idleby
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]idleby
- (obsolete) An idle person.
- 1868, John Trapp, A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (page 128)
- A vagrant, an idleby, or a busybody, that keeps not his station, abides not in the calling wherein he was called […]
- 2015, Ella Quinn, A Kiss for Lady Mary (page 98)
- "Good morning to you as well. I thought you'd still be asleep." Apparently she'd taken him for an idleby.
- 1868, John Trapp, A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (page 128)