Laziness
Bailey Juniornonchalant, inefficient boardinghouse page. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit]
Bailey, Beetlegoldbricking army private. [Comics: Horn, 105–106]
Belacquatoo slothful in life, he repents after death. [Ital. Lit.: Divine Comedy]
Bshystdemon of sloth. [Zoroastrian Myth.: Leach, 175]
Capp, Andydeliberately jobless and shirks household duties. [Comics: Horn, 82]
Datchery, Dickhotel resident with no occupation. [Br. Lit.: Edwin Drood]
Jugheadterminally indolent, save when hunger dictates. [Comics: “Archie” in Horn, 87]
Krebs, Maynard G.for whom “work” is a four-letter word. [TV: “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” in Terrace, II, 64–66]
Lake of Idlenesswhoever drank thereof, grew immediately “faint and weary.” [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene]
Lazybonespopular song by Hoagy Carmichael (1933). [Am. Music: Kinkle, II, 268]
Lester, Jeeterhapless sharecropper too lazy to keep his large family from starving. [Am. Lit.: Caldwell Tobacco Road]
Little Boy Blueasleep under haystack while livestock roam. [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 11]
Oblomovindolent landowner, always in robe and slippers. [Russ. Lit.: Oblomov]
phlegmhumor effecting temperament of sluggishness. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130]
slotharboreal mammal, always associated with sluggishness. [Zoology: Misc.]
Speedan “illiterate loiterer”; slow-moving servant. [Br. Lit.: Two Gentlemen of Verona]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.