intransitive verb lounged, lounging loung′·ing

1. to stand, move, sit, lie, etc. in a relaxed or lazy way; loll
2. to spend time in idleness they lounge around on street corners, wasting their lives

Etymology: 15th-c. Scot dial. < ? lungis, laggard, lout < OFr longis < L Longinus, apocryphal name of soldier who lanced Jesus in the side: sense infl. in OFr by assoc. with longe, long, slow < L longus, long

transitive verb

noun

1. an act or time of lounging
2. Archaic a lounging gait or stroll
3. 1. a room, as in a hotel or theater, where guests or patrons may go to relax, socialize, smoke, etc.
   2. cocktail lounge
4. a couch or sofa, esp. a backless one with a headrest at one end