hasty

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste +‎ -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), ultimately of the same Germanic origin. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈheɪsti/ Rhymes: -eɪsti === Adjective === hasty (comparative hastier, superlative hastiest) Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time. Synonym: brash 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95: If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is. Made in haste. 1577, B. Googe, Herebach's Husb., IV, page 184 (quoted in the NED): Sommer Hony, or hasty hony, made in thirty dales after the tenth of June. Ripening or coming to maturity early. Eager or impatient to act or get something done. Characterized by undue quickness of action, and thus lacking careful thought or consideration; rash, precipitate. a hasty decision, a hasty assertion (archaic) Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time). Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger. his hasty temperament (of rain) Heavy, violent. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “HASTY”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC. " 2. Heavy, violent, gen. used of rain. Also used advb. Glo. What hasty rain (A.B.). Ken.1 It did come down hasty, an' no mistake. Sur. The rain cluttered down hasty (T.S.C.). Sus. The rain was not so hasty as it had been, N. & Q. (1882) 6th S. vi. 447; The rain come down terr'ble hasty surelye, N. & Q. (1883) 6th S. vii. 155." === Anagrams === sayth, yasht