"willy nilly" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "more willy nilly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most willy nilly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "word": "willy-nilly"
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        {
          "ref": "1868, [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe, translated by Arthur Duke Coleridge, Egmont. A Tragedy. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, act II, page 40:",
          "text": "Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 154:",
          "text": "And, while he sleeps, the indwelling Compassion preserves him, willy nilly, from the suicide which, in his waking hours, he has tried so frantically hard to commit.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Alternative form of willy-nilly"
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  "word": "willy nilly"
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    {
      "form": "more willy nilly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most willy nilly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "willy nilly (comparative more willy nilly, superlative most willy nilly)",
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
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        {
          "ref": "1868, [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe, translated by Arthur Duke Coleridge, Egmont. A Tragedy. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, act II, page 40:",
          "text": "Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 154:",
          "text": "And, while he sleeps, the indwelling Compassion preserves him, willy nilly, from the suicide which, in his waking hours, he has tried so frantically hard to commit.",
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        }
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