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English
Adjective
free-and-easy (comparative more free-and-easy, superlative most free-and-easy)
- Alternative form of free and easy
1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 10.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, , →OCLC, page 289:He was […] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the fire-dogs in the common room, […]
1857, Bayard Taylor, chapter 20, in Northern Travel:The other passengers were three Norwegians, three fossil Englishmen, two snobbish do., and some jolly, good-natured, free-and-easy youths.
Noun
free-and-easy (plural free-and-easies)
- Alternative form of free and easy
1850 September 14, [Charles Dickens], “Three “Detective” Anecdotes”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal., volume I, number 25, London: Office, , →OCLC, section I (The Pair of Gloves), pages 577–578:‘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! […]’