lazybones
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lazybones
Example Sentences
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Lazybones following every 'boxer's fantasy: being paid to post here.
From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2010
"I woke up next to an empty Pot Noodle this morning" Lazybones tries a new approach to dating.
From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2010
Twenty years later, the baby's mother, married in the interim to a mean country banker, dies of a broken heart; and Lazybones marries the child The author endeavored to make the play homely and human.
From Time Magazine Archive
Small town prejudice branded Lazybones as a failure because he always went fishing instead of tending to work.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a fertile plain, surrounded by mountain-peaks of great height, threaded by silver streams, and so well watered that its vegetation was almost tropical, was the estate of Leo's father, Prince Morpheus Lazybones.
From Prince Lazybones and Other Stories By Mrs. W. J. Hays by Hays, Helen Ashe
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