ˈlazy-bones colloq.
A lazy person.
| 1592 G. Harvey Pierce's Super. (1593) 185 Was..legier⁓demane a sloweworme, or Viuacitie a lasie-bones. 1600 Breton Pasquil's Madcap (Grosart) 12/2 Go tell the Labourers, that the lazie bones That will not worke, must seeke the beggar's gaines. 1809 Malkin Gil Blas ii. i. ¶6 Master lazy-bones did not like sitting up! 1863 R. F. Burton Abeokuta II. 168 Our lazy bones who had escorted the returner had spent four days on a two days march. |
b. (See quot.) Cf. lazy-tongs.
| 1785 Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Lazybones, an instrument like a pair of tongs, for old, or very fat people, to take anything from the ground without stooping. |