loungen.
/laʊn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /laʊndʒ/ 1.
a. An act, spell, or course of lounging; a leisurely walk, a saunter, stroll; also, a lounging gait or manner of reclining.
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society > leisure > [noun] > a period of
leisurec1449
non-terminus1573
Sabbatism1582
non-term1607
recess1620
playtime1631
by-hour1639
vacancy1654
relache1780
lounge1806
spellc1845
pink-eye1901
seventh-inning stretch1915
standoff1918
timeout1931
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > period of lazing or lounging
lounge1806
laze1862
thoke1891
bludge1945
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking leisurely or idly > an act of
lounge1806
stroll1814
dander1821
toddle1825
saunter1828
paseo1832
pasear1847
potter1897
crawl1905
passeggiata1950
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > leisurely or careless
sauntering1680
saunter1712
lounge1860
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. vii. 177 The gentlemen had arranged a morning lounge at Tattersall's.
1824 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 1st Ser. I. 18 The disembarrassed lounge on her own ottoman.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. v. 235 I am off to have a lounge with him.
1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. ii. i. 166 What else have we to do with our mornings, we women?.. Our life is a lounge from the cradle to the grave.
1860 W. M. Thackeray Roundabout Papers viii, in Wks. (1869) XX. 85 ‘The Prince's lounge’ was a peculiar manner of walking which the young bucks imitated.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxx. 405 When we went out for a lounge after luncheon.
1889 D. C. Murray & H. Murray Dangerous Catspaw 18 Esden had slackened his pace to a mere lounge.
b. A pastime. Also slang (Eton and Cambridge), ‘a treat, a chief meal’ (Farmer).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > [noun]
playeOE
gameeOE
disportc1380
sportc1443
museryc1450
pastime?1473
gaud1587
playgame1596
exercise1622
amusement1632
evagation1638
retirement1641
divertisement1642
diversiona1684
ploya1689
lounge1788
divertissement1804
happening1959
letterboxing1977
timepass1982
1788 Trifler No. 21. 276 If..you have invented a new lounge, communicate it in your next.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. vi. 69 I don't care for dinner. Breakfast is my lounge.
2.
a. A place for lounging; a gathering of loungers.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > place for lounging or loafing
lounge1775
loafery1861
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer > a gathering of
lounge1775
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals i. i But pray, Mr. Fag, what kind of a place is this Bath?..Fag...'tis a good lounge.
1798 Monthly Mag. 6 171 If a man were asked to take a walk into the High-street in a morning—‘He voted it a bad lounge.’
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family IV. 135 Her house..was voted to be the most delightful lounge in London.
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. v. 57 Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies. View more context for this quotation
a1865 C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1885) II. 170 This is a great lounge, attended by all the people of the town.
b. The drawing-room of a private house; the public sitting-room in a hotel or institution. Also transferred.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > sitting room
parlourc1384
street parlour1734
sitting room1763
keeping-room1771
room1795
voorhuis1822
voorkamer1827
lounge1881
sitkamer1897
sitter1899
sit1911
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > private or inner room > drawing room
withdrawing-chamber1392
drawing chamber1410
draught-chamber?1454
withdraught1481
withdrawing-room1611
drawing room1635
lounge1938
1881 J. T. Slugg Reminisc. Manchester xxvi. 306 The lounge or drawing-room..was extremely elegant.
1908 Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 4/6 London hotels are extending their lounges.
1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. i. 186 The sea..seemed an annexe of the livingroom... She learned later that Daphne called this the lounge.
1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 94 It's ever so close in the lounge dear, But the vestibule's comfy for tea.
1965 M. Bradbury Stepping Westward iv. 181 Expressly for the purpose of hunting down Walker and bringing him to the English department faculty lounge, wherein the faculty were even now assembled.
1973 Houston Chron. Mag. People, Places, Pleasures 14 Oct. 21/1 I am in a mobile lounge which is about to roll out from Dulles Airport to the supersonic Concorde.
1973 Times 8 Dec. 26/4 Burns Hotel... Licensed restaurant, bar lounge.
c. Elliptical for lounge-coat, -jacket, -suit.
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1893 J. Tomlin Bond St. Syst. Cutting 44 There are many different styles in which the Lounge is produced.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 12 May 12/1 Then comes a technical description of overcoats, frock-coats, morning coats, ‘lounges’, reefers, ‘vests’, &c.
