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
Then little Maggie sings to him, And plays upon the harp; While rapid Robert, keen and slim, Cries, "Lazybones, look sharp!"
From The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 by Various
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