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Devil-may-care
adj
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Carefree, reckless, irresponsible.
"This is the sort of witchery, not easily defined—but, by its votaries, pretty sensibly felt, in hunting the fox. The light-hearted, high-spirited stripling, when cigaring it careless to cover, with a kind of a knowing demi-devil-may-care twist of his beaver, receives in his transit a benison from every real friend of the chase he may chance to pass; and the airy, eager zeal of the youthful aspirant to rolls, tumbles, and the brush, will flush his memory with the frolic gayety of other days, and animate his mind with reflections most welcome to his heart."
Adjective
- 1 marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness wordnet
- 2 cheerfully irresponsible wordnet
Etymology
From attributive use of a shortened idiom of the original oath or expression: The devil may care, but I do not.
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