1905 Daily Chron. 16 Mar. 8/7 (advt.) Good coat presser and baister for lounges and morning coats.
1928 Tailor & Cutter 29 Nov. 899/3 I'll take the lad; and..in six calendar months he will be able to make a lounge.
1968 A. A. Whife First Course Gentlemen's Garment Cutting (ed. 4) 69 The Reefer, Sports Jacket, Hacking Jacket..are designed on lines which originate in the basic structure of the Lounge.
3. A kind of sofa or easy chair on which one can lie at full length.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun]
reclinatoryc1425
crabat1483
coucha1500
daybed1597
squab1664
repose1685
settee1716
sofa1717
long chair1750
duchesse1794
canapé1795
chaise-longue1800
sultane1803
chaise lounge1807
lounge1830
dormeuse1865
takht1884
méridienne1925
Berbice1951
lounger1964
1830 J. F. Watson Ann. Philadelphia 183 Formerly they had couches of worsted damask..in lieu of what we now call sophas or lounges.
1835 Southern Lit. Messenger 1 298 You must have some such delightful lounges and chairs as I saw in New York.
1845 Knickerbocker 25 446 The hard-bottomed chairs were the same, and the lounge, and the tall mahogany clock.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxvi. 96 The graceful bamboo lounges were amply supplied with cushions.
1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 46 The patient was promoted into a cane lounge in the sitting-room.
1915 in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) iii. ii. 538 He stayed in the barn nights..and slept on an ol' lounge he carried out from the house.
1972 E. Staebler Cape Breton Harbour xvi. 142 There is always some one sitting on the rocker or on the wooden lounge built into the corner.
Compounds
C1. attributive (‘Suitable for lounging’.)
a.
lounge-book n.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > book for specific occasion > [noun] > specific
Christmas book1769
lounging-booka1797
lounge-book1800
railway novel1849
birthday book?1859
livre de chevet1883
bed-book1906
pillow book1906
bedside book1920
bedside literature1920
1800 S. T. Coleridge in Sir H. Davy's Rem. (1858) 82 I am compelled..to give a volume of letters from Germany, which will be a decent lounge book, and not an atom more.
lounge-chair n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > chair for reclining in
sleeping-chair1675
reclining chair1827
lounging-chair1841
reclining seat1857
lazy-back-chair1887
recliner1892
lounge-chair1902
power seat1952
incliner1978
1902 Westm. Gaz. 25 Jan. 2/1 A sort of shudder sweeps over the limp forms in the lounge-chairs.
lounge-coat n.
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1898 Westm. Gaz. 22 Sept. 8/2 Frock coats, and tail coats, and lounge coats, and top coats.
lounge-hour n.
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1810 Sporting Mag. 35 311 A Boxing Match took place in Conduit-Street during the lounge hours.
lounge-jacket n.
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1887 E. B. Giles Hist. Cutting in Eng. i. 70 When repose is required [we use] the lounge jacket or dressing gown.
1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xxviii. 284 The billycock and the lounge jacket are, I think, my strong point.
lounge-suit n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > lounge suit
sack suit1895
lounge-suit1901
1901 Westm. Gaz. 25 Nov. 5/2 A navy blue serge lounge suit.
lounge-wear n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > lounging or relaxing
lounge-wear1969
1969 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 3 Now—and all through the summer—Sears has the answer to just what you're looking for in loungewear.
1974 News-Palladium & Herald-Press (Benton Harbor, Mich.) 8 May (Advt. Suppl.) See this utterly feminine loungewear in enchanting prints.
b. (Sense 2b.)
lounge-diner n. (also lounge/diner)
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1961 Evening Standard 3 July 23/4 (advt.) Modern s/d house... Hall, lounge/diner, kitchenette.
1966 M. Kelly Dead Corse vii. 100 The owners of plastic flowers and garden gnomes, and plaster teal taking wing across the wall of the lounge-diner.
1974 Country Life 7 Mar. (Suppl.) 21/1 Excellent Family House..study/TV room, 31 ft. lounge/diner, breakfasting kitchen.
lounge-hall n.
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1910 Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1046 Lord Warden Hotel... Orchestra plays..in the beautiful lounge hall every evening.
1933 D. C. Peel Life's Enchanted Cup xi. 126 This house..contained.. what house agents now call a lounge-hall.
1939 O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 66 The luxury flat..is divided up..into a dining-room, drawing-room, lounge-hall, three bed, two bath, a kitchen and all the usual offices.
