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Pellmell

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pell-mell also pell·mell  (plml)
adv.
1. In a jumbled, confused manner; helter-skelter.
2. In frantic disorderly haste; headlong: "I went to work pell-mell, blotted several sheets of paper with choice floating thoughts" Washington Irving.
[French pêle-mêle, from Old French pesle mesle, probably reduplication of mesle, imperative of mesler, to mix; see meddle.]
pell-mell adj. & n.
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Very well; with all those pieces of lava lengthened like rockets, it resembles an immense game of spelikans thrown pellmell.
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
The boys made a dash of it for the gangway platform, swimming the fastest strokes they knew, pellmell, floundering and splashing, fright in their faces, clambering out with jumps and surges, any way to get out, lending one another a hand to safety, till all were strung along the gangway and peering down into the water.
The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context
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