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English

Etymology

pêle-mêle

Adverb

  1. in haste, uncontrolled, disorderly
  2. :* 1597: Nor moody beggars, starving for a time / Of pellmell havoc and confusion. — Shakespeare, 1, v 1


Translations

See also


fr:pell-mell io:pell-mell pl:pell-mell vi:pell-mell zh:pell-mell

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pall-mall \Pall`-mall"\, n. [OF. palemail, It. pallamagio; palla
a ball (of German origin, akin to E. ball) + magio hammer,
fr. L. malleus. See 1st Ball, and Mall a beetle.]
A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was
driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of
iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the
place where the game was played, and to the street, in
London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also pail-mail and
pell-mell.] --Sir K. Digby. --Evelyn.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pell-mell \Pell`-mell"\, n.
See Pall-mall.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pellmell \Pell`mell"\, adv. [F. p[^e]le-m[^e]le, prob. fr. pelle
a shovel + m[^e]ler to mix, as when different kinds of grain
are heaped up and mixed with a shovel. See Pell shovel,
Medley.]
In utter confusion; with confused violence. "Men, horses,
chariots, crowded pellmell." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet pell-mell
adj : with undue hurry and confusion; "a helter-skelter kind of
existence with never a pause"; "a pell-mell dash for
the train" [syn: helter-skelter]
adv : in a wild or reckless manner; "dashing harum-scarum all over
the place"; "running pell-mell up the stairs" [syn: harum-scarum]
Moby Dictionary
bedlam , brouhaha , chaos , chaotic , chaotically , commotion , confused ,
confusedly , confusion , disorder , disordered , disorderly ,
disorganized , excitement , feverish , feverishly , hastily , hasty ,
helter-skelter , hubbub , hurried , hurriedly , impetuous , impetuously ,
impulsive , impulsively , incautious , incautiously , mad , melee ,
pandemonium , panicky , precipitate , precipitately , rash , rashly ,
reckless , recklessly , slap-bang , slapdash , spontaneously , tumult ,
tumultuous , turmoil , wild , wildly


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