laze about

English

(intransitive, informal) To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
- 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter I, in Heart of Darkness:
  No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done.
- 1929, Lloyd C. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession, New York: P.F. Collier, Chapter 15, p. 245,
  “I think it’s simply marvellous,” enthused Joyce, into the mirror, “that I’ve been able to adjust so quickly to office routine, don’t you? . . . After all these years of indulging myself, sleeping late, pottering, lazing about! […] ”

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