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lazy louse en · NOUN

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Etymology

From lazy + louse (“a contemptible person”).

Meanings

1. (colloquial, slang, uncommon) One who is lazy; a lazy ass.
   • Early, moving toward the woodpile, mutters, 'Jest wait till I grow up and see if you lazy louses can make me chop wood 'cause I'm the littlest.' Only when the welfare of the children was at stake did the ranch women become dictatorial. 1941, Agnes Morley Cleaveland, No Life for a Lady, University of Nebraska Press, page 161:
   • Even being a lazy louse lying in bed without the hallucination of the reveille seems to constitute an august virtue and a permanent achievement of human civilization. 1971, Charlotte I. Lee, Oral Interpretation, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 170:
   • The lure of ditching a horrible boss or no longer having to work with a lazy louse can be very tempting—but be warned. You're about to get a crash course in the meaning of self-motivation. 2014, Hazel Dixon-Cooper, Bridgett Walther, Harness Astrology's Bad Boy: A Handbook for Conquering Pluto's Tumultuous Transit, Beyond Words Publishing, →ISBN, page 140:
   • "Lift the body, Phil," I said, "and get going. Don't be a lazy louse." "All right, all right!" [author's italics] He got quickly to his feet and giving Paul a sour look, disappeared through the door of my screened back gallery. 1935, Barry Benefield, Valiant is the Word for Carrie, Reynal & Hitchcock, page 14:

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idler