C2.
lounge bar n. a bar in a public-house which is furnished with the amenities of a lounge.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tap-room or bar > other bars
public bar1654
American bar1856
wine room1865
last chance saloon1869
four-ale1883
private bar1892
saloon bar1902
cocktail bar1908
cocktail lounge1934
porter bar1935
lounge bar1937
wine bar1938
dive bar1940
gay bar1947
open bar1947
piano bar1947
sherry-bar1951
public1957
leather bar1961
private1963
ouzeri1964
karaoke bar1977
1937 Hotel & Catering Managem. Sept. 23/1 Smoke~room or lounge bars are obviously larger than cocktail bars, and provision has to be made for the serving of draught beers.
1971 ‘H. Calvin’ Poison Chasers vii. 83 Two of the security men..came into the public bar, and the rest of the customers..went into the lounge bar.
lounge lizard n. slang (originally U.S.) a man who spends his time idling in fashionable society, esp. in search of a wealthy patroness.
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the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > flirt > male flirt > lounge lizard
lounge lizard1918
lizard1935
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer > fashionable
flâneur1854
lounge lizard1918
saga boy1941
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male
gallant1388
wamfler15..
rutter1506
younkera1522
fine gentleman1575
cavalier1589
whisker1595
jinglespur1604
bravery1616
brisk1621
chevalier1630
man about town1647
man of mode1676
man of distinction1699
sprag1707
sparky1756
blood1763
swell1786
Corinthian1819
galliard1828
mondain1833
toff1851
flâneur1854
Johnny1883
silver-tail1898
knut1911
lounge lizard1918
old buster1919
Hooray Henry1959
1918 Hatchet 4 Apr. 39/1 (caption) Nautical lounge lizards.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 10 Apr. 4/4 The delicate, poetic cast of features, and the misplaced eyebrow adorning the nether lip of these lounge lizards, denizens of dansants and cabarets.
1923 Weekly Disp. 28 Jan. 3 In America he is so well known as to have got a special and picturesque nickname, the ‘Lounge Lizard’.
1925 G. P. Krapp Eng. Lang. in Amer. I. 117 Who will know a generation hence..that a crape-hanger is a reformer, or a lounge lizard one who suns himself eternally in good society.
1926 Punch 17 Nov. 534/1 Formal recognition of those firmly attached appendages of Society, the lounge-lizards.
1973 Times 29 Dec. 7/7 The £50 a week contract which..lets her keep her lounge lizard husband, Queckett, in the manner to which he is accustomed, lacks conviction.
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Originally U.S. Music of a kind that might be played in a bar, cocktail lounge, or similar public meeting place, and which is typically characterized as softly melodious and unobtrusive; such music as a genre; (also, esp. when of recorded music) easy-listening music. Frequently attributive, esp. in lounge music.Although the term is sometimes used rather dismissively to imply blandness, lounge music (esp. in its recorded form) was the subject of revived interest in the 1990s and some later use also suggests an (often somewhat kitsch) appeal: cf. loungecore n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > other types of piece
tinternel1573
aubade1678
nome1705
accompaniment1728
potboiler1783
raga1789
elegy1808
improvisation1824
pièce d'occasion1830
morceau de salon1854
tum-tum1859
murky1876
test-piece1876
invention1880
monodia1880
serenata1883
monody1887
dumka1895
incidental number1904
a cappella1905
folk-tune1907
realization1911
nosebleeder1921
show tune1927
sicilienne1927
estampie1937
ballad1944
Siciliana1947
hard rocker1957
rabble-rouser1958
display1959
mobile1961
soundscape1968
grower1973
lounge1978
1958 Washington Post 2 Feb. e3/2 Even those who cashed in on the boom feel a nostalgia for a pastoral symphony now smothered by a cacophony of roaring Jupiters, screaming jets, cocktail lounge music and Northern accents.]
1978 N.Y. Times 9 Apr. 53/2 Backed by barely amplified guitar and bass guitar and whispering drums, played in a manner that veered from lobotomized rockabilly to lounge music.
1988 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 27 Oct. d11 The emphasis always shifts back to Mona and Barney, culminating in a romantic and sexual interlude to the sons of Frank Sinatra, which Barney considers lounge music.
1995 Guardian 16 Oct. ii. 11/3 Godlike she let her voice soar over the music, which consisted of the most tasteful lounge-pop three Nashville sidemen could make.
