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lazing about

lazing about is the present participle and gerund of laze about.

Meaning of laze about

Verb

laze about (third-person singular simple present lazes about, present participle lazing about, simple past and past participle lazed about)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
    • 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

Questions about lazing about

What is lazing about the present participle and gerund of?
Lazing about is the present participle and gerund of laze about.

Words near lazing about in the dictionary

  1. lazily
  2. lazin'
  3. laziness
  4. lazinesses
  5. lazing
  6. lazing about
  7. lazing around
  8. Lazio
  9. Lazistan
  10. Lazlo
  11. Lazlow

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