lazies
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]lazies
- third-person singular simple present indicative of lazy
Noun
[edit]lazies
- plural of lazy
- (with the) Laziness; the mood or feeling of being lazy.
- 1654, Robert Harris, “The Way to True Blessedness in XXIV Sermons on the Beatitudes”, in The Works of Robert Harris[1], London: John Bartlet, page 99:
- Just so your idle vagrant, he would work for his living, but no body will hire him; he would work, but he wants clothes; clothes you give him, but then he wants tooles; you supply him with tooles, but the truth is, he hath an infirmity, he is lame in his limbs and sickly; nay, the truth is, he is lame in his will and sick of the lazies: were the will right, these excuses needed not.
- 1957, Vinnie Williams, The Fruit Tramp, London: Hutchinson, page 93:
- A picker beside him wiped his neck. “I sure wish I was in one of them trailers, laying back and letting the lazies git me.”
- 2016 April, Marissa Gainsburg, “Bringing Up the Rear”, in Women’s Health South Africa, page 50:
- It’s the biggest and most important muscle you have, but your glutes can get a case of the lazies, forgetting to “activate” or “turn on” sufficiently during everyday tasks or workouts […]