1996 Rip Mar. 29/2 At times punk, at times pure lounge, at times spacey, and at times totally silly.
1997 Daily Tel. 20 Feb. 15/4 For some time, ‘lounge’ music—late Sixties easy-listening music, with a strong bias towards soft Latin rhythms, Hammond organs and the bongo drum—has been gaining ground on the club circuit.
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loungev.
/laʊn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /laʊndʒ/ 1. intransitive. To move indolently, resting between-whiles, or leaning on something for support. Also with about, away, in, out, up. (In the early instances perhaps rather: To skulk, to slouch.)
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the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)]
creepc1175
lugc1400
to hold (also keep) foot withc1438
crawlc1460
lounge?a1513
slug1565
drawl1566
draggle1577
fodge1581
snail1582
laggerc1620
slagger1622
snail1628
flod1674
delay1690
to drag one’s slow length along1711
soss1711
loiter1728
trail1744
sidle1781
soodle1821
linger1826
ooze1847
slope1851
laggard1864
dawdle1872
tiddle1882
oozle1958
pootle1973
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > spend (time) in sloth or laziness [verb (transitive)]
sloth1523
dronea1538
slug1548
sleuth1584
truant1597
laze1661
saunter1672
lounge1757
loll1784
slim1812
lazy1885
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 206 Ay loungand lyk ane loikman on ane ledder.
1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 259 He loundge's as a dog that had lost his tayle.
1755 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Clerk 3 in Wks. (1877) II. 307 Whase owsen lunges o'er a plain Of wide extent.
1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. i While I go down to the cabin..you may lounge about and endeavour to over-hear their conversation.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iii. viii. 314 Vargrave lounged into the billiard-room.
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings I. xvii. 258 Roland lounged in, not more presentable than the rest.
1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 26 Filthy negroes, who lounge in and out.
1874 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains 176 Egyptian officials, lounging about armed with weighty sticks.
1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 260/2 He would lounge up and say—‘Now come really’.
2. To recline lazily, to loll.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action of placing or holding body in relaxed posture > place or hold body in relaxed posture [verb (intransitive)]
loll1377
lollop1745
relent1745
lounge1746
unwind1938
plotz1941
untense1970
1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 10 Eart lunging, eart squatting upon thy tether Eend.
1782 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 9) Gloss. Lounging or Lundging, leaning on any Thing, such as a Gate, or Stile, like a lazy Creature that hath nothing else to do.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xii. 74 You must not lounge on your chair.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 246 The complaint..shows itself by..an unwonted desire to lounge and loll about.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. ii. 80 The other stood lounging with his foot upon a chair.
1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 162 Lounging upon their couches.
1859 C. Barker Devel. Associative Princ. iii. 63 'Squires..lounging on the rushes before the great hall fire.
3. To pass time indolently or without definite occupation; to idle.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf
luskc1330
lubber1530
to play the truant, -s1560
lazea1592
lazy1612
meecha1625
lounge1671
saunter1672
sloungea1682
slive1707
soss1711
lolpoop1722
muzz1758
shack1787
hulkc1793
creolize1802
maroon1808
shackle1809
sidle1828
slinge1834
sossle1837
loaf1838
mike1838
to sit around1844
hawm1847
wanton1847
sozzle1848
mooch1851
slosh1854
bum1857
flane1876
slummock1877
dead-beat1881
to lop about1881
scow1901
scowbank1901
stall1916
doss1937
plotz1941
lig1960
loon1969
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Lounge, cunctari, movari, cessare, vide Lungis.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Lounge, to idle; to live lazily.
a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 197 It would be at least some amusement..to lounge over what the other artists had done.
a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) vii. 455 He..breakfasted and lounged from nine to eleven.
4. transitive. To pass (time, etc.) away (rarely out) with lounging; also, †to lounge in (a place) (obsolete).
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > spend (time) in sloth or laziness [verb (transitive)] > loaf or idle in (a place)
lounge1810
1776 Dk. Richmond in Burke's Corr. (1844) II. 113 I suppose you lounge away whole months whistling for want of thought.
1810 Splendid Follies I. 129 I never go to the play for any entertainment, except kicking up a row and lounging the lobbies.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. x. 216 They all returned to the house together, there to lounge away the time as they could with..chit-chat. View more context for this quotation
1871 E. F. Burr Ad Fidem (ed. 2) iii. 39 The able-bodied and able-minded person who..lounges out his youth and lounges out his manhood.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar 104 He then returned to Rome to lounge away the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence.
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