lazy

Etymology
Attested since 1540, origin uncertain. Probably from and,  from , from , , from.

Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. More at.

An alternate etymology traces lazy to Early Modern English, a derivative of (plural ) in the same way that  is derived from. See.

Adjective

 * 1) Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
 * 2) * 1610,, Pope Joane, in , editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, 5325177 ; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811,  30776079 , page 95:
 * If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
 * 1) Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
 * 2) Showing a lack of effort or care.
 * lazy writing
 * 1) Sluggish; slow-moving.
 * 2) Lax:
 * 3) Droopy.
 * 4)  Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
 * 5)  Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
 * 6)  Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
 * 7)  Wicked; vicious.
 * 1)  Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
 * 2)  Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
 * 3)  Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
 * 4)  Wicked; vicious.
 * 1)  Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
 * 2)  Wicked; vicious.
 * 1)  Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
 * 2)  Wicked; vicious.
 * 1)  Wicked; vicious.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:lazy
 * See also Thesaurus:lazy

Collocations

 * lazy person
 * lazy man
 * lazy woman
 * lazy bastard
 * lazy morning
 * lazy day
 * lazy time
 * lazy way

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: كَسْلَان
 * Egyptian Arabic: كسلان
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: এলেহুৱা, লেধা
 * Azerbaijani:, ərincək
 * Bashkir: ялҡау
 * Basque: nagi
 * Bavarian: gstinkert
 * Belarusian: ляні́вы
 * Bengali:, চিঙ্গা
 * Bikol Central:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Buryat: залхуу
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: tapolan
 * Cherokee: ᎦᎾᎵ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 懶
 * Eastern Min:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chukchi: нывъяӄэн
 * Cornish: diek, syger
 * Crimean Tatar: erinçek, tenbel
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Elfdalian: lat
 * Esperanto: pigra, mallaborema
 * Estonian:, logardlik
 * Ewe: kuvia
 * Faroese: latur, dovin
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Gagauz: dembel
 * Galician: arlote, bacaceiro,, larchán, , , macandón, mandrión, manguán, loirán, peilao
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: eqiattarpoq
 * Guaraní: kaigue
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: tapulan
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hunsrik: faul
 * Icelandic:
 * Ilocano: nasadut
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: leisciúil, anábhailleach, drogallach, sámh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ぐうたら
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: تەممەڵ
 * Ladino: haragan, peresozo, tembel
 * Latin: ignavus, piger, segnis
 * Latvian: laisks
 * Lithuanian: tingus
 * Luxembourgish: faul,
 * Macedonian: мрзлив
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: għażżien
 * Manx: drollaneagh
 * Maori: huhure, mākoko, māngere, pirorehe, toupiore, pakihore, ngehe, makuku, tūkeke, waimori
 * Marathi: आळशी
 * Meru: muthao
 * Mongolian:
 * Nanai: албакто
 * Norman: ouaîsif, pièrcheux
 * Northern Mansi:
 * Northern Sami: láiki
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian Bokmål: ,
 * Norwegian Nynorsk: lat, doven
 * Occitan: ociós, peresós
 * Old English: slāw
 * Pangasinan: mangiras
 * Persian: ,
 * Pitcairn-Norfolk: hillie
 * Plautdietsch: mooj, ful
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: qilla
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Romansch: pigher, marsch
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: leisg, dìomhain
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лењ, лен, лије̑н
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: lenivý
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: gniły, lěniwy
 * Upper Sorbian: lěni
 * Spanish:, , locho, ,
 * Swahili: legevu
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tabasaran: темпел
 * Tachawit:
 * Tagalog: tamad, batugan, patay-patay
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:, బద్ధకం
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: སྒྱིད་ལ་ངན་པོ
 * Tocharian B: ālase
 * Tongan: fakapikopiko
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýalta, temmel
 * Ukrainian: ліни́вий, леда́чий
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: ھۇرۇن, يالقاۋ
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:
 * West Flemish: leeg
 * Yiddish: פֿױל
 * Zazaki: tenbel, êmıs


 * Finnish:, unelias
 * French:
 * Khmer:
 * Swedish:, ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: затуманенное зре́ние, амблиопи
 * Swahili: legevu


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * 1)  To laze, act in a lazy manner.

Noun

 * 1) A lazy person.
 * 2) * 1898, Jason E. Hammond, “Work and Reward” in Suggestive Programs for Special Day Exercises, Lansing, Michigan: Department of Public Instruction for District Schools, p. ,
 * The dudes and noodles, cads and snobs, had better move away,
 * This busy land can’t spare the room for lazies, such as they,
 * To foreign climate let them go and there forever stay.
 * Ours is a land for busy workers.
 * 1)  Sloth (animal).
 * 1)  Sloth (animal).
 * 1)  Sloth (animal).