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layabout 

A member of the community that would rather sponge off the rest of humanity or his/her parents. A lazy bastard.
Mum - "Why don't you get a job, Peter?"
Peter - "I can't be arsed"
Mum - "You're such a layabout!"
layabout by Jdayere January 31, 2009
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shitless layabout 

A lazy person who spends an overwhelming majority of his/her time being unproductive.
I can't believe that Jim skipped another interview to play video games. What a shitless layabout.

layabout 

Unemployed person without goals or motivation.
Taisha hasn't had a job in 4yrs. She is such a layabout
layabout by cookie Nicole March 15, 2015

Lazaboutary 

Combining the words lazy, about and the suffix -ary, this word acts as the culimation of the art of "lazing about", serving to be the direct description of a pursuit which is highly focused in lazing about.
"John is such a lazaboutary gentleman."
"She seduced me With dreams of grandeous lazaboutary, via warm fields of sunflowers and daffodils."
Lazaboutary by Frank Caron November 29, 2005

Layabout 

Lazy person, who sits a rounding nothing.
Layabout by Nicole prescott March 3, 2017
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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