laze

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See also: laže, łażę, лазе, and лаже

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Etymology 1

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Back-formation from lazy.

Verb

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laze (third-person singular simple present lazes, present participle lazing, simple past and past participle lazed)

  1. To be lazy, waste time.
    • 1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon[1], London, act III:
      Behold by millions how thy men do fall
      Before Alphonsus like to sillie sheepe.
      And canst thou stand still lazing in this sort?
    • 1635, George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne[2], London: John Grismond, Illustration 36, Book 1:
      And, lastly, such are they; that, having got
      Wealth, Knowledge, and those other Gifts, which may
      Advance the Publike-Good, yet, use them not;
      But Feede, and Sleepe, and laze their time away.
    • 1892, Israel Zangwill, chapter 13, in Children of the Ghetto, being Pictures of a Peculiar People[3], volume 1, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, page 191:
      But for this anachronism of keeping Saturday holy when you had Sunday also to laze on, Daniel felt a hundred higher careers would have been open to him.
    • 1982, Don DeLillo, chapter 7, in The Names, New York: Vintage, published 1989, page 160:
      “I could easily fall into this,” I said. “Laze my way through life. Coffee here, wine there. You can channel significant things into the commonplace. Or you can avoid them completely.”
  2. To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.
    The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
    • 1939, Graham Greene, chapter 4, in The Lawless Roads[4], Penguin, published 1982, page 93:
      A football game went on beside the line; half the teams just lazed on the grass []
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Noun

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laze (countable and uncountable, plural lazes)

  1. (countable) An instance of lazing.
    I had a laze on the beach after lunch.
  2. (uncountable) Laziness.
    The laze is real.

Etymology 2

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Blend of lava +‎ haze

Noun

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laze (uncountable)

  1. Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
    • 2010, Patricia Erfurt-Cooper, Malcolm Cooper, Volcano and Geothermal Tourism: Sustainable Geo-Resources for Leisure and Recreation:
      Moreover, dense laze plumes are known to contain as much as 10 to 15ppm of HCl (USGS, 2008).

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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laze (plural lazes)

  1. (relational) Laz

Noun

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laze m (uncountable)

  1. Laz (the language of the Laz people)

Kapin

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Noun

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laze

  1. nit

Further reading

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  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)