higgledy-piggledy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat In utter disorder or confusion; mixed up.

   “I can't find your memo since my desk is all higgledy-piggledy.”

2. zarf In a confused, disordered, or random way.

   “There is no kind of arrangement as regards the buildings they are erected "higgledy-piggledy;" backs to fronts, anyhow, with narrow passages between.”

3. isim A disordered jumble; a confusion.

   “A Higgledy-Piggledy of Controversies and Opinions on various intereſting Subjects”

4. isim A double-dactyl; a short poem with eight lines in dactylic meter.

   “Higgledy-piggledies are more sophisticated than clerihews: they comprise double dactyls and rhymes and aren't always biographical.”

5. isim Any of various word games using rhyming compounds or dactylic words or phrases.

   “The games are a bit archaically presented, but they include palindromes, acrostics, higgledy-piggledies, anagrams, etc.”