pell-mell

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adverb

(old-fashioned) very quickly and in a way that is not controlled: The children rushed pell-mell down the stairs.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

pell-mellEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus pell-mellEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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Is pell-mell a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, pell-mell is tagged as adverb.

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