pronounced lapse-uh-DAY-zic-uhl
I don't know the correct spelling.
2007-02-27 08:43:45 · 10 answers · asked by parthenophilast 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I think the word you are looking for is "lackadaisical"
lackadaisical
adjective
1. lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy]
2. idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"- P.G.Wodehouse
2007-02-27 08:48:04 · answer #1 · answered by baby_savvy 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you made it up. That's exactly as I heard it and copied it when I grew up in Birmingham in the 1950s. OK, maybe it isn't in the usual dictionaries, but I reckon it's a colloquialism for 'lackadaisical' - and 'lapse' could be considered its root.
2013-12-29 21:05:04 · answer #2 · answered by Geoff D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe you are corrupting the word "lackadaisical" which means without vigor or enthusiasm. Use your spell check and a dictionary.
2007-02-27 08:51:09 · answer #3 · answered by Bill W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Merriam-Webster on-line, that is not a word. I do know that lackadaisical is a word, though, meaning "lacking life, spirit or zext" according to Merriam-Webster on-line. That is probably the word you were thinking of.
2007-02-27 08:49:26 · answer #4 · answered by davbac1989 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have a lapse in judgement daily, enough times that it becomes a cycle, what you have is a lapsidaisical, pronounced "lapse a day cycle" I think Britney Spears is experiencing this now.
2007-02-27 08:53:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think you may have coined a new word. when you grow to heavy so that you have no more lap, and then a grandchild wants to sit on your lap, they are constantly sliding off in a very lapsidaisical way, while saying "whoopsiedaisy"
2007-02-27 08:55:32 · answer #6 · answered by Sweet n Sour 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
lapsidaisical is not a word. maybe you are thinking of laxidaisical. meaning someone who is lax or lazy and careless
2007-02-27 09:10:07 · answer #7 · answered by Sierra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. look it up at www.dictionary.com or an actual dictionary.
2007-02-27 08:59:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may mean "lackadaisical."
2007-02-27 08:48:19 · answer #9 · answered by Philip Kiriakis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look it up in a goddamn dictionary. thats one of the reasons we even have dictionaries.
2007-02-27 08:47:31 · answer #10 · answered by mazi 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