"loosey-goosey" meaning in All languages combined

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more loosey-goosey",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "loosier-goosier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "loosey-goosier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most loosey-goosey",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "loosiest-goosiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "loosey-goosiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "more",
        "2": "loosier-goosier",
        "3": "loosey-goosier",
        "sup2": "loosiest-goosiest",
        "sup3": "loosey-goosiest"
      },
      "expansion": "loosey-goosey (comparative more loosey-goosey or loosier-goosier or loosey-goosier, superlative most loosey-goosey or loosiest-goosiest or loosey-goosiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Baseball",
          "orig": "en:Baseball",
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            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
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            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
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            "Fundamental"
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        },
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946 July 8, “By Jim Coleman”, in The Globe and Mail",
          "text": "They said that he couldn't hit International League pitching because he was too loosey-goosey at the plate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Trent Frayne, “Why Big-League Goalies CRACK Up”, in Maclean's, archived from the original on 2022-04-09",
          "text": "“All these other guys are scared to death,” the pinch-hitter kept telling himself as he walked towards the plate, “I’m loosey-goosey, I’m loosey-goosey, I’m loosey-goosey.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "relaxed"
      ],
      "id": "en-loosey-goosey-en-adj-rNhcl79N",
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          "sports",
          "sports"
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        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "relaxed",
          "relaxed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, originally baseball, Canada, US) relaxed"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "35 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 57",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Richard Perez-Pena, “Investment Manager Faces Charges of Securities Fraud”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "\"Everything seemed to be real loosey-goosey,\" Mr. Williams said. \"[…]I had lunch with him three times, and each time he said, 'Oh, I forgot to bring the papers.'\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Denis Wood, Five Billion Years of Global Change",
          "text": "I find the description wonderfully familiar, less the droogish quality, than the loosey-goosey opportunism.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "laid back; disorganized; scattered"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "laid back",
          "laid back"
        ],
        [
          "disorganized",
          "disorganized"
        ],
        [
          "scattered",
          "scattered"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension, informal) laid back; disorganized; scattered"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "loosey goosey"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "loosy-goosy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "loosey-goosey"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English reduplications",
    "English rhyming phrases",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more loosey-goosey",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "loosier-goosier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "loosey-goosier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most loosey-goosey",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "loosiest-goosiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "loosey-goosiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "more",
        "2": "loosier-goosier",
        "3": "loosey-goosier",
        "sup2": "loosiest-goosiest",
        "sup3": "loosey-goosiest"
      },
      "expansion": "loosey-goosey (comparative more loosey-goosey or loosier-goosier or loosey-goosier, superlative most loosey-goosey or loosiest-goosiest or loosey-goosiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Baseball",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946 July 8, “By Jim Coleman”, in The Globe and Mail",
          "text": "They said that he couldn't hit International League pitching because he was too loosey-goosey at the plate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Trent Frayne, “Why Big-League Goalies CRACK Up”, in Maclean's, archived from the original on 2022-04-09",
          "text": "“All these other guys are scared to death,” the pinch-hitter kept telling himself as he walked towards the plate, “I’m loosey-goosey, I’m loosey-goosey, I’m loosey-goosey.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "relaxed"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "relaxed",
          "relaxed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, originally baseball, Canada, US) relaxed"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Richard Perez-Pena, “Investment Manager Faces Charges of Securities Fraud”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "\"Everything seemed to be real loosey-goosey,\" Mr. Williams said. \"[…]I had lunch with him three times, and each time he said, 'Oh, I forgot to bring the papers.'\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Denis Wood, Five Billion Years of Global Change",
          "text": "I find the description wonderfully familiar, less the droogish quality, than the loosey-goosey opportunism.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "laid back; disorganized; scattered"
      ],
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        [
          "laid back",
          "laid back"
        ],
        [
          "disorganized",
          "disorganized"
        ],
        [
          "scattered",
          "scattered"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension, informal) laid back; disorganized; scattered"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "loosey goosey"
    },
    {
      "word": "loosy-goosy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "loosey-goosey"
}