1
- confused; disorderly纷乱的; 混乱的：
a spirit of careless frivolity where all was hugger-mugger.
轻浮放肆, 一片混乱。
2
- secret; clandestine秘密的; 私下的。
词源
early 16th cent. (in sense 2 of the noun)： probably related to HUDDLE and to dialect mucker 'hoard money, conceal'. This is one of a number of similar formations from late Middle English to the 16th cent., including hucker-mucker and hudder-mudder, with the basic sense 'secrecy, concealment'.