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layabout

noun
/ˈleɪəˌbaʊt/

Etymology

From lay + about.

  1. inherited from about
  2. inherited from abūtan
  3. inherited from aboute
  4. compounded as layabout — “lay + about”

Definitions

  1. A lazy person.

    • “That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for layabout. 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