Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A ludicrous extension of lackaday.
- Same as lackadaisical.
Wiktionary
- adj. archaic lackadaisical
GNU Webster's 1913
- interj. An expression of languor.
- adj. Lackadaisical.
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“But shall I like a poor uxorious lackadaisy driveller sit down satisfied with a divided heart?”
“With these words she advanced to the bed, in which he lay, and, finding the sheets cold, exclaimed, “Good lackadaisy!”
“With these words she advanced to the bed, in which he lay, and, finding the sheets cold, exclaimed, "Good lackadaisy!”
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