Pell-mell

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of
     iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the


     place where the game was played, and to the street, in
     London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also {pail-mail} and
     {pell-mell}.] --Sir K. Digby. --Evelyn.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pell-mell \Pell`-mell"\, n.
     See {Pall-mall}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pellmell \Pell`mell"\, adv. [F. p[^e]le-m[^e]le, prob. fr. pelle
     a shovel + m[^e]ler to mix, as when different kinds of grain
     are heaped up and mixed with a shovel. See {Pell} shovel,
     {Medley}.]
     In utter confusion; with confused violence. "Men, horses,
     chariots, crowded pellmell." --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pell-mell
       adj : with undue hurry and confusion; "a helter-skelter kind of
             existence with never a pause"; "a pell-mell dash for
             the train" [syn: {helter-skelter}]
       adv : in a wild or reckless manner; "dashing harum-scarum all over
             the place"; "running pell-mell up the stairs" [syn: {harum-scarum}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "pell-mell":
     bedlam, brouhaha, chaos, chaotic, chaotically, commotion, confused,
     confusedly, confusion, disorder, disordered, disorderly,
     disorganized, excitement, feverish, feverishly, hastily, hasty,
     helter-skelter, hubbub, hurried, hurriedly, impetuous, impetuously,
     impulsive, impulsively, incautious, incautiously, mad, melee,
     pandemonium, panicky, precipitate, precipitately, rash, rashly,
     reckless, recklessly, slap-bang, slapdash, spontaneously, tumult,
     tumultuous, turmoil, wild, wildly