halfhazardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

By confusion with half.

形容詞

halfhazard (comparative more halfhazard, superlative most halfhazard)

1. (rare, nonstandard) Eggcorn of haphazard.
   • 2018, Keith Gilbert, The Door:

     […] halfhazard manner for decades. In two weeks, you have given me an ability to bring order and meaning to my plight. With these devices and upgrades, I may be able to find a way to defeat Adramelech and his ability to harm others […]

   • 2021, v, The Colours of Death: A gripping crime novel:

     […] a little damp from having her freshly washed hair plastered to it, which she had now tugged into a halfhazard knot at the top of her head.

   • 2001, Terrel Hale, Saints and Latin Decadence, page 330:

     […] halfhazard inoculations of pasted color. It was a canvased broad time into little agains. Conversation inked the future. The train rode on and on transferring light into nouns and figures.

使用する際の注意点

• In Google Books' corpus, halfhazard is about 1 / 25,000th as frequent as haphazard.