ppl. a. a. Of a horse: Having an easy gait or step. b. fig. That takes things easily; comfort-loving; inactive, indolent.
1674. Ch. & Court of Rome, 7. Let us suppose an easie-going, good-natur’d man.
1837. Thackeray, Ravenswing, iii. That easy-going cream-coloured ’oss.
1862. Burton, Bk.-Hunter, I. 3. Antiquarianism, which used to be an easy-going slipshod sort of pursuit.
1879. Beerbohm, Patagonia, iii. 36. He is a careless, easy-going vagabond, always cheerful.
Hence Easygoingness.
1879. Mrs. Houston, Wild West, 34. The temptation to cheat … owing to the easy goingness of his master.
1881. Nation (N.Y.), XXXII. 164/2. The good-natured easygoingness of the then leader of the House of Commons.
