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DEVIL MAY CARE

Definition: DEVIL MAY CARE

DEVIL MAY CARE

1. Reckless, defiant of authority; -- used adjectively. --Longfellow.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Frequency of Internet Expressions: DEVIL MAY CARE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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devil may care

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DEVIL MAY CARE

Language Translations for "DEVIL MAY CARE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, casual, cavalier, downbeat, easy, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, lax, light hearted, lightsome, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy, slipshod, thoughtless, traipse, trapes, unclean, unconcerned, unkempt, unladylike, unmindful, untidy), i paarsyeshëm (arbitrary, daft, desperate, gratuitous, headstrong, irrational, preposterous, unconscionable, unreasonable, wanton), i krisur (balmy, bonkers, cracked, crackers, cuckoo, Daffy, dare devil, daring, desperate, flaky, hard on, loon, loony, madcap, nut, nuts, pixilated, potty, screwball, wacky). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

безразсъден (daredevil, desperate, injudicious, irrational, rash, reasonless, reckless, temerarious, unreasonable, unreasoning), безгрижен (airy, carefree, careless, easygoing, happy go lucky, light, light hearted, lightsome, nonchalant, rollicking, slaphappy, unbending). (various references)

   

French

  

insouciant (devilry). (various references)

   

German

  

burschikosen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απερίσκεπτοσ (careless, inconsiderate, rash, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unreflecting). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nemtörõdöm (careless, happy go lucky, negligent, nonchalant, remiss), bánja az ördög. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

evilday aymay arecay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, lackadaisical, listless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slow, stolid, thoughtless, unmoved), nebunatic (frisky, frolicsome, hoity toity, larky, wanton). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бесшабашный, беззаботный (carefree, nonchalant). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nemaran (careless, casual, debonair, delinquent, easygoing, feckless, floppy, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slack, slipshod, sloppy), lakomislen (featherbrain, featherbrained, flippant, frivolous, improvident, inconsiderate, light minded, light-headed, thoughtless). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

despreocupado (breezy, carefree, disregarded, happy go lucky, nonchalant, slapdash, slovenly, unconcerned), temerario (reckless), negligente (careless), arriesgado (hazardous, risky, adventurous, chancy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sorglös (carefree), oförvägen (daring). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

umursamaz (conscience-proof, disregardful, harum scarum, insensible, lax, light, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slapdash, thickskinned, unconcerned, unheedful), pervasız (bluff, careless, daft, daring, fearless, fond, gutsy, harum scarum, reckless), kayıtsız (apathetic, apathetical, carefree, careless, feckless, footloose, forgetful, freewheeling, impassive, incurious, indifferent, listless, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, rough and ready, unconditional, uninscribed, unmindful, unrecorded, unregistered), aldırışsız (careless, gaily, heedless, indifferent, insensate, reckless, regardless, unconcerned, unmindful, unobliging). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

відчайдушний (adventurous, foolhardy, harum scarum, hot-brained, last ditch, slashing, sportsmanlike), безтурботний (carefree, careless, cavalier, easygoing, effortless, gay, happy go lucky, heedless, inadvertent, jaunty, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, placid, rollicking, serene, unconcerned, watchless). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DEVIL MAY CARE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-i-l-m-r-v-y"

-2 letters: acrylamide, cavaliered, decemviral.

-3 letters: declaimer, mediaeval, reavailed, reclaimed.

-4 letters: camailed, cavalier, clavered, creamily, decemvir, delivery, dreamily, maravedi, marveled, medicare, medieval, remailed, remedial, variedly.

-5 letters: academe, academy, acridly, admiral, alarmed, alcaide, alcayde, already, amerced, availed, avarice, cadaver, caldera, calvary, camelia, camerae, cameral, caramel, caravel, cardiae, cavalry, caviare, caviled, caviler, ceramal, claimed, claimer, clavier, clayier, cleared.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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