lounger en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English lounge Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English lounger From lounge + -er.
Meanings
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One who lounges; an idler.
These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistle.
1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236:Three or four men noticed my condition; and, evidently setting it down to the results of over many pegs, charitably endeavoured to draw me apart from the rest of the loungers.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 15:
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A long chair with a reclinable support, made for lounging.
You shoulda heard me in the lounger / Telling people what they was
2020, “I Don't Belong”, in A Hero's Death, performed by Fontaines D.C.:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| loungers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
lazyboy · camp chair · barcalounger · chaise longue · recliner · deck chair
Deriveds
sunlounger · sun lounger · sun-lounger · barcalounger · banana lounger
Translations (13)
it lettino (long chair for lounging) · es perezoso (long chair for lounging) · cmn 躺椅 (long chair for lounging) · nl ligstoel (long chair for lounging) · ga cathaoir shuaimhnis (long chair for lounging) · it lettino da spiaggia (long chair for lounging) · es reposera (long chair for lounging) · de Liege (long chair for lounging) · de Liegesessel (long chair for lounging) · es tumbona (long chair for lounging) · ga bruachaire (long chair for lounging) · pt espreguiçadeira (long chair for lounging) · es perezosa (long chair for lounging)