pell-mellv.

Brit.

/ˌpɛlˈmɛl/, U.S.

/ˈpɛlˈmɛl/

Forms: 1600s pel-mell, 1600s– pell-mell.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pell-mell adv.

Etymology: < pell-mell adv.

†1. transitive. To mix up indiscriminately. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > make varied or diversify [verb (transitive)] > mix or jumble

jumperc1374

jumble1542

hotchpotch1573

shuffle1593

pell-mell1606

chequerc1632

hash1654

hodge-podge1773

check1790

gallimaufry1831

commix1847

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > confuse or disorder [verb (transitive)] > mix up in confusion

broil1401

blunderc1440

jumble1542

mingle1548

tumble1562

mumble1588

pell-mell1606

fubble1611

1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall xvii. sig. E4 They pel-mell the dead with the liuing all in one kirk.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 147 The Game ended, Kings, Queens, Bishops, Knights, Pawns pell-melled are confusedly thrown into the Box.

2. intransitive. To mingle or mill about confusedly; to run or flee in disordered haste.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move without fixed course > in a mass

pell-mella1864

mill1895

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > run away or flee > flee in disorder

pell-mella1864

sauve-qui-peut1939

a1864 J. Clare Early Poems (1989) II. 504 Theyd won the game—& then pell melling As safes a button sent thee helling.

1905 Daily Chron. 2 Sept. 2/7 It is so easy to rise, but so hard to lead the common life, and not go pell-melling to Avernus.

1950 A. Buckeridge Jennings goes to School v. 101 He pell-melled; he helter-skeltered; he full-tilted, and he post-hastened.

1977 Time 27 June 26/1 Eventually the cops put out some false leads on the radio; eavesdropping reporters pell-melled off to another hill miles away.

2000 S. Vickers Miss Garnet's Angel 170 A crowd of camera-waving tourists was pell-melling round them and he steered her through the chatter and up a narrow calle.

Derivatives

pell-ˈmelling n. rare

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture > mixing or jumbling together

shuffling1604

pell-melling1792

jumbling1852

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > confusing or disordering

confusionc1400

plundering1642

pell-melling1792

jumbling1852

mess-making1881

1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry (1846) 23 In times of chivalry though there was a great deal of pell-melling, yet no such disorderly work.

1996 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 9 May 19 They provide a maelstrom full of sound, fury, hectic-electric pell-melling action and imagery.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pell-melladv.adj.n.

Brit.

/ˌpɛlˈmɛl/, U.S.

/ˈpɛlˈmɛl/

Forms: 1500s peale meale, 1500s peale-meale, 1500s–1600s pel mel, 1500s–1600s pelmel, 1500s–1600s pel mell, 1500s–1700s pel-mel, 1500s–1700s pelmell, 1500s–1700s pesle mesle, 1500s–1700s pesle-mesle, 1500s–1800s pell mell, 1500s– pell-mell, 1600s pell-mel, 1600s pel-mell, 1600s–1700s pall-mall, 1600s– pellmell, 1700s pezle mezle, 1700s–1800s pêle mêle, 1800s pêle-mêle; also Scottish pre-1700 pesle melle, 1700s peele mel.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French pelle-melle, pêle-mêle.

Etymology: < Middle French pelle-melle, pesle mesle, pelle et melle, etc., French pêle-mêle (12th cent. in Old French as adverb as mele pesle , pel et melle , 13th cent. as melle pelle , pelle et mesle , pesle mesle , pelle melle ; 1596 as noun), ultimately < mesler , meller to mix (see meddle v.), probably originally as a variant (with dissimilation) of the reduplicated form mesle-mesle (13th cent.), although it has also been suggested that the first element might show Old French pesle bolt ( < classical Latin pessulus : see pessulus n.). Compare mel-pell adv., and earlier pelly melly adv. N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (pe·lˌme·l, with shifting stress) /ˈpɛlˈmɛl/, and for sense B. gives the pronunciation (pe·lˌmel.) /ˈpɛlmɛl/, although this may simply reflect a shift in stress determined by the attributive position of the adjective.

