layabout
A layabout is someone who avoids work and spends their time lounging around — a loafer, slacker, or idler.
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A layabout is someone who avoids work and spends their time lounging around — a loafer, slacker, or idler. The word carries mild contempt but is more wry than vicious. Common in British and Australian English; widely understood elsewhere. Typically describes a habitual pattern of laziness rather than a single episode of goofing off.
His mum called him a layabout every morning he slept past noon.
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(slang, informal) A lazy person.
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