layabout

See also: lay about

English

Etymology

From lay +‎ about.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪəˌbaʊt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aʊt

Noun

layabout (plural layabouts)

1. (slang, informal) A lazy person.
   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     “That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:idler

Translations

lazy person

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: лентяй (bg) m (lentjaj), безделник (bg) m (bezdelnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 懶漢 / 懒汉 (zh) (lǎnhàn), 懶鬼 / 懒鬼 (zh) (lǎnguǐ)

• Czech: pecivál (cs), flákač (cs) m
• Dutch: luiaard (nl) m
• Finnish: vetelys (fi)
• French: fainéant (fr) m, (colloquial) glandeur (fr) m
• German: Faulenzer (de) m, Tunichtgut (de) m, Nichtsnutz (de) m
• Greek: τεμπέλης (el) m (tempélis)
• Hungarian: semmittevő (hu), naplopó (hu), mihaszna (hu), lajhár (hu), léhűtő (hu)
• Italian: sfaccendato (it) m, perdigiorno (it) m
• Japanese: 怠け者 (ja) (namakemono)
• Māori: kūrapa, kiko whakarawaka, kaihau
• Polish: leń (pl) m pers, leniuch (pl) m pers, leniwiec (pl) m pers
• Portuguese: vadio (pt) m, vagabundo (pt) m
• Romanian: trântor (ro) m, parazit (ro) m, leneș (ro)
• Russian: безде́льник (ru) m (bezdélʹnik), лентя́й (ru) m (lentjáj), лежебо́ка (ru) m (ležebóka)
• Serbo-Croatian: neradnik (sh) m, zgubidan (sh) m
• Spanish: holgazán (es) m
• Swedish: latmask (sv), slöfock (sv), lätting (sv), dagdrivare (sv) c
• Unami: nulhàntës