home/glossary/go off half-cocked

go off half-cocked

verbid 10513·updated Jun 3, 2026
candidate

act prematurely or without reflection or too soon

MWE

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Cognitive

35%llm-generatedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Responsibility

Unclassifiedauthoritativetrigger_default_value

Automation

Unclassifiedauthoritativetrigger_default_value

Variants

synonym
go off at half-cock
pasttense
goed off half-cockedwent off half-cocked
presentparticiple
going off half-cocked
thirdpersonsingular
goes off half-cockedgos off half-cocked
pastparticiple
goed off half-cockedgone off half-cocked

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
§1
act prematurely or without reflection or too soon
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
act prematurely or without reflection or too soon
DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.