willy nilly

[wil-ee-nil-ee]

wil·ly-nil·ly

[wil-ee-nil-ee]
adverb
1.
in a disorganized or unplanned manner; sloppily.
2.
whether one wishes to or not; willingly or unwillingly: He'll have to do it willy-nilly.
adjective
3.
shilly-shallying; vacillating.
4.
disorganized, unplanned; sloppy: willy-nilly work.

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Willy nilly is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1600–10; from the phrase will ye, nill ye. See will1, nill
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To willy nilly
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature