oisif — meaning in English

English meaning

• idle adj Not working, active, or in use.
• loafer noun A person who avoids work and idles their time away.
• otiose adj Having no effect.

Senses

oisif is used for these senses in English:

• bone-idle (chiefly, Britain, Ireland, Commonwealth, idiomatic) Utterly lazy.
• loafer An idle person.
• otiose Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.

idle — full definition

1. adj Not working, active, or in use.
2. adj Lazy or unwilling to work.
3. verb Of an engine, to run slowly while not driving anything, such as a car sitting still with the motor on.
4. verb To pass time doing nothing productive.

loafer — full definition

1. noun A person who avoids work and idles their time away.
2. noun A casual, low-cut slip-on shoe with no laces.

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