• (a.) Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings. • (a.) Secret; clandestine; sly. • (n.) Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/hugger-mugger/
Hug'ger-mug`ger noun [ Scot. huggrie-muggrie ; Prov. English hugger to lie in ambush, mug mist, muggard sullen.] Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger , with haste and secrecy. [ Archaic] « Many things have been done in hugger- mugger Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/68