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slap-dash, adv., a., and n.
Also slap dash, slapdash.
[f. slap adv. + dash adv.]
A. adv. With, or as with, a slap and a dash; in a hasty, sudden, or precipitate manner; esp. without much consideration, thought, ceremony, or care; hurriedly and carelessly.
1679Dryden Limberham iii. i, Down I put the notes slap⁓dash. 1693Congreve Old Bach. iv. iv, Now am I slap dash down in the mouth, and have not one word to say! 1729Byrom Rem. (1855) I. ii. 331 A way of printing letters or anything slap-dash. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. xxvii. 167 These denunciations come so slap-dash upon one, so unceremoniously,..that they overturn one! 1787‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsem. 42 He..rode slap-dash at Gimcrack, hoping to effect it by a broadside. 1838Macaulay in Trevelyan Life & Lett. (1883) II. 37, I cannot plunge, slap dash, into the middle of events and characters. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. II. 40 Record of the tour, written slapdash after my return.
B. adj.
1. Marked or characterized by haste, carelessness, or want of due preparation or consideration; done, performed, etc. in a dashing and haphazard manner or style.
c1792Milner in Sidney Rowland Hill (1834) 96 'Tis this slap-dash preaching..that does all the good. 1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. i. xi, The Yahoos, who invariably couple noise with smartness, had, in their slap-dash manner, arranged the table and placed the chairs for the guests. 1862Grattan Beaten Paths II. 70 The slapdash mass of censure, sarcasm, philosophy, and fiction contained in those remarkable pages. 1883F. M. Peard Contrad. xiii, I thought it rather a mad proceeding..to come off in this slap-dash fashion.
2. Of persons: Given to acting in this way.
1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xii, You right hearted but thoughtless slapdash vagabond. 1893Jessopp Stud. Recluse v. 181 To study history..is always..abhorrent to men who belong to the slapdash classes.
C. n.
†1. Slapping, cuffing, or beating. Obs.—1
1712S. Centlivre Perplexed Lovers 111, Hark ye, Monsieur, if you don't march off I shall play you such an English Courant, of slap-dash, presently, that shan't out of your Ears this Twelvemonth.
2. a. Roughcast.
1796W. H. Marshall W. Eng. I. 330 Slapdash, rough⁓cast, or liquid coating of buildings. 1853Exeter Dioc. Archit. Soc. IV. 166 Masons actually laying slapdash thickly on the exterior. 1886Cent. Mag. July 423 The gray slap-dash is filled with red granite pebbles.
b. north. dial. (See quot.)
1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Slab, or Slap-dash, a cheap mode of colouring rooms [1829 by dashing them with a brush], in imitation of paper.
3. a. Carelessness, roughness, or want of finish in style or workmanship; writing or work done in this style.
1826Examiner 73/1 We are to be flabbergasted for some time to come with slap-dash in support of the commercial wisdom of our ancestors. 1876W. White Holid. in Tyrol ix. 74 English folk are too fond of slap-dash in their writing. 1889Athenæum 2 Feb. 146/3 As a specimen of newspaper ‘slapdash’ we may point to the description of General Ignatieff.
b. With reference to painting: (cf. 2).
1884Athenæum 6 Dec. 739/2 The energetic slap-dash of the landscape and sky. 1886Ibid. 14 Aug. 215/3 Curing our water-colourists of the too prevalent tendency to mere slap⁓dash as the only way of expressing strength.
4. north. dial. (See quot.)
1828Carr Craven Gloss., Slapdash, a thoughtless, impetuous fellow.
Hence ˈslap-dash v. intr., to write, work, etc. in a slap-dash or offhand manner or style; trans. (see quot. 1828). Also slapˈdashery, (rare) slapdasherie; (in nonce-use) slap-ˈdashically adv.; slapˈdashness.
1820T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 99 ‘Come,’ said he,..with that, slap-dashing into the thickest of any question that started itself. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Slap-dash, to rough-cast. 2. To colour rooms by dashing them with a brush. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer lii, These latter friends of mine were, as our Transatlantic brethren say, pretty considerably, slap-dashically right. a1871De Morgan Newton, etc. (1885) 105 One of the most stinging warnings which a biographer had ever received against what I must call the slapdashery of assertion. 1872Dublin Rev. April 380 Many novelists have taken the Crimean war for their theme;..but they do not ‘slapdash’. 1908Kipling Lett. of Travel (1920) 144 Here and there the people are infected with the unworthy superstition of ‘hustle’, which means half-doing your appointed job and applauding your own slapdasherie for as long a time as would enable you to finish off two clean pieces of work. a1913F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) vii. 60 That really huge romance..which his friend..wrote with such reprehensible slapdashery. 1929Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 7 If he has the defects of his virtues—a certain slap-dashness visible enough in one or two of these stories—he has also the virtues of his defects. 1965Punch 27 Jan. 146/2 By halfway I was finding the slapdashness of the overall pattern rather self-indulgent and the separate delights were suffering from this. 1966New Statesman 14 Oct. 547/2 Sensibility and earthiness, obsession with detail and romantic slapdashery. 1982Times 28 July 11/3 What it loses in slapdashery it gains in exuberance. |