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131slapdash — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. precipitate, hasty, careless, hit or miss; superficial, sketchy, rough, hack, sloppy. See haste. Ant., careful, methodical. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. hasty, perfunctory, cursory, slipshod; see… …
132higgledy-piggledy — confusedly, hurriedly, 1590s, a vocal gesture [OED] probably formed from PIG (Cf. pig) and the animal s suggestions of mess and disorder. Reduplications in the h /p pattern are common (e.g. hanky panky, hocus pocus, hinch(y) pinch(y), an obsolete …
