laze about
English
Verb
laze about (third-person singular simple present lazes about, present participle lazing about, simple past and past participle lazed about)
- (intransitive, informal) To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I:
- No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done.
- 1929, Lloyd C. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession, New York: P.F. Collier, Chapter 15, p. 245,
- “I think it’s simply marvellous,” enthused Joyce, into the mirror, “that I’ve been able to adjust so quickly to office routine, don’t you? . . . After all these years of indulging myself, sleeping late, pottering, lazing about! […] ”
Synonyms
- laze around
- loaf
- loaf about
- loaf around