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Person who does no work
Answer for the clue "Person who does no work ", 8 letters:
layabout
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Word definitions for layabout in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. person who does no work; "a lazy bum" [syn: idler , loafer , do-nothing , bum ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"habitual loafer," 1932, from lay (v.) + about . One who "lays about" the house, etc.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
layabout \layabout\ n. A person who does no work. Syn: idler, loafer, do-nothing, bum.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a bunch of hopeless layabouts ▪ How did you get mixed up with that layabout ?
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A lazy person.
Usage examples of layabout.
She would have made the secret love child of Leon Trotsky and Margaret Thatcher look like an uncommitted, apolitical layabout.
More lovesick layabouts, he thought darkly, and rose to send them on their way, but paused when Kate and her fairy godmother, looking very pleased with themselves, entered the kitchen.
Slartibartfast, and Arthur-particularly and especially Arthur-are just dilletantes, eccentrics, layabouts, fartarounds if you like.
Even the fat white layabouts of the middle-air dipped down closer to see what was going on.
Walter, an idle layabout, the eldest son of Jock's brother Kenneth, had revealed that all was not well at The Beeches, his family home.
Perhaps the Petrines were soft, and perhaps they were inclined to another deadly sin, that of sloth, but at least no one was ever hurt by a slothful layabout with a deadly weapon.
Skoterin, probably, but surely Cecelia ought to realize that Skoterin had been more than balanced by that crew of civilian layabouts and incompetents she'd had before.
One day she would run off with some layabout scaffolder, and Cyprianus would be heartbroken.
He turned and barked a stream of Spanish at the sergeant, who snapped up straight, brought his weapon up in some kind of salute, and marched off at a surprising turn of speed for a man supposed to be such a layabout.