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Learn to pronounce pell-mell

/ˈpelˈmel/
adverb
in a confused, rushed, or disorderly manner.
"the contents of the sacks were thrown pell-mell to the ground"
synonyms: helter-skelter, headlong, (at) full tilt, hotfoot, posthaste, hurriedly, hastily, wildly, impetuously, recklessly, rashly, precipitately, impulsively, slap bang, hurry-scurry, in disorder, in confusion, in a muddle/jumble, in disarray, in a disorganized manner, untidily, in a mess, in a heap, anyhow, all over the place, every which way, all over the shop, shambolically, all over the map, all over the lot

adjective
recklessly hasty or disorganized; headlong.
"steering the pell-mell development of Europe onto a new and more gradual course"

noun
a state of affairs or collection of things characterized by haste or confusion.
"the pell-mell of ascending gables and roof tiles"

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adjective. indiscriminate; disorderly; helter-skelter: a pell-mell dash after someone. overhasty or precipitate; rash: pell-mell spending.
From French pêle-mêle, from Old French pesle-mesle, apparently a rhyme based on the stem of mesler (“to mix, meddle”). Compare meddle, melee.
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