资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pellmell \Pell`mell"\, adv. [F. p[^e]le-m[^e]le, prob. fr. pelle
   a shovel + m[^e]ler to mix, as when different kinds of grain
   are heaped up and mixed with a shovel. See {Pell} shovel,
   {Medley}.]
   In utter confusion; with confused violence. ``Men, horses,
   chariots, crowded pellmell.'' --Milton.