layabout

See also: lay about

English

Etymology

From lay +‎ about.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪəˌbaʊt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

layabout (plural layabouts)

1. (slang, informal) A lazy person.
   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     “That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:idler

Translations

lazy person

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: лентяй (bg) m (lentjaj), безделник (bg) m (bezdelnik) Chinese: Mandarin: 懶漢 / 懒汉 (zh) (lǎnhàn), 懶鬼 / 懒鬼 (zh) (lǎnguǐ) Czech: pecivál (cs), flákač (cs) m Dutch: luiaard (nl) m Finnish: vetelys (fi) French: fainéant (fr) m, (colloquial) glandeur (fr) m German: Faulenzer (de) m, Tunichtgut (de) m, Nichtsnutz (de) m Greek: τεμπέλης (el) m (tempélis) Hungarian: semmittevő (hu), naplopó (hu), mihaszna (hu) Italian: sfaccendato (it) m, perdigiorno (it) m Japanese: 怠け者 (ja) (namakemono) Maori: kūrapa, kiko whakarawaka, kaihau Polish: leń (pl) m Portuguese: vadio (pt) m, vagabundo (pt) m Romanian: trântor (ro) m, parazit (ro) m, leneș (ro) Russian: безде́льник (ru) m (bezdélʹnik), лентя́й (ru) m (lentjáj), лежебо́ка (ru) m (ležebóka) Serbo-Croatian: neradnik (sh) m, zgubidan (sh) m Spanish: holgazán (es) m Swedish: latmask (sv), slöfock (sv), lätting (sv), dagdrivare (sv) c