slapdashadv.adj.n.

Forms: Also slap dash, slap-dash.

Etymology: < slap adv. + dash adv.

A. adv.

With, or as with, a slap and a dash; in a hasty, sudden, or precipitate manner; esp. without much consideration, thought, ceremony, or care; hurriedly and carelessly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adverb]

recklesslyeOE

lighteOE

yemeleslichec1000

lightlyOE

recklessa1450

slightlya1557

uncaredly?1590

wretchlessly?16..

incuriously1603

uncarefully1655

carelessly1667

slightily1679

slapdash1680

lashly1691

cavalierly1718

negligent1738

1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iii. i. 30 Down I put the Notes slap-dash.

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iv. iii. 36 Now am I slap-dash down in the Mouth, and have not one Word to say.

1729 J. Byrom Jrnl. 20 Feb. in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1855) I. ii. 331 A way of printing letters or anything slap-dash.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) III. xxvii. 150 The denunciations come so slap-dash upon one, so unceremoniously,..that they overturn one.

1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 29 He..rode slap-dash at Gimcrack, hoping to effect it by a broadside.

1838 T. B. Macaulay Jrnl. 18 Dec. in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. vii. 36 I cannot plunge, slap dash, into the middle of events and characters.

a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) II. 40 Record of the tour, written slapdash after my return.

B. adj.

1. Marked or characterized by haste, carelessness, or want of due preparation or consideration; done, performed, etc. in a dashing and haphazard manner or style.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless, not thorough

overlyc1450

superficialc1456

sloven1532

sloven-like1569

perfunctory1592

slovenly1592

perfunctorious1599

cursory1601

cursorarya1616

slighty1619

cursitory1632

touch and go1682

passant1685

skimming1728

slapdashc1792

lax1812

slap-bang1815

slummocking1825

slobbery1832

percursory1837

slipshod1845

slip-string1854

slummocky1855

free and easy1864

unthorough1868

slurring1880

slummy1881

sploshy1881

skimmy1893

surfacy1975

drive-through1994

c1792 Milner in Sidney Rowland Hill (1834) 96 'Tis this slap-dash preaching..that does all the good.

1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter I. xi. 234 The Yahoos, who invariably couple noise with smartness, had, in their slap-dash manner, arranged the table and placed the chairs for the guests.

1862 T. C. Grattan Beaten Paths II. 70 The slapdash mass of censure, sarcasm, philosophy, and fiction contained in those remarkable pages.

1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions xiii I thought it rather a mad proceeding..to come off in this slap-dash fashion.

2. Of persons: Given to acting in this way.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless, not thorough > specifically of persons

running1588

schediastica1640

rough and ready1797

hashy1825

unscrutinizing1827

slapdash1832

1832 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 755/2 You right-hearted, but thoughtless, slapdash vagabond.

1893 A. Jessopp Stud. Recluse v. 181 To study history..is always..abhorrent to men who belong to the slapdash classes.

C. n.

†1. Slapping, cuffing, or beating. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > [noun] > on the head > on the face

slapdash1712

facer1808

clock1926

1712 S. Centlivre Perplex'd Lovers iii. iii. 27 Hark ye, Monsieur! if you don't march off, I shall play you such an English Courant, of slap-dash, presently, that shan't out of your Ears this Twelvemonth.

a. Roughcast.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > rough-cast or pebble-dash

daubing1382

roughcasting1469

temper1594

roughcast1596

rough mortar1703

rough coating1791

slapdash1796

pebble-dashing1826

pebble-dash1831

harl1869

1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms W. Devonshire in Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 330 Slapdash, roughcast, or liquid coating of buildings.

1853 Exeter Dioc. Archit. Soc. IV. 166 Masons actually laying slapdash thickly on the exterior.

1886 Cent. Mag. July 423 The gray slap-dash is filled with red granite pebbles.

b. northern dialect. (See quot. 1825.)

ΚΠ

1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Slab, or Slap-dash, a cheap mode of colouring rooms [1829 by dashing them with a brush], in imitation of paper.

a. Carelessness, roughness, or want of finish in style or workmanship; writing or work done in this style.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness

superficiality1618

perfunctoriness1626

slovenliness1641

overliness1650

perfunction1656

cursoriness1727

slightness1817

slapdash1826

rough and readiness1854

superficialism1860

slapdasherya1871

sloppiness1884

slapdashness1929

1826 Examiner 73/1 We are to be flabbergasted for some time to come with slap-dash in support of the commercial wisdom of our ancestors.

1876 W. White Holidays in Tyrol ix. 74 English folk are too fond of slap-dash in their writing.

1889 Athenæum 2 Feb. 146/3 As a specimen of newspaper ‘slapdash’ we may point to the description of General Ignatieff.

b. With reference to painting: (cf. B. 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > painting badly or carelessly > quality

slapdash1884

1884 Athenæum 6 Dec. 739/2 The energetic slap-dash of the landscape and sky.

1886 Athenæum 14 Aug. 215/3 Curing our water-colourists of the too prevalent tendency to mere slap~dash as the only way of expressing strength.

