In utter disorder or confusion; mixed up.I can't find your memo since my desk is all higgledy-piggledy.
1911 — H. G. Wells, The houses of the central village were quite unlike the casual and higgledy-piggledy agglomeration of the mountain villages he knew.
1937 — Franklin D. Roosevelt, For many years we have all known that the executive and administrative departments of the Government in Washington are a higgledy-piggledy patchwork of duplicate responsibilities and overlapping powers.
1930 — Bertrand Russell, The world is a higgledy-piggledy place, with things pleasant and unpleasant occurring in no particular sequence.
1881 — James Greenwood, , ch 11There is no kind of arrangement as regards the buildings they are erected "higgledy-piggledy;" backs to fronts, anyhow, with narrow passages between.
