# Do you use any of the following words?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 14, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-any-of-the-following-words/352672 "2006-04-14T15:53:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-any-of-the-following-words/352672/61 "2006-04-16T03:23:40Z")

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[QUOTE=DesertGeezer]  
Rapscallion – never. I hate rap, and the only scallion I might refer to would be in a cassarolle.  
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I posted my “Rap Scallion” comment before I read your reply. Glad to see more than one person thinking this basic thought!

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> Hugger-mugger – I can’t even remember where I saw this, although I’m sure I did.

I first saw it in a poem which included the phrase “but, in hugger-mugger”. The previous line rhymed with “mugger”, but I don’t recall anything else about the verse. Perhaps you saw the word in [_The Star Splitter_](http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6604&poem=29663):

[Quote=Robert Frost]  
So Brad McLaughlin mingled reckless talk  
Of heavenly stars with hugger-mugger farming,  
Till having failed at hugger-mugger farming  
He burned his house down for the fire insurance  
And spent the proceeds on a telescope  
To satisfy a lifelong curiosity  
About our place among the infinities.  
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