A. adv.

†a. Chiefly Military. With reference to combatants: without keeping ranks; hand to hand, man to man; in a mêlée. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [adverb] > in single combat or duel

hand to hand?a1400

hand of handc1425

hand by hand?a1439

hand for hand1490

hand unto handc1540

with hand to hand1548

at hand1565

pell-mell1579

1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 105 If at anye time they should come to the sword, or ioyne peale meale with their Enimies.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. iv. 42 March on, ioine brauelie, let vs to it pell mell, If not to heauen then hand in hand to hell.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres Gloss. 251 Pel mell, a French word, and signifieth the mingling of men together, buckling by the bosome one with another.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 201 To come, pell-mell to handiblows.

1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. iii. xi. 54 There they are at it Pell-mell, who will be knock'd on the Head I know not.

1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. xxvi. 113 To attack the point of the advanced counterscarp, and pêle mêle with the Dutch to take the counterguard of St. Roch sword in hand.

1829 P. Egan Boxiana 2nd Ser. II. 113 Inglis took the advice of his friends, and went fighting pell-mell till Turner went down.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xl. 193 The winds are just crossing swords, pell-mell they'll go lunging presently.

†b. With reference to pursuer and pursued: in such a manner as to be confused with each other; in mingled confusion. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adverb]

pelly mellya1500

ribble-rabble?a1525

confusely1540

huddlea1555

confusedly1566

pell-mell1579

tag-rag1582

helter-skelter1593

promiscuously1593

pell-mell1596

confusively1599

mel-pella1600

promiscually1602

squimble-squamble1611

promiscuous1616

clutteringly1624

promiscously1635

perplexly1670

skimble-skamble1775

skimper-scamper1778

hodge-podge1848

hugger-mugger1880

rumble-jumble1887

muddledly1914

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 163 He entred amongest them that fled into their Campe pelmel, or hand overheade.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 91 Fearing least the enemie in that hurly burly should pell mell enter in with the rest.

1677 London Gaz. No. 1181/4 [They] were so closely followed, that our Soldiers entred with them pell-mell into the City.

1713 London Gaz. No. 5106/2 The Turks and Tartars entred Pellmell among the Swedes.

1723 R. Blackmore Alfred xi. 370 The Prince attacks their Troops..and so closely pursues them with his Forces that they enter Pell-Mell with the Foe into the City.

1806 R. Wilson Diary 14 Oct. in Life (1862) II. App. i. 397 But the French dragoons charged, routed the Prussian horse and infantry, and cantered pell-mell into the town with the fugitives.

1859 J. R. Green Oxf. Stud. i. 14 [They] rushed pell-mell with the fugitives into the city.

c. gen. In a confused medley or throng; with disorderly mingling; together without any order.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adverb]

pelly mellya1500

ribble-rabble?a1525

confusely1540

huddlea1555

confusedly1566

pell-mell1579

tag-rag1582

helter-skelter1593

promiscuously1593

pell-mell1596

confusively1599

mel-pella1600

promiscually1602

squimble-squamble1611

promiscuous1616

clutteringly1624

promiscously1635

perplexly1670

skimble-skamble1775

skimper-scamper1778

hodge-podge1848

hugger-mugger1880

rumble-jumble1887

muddledly1914

1596 Z. Jones tr. J. de Lavardin Hist. Scanderbeg 162 The men lay wallowing all along vnder their tentes, pell mell amongst their horses.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) viii. 540 Nor were men and women intermingled pell mell in their Synagogues.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 283 Then the Guns went off Pell Mell on all hands.

1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 150 Assuming the shape of a wedge..for they [sc. wild geese] cut the air the readier in that form than if they flew pelmell.

1814 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 242 We should now have been all living, men, women, and children, pell-mell together.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 105 Shoulder-blades of mutton, flung pellmell into a chest.

1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands x 267 The dead and the dying were huddled pell-mell together.

