Fainéant

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fai=ne=ant

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Fainéant has 1 sense

  • faineant(s = adj.all) indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy - disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
  • Derived form noun faineance1

CIDE DICTIONARY

Fainéanta. [F.; fait he does + néant nothing.].
     Doing nothing; shiftless; disinclined to work or exertion.  [1913 Webster]
Fainéantn. 
     A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.  Sir W. Scott.  [1913 Webster]

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