Hugger

Definition: Hugger

Hugger

Noun

1. A person who hugs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hugger" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Concealment

Januis clausis, with closed doors, a huis clos; hugger mugger, a la derobee; under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table; sub rosa, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine.

Crosswords: Hugger

Books

• Camaro Ads : The Marketing of the Hugger (reference)

• Hugger Mugger (reference)

• Hugger to the Rescue (reference)

• My Hugger Is Empty (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Lotte Berk Method:Hip Hugger Abs (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Consumer Goods

• Adobeair WH20 Wall Hugger Heater (reference)

• GE Polarized Wall Hugger Triple Tap, White (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "hugger": hugger mugger. Additional references.

Beginning with "hugger": hugger-mugger.

Ending with "hugger": face-hugger, hip-hugger.

Albanian

rrëmujshëm (hugger mugger), rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, upset, welter), me rrëmujë (confusedly, hugger mugger), i rrëmujshëm (disheveled, dishevelled, disorderly, hugger mugger, indiscriminate, pell mell, rambunctious, rampageous, rough and tumble, topsy turvy), i hallakatur (discursive, errant, erratic, hugger mugger, rambling, scatterbrained), çrregullim (bewilderment, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, dislocation, disorder, disorganization, distemper, disturbance, excess, foul up, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, muddle, muss, turmoil, upset). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فوضى (anarchy, chaos, clatter, clutter, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, hugger mugger, jumble, lawlessness, litter, mess, misrule, mix up, muddle, muss, rumpus, shambles, topsy turvy, turmoil, welter), ‏مكتوم (concealed, hidden, hugger mugger, hush hush, kept secret, recondite, secretive), ‏مشوش (become confused, chaotic, confused, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorganized, disturbed, disturber, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, jumbled up, messy, mixed, muddled, muddy, promiscuous, unsettled), ‏سرية (company, darkness, hugger mugger, mystery, privacy, secrecy, stealthiness, wrap), ‏سري (clandestine, classified, close, closet, confidential, covert, cryptic, discreet, furtive, hugger mugger, hush hush, inmost, low key, mysterious, mystic, occult, off the record, private, privy, sacramental, secret, slinking, stealthy, subterranean, surreptitious, umbilical, undercover, underground, underhand), ‏بلبلة (hugger mugger). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разбъркано (hugger mugger, out of order), разбъркан (deranged, farraginous, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, jumbled, mixing up, out of order, pell mell, perturbed, promiscuous, tumultuary, turbid, untidy), тайно (darkling, furtively, hugger mugger, in camera, in private, inwardly, on the quiet, on the sly, privately, privily, secretly, under the counter, under the rose, underground, underhand, underhanded), таен (arcane, backdoor, clandestine, confidential, cryptic, dark, darkling, esoteric, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, inside, mystic, occult, private, privy, recondite, secret, sensitive, sneaking, snug, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand), шушу-мушу (hugger mugger), живея как да е (hugger mugger), бъркотия (bungle, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, farrago, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, upset, welter), безредица (hugger mugger), потулвам (blanket, clamp, conceal, hugger mugger, hush up, smother up, stifle, suppress, sweep under the carpet), потайност (furtiveness, hugger mugger, mystery, reticence, secrecy, slyness), пазя в тайна (hugger mugger). (various references)

Czech

tajnost (confidence, furtiveness, hugger mugger, stealth). (various references)

French

secret (hugger mugger, hush hush), pagaïe (hugger mugger), dissimulation (hugger mugger), dissimulé (hugger mugger), désordre (hugger mugger). (various references)

Greek 

σύγχυση (bewilderment, clutter, confusion, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disorientation, embroilment, fogginess, hugger mugger, mix up, muss, perplexity, tumble, welter), μυστικόσ (clandestine, esoteric, hidden, hugger mugger, mystical, private, privy, privy to, secret, suppressible, surreptitious, undercover, underground, undisclosed), μυστικότητα (hugger mugger, mysticalness, privacy, privateness, privity, secrecy). (various references)