1920 R. Fry Vision & Design 1 What-nots were strewn pell-mell about the room without order or effect of any kind.

1958 V. Nabokov Let. 10 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1989) 271 What could be rescued..lay then for years pell-mell, in her cellar.

1992 Raritan Summer 34 When its victims died, it was not because they had been..forced to perform hard labor or shoved pell-mell into gas chambers.

2. In disordered haste; headlong, in a rush; at reckless or breakneck speed.Frequently referring to the action of a single person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adverb] > hastily or hurriedly > disorderly

huddlea1555

pell-mellc1586

helter-skelter1593

tumultuously1597

huddlingly1615

c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 67 As fell thunder..passand throch the elements pelmell.

?a1591 King James VI & I Poems (1955) I. 165 Fortoune blynde..The camp of thridde Eumenide fell confusedlie pesle mesle guydes.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. N2 One Master Heath..set vpon it and answered it in Print pell mell.

1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 194 Two Books which were so fitted to the Countrey-mans capacity, that he fell on Pell-Mell.

1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 151 Finding his Brother falling thus pell-mell into Affairs of Trade.

1784 F. Burney Diary 3 Nov. (1842) II. 322 I have not had an unpleasant thought that I have not driven away pellmell.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 223 I went to work pell-mell, blotted several sheets of paper with choice floating thoughts.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xii. 90 We were an absurd party of zealots, rushing pell-mell upon the floes with vastly more energy than discretion.

1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 97 ‘Repent yourself’, the Nephew sneers, And at it goes pell mell.

1933 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 15 Aug. in Locked Rooms & Open Doors (1974) 87 I run down the hill pell-mell over bluebells.

1986 D. Koontz Strangers i. ii. 109 He did not care, did not pause, just ran pell-mell because he could feel the darkness clutching at him.

†3. Without discrimination of parts; in the mass, collectively. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adverb]

indifferentlyc1374

indistinctlyc1420

confusedly?1531

undistinctly1548

confusely?c1550

without respect?c1550

without choice1576

intermixedlya1586

unrespectively1586

pell-mell1587

promiscuously1593

mixedly1597

indiscriminate1598

promiscually1602

swoopstake1603

promiscuous1616

irrespectively1624

muddily1648

indiscriminately1652

humdrum1660

indiscriminally1665

undistinguishingly1665

indeterminatelya1676

indiscriminatively1684

indistinguishably1689

indiscretely1698

indistinctively1699

undiscerningly1707

uncritically1763

indiscriminatingly1824

undiscriminatingly1894

unfastidiously1929

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1571/1 To be an actor in a tragedie of bloudshed and slaughter universallie, pesle mesle to be perpetrated.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. liv. 883 These plaies and games haue been beheld and looked upon pell mell, without any such precise difference.

1606 Bp. W. Barlow One of Foure Serm. Hampton Court D iv Bishops were not made χύδην pell-mell, at all aduentures.

1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ v. 50 Their way of excluding men pell-mell, and in the lump.

a1659 R. Brownrig 65 Serm. (1674) I. x. 133 God sometimes punishes a Nation pell mell.

B. adj.

Disorderly and rushed; confused, tumultuous; indiscriminate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective]

confusec1384

yblent1426

intermellé1487

farraginary1538

puddled1559

confused1576

promiscuous1579

pell-mell1584

ravelleda1586

mingle-mangle1589

rumblingc1598

skimble-skamble1598

huddle1601

plundered1601

promiscual1602

jumbled1611

promiscous1656

bedevilled1755

helter-skelter1785

muddly1829

hugger-mugger1840

wildered1853

pied1870

deurmekaar1871

mixed-up1888

screwed-up1942

snafu1942

scrambled1951

untogether1969

1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Biiij Syne Phifers, Drummes, and Trumpets cleir do craue The pelmell chok with larum loude alwhair.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 82 Moody beggars staruing for a time, Of pell mell hauocke and confusion.

1657 R. Tomlinson To Rdr. in R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Dispensatory sig. b The thundring and pell-mell Granadoes of impertinent Contradiction.

