lounger

From lounge +‎ -er.

lounger (plural loungers)

1. One who lounges; an idler.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 15:

     Three or four men noticed my condition; and, evidently setting it down to the results of over many pegs, charitably endeavoured to draw me apart from the rest of the loungers.

   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236:

     These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistle.

2. A chair made for lounging.

   Coordinate terms: recliner, lazyboy, barcalounger

   • 2020, “I Don't Belong”, in A Hero's Death, performed by Fontaines D.C.:

     You shoulda heard me in the lounger / Telling people what they was

• banana lounger
• barcalounger
• sunlounger, sun lounger, sun-lounger

• regulon

lounger m

1. indefinite plural of lounge