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Definition: Lounge About |
Lounge AboutVerb1. Be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Lounge AboutSynonyms: arse about (v), arse around (v), bum about (v), bum around (v), frig around (v), fuck off (v), loaf (v), loll (v), loll around (v), lounge around (v), waste one's time (v). (additional references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I remembered the story of a conceited fellow, who, in fine clothes, was wont to lounge about the village once, giving advice to workmen |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "lounge about"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rri kot (fribble, idle, loaf, lounge). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разтакавам се (dilly dally, loiter, moon about), влача се (crawl, linger, lollop, plod, roll, shamble, shuffle, slouch, toil, trapes, trapse, wear away), мъкна се (plod, slouch, traipse, trapes, trapse). (various references) | |
Czech | poflakovat se (bum around, fool about, slop around). (various references) | |
Greek | σουλατσάρω (amble, saunter, stroll, walk about). (various references) | |
Hungarian | cselleng (dawdle, hang about, hang around, hover, straggle, to dawdle, to hang about, to hang around, to laze, to lop about, to sheer, to trapes). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bermalas-malas (lounge around), bergolek-golek (roll repeatedly). (various references) | |
Italian | bighellonare (dawdle, gallivant, loaf, loiter, lounge, Mike, moon about, saunter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oungelay aboutay.(various references) | |
Russian | околачиваться (prop up street corners). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bazati (laze, loiter, roam, trapse). (various references) | |
Spanish | tirarse a la bartola (be lazy, have a good mike, lounge around, take it easy), holgazanear (dawdle, idle, knock around, lallygag, laze, loaf, loiter, lounge around, putter), gandulear (hack around, have a good mike, idle, loaf, loiter, lounge, lounge around, skive, slack, stroll). (various references) | |
Swedish | ligga och dra sig (lounge, lounge around), ströva omkring (lounge, lounge around, roam, rove), flanera (loaf, lounge, lounge around, ramble, saunter, stroll, walk). (various references) | |
Thai | เ"ินเตร่ (lounge around). (various references) | |
Turkish | tembellik etmek (be lazy, drone, fiddle-faddle, fribble, have a laze, laze, laze around, lounge, slack, slack off, slacken, slug), tembel tembel dolaşmak. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-l-n-o-o-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: longboat, ungulate. | |
-4 letters: abluent, bologna, bootleg, butanol, globate, gunboat, languet, notable, outgone, tangelo, tunable, ungulae. | |
-5 letters: baguet, bangle, belong, beluga, blunge, boatel, bouton, bungle, butane, eluant, englut, etalon, gaboon, galoot, gelant, gelato, gentoo, gluten, goblet, lagoon, lagune, langue, lanugo, legato, lobate, lounge, lunate, nebula, nougat, oblate, oblong, outage, outbeg, outgun, tangle, tolane, tongue. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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