"loosey-goosey" meaning in English

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      "form": "loosier-goosier",
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      "form": "loosey-goosier",
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      "form": "most loosey-goosey",
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        "superlative"
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    },
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      "form": "loosiest-goosiest",
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        "superlative"
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    },
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      "form": "loosey-goosiest",
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        "superlative"
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        "sup3": "loosey-goosiest"
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      "expansion": "loosey-goosey (comparative more loosey-goosey or loosier-goosier or loosey-goosier, superlative most loosey-goosey or loosiest-goosiest or loosey-goosiest)",
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          "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.",
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        },
        {
          "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.”",
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        "(sports, originally baseball, Canada, US) relaxed"
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          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
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        "laid back; disorganized; scattered"
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        "(by extension, informal) laid back; disorganized; scattered"
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      "word": "loosey goosey"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "loosy-goosy"
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      "form": "more loosey-goosey",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
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      "form": "loosier-goosier",
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        "comparative"
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      "form": "loosey-goosier",
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      "form": "most loosey-goosey",
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      "form": "loosey-goosiest",
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          "text": "They said that he couldn't hit International League pitching because he was too loosey-goosey at the plate.",
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        },
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          "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.”",
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          "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": "quote"
        },
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          "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.",
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        }
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        "(by extension, informal) laid back; disorganized; scattered"
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    {
      "word": "loosey goosey"
    },
    {
      "word": "loosy-goosy"
    }
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  "word": "loosey-goosey"
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