4. northern dialect. (See quot. 1828.)

ΚΠ

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Slapdash, a thoughtless, impetuous fellow.

Derivatives

ˈslapdash v. intransitive to write, work, etc., in a slapdash or offhand manner or style; transitive (see quot. 1828).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or negligent [verb (intransitive)] > write or work carelessly or inaccurately

slapdash1820

1820 T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 99 ‘Come,’ said he,..with that, slap-dashing into the thickest of any question that started itself.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Slap-dash, to rough-cast. 2. To colour rooms by dashing them with a brush.

1872 Dublin Rev. Apr. 380 Many novelists have taken the Crimean war for their theme;..but they do not ‘slapdash’.

slapˈdashery n. (also slapdasherie (rare))

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness

superficiality1618

perfunctoriness1626

slovenliness1641

overliness1650

perfunction1656

cursoriness1727

slightness1817

slapdash1826

rough and readiness1854

superficialism1860

slapdasherya1871

sloppiness1884

slapdashness1929

a1871 De Morgan Newton, etc. (1885) 105 One of the most stinging warnings which a biographer had ever received against what I must call the slapdashery of assertion.

1908 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 144 Here and there the people are infected with the unworthy superstition of ‘hustle’, which means half-doing your appointed job and applauding your own slapdasherie for as long a time as would enable you to finish off two clean pieces of work.

a1913 F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) vii. 60 That really huge romance..which his friend..wrote with such reprehensible slapdashery.

1966 New Statesman 14 Oct. 547/2 Sensibility and earthiness, obsession with detail and romantic slapdashery.

1982 Times 28 July 11/3 What it loses in slapdashery it gains in exuberance.

slapˈdashically adv. Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1836 E. Howard Rattlin lii These latter friends of mine were, as our Transatlantic brethren say, pretty considerably, slap-dashically right.

slapˈdashness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness

superficiality1618

perfunctoriness1626

slovenliness1641

overliness1650

perfunction1656

cursoriness1727

slightness1817

slapdash1826

rough and readiness1854

superficialism1860

slapdasherya1871

sloppiness1884

slapdashness1929

1929 Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 7 If he has the defects of his virtues—a certain slap-dashness visible enough in one or two of these stories—he has also the virtues of his defects.