Hungarian

zavarosan (hugger-mugger, in a jumble, incoherently, intricately, to rant), zavaros (ambiguous, bleary, blurred, chaotic, cloudy, confused, feculent, fustian, haywire, hugger-mugger, incoherent, indistinct, intricate, motley, muddled, muddling, muddy, obscure, puddly, rambling, roily, troubled, troublous, turbid), titokzatosság (eeriness, furtiveness, hugger mugger, hugger-mugger, mystery, mystique), rendetlenül (higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, tumultuously), rejtett (arcane, clandestine, concealed, covert, dormant, hidden, hooded, hugger-mugger, inner, latent, latent image, occult, perdu, potential, privy, recondite, stealthy, surreptitious), lopva (covertly, furtively, hugger-mugger, stealth, stealthily, surreptitiously), kapkodva (desultorily, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, hurry-skurry, precipitately, slap-dash). (various references)

Italian

segretamente (hugger mugger, underground), disordinato (disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, irregular, messy, muddled, pell mell, slovenly, unsettled, untidy, wild), confuso (abashed, addled, confounded, confused, dazed, fuzzy, haywire, hazy, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indistinct, messy, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, shamefaced, upset, woolly, wooly), confusamente (confusedly, hugger mugger, mazily). (various references)

Pig Latin

uggerhay.(various references)

Portuguese

desordenadamente (discomposedly, disorderly, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, pell-mell, topsy-turvy), abafar (blanket, burke, choke, cover up, cushion, damp, drench, drown, hugger-mugger, hush up, muffle, pilfer, quell, smother, steal the show, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter), atrapalhar-se (fumble, hugger-mugger, puzzle), clandestinamente (helter-skelter, hugger-mugger, underhand), confusamente (dazedly, helter-skelter, hugger-mugger, topsy-turvy), confus�o (hash, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hubbub, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry, hurry-scurry, imbroglio), � sorte (happy-go-lucky, helter-skelter, hugger-mugger), desordem (affray, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, donnybrook, fray, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, jumble, litter, mess, misrule, muddle, mush, muss, pandemonium, pell-mell, perturbation, riot, rough-and-tumble, rout, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scuffle, stir, topsy-turvy, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, uproar, upset), viver � toa (hugger-mugger), desordenado (deranged, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, immoderate, indigested, inordinate, lawless, pell-mell, rough and tumble, tumultuous, turbulent, untidy), em desordem (helter-skelter, hugger-mugger, pell-mell, uproarious, upside down), embaralhado (farraginous, hugger-mugger, rough and tumble), esconder (bescreen, cache, conceal, dissemble, dodge, ensconce, enshroud, hide, hold back, hugger-mugger, occult, pocket, screen, secrete, stash, suppress, tuck), ocultar (bury, cache, conceal, couch, cover, hide, hugger-mugger, occult, sconce, screen, secrete, smother), proceder sem m�todo (hugger-mugger), confuso (abrupt, abstruse, blear, cloudy, confused, disorderly, disturbed, dizzy, hugger-mugger, indistinct, intricate, jumbled up, labyrinthine, lacklustre, mazy, medley, messy, mixed, muddle-headed, muddy, obscure, pell-mell, perplexed, promiscuous, rigmarole, rough and tumble, tangly, topsy-turvy). (various references)

