free-and-easy
Collocations
3ADJ.
jolly
VERB + FREE-AND-EASY
good-natured, sort
FREE-AND-EASY + NOUN
companions, hercules, youths
Definitions
adj
Alternative form of free and easy.
He was […] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the fire-dogs in the common room, […]
The other passengers were three Norwegians, three fossil Englishmen, two snobbish do., and some jolly, good-natured, free-and-easy youths.
noun
Alternative form of free and easy.
‘Then, perhaps,’ says I, taking the gloves out of my pocket, ‘you can tell me who cleaned this pair of gloves? It’s a rum story,’ I says. ‘I was dining over at Lambeth, the other day, at a free-and-easy—quite promiscuous—with a public company—when some gentleman, he left these gloves behind him![…]’
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Synonyms
adjective — natural and unstudied
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4He was […] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the fire-dogs in the common room, […]
WiktionaryThe other passengers were three Norwegians, three fossil Englishmen, two snobbish do., and some jolly, good-natured, free-and-easy youths.
WiktionaryHe must have fancied me (from the racket I was making) as a sort of free-and-easy Hercules (which is not quite the case), if not as the whole football squad rolled into one.
Wiktionary‘Then, perhaps,’ says I, taking the gloves out of my pocket, ‘you can tell me who cleaned this pair of gloves? It’s a rum story,’ I says. ‘I was dining over at Lambeth, the other day, at a free-and-ea
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