1965 Punch 27 Jan. 146/2 By halfway I was finding the slapdashness of the overall pattern rather self-indulgent and the separate delights were suffering from this.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	slapdash
释义	slapdashadv.adj.n. Forms: Also slap dash, slap-dash. Etymology: < slap adv. + dash adv. A. adv. With, or as with, a slap and a dash; in a hasty, sudden, or precipitate manner; esp. without much consideration, thought, ceremony, or care; hurriedly and carelessly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adverb] recklesslyeOE lighteOE yemeleslichec1000 lightlyOE recklessa1450 slightlya1557 uncaredly?1590 wretchlessly?16.. incuriously1603 uncarefully1655 carelessly1667 slightily1679 slapdash1680 lashly1691 cavalierly1718 negligent1738 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iii. i. 30 Down I put the Notes slap-dash. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iv. iii. 36 Now am I slap-dash down in the Mouth, and have not one Word to say. 1729 J. Byrom Jrnl. 20 Feb. in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1855) I. ii. 331 A way of printing letters or anything slap-dash. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) III. xxvii. 150 The denunciations come so slap-dash upon one, so unceremoniously,..that they overturn one. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 29 He..rode slap-dash at Gimcrack, hoping to effect it by a broadside. 1838 T. B. Macaulay Jrnl. 18 Dec. in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. vii. 36 I cannot plunge, slap dash, into the middle of events and characters. a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) II. 40 Record of the tour, written slapdash after my return. B. adj. 1. Marked or characterized by haste, carelessness, or want of due preparation or consideration; done, performed, etc. in a dashing and haphazard manner or style. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless, not thorough overlyc1450 superficialc1456 sloven1532 sloven-like1569 perfunctory1592 slovenly1592 perfunctorious1599 cursory1601 cursorarya1616 slighty1619 cursitory1632 touch and go1682 passant1685 skimming1728 slapdashc1792 lax1812 slap-bang1815 slummocking1825 slobbery1832 percursory1837 slipshod1845 slip-string1854 slummocky1855 free and easy1864 unthorough1868 slurring1880 slummy1881 sploshy1881 skimmy1893 surfacy1975 drive-through1994 c1792 Milner in Sidney Rowland Hill (1834) 96 'Tis this slap-dash preaching..that does all the good. 1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter I. xi. 234 The Yahoos, who invariably couple noise with smartness, had, in their slap-dash manner, arranged the table and placed the chairs for the guests. 1862 T. C. Grattan Beaten Paths II. 70 The slapdash mass of censure, sarcasm, philosophy, and fiction contained in those remarkable pages. 1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions xiii I thought it rather a mad proceeding..to come off in this slap-dash fashion. 2. Of persons: Given to acting in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless, not thorough > specifically of persons running1588 schediastica1640 rough and ready1797 hashy1825 unscrutinizing1827 slapdash1832 1832 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 755/2 You right-hearted, but thoughtless, slapdash vagabond. 1893 A. Jessopp Stud. Recluse v. 181 To study history..is always..abhorrent to men who belong to the slapdash classes. C. n. †1. Slapping, cuffing, or beating. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > [noun] > on the head > on the face slapdash1712 facer1808 clock1926 1712 S. Centlivre Perplex'd Lovers iii. iii. 27 Hark ye, Monsieur! if you don't march off, I shall play you such an English Courant, of slap-dash, presently, that shan't out of your Ears this Twelvemonth. 2. a. Roughcast. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > rough-cast or pebble-dash daubing1382 roughcasting1469 temper1594 roughcast1596 rough mortar1703 rough coating1791 slapdash1796 pebble-dashing1826 pebble-dash1831 harl1869 1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms W. Devonshire in Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 330 Slapdash, roughcast, or liquid coating of buildings. 1853 Exeter Dioc. Archit. Soc. IV. 166 Masons actually laying slapdash thickly on the exterior. 1886 Cent. Mag. July 423 The gray slap-dash is filled with red granite pebbles. b. northern dialect. (See quot. 1825.) ΚΠ 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Slab, or Slap-dash, a cheap mode of colouring rooms [1829 by dashing them with a brush], in imitation of paper. 3. a. Carelessness, roughness, or want of finish in style or workmanship; writing or work done in this style. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness superficiality1618 perfunctoriness1626 slovenliness1641 overliness1650 perfunction1656 cursoriness1727 slightness1817 slapdash1826 rough and readiness1854 superficialism1860 slapdasherya1871 sloppiness1884 slapdashness1929 1826 Examiner 73/1 We are to be flabbergasted for some time to come with slap-dash in support of the commercial wisdom of our ancestors. 1876 W. White Holidays in Tyrol ix. 74 English folk are too fond of slap-dash in their writing. 1889 Athenæum 2 Feb. 146/3 As a specimen of newspaper ‘slapdash’ we may point to the description of General Ignatieff. b. With reference to painting: (cf. B. 2). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > painting badly or carelessly > quality slapdash1884 1884 Athenæum 6 Dec. 739/2 The energetic slap-dash of the landscape and sky. 1886 Athenæum 14 Aug. 215/3 Curing our water-colourists of the too prevalent tendency to mere slap~dash as the only way of expressing strength. 4. northern dialect. (See quot. 1828.) ΚΠ 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Slapdash, a thoughtless, impetuous fellow. Derivatives ˈslapdash v. intransitive to write, work, etc., in a slapdash or offhand manner or style; transitive (see quot. 1828). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or negligent [verb (intransitive)] > write or work carelessly or inaccurately slapdash1820 1820 T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 99 ‘Come,’ said he,..with that, slap-dashing into the thickest of any question that started itself. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Slap-dash, to rough-cast. 2. To colour rooms by dashing them with a brush. 1872 Dublin Rev. Apr. 380 Many novelists have taken the Crimean war for their theme;..but they do not ‘slapdash’. slapˈdashery n. (also slapdasherie (rare)) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness superficiality1618 perfunctoriness1626 slovenliness1641 overliness1650 perfunction1656 cursoriness1727 slightness1817 slapdash1826 rough and readiness1854 superficialism1860 slapdasherya1871 sloppiness1884 slapdashness1929 a1871 De Morgan Newton, etc. (1885) 105 One of the most stinging warnings which a biographer had ever received against what I must call the slapdashery of assertion. 1908 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 144 Here and there the people are infected with the unworthy superstition of ‘hustle’, which means half-doing your appointed job and applauding your own slapdasherie for as long a time as would enable you to finish off two clean pieces of work. a1913 F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) vii. 60 That really huge romance..which his friend..wrote with such reprehensible slapdashery. 1966 New Statesman 14 Oct. 547/2 Sensibility and earthiness, obsession with detail and romantic slapdashery. 1982 Times 28 July 11/3 What it loses in slapdashery it gains in exuberance. slapˈdashically adv. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1836 E. Howard Rattlin lii These latter friends of mine were, as our Transatlantic brethren say, pretty considerably, slap-dashically right. slapˈdashness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness superficiality1618 perfunctoriness1626 slovenliness1641 overliness1650 perfunction1656 cursoriness1727 slightness1817 slapdash1826 rough and readiness1854 superficialism1860 slapdasherya1871 sloppiness1884 slapdashness1929 1929 Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 7 If he has the defects of his virtues—a certain slap-dashness visible enough in one or two of these stories—he has also the virtues of his defects. 1965 Punch 27 Jan. 146/2 By halfway I was finding the slapdashness of the overall pattern rather self-indulgent and the separate delights were suffering from this. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.adj.n.1680
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