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Where Does the Term ‘Willy-Nilly’ Come From?
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Where Does the Term ‘Willy-Nilly’ Come From?

It’s a compressing of an earlier phrase that also yielded variations like ‘nilling, willing’ and ‘william-nilliam.’
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