Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A lazy person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A lazy fellow; an idler.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq. A lazy person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a lazy person
Examples
“i immediately hopped on a bus headed to leon (making sure it was a direct bus to leon) and i am now recuperating in a hostel called 'lazybones', across the street from some friends i met while i was at tortuga booluda.”
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““Get to work, lazybones,” Signora Luciano hissed, and her three dirty children detached themselves from her skirt and rushed to the table.”
“For a self-described lazybones, the hoopla should have been too much.”
“As a regular zoo visitor, the sloth bears and the otters are about the closest you get to guaranteed animal hijinx at just about any time of day, as opposed to the majority of lazybones animals that only get excited in the morning or at feeding time, and are often sleeping in out-of-view places.”
“Or how about the tireless Heinrich Himmler (not Goering, who was a notorious lazybones)?”
Billy Kimball: A Long Night's Journey into Day in Minneapolis
“Would you rather face him, or lazybones Fred Thompson?”
“It is so convenient that even a lazybones like myself does it.”
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“It's not pestering to email and say "hey lazybones, ya got it? ya like it? ya think ya want it?"...or perhaps something less ...um...”
“Take a look at the lessons from the ant directed to a person called “lazybones” in Proverbs 6:6-11:”
“Proverbs 6:6-9 NRSV Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lazybones’.
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Public List: Body Metaphors
Phrases that use body parts metaphorically.
neck of the woods, bone of contention, mouth of a river, teeth of the storm, heart of the matter, foot of the bed, eye of the storm, dogleg hole, finger lakes, headwaters, foothills, knik arm and 212 more...
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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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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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I Can't Be Bothered Thinking Of A Lis...
Anyone who adds to this list is obviously showing too much initiative.
inefficiency, multislacking, cba syndrome, listless, demotivated, shirker, lazybones, half-hearted, goldbricker, scrimshanker, zuzzurellone, apath and 2 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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~~Olde-Fashioned Insults~~
ragamuffin, muttonchops, tatterdemalion, nincompoop, whippersnapper, bootlicker, backscratcher, loggerhead, weisenheimer, hornswoggler, thimblerigger, quacksalver and 111 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, L
lisle, lahar, loupe, labret, latten, luster, lagomorph, lamentation, limicole, lunge, lobtail, latifolious and 182 more...
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Some new Wordie words this week
Don't tell them they are not real--they might cry.
glover, breakfront, submaximal, criticality, lanoline, mouthy, botheration, metaphorically, metaphase, disavowal, arum, ostentatiously and 162 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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the favourites
These are words that I like; either because they sound amazing, mean pretty things, seem particularly suited to their assigned definition, or just have good mouthfeel. The best ones embody some com...
tatterdemalion, alpenglow, dapple, defenestrate, wacky, lissom, lithe, whisper, madcap, magniloquent, whimsy, sallow and 208 more...
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L is for La Ti Da
My L Words
la ti da, lady, lady killer, lagoon, lazybones, leapfrog, lederhosen, librarian, library, lickety-split, lion-hearted, lionhearted and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lazybones.
bilby "An instrument like a pair of tongs, for old or very fat people to take any thing from the ground without stooping."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'.
The team of rubbish collectors who go through public parks here have the modern version of these. Apr 13, 2009
oroboros If I remember correctly I first heard this word used by my maternal Grandmother. Nov 14, 2007