free-and-easy

adj 1noun 1

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adj

1

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

1

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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