[Ads-l] lacksadaisy

[Jonathan Lighter]

It's like "upsa-daisy" but less energetic.

JL

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 1:13 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> I’d go with “laxadaisy” myself.  A number of g-hits.
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> > On Aug 4, 2020, at 7:52 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
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> > Arizona woman with covid (CNN): "We were very lacksadaisy about it."
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> > JL
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> truth."
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