lazy
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Is lazy a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
adj (English)
1. Lax:
2. (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.Examples: "There was probably more cattle bearing the Lazy S brand marketed than those of any other ranch in the world."; "The Zuliagas branded a Lazy B. In order to distinguish his cows from theirs for the drive back to Arizona, Mr. Day added a britchen brand across their butts, under their tails."
3. (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.Examples: "a lazy algorithm"
4. (UK, obsolete or dialect) Wicked; vicious.Examples: "The swilland dropsy enter in The lazy cuke , and swell his skin"UKdialectalobsolete
verb (English)
1. (informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.Examples: "“Go to sea,” muttered Mr. Unity Peach. “Work for your living—don’t lazy away your time here!”"; "You’d see a muddy sow and a litter of pigs come lazying along the street and whollop herself right down in the way, where folks had to walk around her […]"; "That same afternoon we were lazying around in a boat among the water-lilies at the edge of the bay."informal
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Sloth (animal).Examples: "To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail, or the heavy measures of the lazy of Brazilia, were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary