From lay + about.
layabout (plural layabouts)
- A lazy person.
2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:“That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”
lazy person
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: лентяй (bg) m (lentjaj), безделник (bg) m (bezdelnik)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 懶漢／懒汉 (zh) (lǎnhàn), 懶鬼／懒鬼 (zh) (lǎnguǐ)
- Czech: pecivál (cs), flákač (cs) m
- Dutch: luiaard (nl) m
- Finnish: vetelys (fi)
- French: fainéant (fr) m, (colloquial) glandeur (fr) m
- German: Faulenzer (de) m, Tunichtgut (de) m, Nichtsnutz (de) m
- Greek: τεμπέλης (el) m (tempélis)
- Hungarian: semmittevő (hu), naplopó (hu), mihaszna (hu)
- Italian: sfaccendato (it) m, perdigiorno (it) m
- Japanese: 怠け者 (ja) (namakemono)
- Maori: kūrapa, kiko whakarawaka, kaihau
- Portuguese: vadio (pt) m, vagabundo (pt) m
- Romanian: trântor (ro) m, parazit (ro) m, leneș (ro)
- Russian: безде́льник (ru) m (bezdélʹnik), лентя́й (ru) m (lentjáj), лежебо́ка (ru) m (ležebóka)
- Serbo-Croatian: neradnik (sh) m, zgubidan (sh) m
- Spanish: holgazán (es) m
- Swedish: latmask (sv), slöfock (sv), lätting (sv), dagdrivare (sv) c
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