muggery

Updated: May 26, 2025

I suppose he'll be sitting up for a gentleman now bad cess to them for gentry; not but that he's as good a right as some, and a dale more than others, who are ashamed to put their hand to a turn of work. I hate such huggery muggery work up in a corner.

Anthony Trollope - The Kellys and the O'Kellys