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noun
- obsoleteAn idle person.
"Good morning to you as well. I thought you'd still be asleep." Apparently she'd taken him for an idleby.
2015, Ella Quinn, A Kiss for Lady Mary, page 981 more example
A vagrant, an idleby, or a busybody, that keeps not his station, abides not in the calling wherein he was called […]
1868, John Trapp, A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, page 128
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APA
idleby. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/idleby
MLA
“idleby.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/idleby. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “idleby,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/idleby.
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