lounger

English

Uhuru Design Cyclone Lounger

Etymology

From lounge +‎ -er.

Noun

lounger (plural loungers)

1. One who lounges; an idler.
   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236:

     These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistle.

2. A chair made for lounging.

   Coordinate terms: recliner, lazyboy, barcalounger

   • 2020, “I Don't Belong”, in A Hero's Death, performed by Fontaines D.C.:

     You shoulda heard me in the lounger / Telling people what they was

Derived terms

• barcalounger
• sunlounger, sun lounger

Translations

chair

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 躺椅 (zh) (tǎngyǐ)

• Dutch: ligstoel (nl) m
• German: Liegesessel m, Liege (de) f
• Irish: bruachaire m, cathaoir shuaimhnis f
• Italian: lettino da spiaggia m, lettino m
• Portuguese: espreguiçadeira f
• Spanish: tumbona (es) f

Anagrams

• regulon

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lounger m

1. indefinite plural of lounge