1803 R. Couper Tourifications II. 56 They made a pell-mell kind of work of it.

1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited vi. 157 The pell-mell rout of the French has been described in a variety of publications.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 935 This is a pell-mell classification.

1958 Life 19 May 26/2 The NATO nations, who had been lambasting him for months for his stiff resistance to a pell-mell parley with the Russians.

2003 Florida Times-Union (Nexis) 15 Mar. m1 Pell-mell development littered the county with pockets of strip malls, curb cuts and single-entry neighborhoods.

C. n.

Confusion, disorder; indiscriminate mingling. Also: an instance of this; a confused mixture or throng; a hand-to-hand fight, a mêlée. Now rare. at pell-mell: in tumultuous disorder.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture

hotchpotc1405

hodge-podgec1426

omnigatherum?a1430

mishmashc1475

peasemeala1525

omnium gatherum1530

mingle1548

hotchpotch1549

mingle-mangle1549

gallimaufry1551

rhapsody1574

sauce-medley1579

pell-mellc1586

linsey-woolsey1592

wilderness1594

brewage1599

motley1609

macaronic1611

medley1618

olla podridaa1635

farragoa1637

consarcination1640

porridge1642

olio1645

bisque1653

mélange1653

hash1660

jumble1661

farrage1698

capilotade1705

jargon1710

salmagundi1761

pasticcio1785

pea meal1789

ollapod1804

mixty-maxty1818

macédoine1820

ragbag1820

haggis1822

job lot1828

allsorts1831

conglomerate1837

pot-pourri1841

chow-chow1850

breccia1873

pastiche1873

macaroni1884

mixed bag1919

casserole1930

mixed bunch1958

rattle-bag1982

mulligan1993

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun]

brabbling1530

confusion1530

ruffle1533

pell-mellc1586

confusedness1587

huddle1606

Babel confusion1653

promiscuity1663

hugger-mugger1674

promiscuousness1676

clutter1692

jumblement1706

muddle1808

embranglement1826

mare's nest1837

muddlement1857

muddledom1891

muddliness1891

mêlée1895

mix-up1898

huddledom1923

buggeration1962

mixed-upness1967

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight

bicker1297

fightc1300

tirpeilc1330

ragea1393

stradec1400

intermell1489

cockfighta1513

skirm1534

bustle1579

pell-mellc1586

brabble1587

jostle1607

scufflea1616

counterbuff1632

mêléea1648

roil1690

tussle1749

scrimmage1780

turn-up1810

scrape1812

pounding match1815

mellay1819

struggle1840

mix-up1841

scrap1846

rough-up1891

turn-to1893

push and shove1895

bagarre1897

stoush1908

dogfight1910

bundle1936

sort-out1937

yike1940

bassa-bassa1956

punch-up1958

thump-up1967

c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 11 That heauen and erth and hell and all may heir This pert pelmell quhilk present sall appeir.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 36 The dagger is a weapon of great aduantage in Pell mell.

1600 in tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles a j b Lord, what a pell-mell of conceit and inuention you shall discouer.

1637 W. Lithgow True Disc. Siege of Breda 28 The buttery Dutches..fled, leaving with the..exasperate enemies the Scotts at pell mell.

1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ v. 50 The old impure way of Pell-mell tends to many evils.

1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace 193 The Ambush then, Bambusl'd all their Game, For with pel-mel the Scots upon them came.

1831 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 307 Thunderbolts pursue the pell-mell of the panic.

a1861 A. H. Clough Dipsychus ii. iv, in Lett. & Remains (1865) 184 High deeds Haunt not the fringy edges of the fight, But the pell-mell of men.

1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket Prol. 2 The Church in the pell-mell of Stephen's time Hath climb'd the throne and almost clutch'd the crown.

1932 Extension Mag. Feb. 15/1 Yet others, obscured and uncertain in the pell-mell of modern literary England, may constantly be added.

