Contextualizebeta

bone-idle

adj

Etymology

Laziness that penetrates the very bones. Attested 1836. Similar terms (bone-lazy, bone-sore, bone-tired) pre-dated it in The Vocabulary Of East Anglia, 1830, Robert Forby. Compare to the bone.

Definitions

  1. Utterly lazy.

    • For the last three weeks I have been going what you call bone-idle.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bone-idle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA