do-nothing
Meaning
Synonyms
ne’er-do-well
good-for-naught
sit idle
nonenterprising
slow-coach
lazy boy girl
dead-beat
Translations
holgazán
poltrone
vagabundo
fainéant
nichts tun
gandulEtymology
Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb, but from the phrase do nothing, which English expresses as a verb phrase containing a complement.
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