laze aboutとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

laze about (third-person singular simple present lazes about, present participle lazing about, simple past and past participle lazed about)

1. (intransitive, informal) To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

     No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done.

   • 1929, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 15, in Magnificent Obsession‎, New York: P.F. Collier, page 245:

     “I think it’s simply marvellous,” enthused Joyce, into the mirror, “that I’ve been able to adjust so quickly to office routine, don’t you? . . . After all these years of indulging myself, sleeping late, pottering, lazing about! […] ”