Word of the day: hugger-mugger

The word of the day is hugger-mugger:

1. disorder or confusion; muddle.
2. secrecy; reticence: Why is there such hugger-mugger about the scheme?

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hugger-mugger)

"For much of the last century most Mayanists believed that at its height—200 to 900 A.D., roughly speaking—the Maya realm was divided into a hugger-mugger of more or less equivalent city-states."

 - Charles Mann, 1491: Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus