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higgledy

higgledy adjective: synonym of higgledy-piggledy.

Adjective

higgledy (comparative more higgledy, superlative most higgledy)

  1. Synonym of higgledy-piggledy.
    • The ride was an overdose of gaudy, hurdy-gurdy, sugary surrealism, as cartoon cacao beans cavorted in a myriad poses, among higgledy houses, in forest glades and up snowy mountains, my purple buggy trundling with agonising slowness through a hallucinatory vision of marketing hell.2003, Paul Richardson, Indulgence: Around the World in Search of Chocolate, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 179
    • Small in scale, the town still reminded him of the ugly underside of cities he had seen from trains, of rubbish tumbling over rubbish along the embankments, higgledy houses, beaten streets.2007, Carol Lefevre, Nights in the Asylum, Picador, →ISBN, page 134

Examples of higgledy in a sentence

  • She thought about Montenello with its steep streets and higgledy houses, of summer sunshine, big bowls of pasta and glasses of flinty red wine.2019, Nicky Pellegrino, A Dream of Italy, Orion Books, →ISBN:
  • This is not a yard but a row of higgledy houses with barefoot children on every doorstep, and the roofs patched and falling in, and the walls streaked with damp, and the ground a quagmire.2019, Kat Armstrong, A Pair of Sharp Eyes, Hookline Books, →ISBN:

Synonyms of higgledy

Forms of higgledy

comparativemore higgledy
superlativemost higgledy

Origin of higgledy

Shortened from higgledy-piggledy.

Questions about higgledy

What does higgledy mean?
Higgledy means synonym of higgledy-piggledy.
How do you use higgledy in a sentence?
She thought about Montenello with its steep streets and higgledy houses, of summer sunshine, big bowls of pasta and glasses of flinty red wine.
What part of speech is higgledy?
Higgledy is an adjective.

Words near higgledy in the dictionary

  1. higgle-haggle
  2. higgle-haggled
  3. higgle-haggles
  4. higgle-haggling
  5. higgled
  6. higgledy
  7. higgledy-piggledies
  8. higgledy-piggledy
  9. higgledypiggledy
  10. higgler
  11. higglers

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