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layabout

/ˈleɪəˌbaʊt/

layabout noun: a lazy person.

Noun

layabout (plural layabouts)

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

layabout meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

layabout in Malayalam

loafer, idler, good-for-nothing
അലസൻ, മടിയൻ, കുഴിമടിയൻ, ആലസ്യൻ, താന്ദ്രികൻ, ശോഠൻ

layabout in Kannada

ಅಲೆಮಾರಿ, ಅಂಡಲೆಯುವವ, ಸೋಮಾರಿ

Forms of layabout

plurallayabouts

Origin of layabout

From lay + about.

Words that rhyme with layabout

42 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about layabout

What does layabout mean?
Layabout means a lazy person.
What is layabout in Malayalam?
Layabout in Malayalam is അലസൻ, മടിയൻ, കുഴിമടിയൻ. See Layabout meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is layabout?
Layabout is a noun.
How do you pronounce layabout?
Layabout is pronounced /ˈleɪəˌbaʊt/.
What is the plural of layabout?
The plural of layabout is layabouts.

Words near layabout in the dictionary

  1. lay-out
  2. lay-outs
  3. lay-up
  4. lay-ups
  5. laya
  6. layabout
  7. layabouts
  8. Layac
  9. layan
  10. layaned
  11. layaning

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: layabout (page history and authors); layabout (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); layabout (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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