lazybones
US/ˈleɪziˌboʊnz/
lazybones noun: a person who is lazy.
Noun
lazybones (plural lazybones)
- 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
- His father thought that there was no doubt some more suitable work to be found for him, for he who should watch hares ought to be light and smart, and no lazybones, and when the hares began to run and fly about, there would be quite another dance than hanging about the house all day doing nothing.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 168
lazybones meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Tagalog
lazybones in Tamil
- person who is lazy
- சோம்பேறி cōmpēṟi, சோம்பன் cōmpaṉ
lazybones in Urdu
- سست آدمی
lazybones in Malayalam
- layabout, idler, loafer
- മടിയൻ, കുഴിമടിയൻ, തിരുമടിയൻ, ആനമടിയൻ, ജോലി ചെയ്യാതെ കറങ്ങിനടക്കുന്നവൻ, തുന്ദപരിമാർജ്ജൻ
lazybones in Tagalog
- person who is lazy
- bato ang katawan
More languagesFewer languages
- lazybones in Arabic
- كَسُول kasūl, مِكْسَال miksāl, ضُجَعَة ḍujaʕa, ضُجْعِيّ ḍujʕiyy
- lazybones in Vietnamese
- kẻ lười biếng, kẻ biếng nhác
Examples of lazybones in a sentence
- How long will you lie there, O lazybones?1989, The Bible (NRSV), Proverbs 6:9:
- Isn't it time you got up, you lazybones?2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 16, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 145:
Forms of lazybones
| plural | lazybones |
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Origin of lazybones
From lazy + bones.
Questions about lazybones
- What does lazybones mean?
- Lazybones means a person who is lazy.
- What is lazybones in Tamil?
- Lazybones in Tamil is சோம்பேறி (cōmpēṟi), சோம்பன் (cōmpaṉ). See Lazybones meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use lazybones in a sentence?
- How long will you lie there, O lazybones?
- What part of speech is lazybones?
- Lazybones is a noun.
- How do you pronounce lazybones?
- Lazybones is pronounced /ˈleɪziˌboʊnz/ (US).
- What is the plural of lazybones?
- The plural of lazybones is lazybones.
Words near lazybones in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lazybones (page history and authors); lazybones (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lazybones (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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