easy-going

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English

Adjective

easy-going (comparative more easy-going or easy-goinger, superlative most easy-going or easy-goingest)

  1. Alternative spelling of easygoing.
    • 1895, M E M Davis, “Prologue. The Town and the River.”, in Under the Man-Fig, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, page 6:
      In short, the old town—the lovablest, old-timiest, easy-goingest old town that ever was—sits there by the River, hugging its traditions, and hoarding its stories, of which it has enough to make a new Thousand and One Nights.
    • 1897, Mark Twain , “ Chapter X”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 126:
      He dropped gradually back into his old frivolous and easy-going ways and conditions of feeling and manner of speech, and no familiar of his could have detected anything in him that differentiated him from the weak and careless Tom of other days.
    • 1935 July 2, W. E. Farbstein, “Marginal Notes”, in Washington Herald, volume XIII, number 219, Washington, D.C.: American Newspapers, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 7:
      The Eskimo is a nobler, cheerfuller and easy-goinger person than we smug civilized citizens have always imagined. Rockwell Kent, the noted Eskimophile, claims they are a polite and happy race.
    • 1974 March, Carla Emery, “Mushrooms”, in Old Fashioned Recipe Book: An Encyclopedia of Country Living, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published March 1981 (6th printing), →ISBN, page 173, column 1:
      The easy-goingest mushroom grower I know is a remarkable Florida lady named Rachel Jackson. She lives on the Linger Longer Ranch at Barberville, Florida, and is always looking for sharecroppers who will come trailer and all and help garden her land in return for three-quarters of the produce.
    • 2021 March 10, Paul Bigland, “They can leave their problems at the gate”, in RAIL, number 926, page 61:
      Having chatted to the guys, I am impressed with the really positive easy-going atmosphere.

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