If you`re a slacker at work, your coworkers will resent you for doing nothing while they`re doing their job. Moccasins like to laze or “spend time idle and aimlessly.” People will call you a moccasin if you spend most of your time lying down, take frequent breaks for snacks and naps, or obviously avoid something similar to hard work. This name has been used since the mid-1800s, but its origin is unclear. The shoe called moccasin gets its name because it can be easily put on, without the work of laces and knots. If you are a lazy person, avoid working as much as possible, preferring to relax instead. And if you are too lazy to tie up your own shoes, you can instead wear moccasins – slippers without laces. Down here, with a piece of rabbit brain, a kind of hideous little slacker. “A lazy moccasin that reads a penny terribly,” I thought, glancing at him, and then at the title of his book. perhaps the abbreviation of Landloafer, from the German Landläufer tramp, from Land + Läufer runner You can dress it with a boot, put it with moccasins or sneakers. It allows me to feel comfortable without looking like a full-time moccasin. Reformer, for a lazy man was my repugnance, and behold! It was unharmed, but it moved with dragging steps, much like a tavern moccasin soaked in rum. But how could he find work – he, a simple street lazy, and so alone in London as if it were a desert. After eight years of the so-called K Street Project — an attempt by Republican lawmakers and operatives to pressure corporations, trade associations and lobbying firms to hire their Republican counterparts — the tassel moccasin is on the other foot.
Leaning against the wall on a thin Italian moccasin, he was black and had said nothing but imagine. These sample phrases are automatically selected from various online information sources to reflect the current use of the word “moccasin”. The views expressed in the examples do not represent the views of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us your feedback. At the same time, he insisted that his daughters tell him that he would be “beaten like this” because he always wore “pompom loafers” with his undercover uniform. In Larrikin, he will not be able to discover a new species, but only an old one that has been encountered elsewhere and is variously called Loafer, Rough, Tough, Bummer or Blatherskite depending on its geographical distribution. Commonly known as a moccasin suspected of boosting so-called “phone taps” on the Upper West Side last spring. Even if you call moccasins: “e doesn`t work wen` wish not to. The message was that if they were lucky enough to get a foot in the door, they should make sure it was covered in an apartment or allocable moccasin. Just as French Canadians borrowed Americanisms, which are words borrowed from other immigrant languages, such as bum and loafer from German, some South American dialects borrowed rapidas (= rapids) and kimono, the former from French to American and the latter to Japanese.
I`m still a moccasin; Jim is a highly regarded member of the sweetest society; And that`s what happened. The best short stories of 1915 and the directory of the American short story. Appendix 2. Non-English dialects in America. 3. Spanish.