laze
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Back-formation from lazy.
Verb
laze (third-person singular simple present lazes, present participle lazing, simple past and past participle lazed)
- To be lazy, waste time.
- 1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon, London, act III:
- 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:
- 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, chapter 13, in Children of the Ghetto, being Pictures of a Peculiar People, volume 1, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, page 191:
- 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, chapter 7, in The Names, New York: Vintage, published 1989, page 160:
- “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.”
- To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.
- The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
- 1939, Graham Greene, chapter 4, in The Lawless Roads, Penguin, published 1982, page 93:
- 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.
- The laze is real.
Etymology 2
Noun
laze (uncountable)
See also
Anagrams
Pronunciation
Adjective
laze (plural lazes)
Noun
laze m (uncountable)
- Laz (the language of the Laz people)
Noun
laze
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
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