lazy louse

noun

Etymology

From lazy + louse (“a contemptible person”).

  1. derived from *lewH-
  2. inherited from *lūs
  3. inherited from *lūs
  4. inherited from lūs
  5. inherited from lous
  6. compounded as lazy louse — “lazy + louse

Definitions

  1. One who is lazy

    One who is lazy; a lazy ass.

    • "Lift the body, Phil," I said, "and get going. Don't be a lazy louse." "All right, all right!" [author's italics] He got quickly to his feet and giving Paul a sour look, disappeared through the door of my screened back gallery.
    • Early, moving toward the woodpile, mutters, 'Jest wait till I grow up and see if you lazy louses can make me chop wood 'cause I'm the littlest.' Only when the welfare of the children was at stake did the ranch women become dictatorial.
    • Even being a lazy louse lying in bed without the hallucination of the reveille seems to constitute an august virtue and a permanent achievement of human civilization.

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