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LAYABOUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does layabout mean?
• LAYABOUT (noun)
The noun LAYABOUT has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: LAYABOUT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Person who does no work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bum; do-nothing; idler; layabout; loafer
Context example:
a lazy bum
Hypernyms ("layabout" is a kind of...):
nonworker (a person who does nothing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "layabout"):
clock watcher (a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time)
couch potato (an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television))
dallier; dilly-dallier; dillydallier; lounger; mope (someone who wastes time)
dawdler; drone; laggard; lagger; poke; trailer (someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind)
daydreamer; woolgatherer (someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming)
goldbrick; good-for-naught; good-for-nothing; goof-off; ne'er-do-well; no-account (an idle worthless person)
lazybones (a lazy person)
lie-abed; slugabed (a person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour)
loon (a worthless lazy fellow)
shirker; slacker (a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime))
slug; sluggard (an idle slothful person)
spiv (a person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes; goes about smartly dressed and having a good time)
sunbather (someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan)
trifler (one who behaves lightly or not seriously)
whittler (someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime))
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