Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Lazy-tongs
subs. (old).—See quot.
1
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. An instrument like a pair of tongs for old or very fat people, to take anything off the ground without stooping.
2
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
