From lay + about .
layabout (plural layabouts )
A lazy person.
2017 , David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad , London: HarperCollins Children’s Books , →ISBN :“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!”
lazy person
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: лентяй (bg) m ( lentjaj ) , безделник (bg) m ( bezdelnik )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 懶漢 / 懒汉 (zh) ( lǎnhàn ) , 懶鬼 / 懒鬼 (zh) ( lǎnguǐ )
Czech: pecivál (cs) , flákač (cs) m
Dutch: luiaard (nl) m
Finnish: vetelys (fi)
French: fainéant (fr) m , ( colloquial ) glandeur (fr) m
German: Faulenzer (de) m , Tunichtgut (de) m , Nichtsnutz (de) m
Greek: τεμπέλης (el) m ( tempélis )
Hungarian: semmittevő (hu) , naplopó (hu) , mihaszna (hu)
Italian: sfaccendato (it) m , perdigiorno (it) m
Japanese: 怠け者 (ja) ( namakemono )
Maori: kūrapa , kiko whakarawaka , kaihau
Portuguese: vadio (pt) m , vagabundo (pt) m
Romanian: trântor (ro) m , parazit (ro) m , leneș (ro)
Russian: безде́льник (ru) m ( bezdélʹnik ) , лентя́й (ru) m ( lentjáj ) , лежебо́ка (ru) m ( ležebóka )
Serbo-Croatian: neradnik (sh) m , zgubidan (sh) m
Spanish: holgazán (es) m
Swedish: latmask (sv) , slöfock (sv) , lätting (sv) , dagdrivare (sv) c