subs. (common).—1.  A loafer; also LAZY-BOOTS. Fr. une loche.

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  1593.  G. HARVEY, Pierce’s Supererogation [GROSART (1885), ii. 283]. Was legierdemane a sloweworme, or Viuacitie a LASIE-BONES.

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  1596.  NASHE, Have with You to Saffron-Walden [GROSART (1885), iii. 62]. Tell mee (I pray you) was euer … Viuacitie a LAZY BONES?

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  1626.  BRETON, Pasquil’s Madcappe [GROSART (1869), i. e, 12, 2. 31.].

        Goe tell the Laborers, that the LAZIE BONES
That will not worke, must seeke the beggars gaines.

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  1860.  GASKELL, Sylvia’s Lovers, ch. xxxv. Like a LAZY-BOOTS as she is.

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  1877.  Scribner’s Monthly, p. 526. Sharp at ten o’clock, snow-shoes are strapped on again, and Indian file homeward they go, some novices and LAZY-BONES walking home sanz shoes by the road.

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