Word For The Day, Wednesday, December 17, 2014-- higgledy-piggledy

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Word For The Day, Wednesday, December 17, 2014-- higgledy-piggledy

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

[hig-uh l-dee-pig-uh l-dee]

hear it pronounced

adverb
in a jumbled, confused, or disorderly manner; helter-skelter.

adjective
confused; jumbled, chaotic, messy

Origin: "confusedly, hurriedly," 1590s, a "vocal gesture" [OED] probably formed from pig and the animal's suggestions of mess and disorder. Reduplications in the h-/p- pattern are common (e.g. hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, hinch(y)-pinch(y), an obsolete children's game, attested from c.1600).

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Rather than utilizing the well-planned budgetary process conceived by our Founding Fathers, the modern Congress rushes, higgledy-piggledy, from extensions to continuing resolutions to government shutdowns.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Homework is due!

[envisio]

I don’t believe I have ever used the word higgledy-piggledy.
But I have shopped at Piggly Wiggly.

[Old Sarge]

I remember the old sci-fi series “Babylon 5”.

One of the alien characters was talking about the English language:

“Your word, ‘cranky’. I looked up its definition, it said ‘grouchy’. I looked up ‘grouchy’, and it said ‘crochety’. What is this, your words mean nothing!”

[xsmommy]

it's a grocery store in the south.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+

Close enough!

[secret garden]

Republican positions on amnesty are higgledy piggledy, but not about Cruz. Also because the article used the phrase namby pamby.

[normbal]

Well, sort of. “hocus-pocus” actually comes from a layman’s understanding and mispronunciation of the latin “hoc est corpus meum.” It’s an expression of one of the mysteries of the faith, what Jesus said about the bread at the last supper. No mystery to me that medieval parishioners could hear the latin - a language they didn’t speak or hear except at weekly mass - and bastardize it.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

GMTA?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Thank you for that. Interesting clarification.

[xsmommy]

I did not copy, I was trying to get a pic while envisio was posting. hence, I should get the higher grade ; )

[xsmommy]

theaters closing, higgledy piggledy, premieres of The Interview. Sad, because we wanted to see it, but clearly in my area there would be bombings. It needs to go right to vid.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++
Now our entertainment choices are being dictated by a dictator.

[xsmommy]

previews looked hilarious, my fam was anxious to see it.

[xsmommy]

though our reaction was: how are they not going to be killed for making this about a living known dictator??? so I guess it makes sense.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I did not copy...

My older son once copied a book report verbatim from Cliff Notes. He got an A. Our next-door neighbor, a year behind in school, copied my son's book report when he reached that class. Also got an A. My younger son, one year behind the neighbor, copied his book report. Got an F.

Teacher accused him of copying from Cliff Notes. He denied it. She showed him his work next to the Cliff Notes. Word for word. He realized what had happened and made a full confession: I copied from neighbor who copied it from brother who copied it from Cliff Notes. Still got an F, but the teacher got a funny story to tell. She was still telling it four years later when my daughter took the class. She proudly commented, "That's my brother." It also made for a very funny best man's toast.

[xsmommy]

that is hilarious!

[SoothingDave]

They should have gone after a puppet regime.

[central_va]

“You raff you ruse.”