Definition of Bone-lazy

1. Adjective. Constitutionally lazy or idle.

Exact synonyms: Bone-idle
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Idle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bone-lazy

bondwoman
bondwomen
bone-ash cup
bone-chilling
bone-covered
bone-crunching
bone-dry
bone-dry(a)
bone-eating snot flower worm
bone-fire
bone-fires
bone-forming cell
bone-headed dinosaur
bone-idle
bone-lazy (current term)
bone-marrow
bone-meal
bone-salt
bone-shaker
bone-shakers
bone-shaking
bone: gallium imaging
bone Gla protein
bone abscess
bone ache
bone age
bone architecture
bone ash
bone banks

Literary usage of Bone-lazy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Cobbett was therefore called a bone-grubber because he brought the remains of Tom Paine from America (Hotten). bone-lazy (common), excessively or hopelessly ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Also used for the human body. ' I'll baste your bone- curt' [Johnson]. Bone lazy, Bone sore, Bone tired. So lazy, sore, or tired, that the laziness ..."

3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"99 ; Unton Inventories, p. 30 ; Arch. xi. 96. bone-lazy. Excessively indolent. BONELESS. A kind of ghost. See Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1584, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"1033. See Strutt, ii. 99 ; Unton Inventories, p. 30 ; Arch. xi. 96. bone-lazy. Excessively indolent. BONELESS. A kind of' ghost. ..."

5. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"bone-lazy, BONE-SORE, BONE-TIRED, adj. so lazy, sore, or tired, that the laziness, the soreness, or the fatigue, seem to have penetrated the very bones. ..."

6. A Glossary of Words Used in East Anglia: Founded on that of Forby : with by Walter Rye, Robert Forby (1895)
"Bone lazy, Bone sore, Bone tired. So lazy, sore, or tired, that the laziness, the soreness, or the fatigue, seem to have penetrated the very bones. *Bones. ..."

7. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1840)
"Norf. " As dry as a bone" is commonly used in the same sense in the South. "\Fatigued and tired in an bone-lazy, adj. /extreme degree; as BONE-SORE, ..."

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