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Definition of Lounge about
1. Verb. Be lazy or idle. "Her son is just bumming around all day"
Generic synonyms: Idle, Laze, Slug, Stagnate
Derivative terms: Loafer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lounge About
Literary usage of Lounge about
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... to lounge about, lie idly about without sleeping ; Westerwald lomen, lunzen,
to lie in bed out of season ; Bav. lunzen, ..."
2. Music (1899)
"And so disguised they return to the stage and lounge about in everybody's way,
watching the erection of the set for the first act, and the distribution of ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"The older sense was prob, to ' doze,' to sleep, hence to brood over the fire, to
lounge about. It appears to be a mere derivative of lull, ..."
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