In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LAZE
idle, laze, slug, stagnate
(verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation; “The old man sat and stagnated on his porch”; “He slugged in bed all morning”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
laze (third-person singular simple present lazes, present participle lazing, simple past and past participle lazed)
To be lazy, waste time.
To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.
Synonyms
• idle
• loaf
• take it easy
Noun
laze (countable and uncountable, plural lazes)
(countable) An instance of lazing.
(uncountable) Laziness.
Etymology 2
Noun
laze (uncountable)
Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
Anagrams
• Elza, zale, zeal
Source: Wiktionary
Laze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Lazing.] Etym: [See Lazy.]
Definition: To be lazy or idle. [Colloq.] Middleton.
Laze, v. t.
Definition: To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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