layabout

Meaning of layabout

noun
  1. a person who habitually does little or no work.
    ‘How'd you get mixed up with that layabout?’

Information about layabout

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of layabout is: layabouts.
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Hyphenation of layabout

layabout

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • layabout is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

layabout synonyms

Meaning idler:

idler, loafer, bum

Meaning a comfortable chair for relaxing on, especially an outdoor chair that adjusts or extends, allowing a person to recline:

lounger

Meaning a lazy, sluggish person:

sluggard

Meaning a tough-skinned terrestrial mollusc which typically lacks a shell and secretes a film of mucus for protection. It can be a serious plant pest:

slug

Meaning a person who makes slow progress and falls behind others:

laggard

Meaning a lazy person who stays in bed late:

slugabed

Meaning a person who malingers; a shirker:

malingerer

Meaning an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense:

parasite

Meaning a person who extorts profit from or sponges on others:

leech

Meaning a wasteful person or thing:

waster

Meaning a person who avoids work or effort:

slacker

Meaning a lazy person (often as a form of address):

lazybones

Meaning a person who is lazy and has low standards of cleanliness:

slob

Meaning a scrounger:

bludger

Meaning a wasteful or good-for-nothing person:

wastrel

layabout antonyms

Meaning a person who compulsively works excessively hard and long hours:

workaholic

Words that rhyme with layabout

bout, Marabout, about, changeabout, eastabout, gadabout, haulabout, hereabout, howsabout, knockabout, marabout, nearabout, puntabout, raceabout, rightabout, roundabout, rouseabout, roustabout, runabout, stirabout, straightabout, thenabout, thereabout, turnabout, walkabout, westabout, whafabout, whereabout, whirlabout, Tiebout, debout, turnbout, rubout

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