Definitions
Wiktionary
- adv. Alternative form of willy-nilly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Whether I (he, she, they) want to or not. See Will I, nill I, etc., under 3d will.
Examples
“Gone is the undertow of spring's willy nilly presentation.”
The Huffington Post: Jack Schimmelman: Central Park: A Performance in Four Seasons (Summer)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘willy nilly’.
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rhyming euphemisms
hollyhocks, mean green, bum chums, hokey pokey, humpty dumpty, makin bacon, hanky panky, up to ya nuts in ..., stuffin the muffin, ants in my pants, blast from the past, junk in yo trunk and 34 more...
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tom, dick and harry
merry andrew, spotted dick, black jack, lazy susan, bloody mary, charley horse, doubting thomas, willy nilly, jolly roger, peg leg, catherine wheel, charlotte russe and 156 more...
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useful ones
ersatz, pastiche, amalgam, polemic, implacable, inchoate, tautology, grum, nonpareil, gracile, supernal, auspicious and 88 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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danallison's Words
polysemy, self-reliance, savor, amenities, vintage, proverbial, colloquial, assemblage, ubiquitous, jocular, prosaic, perambulation and 443 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 456 more...
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unpack your adjectives
and adverbs
walrusine, slipshod, bemused, inscrutable, bombastic, cattywampus, copacetic, famished, crackpot, flailsome, lugubrious, scalesome and 102 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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Mib's Words
east overshoe, east bumfuck, turd, umpteenth, ammies, shithead, fatty, for pete's sake, crud, rigamarole, creep, bedlington and 33 more...
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Fun Phrases & Idioms
dust up, wreak havoc, the willies, cash cow, average joe, drama queen, fancy pants, houston we have a..., in your face, just deserts, kangaroo court, quality time and 78 more...
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For Pete's Sake
Names that appear in common phrases/clichès. (Also see sionnach's list, tom, dick and harry.)
adam's apple, jim crow, joe blow, bobby pin, nervous nellie, for pete's sake, jolly roger, john hancock, johnny-come-lately, suzie q, teddy bear, tommy gun and 81 more...
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lewfish's Words
deliquiescence, qua, cathexis, visceral, quixotic, confluence, nosegay, halcyonic, procrustean, sobriquet, cynosure, jettison and 18 more...
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keeping the hyphens to a minimum.
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the cat's pajamas.
cat's pajamas, fancy pants, bee's knees, fuddy duddy, hoity-toity, gee willikers, willy nilly, handy dandy, leaping lizards
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jmjarmstrong JM, in a shilly-shallying, vacillating way, rushed about all over the place until he settled upon 'willy nilly' as the mood of the day Feb 1, 2009