Romanian

tainã (arcanum, hugger mugger, mystery, privacy, ration, recess, reticence, secrecy, secret), secret (arcanum, close, confidential, cover, covertly, hidden, hugger mugger, internal, mysterious, mystery, occult, private, privy, quiet, reticence, secrecy, secret, secretly, ulterior, underground, undisclosed, unspoken, untold), pe ascuns (behind one's back, by stealth, cagily, close, darkly, hugger mugger, stealthily, underground), muşamaliza (hugger mugger, hush up, paper over), lucra anapoda (hugger mugger), face încurcãturi (hugger mugger), dezordine (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbance, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, misrule, motley, riot, riots, rough, rout, topsy turvy, tumble, upset, welter), confuzie (bewilderment, blankness, clutter, confusion, disorder, distraction, embroilment, fuss, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, mix up, muddle, obfuscation, shuffle, storm, tumble), confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, confused, crabbed, dim, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded), clandestin (clandestine, clandestinely, furtive, furtively, hugger mugger, illicit, privy, secret, secretly, surreptitious, surreptitiously, underhand), ascunde (cloak, conceal, Cork, cover, curtain, cushion, disguise, dissemble, ensconce, enwrap, hide, hood, hugger mugger, keep away, keep back, mask, put away, put by, screen, secrete, shroud, smooth, tuck, tuck away, veil, wrap), acţiona în secret (hugger mugger), în dezordine (anyhow, hugger mugger, littery, out of order, scattered, upside down). (various references)

Russian 

тайный (arcane, backdoor, clandestine, cryptic, dark, esoteric, furtive, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, offscreen, private, privy, quiet, secret, sly, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, under the table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded), тайно (behind closed doors, furtively, hugger mugger, secretly, stealthily, surreptitiously, underhand), беспорядочный (chaotic, disorderly, erratic, haywire, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indiscriminate, inordinate, messy, pell mell, rambling, random, rough and tumble, shambolic, topsy turvy, tumultuary, tumultuous, undigested, unregulated, upside down), беспорядочно (helter-skelter, hugger mugger, pell mell, rough-and-tumble), беспорядок (bewilderment, box-up, chaos, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disorganization, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, messroom, misrule, mix, muss, pell mell, tangle, tumble, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, upset). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zbrkan (confused, fuddled, hugger mugger, jumbled, mazy, messy, muddled, muddleheaded, muddle-headed, pell mell), zbrka (bungle, confusion, disarray, fuddle, helter-skelter, hugger mugger, imbroglio, jumble, macaronics, maze, mess, mishmash, muddle, muss, omnium gatherum, pell mell, welter), tajnost (hugger mugger, privacy, secrecy), tajno (backstage, hugger mugger, incognito, secret: in secret, secretly, sly: on the sly, stilly), tajan (clandestine, confidential, hugger mugger, secret, stilly, surreptitious), potajan (backdoor, clandestine, hugger mugger, insidious, recondite, secret, stealth), potaja (hugger mugger, secrecy, stealth). (various references)

Spanish

tener confusión (hugger mugger), secreto (arcane, back door, backstairs, classified, covert, crypt, cryptic, dark, hidden, hugger mugger, inside, privacy, private, privy, secrecy, secret, sub rosa, under wraps, underground, unseen), desordenado (disordered, disorderly, dissipatedly, hugger mugger, inordinate, pell mell, pellmell, ragged, riotous, topsyturvy, untidy), desordenadamente (disorderly, hugger mugger), confusión (abashment, baffle, clutter, commotion, confusion, disarray, dislocation, disorganization, distraction, fluster, fog, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, knockabout, litter, maze, mess, mix up, mix-up, muddle, mystification, perplexity, pother, puzzlement, shambles, tangle, turmoil, welter). (various references)

