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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1099/
- Published: 2023-02-02T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-28T17:35:48.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:34

The word for today is…

pell-mell (adverb):

1: in mingled confusion or disorder  
2: in confused haste

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pell-mell?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology :The word pell-mell was probably formed through a process called reduplication. This process—which involves the repetition of a word or part of a word, with often a slight change in its form—also generated the terms flip-flop, chitchat, and shilly-shally, the last of which comes from a single-word compression of the question “Shall I?” For pell-mell, the process is believed to have occurred long ago: our word traces to a Middle French word of the same meaning, pelemele, which comes from the Old French word pesle mesle, likely a product of reduplication from the Old French word mesle, a form of mesler, meaning “to mix” or “to mingle.”

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