You may have noticed that I sometimes do more than one Gnomish Word of the Day (GWD). That's right. It's deliberate. Because it's gnomish to be capricious that way. Some days there may be only one GWD. Some days there may be four. You can never really know. And that's exactly what makes gnomes so fucking creepy, them being all higgledy-piggledy!
hig·gle·dy–pig·gle·dyPronunciation: \ˌhi-gəl-dē-ˈpi-gəl-dē\
Function: adverb
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1598
: in a confused, disordered, or random manner
— higgledy–piggledy adjective
Origin unknown, yet hearkening to the 16th century? Gnomes. You can almost see their curly-toed shoe tracks on this one.
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