Turkish

gizli tutmak (be secretive about, hugger mugger, huggermugger, keep dark, keep private, keep secret, keep smth. dark, keep smth. quiet, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug), düzensiz (chaotic, desultory, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, erratic, excursive, fitful, freehand, haywire, hugger mugger, huggermugger, indigested, inordinate, irregular, jerky, nonuniform, non-uniform, out of order, out of square, out of trim, out-of-balance, patchily, patchy, ragged, rambling, snatchy, snuffy, unequal, unkempt, unsteady, untidy), düzensizce (chaotically, hugger mugger, huggermugger, irregularly), düzensizlik (disarrangement, disarray, disharmony, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, hugger mugger, huggermugger, inequality, irregularity, looseness, muss, untidiness, waywardness), duyurmamak (hugger mugger, huggermugger), gizlemek (blot out, bottle up, Bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover up, disguise, dissemble, draw a veil over, enshroud, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep back, keep from, keep in dark, keep in one's bosom, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug, mask, obscure, plant, pocket, screen, secrete, sheathe, shroud, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), örtbas etmek (blanket, cloak, compound, conceal, cover up, explain away, gloss, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep smth. quiet, obscure, palliate, paper, sink, smother up, suppress, sweep under the carpet, veneer, wash out, whitewash), gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), sır tutma (concealment, discreetness, hugger mugger, huggermugger, keeping secret, reticence, seal, secrecy, secretion, secretiveness, silence), gizlilik (closeness, confidentiality, darkness, furtiveness, hugger mugger, huggermugger, obscurity, privacy, secrecy, stealth, stealthiness), karışık (adulterated, blended, calico, chequered, combined, complicated, composite, compound, confused, deep, disconcerted, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hybrid, inexplicit, inextricable, intricate, involute, involved, kinky, knotted, knotty, mazy, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, obscure, out of square, promiscuous, turbid, unclassified, unsized, woolly, wooly), karışık bir halde (hugger mugger, huggermugger), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), sır (arcana, arcanum, cabala, cabbala, confidence, enamel, foil, glaze, glazing, hugger mugger, huggermugger, luster, lustre, mystery, riddle, secret), sır olarak saklamak (hugger mugger, huggermugger), gizleyerek (hugger mugger, huggermugger). (various references)

Ukrainian

сяк-так (higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, slapdash), розгардіяш (hugger mugger, untidiness), робити сяк-так (hugger mugger), робити та�"мно (hugger mugger), та�"мно (behind the back, hugger mugger, occultly, secretly, sub rosa, under hand, underground, underhand), та�"мниця (arcana, hugger mugger, mystery, privity, riddle, secrecy), та�"мний (arcane, back door, backstairs, clandestine, close, closet, colorable, colourable, covert, cryptic, esoteric, hideaway, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, invisible, mystic, occult, occulted, offscreen, private, secret, sly, sneaking, stealthy, subterranean, surreptitious, undercover), безладно (confusedly, disorderly, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuously), безладний (amorphous, disorderly, dropping, excursive, harum scarum, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, hurly burly, ill disposed, indiscriminate, inordinate, meandering, messy, orderless, outward, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, rambling, scrappy, shapeless, topsy turvy, tumultuary), безладдя (bewilderment, chaos, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disorder, hoity toity, huddle, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, moil, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, racket, shambles, sozzle, topsy turvy, upset, welter), приховувати (becloud, blind, cache, cloak, conceal, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, obumbrate, palliate, put by, salt away, stash away, subduct, veil, vizor, wry). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thầm lén sự lộn xộn (hugger-mugger), sự hỗn độn (confusion, hugger-mugger, messiness, mussiness, printer), sự giấu giếm (concealment, hugger-mugger), sự bí mật (hugger-mugger, secrecy). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hugger": huggers. (additional references)

Words ending with "hugger": chugger. (additional references)

Words containing "hugger": chuggers, thuggeries, thuggery. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hugger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahagger, Hagege, hager, hagge, Hauger, heuger, hieger, higgery, hogar, hoger, Hogge, hoggery, hogges, hugern, Huggard, hugge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gurge, huger.

-2 letters: grue, huge, urge.

-3 letters: egg, erg, her, hue, hug, reg, rue, rug, ugh.

-4 letters: eh, er, he, re, uh.

+1 letter: chugger, huggers.

+2 letters: chuggers, roughage, roughleg, shrugged, thuggery.

+3 letters: hungering, roughages, roughlegs.

+4 letters: gunfighter, humbuggery, roughening, thuggeries.

+5 letters: goddaughter, gunfighters, meshuggener, roughhewing, staggerbush, upgathering.