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willy-nilly
adverb
here and there, haphazardly US, 1934
Not particularly related to the C17 sense of the phrase meaning “willingly or unwillingly”.- Constant exposure made him, willy-nilly, a first rate ball player. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 5, 1957
- Some biographers might say I lived my childhood in a willy-nilly manner. — Helen Giblo, Footlights, Fistfights and Femmes, p. 8, 1957
- Willy-nilly, in the course of the 12th century, these claims, backed up as they often were by dangerous revolts, had to be granted. — The Digger Papers, p. 20, August 1968
- She was picked up from the streets, wandering willy nilly with a child[.] — Odie Hawkins, Black Casanova, p. 153, 1984
- Joe bolted willynilly with the rest. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 179, 1990
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