Found 1 hit - Term: lazy tongs, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lazy \la"zy\, a. compar. lazier; superl. laziest. oe.
lasie, laesic, of uncertain origin; cf. f. las tired, l.
lassus, akin to e. late; or cf. lg. losig, lesig.
1. disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle;
shirking work. --bacon.
1913 webster
2. inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.
"the night owl's lazy flight." --shak.
1913 webster
3. wicked; vicious. obs. or prov. eng. --b. jonson.
1913 webster
lazy tongs, a system of jointed bars capable of great
extension, originally made for picking up something at a
distance, now variously applied in machinery.
syn: idle; indolent; sluggish; slothful. see idle.
1913 webster
see also:
lazier laziest lazy tongs idle
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