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Bone-idle

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Utterly lazy. British, Commonwealth, Ireland, idiomatic, not-comparable

    "For the last three weeks I have been going what you call bone-idle."

Adjective
  1. 1
    constitutionally lazy or idle wordnet

Etymology

Laziness that penetrates the very bones. Attested 1836. Similar terms (bone-lazy, bone-sore, bone-tired) pre-dated it in The Vocabulary Of East Anglia, 1830, Robert Forby. Compare to the bone.

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