Bone-idle
adj
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Definitions
Adjective
- 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 constitutionally lazy or idle wordnet
Example
More examples"For the last three weeks I have been going what you call bone-idle."
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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