different between lazies vs ladies

English

Verb

lazies

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lazy

Noun

lazies

1. plural of lazy
2. (with the) Laziness; the mood or feeling of being lazy.
   • 1654, Robert Harris, The Way to True Blessedness in XXIV Sermons on the Beatitudes in The Works of Robert Harris, London: John Bartlet, p. 99,^[1]

     Just so your idle vagrant, he would work for his living, but no body will hire him; he would work, but he wants clothes; clothes you give him, but then he wants tooles; you supply him with tooles, but the truth is, he hath an infirmity, he is lame in his limbs and sickly; nay, the truth is, he is lame in his will and sick of the lazies: were the will right, these excuses needed not.

   • 1957, Vinnie Williams, The Fruit Tramp, London: Hutchinson, p. 93,

     A picker beside him wiped his neck. “I sure wish I was in one of them trailers, laying back and letting the lazies git me.”

   • 2016, Marissa Gainsburg, “Bringing Up the Rear,” Women’s Health South Africa, April 2016, p. 50,^[2]

     It’s the biggest and most important muscle you have, but your glutes can get a case of the lazies, forgetting to “activate” or “turn on” sufficiently during everyday tasks or workouts […]

Anagrams

• Alzies

English

Etymology

As a lavatory for women, via misspelling of ladies'. Compare gents.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?diz/

Noun

ladies

1. plural of lady
   • 2014, C.S. Walter, Abandoned Bridges, pp. 105 f.:

     He wet his thumb with saliva pressing on the tongue, ran it up and down faster over the letter 'I' of 'TOILET', the 'LADIES TOILET' was transformed into 'LADIES TO LET' in no time.

Coordinate terms

• gents, gentlemen, men, sirs

Derived terms

• ladies and gentlemen

Noun

ladies (uncountable)

1. (Britain, euphemistic) A ladies' room: a lavatory intended for use by women.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:bathroom

Coordinate terms

• gents, gentlemen, men, sirs
• men's

See also

• madams, mesdames
• Appendix:Special uses of possessives in English

References

• ladies at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• aisled, aslide, deasil, ideals, sailed, sideal

French

Alternative forms

• ladys

Noun

ladies f

1. plural of lady

Anagrams

• délais, délias, laides