laze
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Back-formation from lazy.
Verb
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- To be lazy, waste time.
- 1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon, London, Act III,[1]
- 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, London: John Grismond, Illustration 36, Book 1,[2]
- 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, Children of the Ghetto, being Pictures of a Peculiar People, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, Volume 1, Chapter 13, p. 191,[3]
- 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, The Names, New York: Vintage, 1989, Chapter 7, p. 160,[4]
- “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.”
- 1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon, London, Act III,[1]
- To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.
- The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
- 1939, Graham Greene, The Lawless Roads, Penguin, 1982, Chapter 4, p. 93,[5]
- A football game went on beside the line; half the teams just lazed on the grass […]
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
be lazy, waste time
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Noun
laze (countable and uncountable, plural lazes)
- (countable) An instance of lazing.
- I had a laze on the beach after lunch.
- (uncountable) Laziness. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Etymology 2
Noun
laze (uncountable)
- 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).
See also
Anagrams
Kapin
Noun
laze
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)