Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A ludicrous extension of lackaday.
- Same as
lackadaisical .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection An expression of languor.
- adjective Lackadaisical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
lackadaisical
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Examples
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On the English language, the Daisy has had little influence, though some have derived "lackadaisy" and "lackadaisical" from the Daisy, but there is, certainly, no connection between the words.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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You may meet me with my satchel at my back; not with a shining, but a whindling, lackadaisy, green-sickness face; blubbering a month's sorrow, after having been flogged by my master, beaten by my chum, and dropped my plum cake in the kennel.
Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777
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But shall I like a poor uxorious lackadaisy driveller sit down satisfied with a divided heart?
Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777
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With these words she advanced to the bed, in which he lay, and, finding the sheets cold, exclaimed, “Good lackadaisy!
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With these words she advanced to the bed, in which he lay, and, finding the sheets cold, exclaimed, "Good lackadaisy!
The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1746
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