Associations to the word «Faineant»
Wiktionary
FAINEANT, noun. An irresponsible or lazy person.
FAINÉANT, noun. Alternative spelling of faineant
FAINEANT DEITIES, noun. Plural of faineant deity
FAINEANT DEITY, noun. A deity recognized as real but conceived as not acting in human affairs, hence not worshipped.
Dictionary definition
FAINEANT, adjective. 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".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.