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changeling) wrote2005-04-26 08:25 pm
changeling) wrote2005-04-26 08:25 pm
adj.: wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.
ORIGIN Latin, from in- ‘not’ + dolere ‘suffer or give pain’.1
I should be doing numerous things today: working on my Editing Assignment, due in part this Thursday; working on my work for Photography; designing the website for The Fat Lady Digest; hell, even working on my novel. I'm doing none of these.
Though I may start on the website, the least necessary of these.
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I should be doing numerous things today: working on my Editing Assignment, due in part this Thursday; working on my work for Photography; designing the website for The Fat Lady Digest; hell, even working on my novel. I'm doing none of these.
Though I may start on the website, the least necessary of these.
1 AskOxford.com
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How strange that the origin is sort of opposite to the current meaning. How do you think it happened? Is laziness so painful that...well, ok I suppose it is sometimes.