lazy
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
1540, origin uncertain, but probably of Low German origin, from Low German lasich "lazy" from Middle Low German las, lasich "slack, feeble" from Proto-Germanic *lasiwaz, *laskaz (“feeble, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“weak”). Akin to Dutch leuzig "lazy", Old Norse lasinn "limpy, tired, weak", Old English lesu, lysu "false, evil, base". More at lush.
Alternate etymology traces lazy to Early Modern English laysy, a derivative of lay (plural lays + -y) in the same way that tipsy is derived from tip. See lay.
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[edit] Adjective
lazy (comparative lazier, superlative laziest)
- Unwilling to do work or make an effort.
- Get out of bed, you lazy lout!
- Requiring little or no effort.
- Relaxed or leisurely.
- I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.
- (optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
- (cattle branding) Turned so that the letter is horizontal instead of vertical.
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- Nouns to which "lazy" is often applied: person, man, woman, bastard, morning, day, time, way.
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unwilling to work
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relaxed or leisurely
eye: squinting because of weak muscles