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English noun: layabout

1. layabout (person) person who does no work


SamplesA lazy bum.


Synonymsbum, do-nothing, idler, loafer


Broader (hypernym)nonworker


Narrower (hyponym)clock watcher, couch potato, dallier, dawdler, daydreamer, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, drone, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, laggard, lagger, lazybones, lie-abed, loon, lounger, mope, ne'er-do-well, no-account, poke, shirker, slacker, slug, slugabed, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trailer, trifler, whittler, woolgatherer









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