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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-82/
- Published: 2019-10-21T17:15:58.000Z
- Updated: 2019-10-15T08:56:33.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

pell-mell (adverb) – 1\. In a jumbled, confused manner; helter-skelter.  
2\. In frantic disorderly haste; headlong.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/pell-mell?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : The word pell-mell was probably formed through a process called reduplication. The process—which involves the repetition of a word or part of a word, often including a slight change in its pronunciation—also generated such terms as bowwow, helter-skelter, flip-flop, and chitchat. Yet another product of reduplication is shilly-shally, which started out as 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 was likely a product of reduplication from Old French mesle, a form of mesler, meaning “to mix.”