hasty

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈheɪsti/

adj

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.

Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
“Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.”
“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.”
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
“Sommer Hony, or hasty hony, made in thirty dales after the tenth of June.”
“[We] built a hasty fort of sawlogs and boulders back of our campsite, well stocked with powder and ball, water and meat, in case there was trouble.”
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
“... how to make the trees themselves more tall, more spread, and more hasty and sudden than they use to be.”
“I speke not of hasty pees, for they be sowen before Christmasse”
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
“... the Queene is not so hasty of your death.”
“... how is it that ye be so hasty to […] departe hens?”
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
“a hasty decision, a hasty assertion”
“... to give too hasty belief to pretended miracles,[…]”
Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).
“This people hathe a swyfte hasty speche.”
“Thys wolfbayne of all poysones is the most hastye poison.”
Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.
“his hasty temperament”
“The natural disposition of Theodosius was hasty and choleric;[…]”
Heavy, violent.
“Hasty rain liberates flukes' eggs from sheep's droppings, and splashes them round about upon the circumjacent herbage; but healthy sheep, protected by their nose, are in little danger here of swallowing these eggs […]”
“... hasty rain. When we came home we found Cousin Gwinn Harris and wife at our home. In the evening there was still another rain. These rains are all alike (hard and hasty).[…]”

name

Etymology: Two main origins: * From a pet form of the Norman personal name Asketin, derived from Old Norse Ásketill, composed of the elements áss (“god”) and ketill (“sacrificial cauldron”). * From Middle English hasty (“quick, speedy”), a nickname for a brisk or impetuous person, or possibly for a messenger.

A surname.
An unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, United States.
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