My father was a good-for-nothing layabout who sat about on his posterior all day and ate potato chips.
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Layabout
//ˈleɪəˌbaʊt//
Synonyms for "layabout" (20 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (6)
Related words (10)
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Translations
39 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- безделник noun (lazy person)
- лентяй noun (lazy person)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 懶漢 /懒汉 noun (lazy person)
- 懶鬼 /懒鬼 noun (lazy person)
Czech
2 entries- flákač noun (lazy person)
- pecivál noun (lazy person)
Dutch
1 entries- luiaard noun (lazy person)
Finnish
1 entries- vetelys noun (lazy person)
French
2 entries- fainéant noun (lazy person)
- glandeur noun (lazy person)
German
3 entries- Faulenzer noun (lazy person)
- Nichtsnutz noun (lazy person)
- Tunichtgut noun (lazy person)
Greek
1 entries- τεμπέλης noun (lazy person)
Hungarian
3 entries- mihaszna noun (lazy person)
- naplopó noun (lazy person)
- semmittevő noun (lazy person)
Italian
2 entries- perdigiorno noun (lazy person)
- sfaccendato noun (lazy person)
Japanese
1 entries- 怠け者 noun (lazy person)
Māori
3 entries- kaihau noun (lazy person)
- kiko whakarawaka noun (lazy person)
- kūrapa noun (lazy person)
Polish
1 entries- leń noun (lazy person)
Portuguese
2 entries- vadio noun (lazy person)
- vagabundo noun (lazy person)
Romanian
3 entries- leneș noun (lazy person)
- parazit noun (lazy person)
- trântor noun (lazy person)
Russian
3 entries- безде́льник noun (lazy person)
- лежебо́ка noun (lazy person)
- лентя́й noun (lazy person)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- neradnik noun (lazy person)
- zgubidan noun (lazy person)
Spanish
1 entries- holgazán noun (lazy person)
Swedish
4 entries- dagdrivare noun (lazy person)
- latmask noun (lazy person)
- lätting noun (lazy person)
- slöfock noun (lazy person)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
“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!”
Source: wiktionary
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