-Webster
  2. higgledy-piggledy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. higgledy-piggledy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. higgledy-piggledy, higgledy-piggledy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. higgledy-piggledy: Vocabulary.com
  6. higgledy-piggledy: Wordnik
  7. higgledy-piggledy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. higgledy-piggledy: Wiktionary
  9. higgledy-piggledy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. higgledy-piggledy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. higgledy-piggledy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Higgledy-piggledy, higgledy-piggledy: Dictionary.com
  13. higgledy-piggledy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Higgledy-piggledy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. higgledy-piggledy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. higgledy-piggledy: Rhymezone
  17. Higgledy-piggledy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. higgledy-piggledy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. Higgledy-piggledy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. higgledy-piggledy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. higgledy-piggledy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. higgledy-piggledy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Higgledy-piggledy: World Wide Words
  25. higgledy-piggledy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. higgledy-piggledy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. higgledy-piggledy, higgledy-piggledy: A Word A Day
  2. higgledy-piggledy: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  In utter disorder or confusion; mixed up.
adverb:  In a confused, disordered, or random way.
noun:  A disordered jumble; a confusion.
noun:  A double-dactyl; a short poem with eight lines in dactylic meter.
noun:  Any of various word games using rhyming compounds or dactylic words or phrases.

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