higly-pigly, adv.
= higgledy-piggledy.
| 1664 Homer à la Mode (N.), Just as neighbors higly piglie, Let their beasts graze, but then can quicklie..Spy 'em from ev'ry one's i'th town. 1675 F. Rous' Archæol. Atticæ vi. ii. ii. (ed. 8) 274 They sit higly pigly, and every one takes where he likes. |