"willy-nilly" meaning in All languages combined

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        "2": "will",
        "t": "to desire, wish"
      },
      "expansion": "will (“to desire, wish”)",
      "name": "m"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "nill",
        "t": "(obsolete) to be unwilling"
      },
      "expansion": "nill (“(obsolete) to be unwilling”)",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From will I, nill I (also with ye or he instead of I), meaning “if I am willing, if I am not willing”, that is, “whether I am willing or not”. See will (“to desire, wish”), nill (“(obsolete) to be unwilling”).",
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    {
      "form": "more willy-nilly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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      "form": "most willy-nilly",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "_dis": "23 44 32",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Some writers chasing money churn out novels willy-nilly.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1869 April 1, A. A. D., “Twelve Scenes in a Young Lady’s Life. No. IV. A Spring Ramble.”, in The Young Englishwoman. A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty Needlework Patterns, volume III, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 220, column 1",
          "text": "I'll own I'm very glad he's come— / To hide my feelings would be silly— / You see I'm not so shy as some, / My thoughts will come out \"willy-nilly.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895 January, Thomas Hardy, “Hearts Insurgent”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XC, number DXXXVI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, chapter VIII, page 194, column 2",
          "text": "He says he shall come for me willy-nilly, and father and mother say I must have him! But I don't want to—because—because—I love you best!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 36",
          "text": "The outer world is what we wake up to every morning of our lives, is the place where, willy-nilly, we must try to make our living.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Whether desired or not; without regard for the consequences or the wishes of those affected; whether willingly or unwillingly."
      ],
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          "willingly"
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          "tags": [
            "archaic"
          ],
          "word": "nilly-willy"
        },
        {
          "word": "nolens volens"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ṭawʕan ʔaw karhan",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "طَوْعًا أَوْ كَرْهًا"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "uzac-čʻuzac",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "ուզած-չուզած"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "kama tʻe akama",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "կամա թե ակամա"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "vulgui o no vulgui"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "chtě nechtě"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "volky nevolky"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "willens nillens"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "tahes-tahtmata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "halusimme tai emme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "miten sattuu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "bon gré mal gré"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "nolens volens"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "ob man will oder nicht"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "volens nolens"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "wohl oder übel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ekón ákon",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "εκών άκων"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "note": "with force",
          "roman": "me to zóri",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "με το ζόρι"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "note": "θέλοντας και μη (thélontas kai mi, literally “wanted or not”)",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "akár tetszik, akár nem"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "ha tetszik, ha nem"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "így is, úgy is"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "kénytelen-kelletlen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "vole o nevole"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "silteun joteun",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "싫든 좋든"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "la",
          "english": "nolens volens",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "volens nolens"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "nori nenori"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "chcąc nie chcąc"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "querendo ou não"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "queira ou não queira"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "obrigatoriamente"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vólej-nevólej",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "во́лей-нево́лей"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "xóčešʹ ne xóčešʹ",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "хо́чешь не хо́чешь"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "a dheòin no a dh'aindeoin"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "iochd air n-achd"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "хтео не хтео"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "хтио не хтио"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "hteo ne hteo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "htio ne htio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "guste o no guste"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "quiera o no quiera"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "quiérase o no"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "sea como sea"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "velis nolis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "nolens volens"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tt",
          "lang": "Tatar",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "irekle-ireksez"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
          "word": "ister istemez"
        }
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          "text": "The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where things happen willy-nilly.",
          "type": "example"
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        "Seemingly at random; haphazardly."
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        "(idiomatic) Seemingly at random; haphazardly."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "nahodile"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "miten sattuu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "einfach so"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "scheinbar zufällig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "wahllos"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "willkürlich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "a casaccio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "per saturam"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "na chybił trafił"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "de qualquer jeito"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "de qualquer maneira"
        },
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          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tjáp-ljáp",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "тя́п-ля́п"
        },
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          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "a tontas y a locas"
        },
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          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "de cualquier manera"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
          "word": "på måfå"
        }
      ]
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "that happens whether willingly or unwillingly",
          "word": "joka tapauksessa tapahtuva"
        }
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        {
          "text": "Some writers chasing money churn out novels willy-nilly.",
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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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1869 April 1, A. A. D., “Twelve Scenes in a Young Lady’s Life. No. IV. A Spring Ramble.”, in The Young Englishwoman. A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty Needlework Patterns, volume III, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 220, column 1",
          "text": "I'll own I'm very glad he's come— / To hide my feelings would be silly— / You see I'm not so shy as some, / My thoughts will come out \"willy-nilly.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895 January, Thomas Hardy, “Hearts Insurgent”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XC, number DXXXVI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, chapter VIII, page 194, column 2",
          "text": "He says he shall come for me willy-nilly, and father and mother say I must have him! But I don't want to—because—because—I love you best!",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 36",
          "text": "The outer world is what we wake up to every morning of our lives, is the place where, willy-nilly, we must try to make our living.",
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        "Whether desired or not; without regard for the consequences or the wishes of those affected; whether willingly or unwillingly."
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          "word": "nilly-willy"
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          "word": "nolens volens"
        }
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          "text": "The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where things happen willy-nilly.",
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        "(idiomatic) Seemingly at random; haphazardly."
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ṭawʕan ʔaw karhan",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "طَوْعًا أَوْ كَرْهًا"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "uzac-čʻuzac",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "ուզած-չուզած"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kama tʻe akama",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "կամա թե ակամա"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "vulgui o no vulgui"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "chtě nechtě"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "volky nevolky"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "willens nillens"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "tahes-tahtmata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "halusimme tai emme"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "miten sattuu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "bon gré mal gré"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "nolens volens"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "ob man will oder nicht"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "volens nolens"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "wohl oder übel"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ekón ákon",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "εκών άκων"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "note": "with force",
      "roman": "me to zóri",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "με το ζόρι"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "note": "θέλοντας και μη (thélontas kai mi, literally “wanted or not”)",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "akár tetszik, akár nem"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "ha tetszik, ha nem"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "így is, úgy is"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "kénytelen-kelletlen"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "vole o nevole"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "silteun joteun",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "싫든 좋든"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "english": "nolens volens",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "volens nolens"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "nori nenori"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "chcąc nie chcąc"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "querendo ou não"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "queira ou não queira"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "obrigatoriamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vólej-nevólej",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "во́лей-нево́лей"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xóčešʹ ne xóčešʹ",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "хо́чешь не хо́чешь"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "a dheòin no a dh'aindeoin"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "iochd air n-achd"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "хтео не хтео"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "хтио не хтио"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "hteo ne hteo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "htio ne htio"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "guste o no guste"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "quiera o no quiera"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "quiérase o no"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "sea como sea"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "velis nolis"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "nolens volens"
    },
    {
      "code": "tt",
      "lang": "Tatar",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "irekle-ireksez"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected",
      "word": "ister istemez"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "nahodile"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "miten sattuu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "einfach so"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "scheinbar zufällig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "wahllos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "willkürlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "a casaccio"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "per saturam"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "na chybił trafił"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "de qualquer jeito"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "de qualquer maneira"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tjáp-ljáp",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "тя́п-ля́п"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "a tontas y a locas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "de cualquier manera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "seemingly at random — see also haphazardly",
      "word": "på måfå"
    }
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  "word": "willy-nilly"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "that happens whether willingly or unwillingly",
      "word": "joka tapauksessa tapahtuva"
    }
  ],
  "word": "willy-nilly"
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