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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[xsmommy]

LOL!

[xsmommy]

this brought tears to my eyes. God bless these people.

[secret garden]

This is worth sharing, even if you don't play scales.

[xsmommy]

beautiful.

[secret garden]

I sent it to our piano teacher.

[SoothingDave]

Nicky: [Belinda Capuletti playing piano] What is that? Mozart?
Belinda Capuletti: Scales.
Nicky: Never heard of him.

One of my favorite gags. Joe Pesci in Rodney Dangerfield's "Easy Money."

[tioga]

Marching higgledy-piggledy into the fray
much to our astonishment and dismay
Obama continues this country’s destruction
making a mockery of the recent election.
Obama, the king, says I’ll do it my way!

[cloudmountain]

MOTHER GOOSE:

Higgledy, piggledy, my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen;
Sometimes nine, sometimes ten;
Higgledy, piggledy, my black hen.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++ for the poetry.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++
I knew I had heard that word somewhere.

[Robert A Cook PE]

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

No fair!!!!

Envisio stole my homework paper from Piggly-Wiggly brfore i could turn it! No Fair!!! (And besides, it wasn't even neat and pretty ... all the pages (er, my pages) are now higgledy-piggledy.)

[mikrofon]

Hickory, dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
Then Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
And higgledy-piggledy, everything in Mother Goose Land went to h*ll....

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++
You sound like Andrew Dice Clay after he attended a sensitivity training seminar.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Do you want a grade for that, or will you just plead “nolo contendre”?

[Robert A Cook PE]

I can’t even misspell spell nolocontendre wrong. Better give me her grade too.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Our local grocery store was Piggly Wiggly when I was a kid -

[mikrofon]

For our rhyming needs, we go to the

[xsmommy]

and SLURPEES!

[xsmommy]

first we saw of it was on vaca in SC, and my kids all wanted Tshirts from there which we had in a variety of colors!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

They are no longer in the area where I grew up - but I think mainly are along the southern east coast.