laze about en · VERB
Meanings
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(informal, intransitive) To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
“I think it’s simply marvellous,” enthused Joyce, into the mirror, “that I’ve been able to adjust so quickly to office routine, don’t you? . . . After all these years of indulging myself, sleeping late, pottering, lazing about! […]”
1929, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 15, in Magnificent Obsession, New York: P.F. Collier, page 245:No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lazed about | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| lazed about | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| lazing about | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| lazes about | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Synonyms
laze around · loaf · loaf about · loaf around
Translations (3)
pl obijać się (Translations) · es racanear (Translations) · es ociosear (Translations)