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laze en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /leɪz/

Etymology

Back-formation from lazy.

Meanings

  1. (countable) An instance of lazing.
    • I had a laze on the beach after lunch.
  2. (uncountable) Laziness.
    • The laze is real.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
lazes Number=Plur lexicographic

laze en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /leɪz/

Etymology

Back-formation from lazy.

Meanings

  1. To be lazy, waste time.
    • “I could easily fall into this,” I said. “Laze my way through life. Coffee here, wine there. You can channel significant things into the commonplace. Or you can avoid them completely.” 1982, Don DeLillo, chapter 7, in The Names, New York: Vintage, published 1989, page 160:
    • And, lastly, such are they; that, having got Wealth, Knowledge, and those other Gifts, which may Advance the Publike-Good, yet, use them not; But Feede, and Sleepe, and laze their time away. 1635, George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, London: John Grismond, Illustration 36, Book 1:
    • But for this anachronism of keeping Saturday holy when you had Sunday also to laze on, Daniel felt a hundred higher careers would have been open to him. 1892, Israel Zangwill, chapter 13, in Children of the Ghetto, being Pictures of a Peculiar People, volume 1, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, page 191:
    • Behold by millions how thy men do fall Before Alphonsus like to sillie sheepe. And canst thou stand still lazing in this sort? 1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon, London, act III:
  2. To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.
    • The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
    • A football game went on beside the line; half the teams just lazed on the grass […] 1939, Graham Greene, chapter 4, in The Lawless Roads, Penguin, published 1982, page 93:
    • I'll just laze in the shade with a book.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
lazed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lazed Tense=Past lexicographic
lazes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
lazing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

lazy · lazer · laze about · laze around · lazen

Synonyms

take it easy · lounge · loaf · while away · idle

Translations (28)

ru бить баклу́ши (be lazy, waste time) · pl pleśnieć (be lazy, waste time) · pl zgnuśnieć (be lazy, waste time) · ru безде́льничать (be lazy, waste time) · hu henyél (be lazy, waste time) · ru лентя́йничать (be lazy, waste time) · ota تنبللنمك (be lazy, waste time) · pl spleśnieć (be lazy, waste time) · mi whakapahoho (be lazy, waste time) · es flojear (be lazy, waste time) · cmn 散逛 (be lazy, waste time) · hu lustálkodik (be lazy, waste time) · es estar a la bartola (be lazy, waste time) · pt vadiar (be lazy, waste time) · de faulenzen (be lazy, waste time) · fi möllötellä (be lazy, waste time) · pl gnuśnieć (be lazy, waste time) · sv lata sig (be lazy, waste time) · cs zahálet (be lazy, waste time) · bg безделнича (be lazy, waste time) · de Däumchen drehen (be lazy, waste time) · es zanganear (be lazy, waste time) · fi laiskotella (be lazy, waste time) · mi whakapateko (be lazy, waste time) · es haraganear (be lazy, waste time) · no late seg (be lazy, waste time) · bg мързелувам (be lazy, waste time) · es holgazanear (be lazy, waste time)

laze en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /leɪz/

Etymology

Blend of lava + haze.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
    • Moreover, dense laze plumes are known to contain as much as 10 to 15ppm of HCl (USGS, 2008). 2010, Patricia Erfurt-Cooper, Malcolm Cooper, Volcano and Geothermal Tourism: Sustainable Geo-Resources for Leisure and Recreation:

Relateds

haze and terms listed there · fog · smaze · vog · mist