LAY ABOUT ONE

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Activity

Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.

Attack

Lay about one, run amuck.

Contention

Lay about one; break the peace.

Exertion

Work hard; rough it; put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm; fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel; (resolution); work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a galley slave, work like a coal heaver; labor day and night, work day and night; redouble one's efforts; do double duty; work double hours, work double tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends; stick to; (persevere) a; work one's way, fight one's way; lay about one, hammer at.

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Expression using "LAY ABOUT ONE": To lay about one. Additional references.

Finnish

hosua (strike). (various references)

German

dreinschlagen. (various references)

Pig Latin

aylay aboutay oneay

Thai

ชนหรือกระแทกทุกสิ่งที่อยู่ใกล้. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: atonable, layabout, tabooley, tuneably.

-4 letters: abalone, abeyant, abluent, anolyte, baloney, bayonet, boloney, buoyant, butanol, notable, notably, tableau, tenably, tunable, tunably.

-5 letters: ablate, ablaut, atonal, auntly, bateau, beauty, betony, blooey, boatel, botany, bounty, bouton, butane, eluant, etalon, lanate, layout, lobate, looney, lunate, neatly, nebula, nebuly, oblate, outbye, outlay, tolane, unable, unbelt, unbolt.