intransitive. To lie hid; to lie idly or at ease, to indulge laziness; to skulk.

intransitive. To behave as a lubber; to loaf about; to navigate a boat like a lubber. †Also to lubber it. Now chiefly in present participle and in…

to play truant; also formerly †to play the truant, -s (obsolete). Const. from, to.

intransitive. To lie, move, or act in a sleepy listless fashion; to enjoy oneself lazily. Also with adverbs.

intransitive. = laze, v. 1.

intransitive. To loiter, loaf; to slink off; to skulk around. Now regional (chiefly New England).

To pass time indolently or without definite occupation; to idle.

To loiter over one's work, to dawdle. Also in indirect passive, transitive, and quasi-transitive with away.

intransitive. To move, or hang about, in a lazy or slouching manner.

To slip off or away; to move quietly or slyly in some direction; to sneak or hang about; to loiter, idle.

intransitive. To move gently; to lounge lazily. Obsolete.

(intransitive) to idle, lounge.

intransitive. To loiter or hang about aimlessly. Obsolete.

intransitive. To idle away one's time; to loaf about.

intransitive. To act, hang about, or go in a clumsy, unwieldy, or lazy manner. dialect.

intransitive. To lounge in the manner of a person living in a warm climate. Obsolete.

intransitive. To idle, loiter. Obsolete.

intransitive. To idle or loaf about, to shirk work. (Cf. shack, v.2)

English regional (chiefly northern and midlands). intransitive. To attend a person in an obsequious or coaxing manner. Frequently with about. Obsolete…

intransitive. To slink, skulk, lounge, loaf, etc.

intransitive. To go about in an aimless idle manner.

intransitive. To spend time idly. Also quasi-transitive. To idle away (time).

intransitive. To shirk work; to idle away one's time; to loiter, to loaf. With off: to leave in order to avoid a task.

intransitive. Originally U.S. To sit in a place or various places nearby; to sit idly, to lounge about. Also figurative: to spend one's time…

intransitive. To move about awkwardly; to lounge.

intransitive. To pass one's time carelessly; to go idly or heedlessly (up and down, over, through a place). Also with on. Now rare.

U.S. (See quot. 1848.) Also intransitive.

intransitive. To loaf, to skulk, to sneak. Now esp.: to loiter aimlessly; to dawdle in a bored or listless manner; to slouch. Frequently with about…

U.S. To move aimlessly; to hang or loaf about.

intransitive. To pass one's time idly; to hang around doing nothing productive; to loaf. Later also: to travel around with no particular plan or…

(intransitive) to saunter, to laze.

Chiefly English regional, Australian, and New Zealand. intransitive. To behave in a lazy or slovenly way; to pass one's time aimlessly or idly; to…

U.S. slang. intransitive. To sponge; to loaf.

intransitive. To move in a slouching manner; to ‘hang about’ idly. Also to lop about.

intransitive. To loiter, idle; to shirk work, play truant.

(intransitive) to loaf.

intransitive. To loiter or linger around (also along); to ‘hang about’. U.S. colloquial.

intransitive. British colloquial. To fool about, to mess around; to pass time idly or aimlessly; to be lazy. Usually with about, around.

intransitive. To sit down wearily; to flop; to slouch; to loaf. Also with around.

To idle or lie about (colloquial); also (slang), to sponge, to ‘freeload’; to gatecrash or attend parties.

intransitive. Esp. of young people: to spend one's leisure time in a pleasurable way, e.g. by dancing to popular music; to lie about or wander about…