laze

• IPA^(key): /leɪz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪz
• Homophones: lase, lays

Back-formation from lazy.

laze (third-person singular simple present lazes, present participle lazing, simple past and past participle lazed)

1. To be lazy, waste time.
   • 1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon‎, London, act III:

     Behold by millions how thy men do fall
     Before Alphonsus like to sillie sheepe.
     And canst thou stand still lazing in this sort?

   • 1635, George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne‎, London: John Grismond, Illustration 36, Book 1:

     And, lastly, such are they; that, having got
     Wealth, Knowledge, and those other Gifts, which may
     Advance the Publike-Good, yet, use them not;
     But Feede, and Sleepe, and laze their time away.

   • 1892, Israel Zangwill, chapter 13, in Children of the Ghetto, being Pictures of a Peculiar People‎, volume 1, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, page 191:

     But for this anachronism of keeping Saturday holy when you had Sunday also to laze on, Daniel felt a hundred higher careers would have been open to him.

   • 1982, Don DeLillo, chapter 7, in The Names, New York: Vintage, published 1989, page 160:

     “I could easily fall into this,” I said. “Laze my way through life. Coffee here, wine there. You can channel significant things into the commonplace. Or you can avoid them completely.”

2. To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.

   The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.

   • 1939, Graham Greene, chapter 4, in The Lawless Roads‎, Penguin, published 1982, page 93:

     A football game went on beside the line; half the teams just lazed on the grass […]

• idle
• loaf
• take it easy

• laze about
• laze around
• lazen
• lazy

laze (countable and uncountable, plural lazes)

1. (countable) An instance of lazing.

   I had a laze on the beach after lunch.

2. (uncountable) Laziness.

   The laze is real.

Blend of lava +‎ haze

laze (uncountable)

1. Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
   • 2010, Patricia Erfurt-Cooper, Malcolm Cooper, Volcano and Geothermal Tourism: Sustainable Geo-Resources for Leisure and Recreation:

     Moreover, dense laze plumes are known to contain as much as 10 to 15ppm of HCl (USGS, 2008).

• fog, mist, haze and terms listed there
• smaze
• vog

• Elza, Zale, zale, zeal

• IPA^(key): /laz/

laze (plural lazes)

1. (relational) Laz

laze m (uncountable)

1. Laz (the language of the Laz people)

laze

1. nit

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)