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lounging

noun C2
  1. The act of one who lounges.

Plural loungings

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Sometimes Bagheera the Black Panther would come lounging through the jungle to see how his pet was getting on, and would purr with his head against a tree while Mowgli recited the day’s lesson to Baloo.
The Jungle Book, p. 30 · B2
I hopped off before we came to the door, and strolled down the street in an easy, lounging way.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 53 · B2
The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his black-letter editions.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 21 · B2
He was a different man from the limp and lounging figure in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown who had prowled so restlessly only a few hours before round the fog-girt room.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 15 · B2

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