laze
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Back-formation from lazy.
Verb
[edit]laze (third-person singular simple present lazes, present participle lazing, simple past and past participle lazed)
- To be lazy, waste time.
- 1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon[1], London, act III:
- Behold by millions how thy men do fall
Before Alphonsus like to sillie sheepe.
And canst thou stand still lazing in this sort?
- 1635, George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne[2], London: John Grismond, Illustration 36, Book 1:
- And, lastly, such are they; that, having got
Wealth, Knowledge, and those other Gifts, which may
Advance the Publike-Good, yet, use them not;
But Feede, and Sleepe, and laze their time away.
- 1892, Israel Zangwill, chapter 13, in Children of the Ghetto, being Pictures of a Peculiar People[3], volume 1, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, page 191:
- But for this anachronism of keeping Saturday holy when you had Sunday also to laze on, Daniel felt a hundred higher careers would have been open to him.
- 1982, Don DeLillo, chapter 7, in The Names, New York: Vintage, published 1989, page 160:
- “I could easily fall into this,” I said. “Laze my way through life. Coffee here, wine there. You can channel significant things into the commonplace. Or you can avoid them completely.”
- To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.
- The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
- 1939, Graham Greene, chapter 4, in The Lawless Roads[4], Penguin, published 1982, page 93:
- A football game went on beside the line; half the teams just lazed on the grass […]
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]be lazy, waste time
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Noun
[edit]laze (countable and uncountable, plural lazes)
- (countable) An instance of lazing.
- I had a laze on the beach after lunch.
- (uncountable) Laziness.
- The laze is real.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]laze (uncountable)
- Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
- 2010, Patricia Erfurt-Cooper, Malcolm Cooper, Volcano and Geothermal Tourism: Sustainable Geo-Resources for Leisure and Recreation:
- Moreover, dense laze plumes are known to contain as much as 10 to 15ppm of HCl (USGS, 2008).
See also
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]laze (plural lazes)
Noun
[edit]laze m (uncountable)
- Laz (the language of the Laz people)
Kapin
[edit]Noun
[edit]laze
Further reading
[edit]- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
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