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Definition of Layabout
1. Noun. Person who does no work. "A lazy bum"
Generic synonyms: Nonworker
Specialized synonyms: Clock Watcher, Couch Potato, Dallier, Dilly-dallier, Dillydallier, Lounger, Mope, Dawdler, Drone, Laggard, Lagger, Poke, Trailer, Daydreamer, Woolgatherer, Goldbrick, Good-for-naught, Good-for-nothing, Goof-off, Ne'er-do-well, No-account, Lazybones, Lie-abed, Slugabed, Loon, Shirker, Slacker, Slug, Sluggard, Spiv, Sunbather, Trifler, Whittler
Derivative terms: Bum, Do-nothing, Idle, Loaf
Definition of Layabout
1. Noun. A lazy person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Layabout
1. a lazy person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Layabout
Literary usage of Layabout
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"... of heathenism against Christianity, and used the strife of religions to forward
his political designs. The nucleus of his power layabout the Trent; ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1825)
"... was the forfeiture of a rebel, whose estate layabout sixteen miles from Tyana,
near the great road between Constantinople and Antioch. ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"... North-Western expeditions layabout the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn.
The fifteenth century was the age in which, as we have seen, ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"Flowers in profusion layabout the form of the dead statesman. Two red banners—one
with a formal sacred painting, in the Byzantine style, of the Annunciation ..."
5. Annual Register (1800)
"... in hopes of being able to make the ifland of Jamaica again, which, from our
reckoning, we judged layabout ten leagues to the ..."
6. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State Library (1890)
"His castle layabout three miles east of Buffalo, near which were about
twenty-eight (food cabins, and the inhabitants appeared in general to be decent and ..."
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