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lazy bones

lazy bones is the alternative form of lazybones.

Meaning of lazybones

Noun

lazybones (plural lazybones)

  1. (slang) A person who is lazy.
    • The foremost traveller stopped and called impatiently to his companion. "Come on, can't yer? What a lazybones yer are, Charlotte."1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 42, in Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC

Forms of lazy bones

plurallazy bones

Questions about lazy bones

What is lazy bones the alternative form of?
Lazy bones is the alternative form of lazybones.

Words near lazy bones in the dictionary

  1. lazy ass
  2. lazy asses
  3. lazy battery effect
  4. lazy bed
  5. lazy beds
  6. lazy bones
  7. lazy daisies
  8. lazy daisy
  9. lazy dog
  10. lazy dog bomb
  11. lazy dog bombs

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