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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Lazy; slothful.
  2. n. An idle, lazy fellow; a lubber.
  3. To be idle, indolent, or unemployed; lie or loll about lazily.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. lazy or slothful
  2. n. a lazy or slothful person
  3. v. obsolete To be idle or unemployed.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Lazy; slothful.
  2. n. obsolete A lazy fellow; a lubber.
  3. v. obsolete To be idle or unemployed.

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English *lusk, from Old Norse lǫskr ("weak, idle"), from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz, *latskwaz (“sluggish, dull, lazy”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēid- (“to let, subside”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lasch ("flabby, loose"), Middle Low German lasch, las ("tired, dull"). See lash. (Wiktionary)

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