LOOSE (not rigidly fastened)
ADJECTIVES
1746 ► WEE-WAW askew; crooked; more on one side than the other; rickety, shaky, loose, unsteady, wobbling → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1865 ► RICKLEY → RICKLY loose, unstable, rickety, dilapidated → Sc.
1867 ► RAFFY of loose texture
1884 ► ALOOSE loose → Amer. dial.
1892 ► FLOBBER loose, flabby → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► ADDLE tumbledown, loose, rickety, shaky → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► FLAPPY loose; flapping
1905 ► WAGGLE shaky, loose → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1916 ► ADRIFT loose, unfastened → Amer. dial
1950 ► DASHIKI loose → African-American sl.
NOUNS
1486 ► FAG something that hangs loose; a flap → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1677 ► LAPPET a part of anything that hangs loose
1840 ► IRISH PENDANT a loose or frayed end; something that hangs loose or flaps untidily; ragged edges → Amer. dial.
1868 ► FLOBBER anything loose and flabby; e.g. the flesh under a cow’s neck → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1942 ► IRISH PENNANT a loose or frayed end; something that hangs loose or flaps untidily; ragged edges → Amer. dial.
VERBS
1820 ► WANGLE of a thing: to move loosely or shakily on its base or in its place of attachment; of a person; to go unsteadily → Eng. dial.
1877 ► HANG BY THE EYELIDS to be loosely attached; to be loosened; to be ready to fall, to have a very slight hold
1905 ► UNLOASE to loose → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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