Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A lazy or idle person; a loafer.
Wiktionary
- n. A lazy person.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A person who does no work.
WordNet 3.0
- n. person who does no work
Examples
“If I lose my work, I don't want to be called a layabout.”
“Prep school headmaster and wife murdered by 'layabout' son after row over hangover”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“A "layabout" son has been jailed indefinitely for public protection for the manslaughter of his retired teacher parents.”
“The next time you hear someone talking about some "layabout" who is fraudulently collecting workers compensation, share these”
“Richard VineThe third one-off special in this prequel series to Only Fools And Horses sees the Trotters still stuck in 1961, with Joan holding the family together as layabout husband and Grandad look on, while carrying on an affair with Rodney's dad Freddie, under the pretext of working as his charlady.”
“I will be thought the worse layabout in the world if I am not about my queenly business soon.”
Simon & Schuster: Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
“Her son is a layabout who keeps getting his wife pregnant, can't or won't bother to find a job and sits around watching TV waiting for his mother to show up with groceries and some spare cash.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011 Day Eleven: Ryan Gosling Wows With "Drive" And More!
“The image of the ex-ballplayer is of the fat, happy layabout who revels in telling tales of his glory days, and not-so-secretly wishes he was still back on the field.”
“Neither Bernstein or anyone else should ask too many questions about how he made the family's fortune, when he was putting food on the table for hungry children and finding jobs for layabout cousins.”
The Guardian: A horrible own goal for Sepp Blatter and Fifa | Nick Cohen
“Am I the only lazy-assed layabout out here in momosphere-land?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘layabout’.
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Gapeseeds and Muckworms - Compound De...
A list of compound derogatory names such as gapeseed, muckworm and lickspittle. Your one-word contributions to this list are welcome.
See sionnach's list derogatory terms I should use ...gapeseed, muckworm, lickspittle, makeweight, bootlicker, backscratcher, apple-polisher, backslapper, brownnoser, rakeshame, yesman, freeloader and 293 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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The Amulet of Samarkand
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand.
flunky, provenance, pare, rabbit in a covert, short shrift, bunker, trainers, tatty, lob, injunction, doss, bluster and 193 more...
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General Loveliness
hirsute, indubitably, gossamer, continuum, murderous, harpy, chimera, foofaraw, hoi polloi, mollycoddle, villein, nonplussed and 121 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2031 more...
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People
uxorial, frippet, chit, pink-collar, lipstick lesbian, demimonde, dulcinea, spaewife, cotquean, muliebrile, debutante, bellibone and 15 more...
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C. Montgomery Burns
slugabed, layabout, poppycock, goldbrickers, troglodyte, blue blazes, bawdy, shenanigans, orang-utan, blast, excellent, dame fortune and 78 more...
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Notepad
Things I want to remember for later.
recherche, tatterdemalion, lorgnette, hardihood, frippery, mountebank, gewgaw, slumbrous, spatterdashes, callithump, obfuscatory, supererogatory and 58 more...
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The Motorcycle Diaries
Che Guevara
vicissitude, pampas, precursor, solemnity, trajectory, Quixotic, roguish, solder, efficacy, rapport, acrid, circumscribe and 88 more...
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Irresponsibilities
Ways to esquivaliate.
gongoozler, mollycoddle, eyeservice, luftmensch, peregrination, malinger, groak, lèche-vitrines, faineant, slugabed, layabout, ne'er-do-well and 18 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for layabout.
Prolagus I'm crying out for my mum
If the malady don't go away we're in a little trouble
With the boss of the company
I'm a singer, a swinger
I'm a layabout but laying on
The dock in the lazy sun
Will never quite relegate me to a bum
(The blues are still blue, by Belle and Sebastian) Aug 17, 2008