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pell mell

pell mell is the alternative form of pell-mell.

Meaning of pell-mell

Adjective

pell-mell (comparative more pell-mell, superlative most pell-mell)

  1. Hasty and uncontrolled.
    • Nor moody Beggars, ſtaruing for a time / Of pell-mell hauocke, and confusion.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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Questions about pell mell

What is pell mell the alternative form of?
Pell mell is the alternative form of pell-mell.

Words near pell mell in the dictionary

  1. Pell City
  2. Pell equation
  3. Pell equations
  4. Pell Grant
  5. Pell Grants
  6. pell mell
  7. Pell number
  8. Pell numbers
  9. Pell's equation
  10. Pell's equations
  11. Pell-Fermat equation

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