2003 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 28 Sept. (Features section) 6 It's a pell-mell of barely rehearsed blues licks, hustled into shape with a panel-beating back-beat.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pell-mell
释义	pell-mellv. Brit. /ˌpɛlˈmɛl/, U.S. /ˈpɛlˈmɛl/ Forms: 1600s pel-mell, 1600s– pell-mell. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pell-mell adv. Etymology: < pell-mell adv. †1. transitive. To mix up indiscriminately. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > make varied or diversify [verb (transitive)] > mix or jumble jumperc1374 jumble1542 hotchpotch1573 shuffle1593 pell-mell1606 chequerc1632 hash1654 hodge-podge1773 check1790 gallimaufry1831 commix1847 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > confuse or disorder [verb (transitive)] > mix up in confusion broil1401 blunderc1440 jumble1542 mingle1548 tumble1562 mumble1588 pell-mell1606 fubble1611 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall xvii. sig. E4 They pel-mell the dead with the liuing all in one kirk. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 147 The Game ended, Kings, Queens, Bishops, Knights, Pawns pell-melled are confusedly thrown into the Box. 2. intransitive. To mingle or mill about confusedly; to run or flee in disordered haste. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move without fixed course > in a mass pell-mella1864 mill1895 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > run away or flee > flee in disorder pell-mella1864 sauve-qui-peut1939 a1864 J. Clare Early Poems (1989) II. 504 Theyd won the game—& then pell melling As safes a button sent thee helling. 1905 Daily Chron. 2 Sept. 2/7 It is so easy to rise, but so hard to lead the common life, and not go pell-melling to Avernus. 1950 A. Buckeridge Jennings goes to School v. 101 He pell-melled; he helter-skeltered; he full-tilted, and he post-hastened. 1977 Time 27 June 26/1 Eventually the cops put out some false leads on the radio; eavesdropping reporters pell-melled off to another hill miles away. 2000 S. Vickers Miss Garnet's Angel 170 A crowd of camera-waving tourists was pell-melling round them and he steered her through the chatter and up a narrow calle. Derivatives pell-ˈmelling n. rare ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture > mixing or jumbling together shuffling1604 pell-melling1792 jumbling1852 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > confusing or disordering confusionc1400 plundering1642 pell-melling1792 jumbling1852 mess-making1881 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry (1846) 23 In times of chivalry though there was a great deal of pell-melling, yet no such disorderly work. 1996 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 9 May 19 They provide a maelstrom full of sound, fury, hectic-electric pell-melling action and imagery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pell-melladv.adj.n. Brit. /ˌpɛlˈmɛl/, U.S. /ˈpɛlˈmɛl/ Forms: 1500s peale meale, 1500s peale-meale, 1500s–1600s pel mel, 1500s–1600s pelmel, 1500s–1600s pel mell, 1500s–1700s pel-mel, 1500s–1700s pelmell, 1500s–1700s pesle mesle, 1500s–1700s pesle-mesle, 1500s–1800s pell mell, 1500s– pell-mell, 1600s pell-mel, 1600s pel-mell, 1600s–1700s pall-mall, 1600s– pellmell, 1700s pezle mezle, 1700s–1800s pêle mêle, 1800s pêle-mêle; also Scottish pre-1700 pesle melle, 1700s peele mel. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French pelle-melle, pêle-mêle. Etymology: < Middle French pelle-melle, pesle mesle, pelle et melle, etc., French pêle-mêle (12th cent. in Old French as adverb as mele pesle , pel et melle , 13th cent. as melle pelle , pelle et mesle , pesle mesle , pelle melle ; 1596 as noun), ultimately < mesler , meller to mix (see meddle v.), probably originally as a variant (with dissimilation) of the reduplicated form mesle-mesle (13th cent.), although it has also been suggested that the first element might show Old French pesle bolt ( < classical Latin pessulus : see pessulus n.). Compare mel-pell adv., and earlier pelly melly adv. N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (pe·lˌme·l, with shifting stress) /ˈpɛlˈmɛl/, and for sense B. gives the pronunciation (pe·lˌmel.) /ˈpɛlmɛl/, although this may simply reflect a shift in stress determined by the attributive position of the adjective. A. adv. 1. †a. Chiefly Military. With reference to combatants: without keeping ranks; hand to hand, man to man; in a mêlée. