assle

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verb

To sit, move, or scoot about on one's buttocks; loaf; wander idly around; waste time.

Scrabble 5

Meanings

verbassle (third-person singular simple present assles, present participle assling, simple past and past participle assled)

present singular third person assles · participle present assling · participle past assled · past assled · alternative arsle

  1. intransitiveTo sit, move, or scoot about on one's buttocks; loaf; wander idly around; waste time.

    You're always assling around.

    1969, Kentucky Folklore Society, Kentucky folklore record
    4 more examples

    "May all her public servants arsle around like buss-eyed catawumpuses ! That's what I say. Just like they'll do tomorrow, while we set here and laugh at 'em."

    1951, Constance Noyes Robertson, The Golden Circle

    "Them boys don't do no work, they just assle around town all day."

    1992, Vance Randolph, G. Legman, Blow the Candle Out

    He doesn't have anything to do so he's just assling around […]

    2009, Nicoline Van Der Sijs, Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops

    I assled over into a packrat nest without thinking, so the next scene on that damn camera recorder was me leaning over while the ladies in the party pulled cholla out of my tight Levis. I took that with great dignity and aplomb, I assure you.

    2010, Julian D. Hayden, Bill Broyles, Diane E. Boyer, Field man: life as a desert archaeologist

Origin

From ass + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch aarzelen (“to hesitate; waver”).

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APA

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Chicago

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