Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To be idle; loaf.
- intransitive verb To spend (time) loafing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To act, move, or rest idly or lazily; be lazy.
- To waste in sloth; spend in idleness: generally with away: as, to
laze away one's life: sometimes used reflexively. - noun Laziness; inaction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb colloq. To be lazy or idle.
- transitive verb colloq. To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Laziness . - noun An instance of lazing.
- verb To be
lazy ,waste time. - noun Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be idle; exist in a changeless situation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I was sort of derelict today, I decided I'd sleep in and kind of laze around.
President Remarks To Press Pool ITY National Archives 1996
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Italy, who was evidently something of a match-maker, had gotten fooled on a young man who was both "laze" and "steenge" in his youth but who made a very good husband.
Vignettes of San Francisco Almira Bailey
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She wanted only, as she expressed it to her hostess, to "laze" for a while.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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Not only a break, but a full-stop, do nothing, laze around, eat/sleep/read sort of day.
Dr. Susan Corso: Pajama Days: Holiness For The Rest Of The Year Dr. Susan Corso 2011
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Not only a break, but a full-stop, do nothing, laze around, eat/sleep/read sort of day.
Dr. Susan Corso: Pajama Days: Holiness For The Rest Of The Year Dr. Susan Corso 2011
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What I really wanted to do was to laze around in that bathing suit and watch animals.
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All I want is a day to be totally alone in my house (or, frankly, anywhere) to laze about and do whatever I please.
10 Things To Do Before You Become A Parent | Her Bad Mother 2009
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Use TVersity, works a treat. laze just_laze witnessx
XBMC Babylon Beta 1 Available For Download | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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However with time, Eid has become just another day we could just laze around at home and watch tv or facebook all day
Global Voices in English » South Asia: Celebrating Eid-Ul-Fitr 2009
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But then again, all he did was eat and laze about.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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When lava comes into contact with ocean water, it produces a gas plume known as laze - lava and haze.Laze forms through a series of chemical reactions as hot lava boils the colder sea water."It creates a steam of hydrochloric acid, water vapour and bits of ash," science journalist and volcanologist Dr Robin George Andrews told the BBC when the volcano first erupted. "Obviously, it's not good to breathe in."Laze plumes can cause eye, lung and skin irritation but should not be a problem if residents keep their distance, he said.
La Palma volcano: Toxic gas fears as lava reaches ocean BBC News 2021
alexz commented on the word laze
'Laze -- a mashup of "lava" and "haze" -- is a nasty product formed when hot lava hits the ocean, sending hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air'
- Spotted on CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/us/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-lava-flow/index.html
May 20, 2018
bilby commented on the word laze
To be fair there are some definitions above that pretty much describe the formation of this type of portmanteau.
May 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word laze
Wiktionary seems to have a 'Neutral Point of View' theme which neutralizes half of the meaning of a word and blandifies it to something a committee agrees on.
May 21, 2018