slapdash
adjective

- done too hurriedly and carelessly

(Oxford English Dictionaries)

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The first known use of "slapdash" in English came in 1679 from the British poet and dramatist John Dryden, who used it as an adverb in his play The Kind Keeper: "Down I put the notes slapdash."

The Oxford English Dictionary defines this sense partly as "with a slap and a dash," perhaps suggesting the notion of an action (such as painting) performed with quick, imprecise movements. Slap means to a quick hit with the flat part of the hand or other flat object and dash is to go somewhere quickly.

Over 100 years later, the word acquired the adjective sense with which we are more familiar today, describing something done in a hasty, careless, or haphazard manner.

A synonymous expression that appeared around the same period is "slipshod," an adjective that means careless. This stems from the word slip-shoe, which as the term implies is a shoe that could easily slip on or off. It is sometimes known as a slipper. Sometime later people began calling others who wore such shoes "slip-shod." This sense eventually took on a negative meaning.

The implication was that slip-shods wore shoes that were not appropriate for proper society because they were too loose or "down at the heel" from being slipped on and off so much. Down at the heel then evolved to mean being shabbily dressed.

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SYNONYMS

careless, clumsy, haphazard, hasty, heedless, improvident, irresponsible, lackadaisical, lax, messy, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, slipshod, sloppy

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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation

"We don't work together with companies that do SLAPDASH work."