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layabout

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A lazy or idle person; a loafer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A person who does no work.

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  • noun A lazy person.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun person who does no work

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. bum
  2. do-nothing
  3. idler
  4. loafer

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. nonworker

hyponyms (33)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. clock watcher
  2. couch potato
  3. dallier
  4. dawdler
  5. daydreamer
  6. dilly-dallier
  7. dillydallier
  8. drone
  9. goldbrick
  10. good-for-naught
  11. good-for-nothing
  12. goof-off
  13. laggard
  14. lagger
  15. lazybones
  16. lie-abed
  17. loon
  18. lounger
  19. mope
  20. ne'er-do-well
  21. no-account
  22. poke
  23. shirker
  24. slacker
  25. slug
  26. slugabed
  27. sluggard
  28. spiv
  29. sunbather
  30. trailer
  31. trifler
  32. whittler
  33. woolgatherer

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. beast
  2. copper-haired
  3. deadbeat
  4. doodad
  5. duck-pond
  6. ferrety
  7. friend
  8. half blood
  9. harassed-looking
  10. hoquat
  11. lech
  12. libertini
  13. lion-tamer
  14. moocher
  15. multi-page
  16. pampa
  17. pipe-dream
  18. skank
  19. spilth
  20. square-bearded
  21. trainman

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  • Prolagus commented on the word layabout

    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)

    August 17, 2008