LekhoriLekhoriTo laze, act in a lazy manner.
“Go to sea,” muttered Mr. Unity Peach. “Work for your living—don’t lazy away your time here!”
A lazy person.
The “lazies” of the party seized the opportunity of remaining behind—wandering, as they said, though all the cross paths were marked.
Sloth (animal).
Attested since 1540, origin uncertain. Probably from Low German and Middle Low German lasich (“slack, feeble, lazy”), from las, from Old Saxon lask, from Proto-Germanic *lasiwaz, *laskaz (“feeble, wea...
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To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail, or the heavy measures of the lazy of Brazilia, were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks.