English-Thai Dictionary

pell-mell

ADJ ยุ่งเหยิง  สับสนวุ่นวาย  โกลาหล  รีบๆ  ร้อนๆ  hectic bustling feverish calm yung-yeng

 

pell-mell

ADV อย่าง สับสนวุ่นวาย  อย่าง โกลาหล  รีบๆ  ร้อนๆ  quickly hurriedly frenetically orderly calmly yang-sab-son-wun-wai

 

pell-mell

N ความ สับสน อลหม่าน  ความโกลาหล  kwam-sab-son-aon-la-man

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PELL-MELL

adv. With confused violence.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PELL-MELL

PELL-MELL Pell `-mell " (, n.

 

Defn: See Pall-mall.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

pell-mell

pell-mell |ˌpel ˈmel ˈpɛl ˈˌmɛl | ▶adverb in a confused, rushed, or disorderly manner: the contents of the sacks were thrown pell-mell to the ground. ▶adjective recklessly hasty or disorganized; headlong: steering the pell-mell development of Europe onto a new and more gradual course. ▶noun [ in sing. ] a state of affairs or collection of things characterized by haste or confusion: the pell-mell of ascending gables and roof tiles. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from French pêle -mêle, from earlier pesle mesle, mesle pesle, reduplication from mesler ‘to mix. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

pell-mell

pell-mell |pɛlˈmɛl | ▶adverb in a confused, rushed, or disorderly manner: they rushed pell-mell up the hill. ▶adjective hasty or disorganized: steps to slow the pell-mell pace of deforestation. ▶noun [ in sing. ] a disorderly situation or collection of things: the pell-mell of ascending gables and roof tiles. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from French pêle -mêle, from earlier pesle mesle, mesle pesle, reduplication from mesler ‘to mix ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

pell-mell

pell-mell adverb 1 people streamed pell-mell from the building: helter-skelter, headlong, (at ) full tilt, hotfoot, posthaste, hurriedly, hastily, recklessly, precipitately. 2 the sacks' contents were thrown pell-mell to the ground: untidily, anyhow, in disarray, in a mess, in a muddle; informal all over the place, every which way, any old how, all over the map, all over the lot.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

pell-mell

pell-mell adverb 1 the sparrows fly pell-mell up the hedgerow: helter-skelter, headlong, (at ) full tilt, hotfoot, post-haste, hurriedly, hastily; wildly, impetuously, recklessly, rashly, precipitately, impulsively; informal slap bang; archaic hurry-scurry. 2 the words slipped pell-mell into one another: in disorder, in confusion, in a muddle /jumble, in disarray, in a disorganized manner, untidily, in a mess, in a heap, anyhow; informal all over the place, every which way; Brit. informal all over the shop, shambolically; N. Amer. informal all over the map, all over the lot.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

pell-mell

pell-mell /pèlmél /副詞 ｟やや古 ｠〖動詞 の後で 〗形容詞 あわてて [た ]; 自制できずに [ない ]; めちゃくちゃに [な ].