layabout

See also: lay about

English

lay +‎ about

layabout (plural layabouts)

A lazy person.
- 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
  “That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”

lazy person

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: лентяй (bg) m (lentjaj), безделник (bg) m (bezdelnik)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 懶漢／懒汉 (zh) (lǎnhàn), 懶鬼／懒鬼 (zh) (lǎnguǐ)
Czech: pecivál (cs), flákač (cs) m
Dutch: luiaard (nl) m
Finnish: vetelys (fi)
French: fainéant (fr) m, (colloquial) glandeur (fr) m
German: Faulenzer (de) m, Tunichtgut (de) m, Nichtsnutz (de) m
Greek: τεμπέλης (el) m (tempélis)
Hungarian: semmittevő (hu), naplopó (hu), mihaszna (hu)
Italian: sfaccendato (it) m, perdigiorno (it) m
Japanese: 怠け者 (ja) (namakemono)
Maori: kūrapa, kiko whakarawaka, kaihau
Portuguese: vadio (pt) m, vagabundo (pt) m
Romanian: trântor (ro) m, parazit (ro) m, leneș (ro)
Russian: безде́льник (ru) m (bezdélʹnik), лентя́й (ru) m (lentjáj), лежебо́ка (ru) m (ležebóka)
Serbo-Croatian: neradnik (sh) m, zgubidan (sh) m
Spanish: holgazán (es) m
Swedish: latmask (sv), slöfock (sv), lätting (sv), dagdrivare (sv) c

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