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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-805/
- Published: 2022-04-13T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-22T03:48:53.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12

The word for today is…

slapdash (adjective):

: haphazard, slipshod

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slapdash?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : An early recorded use of slapdash comes from 17th-century British poet and dramatist John Dryden, who used it as an adverb in his play The Kind Keeper. “Down I put the notes slap-dash,” he wrote. The Oxford English Dictionary defines this sense, in part, as “with, or as with, a slap and a dash,” perhaps suggesting the notion of an action (such as painting) performed with quick, imprecise movements. The adjective slapdash is familiar today describing something done in a hasty, careless, or haphazard manner.

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