fainéantn.adj.

/fɛneɪˈɒ̃/

Forms: Also 1600s fainiant, faitneant, faytneant.

Etymology: < French fainéant (16th cent. also fait-néant ) ‘do-nothing’, < fait , 3rd person singular present of faire to do + néant nothing; really an etymologizing perversion of Old French faignant sluggard (still current as a colloquialism), present participle of faindre to skulk: see faint n.

A. n.

One who does nothing; an idler. Often with allusion to the rois fainéants, ‘sluggard kings’, a designation of the later Merovingians.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person

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bed-presser1598

lazy lizard1600

lazy-back1611

fainéant1618

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slothful1648

lolpoop1661

tool1699

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lazy-boots1832

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poke1847

never-sweat1851

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bum1882

haggis bag1892

lollop1896

trouble-shirker1908

warb1933

fuck-off1948

poop-butt1967

1618 S. Ward Serm. Exod. xviii. 21–2, 65 Is there no mean between busibodies and tell-clockes, between fac-totum and fay't neant?

1619 Sir D. Carleton in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 93 The two last Emperors..were both faineants.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 13 There are yet to spare..Casherers and Fait-neants, 220,000.

1855 H. G. Liddell Hist. Rome v. xlvi The fainéans who had disappointed them could hardly appear in public.

B. adj.

That does nothing; indolent, idle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective]

sweerc725

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lazyish1892

slobbed1962

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. i. 367 The fainéant Merovingians.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 163 The faineant aristocrat and apathetic dullard.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	fainéant
释义	fainéantn.adj. /fɛneɪˈɒ̃/ Forms: Also 1600s fainiant, faitneant, faytneant. Etymology: < French fainéant (16th cent. also fait-néant ) ‘do-nothing’, < fait , 3rd person singular present of faire to do + néant nothing; really an etymologizing perversion of Old French faignant sluggard (still current as a colloquialism), present participle of faindre to skulk: see faint n. A. n. One who does nothing; an idler. Often with allusion to the rois fainéants, ‘sluggard kings’, a designation of the later Merovingians. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person caynard1303 sluggard1398 luskc1420 slugc1425 truantc1449 dawa1500 hummel?a1513 rook?a1513 wallydraigle?a1513 sloven1523 dronea1529 draw latch1538 slim1548 slouk1570 do-nothing1579 bumbiea1585 do-little1586 lazybones1593 luskin1593 do-naught1594 loiter-sack1594 bed-presser1598 lazy lizard1600 lazy-back1611 fainéant1618 nothing-do1623 trivant1624 slothful1648 lolpoop1661 tool1699 haggis1822 lazy-boots1832 lazy-legs1838 poke1847 never-sweat1851 slob1876 bum1882 haggis bag1892 lollop1896 trouble-shirker1908 warb1933 fuck-off1948 poop-butt1967 1618 S. Ward Serm. Exod. xviii. 21–2, 65 Is there no mean between busibodies and tell-clockes, between fac-totum and fay't neant? 1619 Sir D. Carleton in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 93 The two last Emperors..were both faineants. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 13 There are yet to spare..Casherers and Fait-neants, 220,000. 1855 H. G. Liddell Hist. Rome v. xlvi The fainéans who had disappointed them could hardly appear in public. B. adj. That does nothing; indolent, idle. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective] sweerc725 foridledc1230 idlea1300 faintc1325 recrayed1340 slewful1340 nicea1398 sleuthya1400 delicate?c1400 sleuthfulc1400 slothfulc1400 sloth1412 lurdanc1480 luskinga1500 luskish15.. droning1509 bumbard?a1513 slottery1513 desidiousa1540 lazy1549 slovening1549 truanta1550 sleuth1567 litherly1573 truantly1579 dronish1580 lubberly1580 truant-like1583 shiftless1584 sluggard1594 fat1598 lusky1604 sweatless1606 clumse1611 easeful1611 loselly1611 do-littlea1613 sluggardisha1627 pigritious1638 drony1653 murcid1656 thokisha1682 shammockinga1704 indolent1710 huddroun1721 nothing-doing1724 desidiose1727 lusk1775 slack-twisted1794 sweert1817 bone-lazya1825 lurgy1828 straight-backed1830 do-nothing1832 slobbish1833 bone idle1836 slouch1837 lotophagous1841 shammocky1841 bein1847 thoky1847 lotus-eating1852 fainéant1855 sluggardly1865 lazy-boned1875 do-naught1879 easy-going1879 lazyish1892 slobbed1962 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. i. 367 The fainéant Merovingians. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 163 The faineant aristocrat and apathetic dullard. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1618
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