252: Lackadaisical Aug 17, 2015

Often two words that sound the same are related through etymology and or meaning. 'Lackadaisic', however, has nothing to do with the flowers, daisies. It comes from mid 18th century interjection in the sense ‘feebly sentimental: from the archaic interjection, "lackaday, lackadaisy", and is related to the also archaic interjection, 'alack', which is also similar to 'alas'.