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [adverb] > in single combat or duel hand to hand?a1400 hand of handc1425 hand by hand?a1439 hand for hand1490 hand unto handc1540 with hand to hand1548 at hand1565 pell-mell1579 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 105 If at anye time they should come to the sword, or ioyne peale meale with their Enimies. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. iv. 42 March on, ioine brauelie, let vs to it pell mell, If not to heauen then hand in hand to hell. View more context for this quotation 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres Gloss. 251 Pel mell, a French word, and signifieth the mingling of men together, buckling by the bosome one with another. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 201 To come, pell-mell to handiblows. 1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. iii. xi. 54 There they are at it Pell-mell, who will be knock'd on the Head I know not. 1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. xxvi. 113 To attack the point of the advanced counterscarp, and pêle mêle with the Dutch to take the counterguard of St. Roch sword in hand. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana 2nd Ser. II. 113 Inglis took the advice of his friends, and went fighting pell-mell till Turner went down. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xl. 193 The winds are just crossing swords, pell-mell they'll go lunging presently. †b. With reference to pursuer and pursued: in such a manner as to be confused with each other; in mingled confusion. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adverb] pelly mellya1500 ribble-rabble?a1525 confusely1540 huddlea1555 confusedly1566 pell-mell1579 tag-rag1582 helter-skelter1593 promiscuously1593 pell-mell1596 confusively1599 mel-pella1600 promiscually1602 squimble-squamble1611 promiscuous1616 clutteringly1624 promiscously1635 perplexly1670 skimble-skamble1775 skimper-scamper1778 hodge-podge1848 hugger-mugger1880 rumble-jumble1887 muddledly1914 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 163 He entred amongest them that fled into their Campe pelmel, or hand overheade. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 91 Fearing least the enemie in that hurly burly should pell mell enter in with the rest. 1677 London Gaz. No. 1181/4 [They] were so closely followed, that our Soldiers entred with them pell-mell into the City. 1713 London Gaz. No. 5106/2 The Turks and Tartars entred Pellmell among the Swedes. 1723 R. Blackmore Alfred xi. 370 The Prince attacks their Troops..and so closely pursues them with his Forces that they enter Pell-Mell with the Foe into the City. 1806 R. Wilson Diary 14 Oct. in Life (1862) II. App. i. 397 But the French dragoons charged, routed the Prussian horse and infantry, and cantered pell-mell into the town with the fugitives. 1859 J. R. Green Oxf. Stud. i. 14 [They] rushed pell-mell with the fugitives into the city. c. gen. In a confused medley or throng; with disorderly mingling; together without any order. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adverb] pelly mellya1500 ribble-rabble?a1525 confusely1540 huddlea1555 confusedly1566 pell-mell1579 tag-rag1582 helter-skelter1593 promiscuously1593 pell-mell1596 confusively1599 mel-pella1600 promiscually1602 squimble-squamble1611 promiscuous1616 clutteringly1624 promiscously1635 perplexly1670 skimble-skamble1775 skimper-scamper1778 hodge-podge1848 hugger-mugger1880 rumble-jumble1887 muddledly1914 1596 Z. Jones tr. J. de Lavardin Hist. Scanderbeg 162 The men lay wallowing all along vnder their tentes, pell mell amongst their horses. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) viii. 540 Nor were men and women intermingled pell mell in their Synagogues. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 283 Then the Guns went off Pell Mell on all hands. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 150 Assuming the shape of a wedge..for they [sc. wild geese] cut the air the readier in that form than if they flew pelmell. 1814 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 242 We should now have been all living, men, women, and children, pell-mell together. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 105 Shoulder-blades of mutton, flung pellmell into a chest. