colloq. A lazy person.
1592. G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super. (1593), 185. Was … legierdemane a sloweworme, or Viuacitie a lasie-bones.
1600. Breton, Pasquil’s Madcap (Grosart), 12/2. Go tell the Labourers, that the lazie bones That will not worke, must seeke the beggar’s gaines.
1809. Malkin, Gil Blas, II. i. ¶ 6. Master lazy-bones did not like sitting up!
1825. Northern Sentinel, 29. April, 1/2. Do you think I shall give you any thing to eat, lazy-bones?
1863. R. F. Burton, Abeokuta, II. 168. Our lazy bones who had escorted the returner had spent four days on a two days march.
b. (See quot.) Cf. LAZY-TONGS.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Lazybones, an instrument like a pair of tongs, for old, or very fat people, to take anything from the ground without stooping.
