Meanings
nounlayabout (plural layabouts)
plural layabouts
- informalslangA lazy person.
“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!”
2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian лентяй, безделник
- лентяй (lentjaj)lazy person
- безделник (bezdelnik)lazy person
Chinese Mandarin 懶漢 /懒汉, 懶鬼 /懒鬼
- 懶漢 /懒汉 (lǎnhàn)lazy person
- 懶鬼 /懒鬼 (lǎnguǐ)lazy person
Czech pecivál, flákač
- pecivállazy person
- flákačlazy person
Dutch luiaard
- luiaardlazy person
Finnish vetelys
- vetelyslazy person
French fainéant, glandeur
- fainéantlazy person
- glandeurlazy person
German Faulenzer, Tunichtgut
- Faulenzerlazy person
- Tunichtgutlazy person
- Nichtsnutzlazy person
Greek τεμπέλης
- τεμπέλης (tempélis)lazy person
Hungarian semmittevő, naplopó
- semmittevőlazy person
- naplopólazy person
- mihasznalazy person
- lajhárlazy person
- léhűtőlazy person
Italian sfaccendato, perdigiorno
- sfaccendatolazy person
- perdigiornolazy person
Japanese 怠け者
- 怠け者 (namakemono)lazy person
Māori kūrapa, kiko whakarawaka
- kūrapalazy person
- kiko whakarawakalazy person
- kaihaulazy person
Polish leń, leniuch
- leńlazy person
- leniuchlazy person
- leniwieclazy person
Portuguese vadio, vagabundo
- vadiolazy person
- vagabundolazy person
Romanian trântor, parazit
- trântorlazy person
- parazitlazy person
- leneșlazy person
Russian безде́льник, лентя́й
- безде́льник (bezdélʹnik)lazy person
- лентя́й (lentjáj)lazy person
- лежебо́ка (ležebóka)lazy person
Spanish holgazán
- holgazánlazy person
Swedish latmask, slöfock
- latmasklazy person
- slöfocklazy person
- lättinglazy person
- dagdrivarelazy person
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with layabout
aboutoutwithoutthroughoutroutedoubtscoutshoutdroughtbouttoutstoutspoutgoutcloutgroutsproutdevoutroutpoutrerouteloutumlautstrout
All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
layabout. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/layabout
MLA
“layabout.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/layabout. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “layabout,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/layabout.
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