layabout
111idler — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. lounger, slacker, drone, couch potato*; see loafer . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A self indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity: bum1, drone1, faineant, good for nothing, layabout, loafer …
112do-little — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Informal. A self indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity: bum1, drone1, faineant, good for nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, ne er do well, no good, slugabed, sluggard, wastrel. Informal …
113faineant — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I adjective Resistant to exertion and activity: idle, indolent, lazy, shiftless, slothful, sluggard, sluggish. Informal: do nothing. Idiom: bone lazy. See ACTION, INDUSTRIOUS. II noun A self indulgent person who spends time …
114lazybones — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Informal. A self indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity: bum1, drone1, faineant, good for nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, ne er do well, no good, slugabed, sluggard, wastrel. Informal …
115slugabed — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A self indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity: bum1, drone1, faineant, good for nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, ne er do well, no good, sluggard, wastrel. Informal: do little, do… …
116sluggard — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I noun A self indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity: bum1, drone1, faineant, good for nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, ne er do well, no good, slugabed, wastrel. Informal: do little, do… …
117bum — I. n 1. British the bottom, backside, buttocks. From the Middle English period to the end of the 18th century it was possible to use this word in English without offending respectable persons. By the 19th century it was considered rude, perhaps… …
118lair — (lare) n Australian a layabout, flashy young tough. This modern usage postdates an earlier sense of the word denoting an over dressed, showy or beautiful man. Since the 1940s the term has been identified specifically with delinquent or… …
119work-shy — also workshy ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) If you describe someone as work shy, you disapprove of them because you think they are lazy and do not want to work. [BRIT] He is a morose, work shy layabout. Syn: lazy …
120bum — I 1. noun, informal 1) the bums sleeping on the sidewalk See tramp 2. 1) 2) you lazy bum Syn: idler, loafer, slacker, good for nothing, ne er do well, layabout, lounger, shirker; …
