What does "lazy" mean?
Lazy: Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. "The night owl's lazy flight." Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.Wicked; vicious. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] B. Jonson. Lazy tongs, a system of jointed bars capable of great extension, originally made for picking up something at a distance, now variously applied in machinery. See Idle.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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