pell-mell
11pell mell — obs. form of pall mall …
12pell-mell — adverb Etymology: Middle French pelemele Date: 1590 1. in mingled confusion or disorder < papers strewn pell mell on the desk > 2. in confused haste < ran pell mell for the door > • pell mell adjective or noun …
13pell-mell — /pel mel /, adv. 1. in disorderly, headlong haste; in a recklessly hurried manner. 2. in a confused or jumbled mass, crowd, manner, etc.: The crowd rushed pell mell into the store when the doors opened. adj. 3. indiscriminate; disorderly;… …
14pell-mell — 1. very quickly and without control. She ran pell mell down the stairs and out of the house. 2. pell mell very quickly and without control. Local residents have banded together to protest about the pell mell pace of development in the area …
15pell-mell — [[t]pe̱l me̱l[/t]] ADV: ADV after v If you move pell mell somewhere, you move there in a hurried, uncontrolled way. All three of us rushed pell mell into the kitchen …
16pell-mell — adverb 1) people streamed pell mell from the building Syn: helter skelter, headlong, (at) full tilt, hotfoot, posthaste, hurriedly, hastily, recklessly, precipitately 2) the sacks contents were thrown pell mell to the ground Syn: untidily …
17pell-mell — adv., adj., & n. adv. 1 headlong, recklessly (rushed pell mell out of the room). 2 in disorder or confusion (stuffed the papers together pell mell). adj. confused, tumultous. n. confusion; a mixture. Etymology: F pecircle mecircle, OF pesle mesle …
18pell-mell — 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… …
19pell-mell — in a wild manner, in panic, harum scarum When the fire alarm sounded we ran pell mell down the hall …
20pell-mell — (pehl mehl) [French, from pêle mêle] In reckless haste; in a confused and disorderly manner; higgledy piggledy. A confused or jumbled crowd or mixture. Largely overlooked amid the pell mell advances and publicity about them are fundamental… …
