Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A long, awkward fellow; a dull, drowsy man.

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

  • noun obsolete A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow.
  • noun Plural form of lungi.

Etymologies

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Old French longis. See lounge.

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Examples

  • The white of the lungis and the cream of the mundus, was I trying to bring that into my setting unconsciously?

    Pal Payasa Anjali 2008

  • The white of the lungis and the cream of the mundus, was I trying to bring that into my setting unconsciously?

    Archive 2008-01-01 Anjali 2008

  • I went through towns that had a formal reality as names on a map, but were little more than rashes of rusted-corrugated-iron and bamboo stalls under canopies of jackfruit trees, teeming with men wearing skirt-like lungis and baseball caps and women in burkas that concealed all but their eyes and noses.

    Waterworld 2008

  • I went through towns that had a formal reality as names on a map, but were little more than rashes of rusted-corrugated-iron and bamboo stalls under canopies of jackfruit trees, teeming with men wearing skirt-like lungis and baseball caps and women in burkas that concealed all but their eyes and noses.

    Waterworld 2008

  • In other places, men gripped their lungis in waist-deep water.

    Waterworld 2008

  • Members of a mostly male class whose profession and livelihood centers on washing clothes, they created a rainbow of drying saris and lungis (garments similar to sarongs) that stood out against the summer's low, muddy river and its parched bank.

    Following the Line: Photographing laundry around the world Ross Arbes 2010

  • I went through towns that had a formal reality as names on a map, but were little more than rashes of rusted-corrugated-iron and bamboo stalls under canopies of jackfruit trees, teeming with men wearing skirt-like lungis and baseball caps and women in burkas that concealed all but their eyes and noses.

    Waterworld 2008

  • In other places, men gripped their lungis in waist-deep water.

    Waterworld 2008

  • Also the lungis, uniforms for our boatmen and rickshawalas, had not been sewn yet.

    Kristin Boekhoff: Ecopreneur: Never Let Them See You Sweat 2009

  • Children's warm clothes, new (not secondhand) lungis and dhotis for men. sturdy saris in wearable condition, rice and dal are welcome.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

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