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Definition of Bone-lazy
1. Adjective. Constitutionally lazy or idle.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bone-lazy
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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