bone-idle
adjEtymology Laziness that penetrates the very bones. Attested 1836. Similar terms (bone-lazy, bone-sore, bone-tired) pre-dated it in The Vocabulary Of East Anglia, 1830, Robert Forby. Compare to the bone.
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Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, Idiomatic Utterly lazy.
- For the last three weeks I have been going what you call bone-idle.1836, Thomas Carlyle, New Letters:
- Related terms
- dead tired