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands x 267 The dead and the dying were huddled pell-mell together. 1920 R. Fry Vision & Design 1 What-nots were strewn pell-mell about the room without order or effect of any kind. 1958 V. Nabokov Let. 10 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1989) 271 What could be rescued..lay then for years pell-mell, in her cellar. 1992 Raritan Summer 34 When its victims died, it was not because they had been..forced to perform hard labor or shoved pell-mell into gas chambers. 2. In disordered haste; headlong, in a rush; at reckless or breakneck speed.Frequently referring to the action of a single person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adverb] > hastily or hurriedly > disorderly huddlea1555 pell-mellc1586 helter-skelter1593 tumultuously1597 huddlingly1615 c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 67 As fell thunder..passand throch the elements pelmell. ?a1591 King James VI & I Poems (1955) I. 165 Fortoune blynde..The camp of thridde Eumenide fell confusedlie pesle mesle guydes. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. N2 One Master Heath..set vpon it and answered it in Print pell mell. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 194 Two Books which were so fitted to the Countrey-mans capacity, that he fell on Pell-Mell. 1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 151 Finding his Brother falling thus pell-mell into Affairs of Trade. 1784 F. Burney Diary 3 Nov. (1842) II. 322 I have not had an unpleasant thought that I have not driven away pellmell. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 223 I went to work pell-mell, blotted several sheets of paper with choice floating thoughts. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xii. 90 We were an absurd party of zealots, rushing pell-mell upon the floes with vastly more energy than discretion. 1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 97 ‘Repent yourself’, the Nephew sneers, And at it goes pell mell. 1933 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 15 Aug. in Locked Rooms & Open Doors (1974) 87 I run down the hill pell-mell over bluebells. 1986 D. Koontz Strangers i. ii. 109 He did not care, did not pause, just ran pell-mell because he could feel the darkness clutching at him. †3. Without discrimination of parts; in the mass, collectively. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adverb] indifferentlyc1374 indistinctlyc1420 confusedly?1531 undistinctly1548 confusely?c1550 without respect?c1550 without choice1576 intermixedlya1586 unrespectively1586 pell-mell1587 promiscuously1593 mixedly1597 indiscriminate1598 promiscually1602 swoopstake1603 promiscuous1616 irrespectively1624 muddily1648 indiscriminately1652 humdrum1660 indiscriminally1665 undistinguishingly1665 indeterminatelya1676 indiscriminatively1684 indistinguishably1689 indiscretely1698 indistinctively1699 undiscerningly1707 uncritically1763 indiscriminatingly1824 undiscriminatingly1894 unfastidiously1929 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1571/1 To be an actor in a tragedie of bloudshed and slaughter universallie, pesle mesle to be perpetrated. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. liv. 883 These plaies and games haue been beheld and looked upon pell mell, without any such precise difference. 1606 Bp. W. Barlow One of Foure Serm. Hampton Court D iv Bishops were not made χύδην pell-mell, at all aduentures. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ v. 50 Their way of excluding men pell-mell, and in the lump. a1659 R. Brownrig 65 Serm. (1674) I. x. 133 God sometimes punishes a Nation pell mell. B. adj. Disorderly and rushed; confused, tumultuous; indiscriminate. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective] confusec1384 yblent1426 intermellé1487 farraginary1538 puddled1559 confused1576 promiscuous1579 pell-mell1584 ravelleda1586 mingle-mangle1589 rumblingc1598 skimble-skamble1598 huddle1601 plundered1601 promiscual1602 jumbled1611 promiscous1656 bedevilled1755 helter-skelter1785 muddly1829 hugger-mugger1840 wildered1853 pied1870 deurmekaar1871 mixed-up1888 screwed-up1942 snafu1942 scrambled1951 untogether1969 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Biiij Syne Phifers, Drummes, and Trumpets cleir do craue The pelmell chok with larum loude alwhair. