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pellmell

pellmell 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 pellmell

What is pellmell the alternative form of?
Pellmell is the alternative form of pell-mell.

Words near pellmell in the dictionary

  1. pellitory of Spain
  2. pellitory of the wall
  3. pellitory-of-the-wall
  4. Pellman
  5. Pellmans
  6. pellmell
  7. Pello
  8. pellock
  9. pellocks
  10. pelloidal
  11. Pellon

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