1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Lazy, in agro Linc. usurpatur pro Malus,..Pravus, Perversus.

1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 29 Lazy, Naught, bad.

1787 in F. Grose Provinc. Gloss.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 38 To tread a mile after..the heavy measures of the Lazy of Brazilia, were a most tiring Pennance.

1875 ‘A. R. Hope’ My Schoolboy Friends 148 One or two lazy-boned fellows worked in bed.

1879 C. M. Yonge Burnt Out xii. 192 George..had been getting more lazy-minded and stupid.

1929 V. Woolf Granite & Rainbow (1958) 105 This lazy-minded man was quite capable..of filling a chapter or two..from a fountain of empty, journalistic phrases.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 194 The lazie-paced (yet laborious) Asse.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 73 When he bestrides the lasie pacing [1599 lazie puffing] cloudes. View more context for this quotation

1960 O. Skilbeck ABC of Film & TV Working Terms 76 Lazy arm, a small, hand-held microphone Boom.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 257 Lazy arm, simple form of boom consisting of an upright and a balanced cross~member from which a microphone may be slung.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ii. 38 Why don't you rise, Mr. Lazyboots? Where are your eyes? Don't you see the young ladies.

1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers III. vi. 102 Nancy..is gone to her bed this hour past, like a lazy boots as she is.

1923 Daily Mail 10 Mar. 14 The way the ‘lazy-daisy’ stitch is worked is shown at the side of the sketch.

1927 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Dec. 83/2 Solid flowers are made of petals set close together, each a complete lazy-daisy stitch.

1948 J. Cannan Little I Understood x. 133 Mildred completed six lazy daisies.

1963 N. Marsh Dead Water (1964) viii. 221 A rumpled nightgown embroidered with lazy daisies.

1965 Times 23 Mar. 12/7 Asked why something more deadly was not preferred—when such things as napalm and white phosphorus incendiary bombs and ‘lazy dog’ fragmentation bombs are frequently in use— the spokesmen said the gas was being used in situations where the Vietcong might be holding hostages.

1967 N.Y. Times 13 Jan. 8 The Lazy Dog is an advanced antipersonnel weapon introduced last spring.

1968 Punch 21 Feb. 258 Tomorrow, we'll get three divisions in here, four, we'll get two hundred B-52s, we'll get ground-to-grounds, and whole batteries of Lazy Dogs.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd ix. 105 This same lazy-gut was the cause..of all this stay.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1268/2 Lazy-jack.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxi. 23 Don't lag behind already, Lazy-legs!

1836 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 450/2 A combination of levers called zig-zag, or lazy tongs, or scissors.

1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 62 Q. What is the use of a lazy-sheet? A. To secure the clew of the sail while you hook or unhook the double sheet.

1917 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 17 (advt.) Revolving Server or Lazy Susan.

1966 B. Askwith Step out of Time ii. 35 The home~made jam on the Lazy Susan in the middle of the table.

1971 Sunday Austral. 8 Aug. 10/1 The best china is used. Silver pots of steaming tea and coffee spin round with wheels of gateaux on a massive lazy susan.

1866 B. W. Procter Mem. Lamb 184 The imbecile, or those brought up in complete lazyhood.

1892 Argosy Jan. 42 I have six long, delicious weeks of lazyhood before me.

1892 Spectator 17 Dec. 878/2 The lazyish, slightly slatternly poor.

1612 J. Sylvester tr. Tropheis sig. Bbb4^v, in E. Grimeston tr. P. Matthieu Heroyk Life Henry IV Nor waytes hee lazying on his bed for day.

1694 R. L'Estrange Fables (ed. 2) 50 They knew no reason..why the One should lye lazying and pampering itself with the fruit of the Other's labour.

1765 H. Timberlake Mem. 76 Hunting, and warring abroad, and lazying at home.

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly III. v. 81 He..lazied under the hanging willows by the shore.

1890 B. J. L. Adams Louis Draycott I. ii. ii. 146 A snug retreat, indeed, to read, or think, or ‘lazy’ in.

1885 Cent. Mag. 31 197 We lazied the rest of the pleasant afternoon away.

1892 Ld. Tennyson St. Telemachus 21 Wake Thou deedless dreamer, lazying out a life Of self-suppression, not of selfless love.