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 82 Moody beggars staruing for a time, Of pell mell hauocke and confusion. 1657 R. Tomlinson To Rdr. in R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Dispensatory sig. b The thundring and pell-mell Granadoes of impertinent Contradiction. 1803 R. Couper Tourifications II. 56 They made a pell-mell kind of work of it. 1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited vi. 157 The pell-mell rout of the French has been described in a variety of publications. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 935 This is a pell-mell classification. 1958 Life 19 May 26/2 The NATO nations, who had been lambasting him for months for his stiff resistance to a pell-mell parley with the Russians. 2003 Florida Times-Union (Nexis) 15 Mar. m1 Pell-mell development littered the county with pockets of strip malls, curb cuts and single-entry neighborhoods. C. n. Confusion, disorder; indiscriminate mingling. Also: an instance of this; a confused mixture or throng; a hand-to-hand fight, a mêlée. Now rare. at pell-mell: in tumultuous disorder. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture hotchpotc1405 hodge-podgec1426 omnigatherum?a1430 mishmashc1475 peasemeala1525 omnium gatherum1530 mingle1548 hotchpotch1549 mingle-mangle1549 gallimaufry1551 rhapsody1574 sauce-medley1579 pell-mellc1586 linsey-woolsey1592 wilderness1594 brewage1599 motley1609 macaronic1611 medley1618 olla podridaa1635 farragoa1637 consarcination1640 porridge1642 olio1645 bisque1653 mélange1653 hash1660 jumble1661 farrage1698 capilotade1705 jargon1710 salmagundi1761 pasticcio1785 pea meal1789 ollapod1804 mixty-maxty1818 macédoine1820 ragbag1820 haggis1822 job lot1828 allsorts1831 conglomerate1837 pot-pourri1841 chow-chow1850 breccia1873 pastiche1873 macaroni1884 mixed bag1919 casserole1930 mixed bunch1958 rattle-bag1982 mulligan1993 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] brabbling1530 confusion1530 ruffle1533 pell-mellc1586 confusedness1587 huddle1606 Babel confusion1653 promiscuity1663 hugger-mugger1674 promiscuousness1676 clutter1692 jumblement1706 muddle1808 embranglement1826 mare's nest1837 muddlement1857 muddledom1891 muddliness1891 mêlée1895 mix-up1898 huddledom1923 buggeration1962 mixed-upness1967 society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight bicker1297 fightc1300 tirpeilc1330 ragea1393 stradec1400 intermell1489 cockfighta1513 skirm1534 bustle1579 pell-mellc1586 brabble1587 jostle1607 scufflea1616 counterbuff1632 mêléea1648 roil1690 tussle1749 scrimmage1780 turn-up1810 scrape1812 pounding match1815 mellay1819 struggle1840 mix-up1841 scrap1846 rough-up1891 turn-to1893 push and shove1895 bagarre1897 stoush1908 dogfight1910 bundle1936 sort-out1937 yike1940 bassa-bassa1956 punch-up1958 thump-up1967 c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 11 That heauen and erth and hell and all may heir This pert pelmell quhilk present sall appeir. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 36 The dagger is a weapon of great aduantage in Pell mell. 1600 in tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles a j b Lord, what a pell-mell of conceit and inuention you shall discouer. 1637 W. Lithgow True Disc. Siege of Breda 28 The buttery Dutches..fled, leaving with the..exasperate enemies the Scotts at pell mell. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ v. 50 The old impure way of Pell-mell tends to many evils. 1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace 193 The Ambush then, Bambusl'd all their Game, For with pel-mel the Scots upon them came. 1831 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 307 Thunderbolts pursue the pell-mell of the panic. a1861 A. H. Clough Dipsychus ii. iv, in Lett. & Remains (1865) 184 High deeds Haunt not the fringy edges of the fight, But the pell-mell of men. 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket Prol. 2 The Church in the pell-mell of Stephen's time Hath climb'd the throne and almost clutch'd the crown. 1932 Extension Mag. Feb. 15/1 Yet others, obscured and uncertain in the pell-mell of modern literary England, may constantly be added. 2003 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 28 Sept. (Features section) 6 It's a pell-mell of barely rehearsed blues licks, hustled into shape with a panel-beating back-beat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1606adv.adj.n.1579
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